Dear fellow listserv members, there is an exciting new book from Blackwell
Publishing that I would like to share with you.
Thinking Sociologically
By Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May
In this lucid, stimulating and original book, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May
explore the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure
our view of the world. The authors elucidate key concepts in sociology: for
example, individualism versus community, and privilege versus deprivation.
While charting a course through sociology's main concerns, Bauman and May
also examine the applicability of sociology to everyday life.
This volume is a completely revised and expanded edition that includes new
materials on health and fitness, intimacy, time, space and disorder, risk,
globalization, identity, organizations, and new technologies. It was written
for the benefit and enjoyment of students, professional sociologists and
social scientists, and anyone else interested in the dynamics and issues
that structure everyday life.
Please visit the accompanying website at
<http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/ThinkSoc2e/> to view sample material
from the new edition, sociology resources for lecturers and students plus
information on related titles.
"In the first edition of Thinking Sociologically, Bauman created a very
personal yet inspiring view of Sociology as a liberating discipline. In the
second edition, Bauman and collaborator Tim May have added new topics - Time
and Space, Intimacy, and Risk - that have kept the visionary gleam of the
original. In showing how Sociology can illuminate the rhythms of everyday
life, this new edition will enthuse a new generation of students."
--Nick Abercrombie, Lancaster University
"Sociological thinking is an adventure in self-understanding and moral
reflection as well as systemic analysis. Thinking Sociologically is one of
the best available introductions to this adventure."
--Craig Calhoun, New York University
July 2001
248 pages - paperback/hardcover
ISBN: 0631219293
List Price: $29.95; $64.95
Ordering Information:
To order Thinking sociologically, please go to:
http://www.blackwellpub.com/asp/book.asp?ref=0631219293 or call Blackwell
Publishing at 1- 800-216-2522.
Thank you,
Thu Yen Mac
Blackwell Publishing, Boston, MA - Oxford, UK
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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Introduction: The Discipline of Sociology.
Part I: Action, Identity and Understanding in Everyday Life.
1. Oneself with Others.
2. Viewing and Sustaining Our Lives.
3. The Bonds that Unite: Speaking of 'We'.
Part II: Living our Lives: Challenges, Choices and Constraints.
4. Decisions and Actions: Power, Choice and Moral Duty.
5. Making it Happen: Gifts, Exchange and Intimacy in Relationships.
6. Care of Our Selves: The Body, Health and Sexuality.
7. Time, Space and (Dis)Order.
8. Drawing Boundaries: Culture, Nature, State and Territory.
9. The Business in Everyday Life: Consumption, Technology and Lifestyles.
Part III: Looking Back and Looking Forward.
10. Thinking Sociologically.
Questions for Reflection and Further Reading.
Index.
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