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Thinking Sociologically, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-631-21929-3

July 2001

Wiley-Blackwell

208 pages

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Description
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.
About the Author
Zygmunt Bauman is a world-renowned sociologist, known for his recent groundbreaking work in social theory. His book Modernity and the Holocaust won the distinguished Amalfi prize for the best sociology book of 1989. He is also the author of Postmodern Ethics (Blackwell, 1993), Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality (Blackwell, 1995), Liquid Modernity (Polity, 2000) and Individualized Society (Polity, 2000).

Tim May is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford. He is the author of Social Research: Issues, Methods, and Process (third edition, 2001); Situating Social Theory (1996) and editor of Qualitative Research in Action (2002); co-author, with Malcolm Williams, of Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research (1996), with whom he also co-edited Knowing the Social World (1998).

Features

  • Fully revised and expanded edition.
  • Includes two new essays on time and space and health and fitness.
  • Contains new coverage of contemporary issues such as intimacy, risk, globalization, organizations, and new technologies.


  • Includes improved pedagogical features such as chapter introductions, end of chapter summaries and detailed recommended reading lists.