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245 4 _aThe sociology book
260 _aNew York
_bDK Publ.,
_c2015
300 _a52 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
505 _aFoundations of sociology. A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation / Ibn Khaldun --
_rMankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies / Adam Ferguson ----
_rScience can be used to build a better world / Auguste Comte ----
_rThe Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race / Harriet Martineau ----
_rThe fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable / Karl Marx ----
_rGemeinschaft and Gesellschaft / Ferdinand Tönnies ----
_rSociety, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions / Émile Durkheim ----
_rThe iron cage of rationality / Max Weber ----
_rMany personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues / Charles Wright Mills ----
_rPay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events / Harold Garfinkel ----
_rWhere there is power there is resistance / Michel Foucault ----
_rGender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original / Judith Butler ----
_rSocial inequalities. I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder / Friedrich Engels ----
_rThe problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line / W.E.B. DuBois ----
_rThe poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life / Peter Townsend ----
_rThere ain't no black in the Union Jack / Paul Gilroy ----
_rA sense of one's place / Pierre Bourdieu ----
_rThe Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined / Edward Said ----
_rThe ghetto is where the black people live / Elijah Anderson ----
_rThe tools of freedom become the sources of indignity / Richard Sennett ----
_rMen's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity / R.W. Connell ----
_rWhite women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy / Bell Hooks ----
_rThe concept of 'patriarch' is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality / Sylvia Walby ----
_rModern living. Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type / Georg Simmel ----
_rThe freedom to remake our cities and ourselves / Henri Lefebvre ----
_rThere must be eyes on the street / Jane Jacobs ----
_rOnly communication can communicate / Niklas Luhmann ----
_rSociety should articulate what is good / Amitai Etzioni ----
_rMcDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society / George Ritzer ----
_rThe bonds of our communities have withered / Robert D. Putnam ----
_rDisneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences / Alan Bryman ----
_rLiving in a loft is like living in a showcase / Sharon Zukin ----
_rLiving in a global world. Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity / Zygmunt Bauman ----
_rThe modern world-system / Immanuel Wallerstein ----
_rGlobal issues, local perspective / Roland Robertson ----
_rClimate change is a back-of-the-mind issue / Anthony Gidens ----
_rNo social justice without global cognitive justice / Boaventura de Sousa Santos ----
_rThe unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind / Manuel Castells ----
_rWe are living in a world that is beyond controllability / Ulrich Beck ----
_rIt sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move / John Urry ----
_rNations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw / David McCrone ----
_rGlobal cities are strategic sites for new types of operations / Saskia Sassen ----
_rDifferent societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently / Arjun Appadurai ----
_rProcesses of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities / David Held ----
_rCulture and identity. The 'I' and the 'me' / G.H. Mead ----
_rThe challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned / Antonio Gramsci ----
_rThe civilizing process is constantly moving 'forward' / Norbert Elias ----
_rMass culture reinforces political repression / Herbert Marcuse ----
_rThe danger of the future is that men may become robots / Erich Fromm ----
_rCulture is ordinary / Raymond Williams ----
_rStigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting / Erving Goffman We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning / Jean Baudrillard ----
_rModern identities are being decentered / Stuart Hall ----
_rAll communities are imagined / Benedict Anderson ----
_rThroughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage / Jeffrey Alexander ----
_rWork and consumerism. Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure / Thorstein Veblen ----
_rThe Puritan wanted to work in a calling ----
_rwe are forced to do so / Max Weber ----
_rTechnology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination / Daniel Bell ----
_rThe more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has / Harry Braverman ----
_rAutomation increases the worker's control over his work process / Robert Blauner ----
_rThe Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism / Colin Campbell ----
_rIn processing people, the product is a state of mind / Arlie Russell Hochschild ----
_rSpontaneous consent combines with coercion / Michael Burawoy ----
_rThings make us just as much as we make things / Daniel Miller ----
_rFeminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities / Teri Lynn Caraway ----
_rThe role of institutions. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature / Karl Marx ----
_rThe iron law of oligarchy / Robert Michels ----
_rHealthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die / Ivan Illich ----
_rSome commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation / Robert K. Merton ----
_rTotal institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self / Erving Goffman ----
_rGovernment is the right disposition of things / Michel Foucault ----
_rReligion has lost its plausibility and social significance / Bryan Wilson ----
_rOur identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified / Howard S. Becker ----
_rEconomic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis / Jürgen Habermas ----
_rSchooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis ----
_rSocieties are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic / Stanley Cohen ----
_rThe time of the tribes / Michel Maffesoli ----
_rHow working-class kids get working-class jobs / Paul Willis ----
_rFamilies and intimacies. Differences between the sexes are cultural creations / Margaret Mead ----
_rFamilies are factories that produce human personalities / Talcott Parsons ----
_rWestern man has become a confessing animal / Michel Foucault ----
_rHeterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution / Adrienne Rich ----
_rWestern family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved / Judith Stacey ----
_rThe marriage contract is a work contract / Christine Delphy ----
_rHousework is directly opposed to self-actualization / Ann Oakley ----
_rWhen love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim ----
_rSexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body / Jeffrey Weeks ----
_rQueer theory questions the very grounds of identity / Steven Seidman ----
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520 _aProfiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights ; the effects of globalization ; the role of institutions ; and the rise of urban living in modern society.
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700 _aYuill, Chris
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700 _aThorpe, Christopher
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