Social sciences : the big issues /
Woodward, Kath,
Social sciences : the big issues / Kath Woodward. - Fourth Edition. - viii, 211 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Revised edition of the author's Social sciences, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction --
1. Getting started --
1.2. Getting started involves asking questions --
1.3. Changing people: changing lives --
1.4. Changing places: changing times --
1.5. Case study: the changing face of tower blocks --
1.6. Conclusion --
2. Identity matters: psychosocial selves --
2.1. Introduction --
2.2. What do we mean by identity? --
2.3. Changing media, changing messages --
2.4. Embodied identities --
2.5. Buying and selling: material identities --
2.6. Where do you come from? --
2.7. Conclusion --
3. Social order and citizenship --
3.1. Introduction --
3.2. Who is a citizen? What does citizenship involve? --
3.3. Weighing up the argument --
3.4. challenge of other arguments --
3.5. Taking action --
3.6. Thinking again about evaluation --
3.7. Conclusion --
4. Buying and selling --
4.1. Introduction --
4.2. Processes of production and consumption --
4.3. Consumer society? --
4.4. Where is power? --
4.5. Conclusion --
5. Mobilities: place and race --
5.1. Introduction --
5.2. Mobilities and diaspora --
5.3. Place --
5.4. Place and race --
5.5. Conclusion --
6. Globalization: opportunities and inequalities --
6.1. Introduction --
6.2. Different worlds --
6.3. Globalization --
6.4. Cultural globalization: a sporting diversion --
6.5. Movement of people: migration --
6.6. Equality, inequality, risk and danger --
6.7. Different views: weighing up the arguments --
6.8. Conclusion --
7. Conclusion --
7.1. How far have we come? --
7.2. Making sense of the issues: ideas that matter --
7.3. How do the social sciences address the big issues? --
7.4. social sciences --
7.5. Knowledge and the social sciences.
"Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic, and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously-unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies. Since the third edition, everyone's life has changed. The pandemic - at least temporarily - stopped social life as we knew it and forced governments virtually to close down their economies. This is where this edition of The Big Issues starts. Staying at home posed a radical departure from routine life, but reactions to COVID-19 have exposed the endurance of particular social relations - especially inequalities - which characterize societies worldwide. A few of the new Big Issues covered in this edition include: Changing selves and personal lives in light of racism and sexual and identity politics in a pandemic; Changing patterns of consumption in relation to market production and what it means for climate change; Changing intersections of citizenship, migration, and globalization in the context of the virus crossing borders - and both the opportunities and sources of inequality involved; Changing ideas about power, politics and populism in the aftermath of Brexit Building on the strong foundation of this well-loved text, this fully revised fourth edition explores how big issues and social forces intersect to create both change and evidence of continuity, especially of social inequalities. It provides a clear, accessible introduction to the ideas and approaches of the social sciences across a range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, and politics"--
9780367522278 (paperback) 9780367522377
2021032714
Social sciences.
Political science --Globalization.
300 WOO / 017998
Social sciences : the big issues / Kath Woodward. - Fourth Edition. - viii, 211 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Revised edition of the author's Social sciences, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction --
1. Getting started --
1.2. Getting started involves asking questions --
1.3. Changing people: changing lives --
1.4. Changing places: changing times --
1.5. Case study: the changing face of tower blocks --
1.6. Conclusion --
2. Identity matters: psychosocial selves --
2.1. Introduction --
2.2. What do we mean by identity? --
2.3. Changing media, changing messages --
2.4. Embodied identities --
2.5. Buying and selling: material identities --
2.6. Where do you come from? --
2.7. Conclusion --
3. Social order and citizenship --
3.1. Introduction --
3.2. Who is a citizen? What does citizenship involve? --
3.3. Weighing up the argument --
3.4. challenge of other arguments --
3.5. Taking action --
3.6. Thinking again about evaluation --
3.7. Conclusion --
4. Buying and selling --
4.1. Introduction --
4.2. Processes of production and consumption --
4.3. Consumer society? --
4.4. Where is power? --
4.5. Conclusion --
5. Mobilities: place and race --
5.1. Introduction --
5.2. Mobilities and diaspora --
5.3. Place --
5.4. Place and race --
5.5. Conclusion --
6. Globalization: opportunities and inequalities --
6.1. Introduction --
6.2. Different worlds --
6.3. Globalization --
6.4. Cultural globalization: a sporting diversion --
6.5. Movement of people: migration --
6.6. Equality, inequality, risk and danger --
6.7. Different views: weighing up the arguments --
6.8. Conclusion --
7. Conclusion --
7.1. How far have we come? --
7.2. Making sense of the issues: ideas that matter --
7.3. How do the social sciences address the big issues? --
7.4. social sciences --
7.5. Knowledge and the social sciences.
"Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic, and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously-unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies. Since the third edition, everyone's life has changed. The pandemic - at least temporarily - stopped social life as we knew it and forced governments virtually to close down their economies. This is where this edition of The Big Issues starts. Staying at home posed a radical departure from routine life, but reactions to COVID-19 have exposed the endurance of particular social relations - especially inequalities - which characterize societies worldwide. A few of the new Big Issues covered in this edition include: Changing selves and personal lives in light of racism and sexual and identity politics in a pandemic; Changing patterns of consumption in relation to market production and what it means for climate change; Changing intersections of citizenship, migration, and globalization in the context of the virus crossing borders - and both the opportunities and sources of inequality involved; Changing ideas about power, politics and populism in the aftermath of Brexit Building on the strong foundation of this well-loved text, this fully revised fourth edition explores how big issues and social forces intersect to create both change and evidence of continuity, especially of social inequalities. It provides a clear, accessible introduction to the ideas and approaches of the social sciences across a range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, and politics"--
9780367522278 (paperback) 9780367522377
2021032714
Social sciences.
Political science --Globalization.
300 WOO / 017998