Contemporary Sociology
An Introduction to Concepts and Theories
Price: 595.00
ISBN:
9780199452781
Publication date:
15/12/2014
Paperback
348 pages
241x185mm
Price: 595.00
ISBN:
9780199452781
Publication date:
15/12/2014
Paperback
348 pages
Second Edition
M. Francis Abraham
Contemporary Sociology is comprehensive, interdisciplinary, comparative, and current. Using his rich experience as teacher and writer of textbooks, M. Francis Abraham presents a modern text that goes beyond conventional themes and geographic boundaries to include theoretical perspectives and research methods, key concepts and theories in several branches of the discipline, relevant issues in education, economy, population, stratification, minorities, deviance, urbanization, and environment. It also discusses major social institutions and organizations in terms of contemporary theoretical orientations not only in sociology but also in other related social sciences.
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Second Edition
M. Francis Abraham
Description
This revised and updated edition of the highly successful sociology textbook, Contemporary Sociology, continues to throw light on key issues and concerns of present-day society. M. Francis Abraham’s vast experience and extensive research cuts across conventional themes and geographical boundaries to include: • Theoretical perspectives and research methods • Key concepts and theories • Relevant issues in education, economy, politics, population, stratification, minorities, urbanization, and environment • Social institutions, organizations, and recent trends of change • Examples drawn from numerous cultural contexts This second edition introduces the following new concepts in a comparative perspective: • Theoretical perspectives in a global age • Crystallization of social interaction • Race, gender, and stratification • New social movements • Gender and deviance • Women’s movements and caste-oriented movements The crucial topics of modern-day sociology such as gender, race, lifestyle changes, ecological issues, and domestic violence are explained separately, distinguishing the book from general sociology textbooks.
Second Edition
M. Francis Abraham
Table of contents
About the Author
Second Edition
M. Francis Abraham
Features
- This second edition includes revisions with respect to the latest developments in the discipline. An improved version of the immensely popular first edition with additions on issues such as minority by sexual orientation, domestic violence, race, gender and stratification, and social networking.
Second Edition
M. Francis Abraham
Description
This revised and updated edition of the highly successful sociology textbook, Contemporary Sociology, continues to throw light on key issues and concerns of present-day society. M. Francis Abraham’s vast experience and extensive research cuts across conventional themes and geographical boundaries to include: • Theoretical perspectives and research methods • Key concepts and theories • Relevant issues in education, economy, politics, population, stratification, minorities, urbanization, and environment • Social institutions, organizations, and recent trends of change • Examples drawn from numerous cultural contexts This second edition introduces the following new concepts in a comparative perspective: • Theoretical perspectives in a global age • Crystallization of social interaction • Race, gender, and stratification • New social movements • Gender and deviance • Women’s movements and caste-oriented movements The crucial topics of modern-day sociology such as gender, race, lifestyle changes, ecological issues, and domestic violence are explained separately, distinguishing the book from general sociology textbooks.
Table of contents
About the Author
An Essay on the Principal of Population
Thomas Malthus, Geoffrey Gilbert
Modernity in Indian Social Theory
A Raghuramaraju
Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum)
Dipankar Gupta