Sociology (Sociology - Anthony Giddens)

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Product:	Sociology - Anthony Giddens
Date:	04/08/01 (335 review reads)
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As some of you might know I am currently on a disability studies course but I was previously on a GNVQ Advanced in Health and Social Care course. By doing, this course you get to come across a lot of different sociology textbooks. I think that this book has to be one of the best sociology textbooks written.
This book is aimed at people who have brief or very little knowledge about the subject of sociology.

This book can be used as a textbook, for courses like GNVQ Advanced in Health and Social Care, HND disability studies and also courses like GCSE sociology (I personally used it for both, I have also used this book for the HND course that I am presently on). It can also be picked up and read by anyone who wants to read about different aspects of sociology , ranging from discrimination to gender.

I bought this book because it is very detailed and I found it to be very detailed and it also has great pictures to accompany the text that is written in this book.
At the beginning of the chapters in the book, it gives you a brief description of what is in the chapter, with key words that are highlighted in black. Then the author of the book goes in to that subject in a lot of detail covering all the key words that are bold.

Synopsis of this book

This book contains everything that you need to know about sociology. I personally found this book for completing assignments and essays about sociology subjects.

This book contains the following subjects:-


Sociology: Problems and perspectives
Culture and Society
Socialization and life cycle
Social interaction and everyday life
Conformity and deviance
Gender and sexuality
Race
The development of sociological theory

Lets go in to this subjects in detail. I have just picked a few to go into detail on.

Sociology: Problems and perspectives

This section of this book focus primarily on the subject of Sociology: P
roblems and perspectives. This section of the book contains the following subjects, what is sociology about, change in the modern world, common sense, structure and action, developing a sociological outlook. This section also focus in detail on:- love and marriage, health and illness, crime and punishment and also implications the nature of sociology.


Culture and Society

This section of this book focus on the subject of Culture and Society. It contains subjects that includes, the meeting of cultures, the concept of culture, the human species, cultural diversity, cultural identity, cultural universals, societies in the modern world, and also basic concepts. This section of the book also goes into detail on the following subjects, human beings and apes, language and speech, and also early contacts with other cultures.

Socialization and life cycle

This section of this book focus in detail on the subject of Socialization and life cycle. I personally used this section of the book to complete some of my assignments. This section of the book includes the subjects of, un -socialized children, the early development of the infant, theories of child development, agencies of socialization, the life course and also death. This section of this book also goes in to detail on the following subjects, the family, peer relationships, schools, the mass media, childhood, the young adult, mature adulthood and also old age.

Social interaction and everyday life

This section of this book focus in detail on the subject of Social interaction and everyday life. This book on sociology focus in detail on the following subjects, the study of day to day life, social rules, conversations and talk, forms of talk, face, body, interaction, encounters and personal space, contexts and space. This section also goes in to detail on the following subjects, responses of cries, slips of the tongue, clock time, time geography and also zoning.


Details on this book

Title: Sociology

Author: Anthony Giddens

Published By: Polity Press

ISBN: 0-7456-1115-X

Other details: 819 pages

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