Table Of ContentSOCIOLOGY
Sociology: The Key Concepts brings together a strong group of well-
known experts to review ideas from all areas of this diverse and pluralistic
discipline. Exploring the key debates and founding ideas of this excit-
ing field of study, the book is fully cross-referenced and covers such
topics as:
• Community
• Childhood
• Emotion
• Discourse
• Race and racialisation
• Modernity
• McDonaldisation
• Gender
• Consumption
• Social capital
• Identity
John Scott is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.
His most recent books include Power (2001), Sociology (with James
Fulcher, third edition, 2006) and Social Theory: Central Issues in Sociology
(2006).
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SOCIOLOGY
The Key Concepts
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CONTENTS
List of Key Concepts vii
Contributors ix
Introduction xvii
KEY CONCEPTS 1
Glossary of theoretical approaches 197
Index 208
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LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS
Action and agency
Alienation
Anomie
Bureaucracy
Capitalism
Change and development
Childhood
Citizenship
Civil society
Class
Collective representations
Community
Consumption
Conversation
Cultural capital
Culture
Definition of the situation
Deviance
Discourse
Division of labour
Domestic labour
Elite
Emotion
Ethnicity
Gender
Globalisation
Habitus
Hybridity
Ideology and hegemony
Industrialism
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LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS
Institution
Kinship, family and marriage
McDonaldisation
Masculinity
Medicalisation
Migration and diasporas
Mobility
Modernisation and development
Modernity
Narratives and accounts
Nation
Organisation
Patriarchy
Poverty and inequality
Power
Race and racialisation
Rational action
Rationalisation
Religion
Role
Self and identity
Sex and sexuality
Social capital
Social movements
Social structure
Social system
Socialisation
Society
Solidarity
State
Status
Subculture
Surveillance
Time and space
Tradition and traditionalism
Underclass
Urbanism
World systems
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CONTRIBUTORS
Stephen Ackroyd Professor of Organisational Analysis in the
University of Lancaster Management School. Specialising in
public sector organisations and strategic organisation, his most
recent publications include The Organization of Business: Applying
Organizational Theory to Contemporary Change (Oxford University
Press, 2002) and Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and
Management Studies(with S. Fleetwood, Routledge, 2004).
Alan Aldridge Reader in the Sociology of Culture in the School
of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.
His publications include Religion in the Contemporary World (Polity
Press, 2000), Consumption(Polity Press, 2003) and The Market(Polity
Press, 2005).
Meryl Aldridge Reader in the Sociology of News Media in the
School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of
Nottingham. Her publications include ‘The ties that divide: regional
press campaigns, community and populism’, Media, Culture and
Society(2003), ‘Rethinking the concept of professionalism: the case
of journalism’, British Journal of Sociology (with J. Evetts, 2003) and
‘Teleology on Television? Implicit models of evolution in broadcast
wildlife and nature programmes’, European Journal of Communication
(with R. Dingwall, 2003).
Graham Allan Professor of Sociology at the University of Keele,
having previously taught at the University of Southampton. His
recent publications include The State of Affairs: Explorations in Infidelity
and Commitment (joint editor with J. Duncombe, K. Harrison and
D. Marsden, Erlbaum, 2004), Social Networks and Social Exclusion
(joint editor with C. Phillipson and D. Morgan, Ashgate, 2004) and
Families, Households and Society(with Graham Crow, Palgrave, 2001).
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