Introductory Sociology

Introductory Sociology has already established itself as one of the most popular textbooks in its field.

This new edition has been completely revised, updated and redesigned in a larger format. incorporating additional diagrams, charts, boxed examples and illustrations. It is accessible in style and content to students with no previous grounding in sociology, whether they first approach the discipline as A-level students, as undergraduates, or as men and women meeting sociology as a component of vocationally oriented courses in areas such as social work, teaching, managment and nursing.

The book provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of substantive areas, from patterns of inequality to sexual divisions in society. For this new edition extre material has been added on the development of the British class structure, on racial and gender inequality and on unemployment and industrial relations. The authors confront directly the controversies and ambiquities within sociology, presenting the subject not as a received body of wisdom but as a cumulative enterprise of understanding the realities of social life.