TY - BOOK AU - Woodward,Kath TI - Social sciences: the big issues SN - 9780367522278 (paperback) U1 - 300 WOO 23 PY - 2022/// CY - New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Social sciences KW - Political science KW - Globalization N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -