TY - BOOK AU - Bilton,Tony. AU - Bonnett, Kevin. AU - Jones, Pip. AU - Lawson, Tony. AU - Skinner, David. AU - Stanworth, Michelle. AU - Webster, Andrew. TI - Introductory sociology SN - 0333945719 U1 - 301 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Sociologie N1 - PART 1 CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS.- Studying Society Today.- Living in Modernity.- Globalization and Modernity.- PART 2 SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND POWER.- Social Divisions.- The Significance of Social Class.- Gender Relations.- Race and Ethnicity.- Power, Politics and the State.- PART 3 DIMENSIONS OF MODERN SOCIAL LIFE.- Family Life.- Education.- Work and Employment.- The Mass Media.- Health, Illness and Medicine.- Crime.- Knowledge, Belief and Religion.- PART 4 SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND METHOD.- Principles of Sociological Research.- Foundations of Social Theory .- Making Social Life: Theories of Action and Meaning.- Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Theory ER -