All the material students need for success in Sociology A Level is presented in diagrammatic form, annotated with concise notes. The clear black and white presentation means that students can make their own notes on the page and highlight important sections. The book also provides example answers on revision planning and techniques.

As and a Level Sociology Through Diagrams

Politics & Social Sciences

Lawson, Tony

Jones, Marsha

Moores, Ruth

Philosophy

Oxford Univ. Pr.

What do sociologists mean when they talk about 'crime' and 'deviance'? Can we use theory to explain why individuals break the law? And how do we measure criminal behaviour in modern society? This book uses key concepts and essential theory to explore these questions and explain their answers. The second edition of this student-focused text continues to offer clear and structured guidance on the sociology of crime and deviance. With basic definitions and clear analysis of theory and statistics, this book gives its reader the tools to build their knowledge and understanding of the topic. In particular, this text: • explores and critiques essential sociological theory, including functionalist, feminist and postmodernist debates. • examines how criminal justice data and crime statistics are compiled • questions the reliability of social patterns of crime in terms of gender, class, age and ethnicity • looks at new types of crime - from surveillance to terrorism and green crime to state crime As part of the Skills-Based Sociology series, this new edition of Crime and Deviance is packed with a variety of tasks, activities and exam practice questions. These encourage students to take an active role in their learning, whilst promoting critical thinking alongside skill development. This book is the perfect starting point for students keen to understand the sociology of crime and deviance, as well as an excellent source for revision.

Crime and Deviance (Skills-based Sociology, 1)

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

Building on the popular 1st edition, this book examines the sociology of education in Britain today. Informed by recent debates and research, it outlines new social policy and explains relevant theory. With updated chapters and contemporary examples, it is packed with skills-based activities to develop students' understanding of the topic.

Education and Training (Skills-based Sociology, 9)

Sociology

This text offers a structured and balanced survey of developments in the sociology of crime and deviance. It integrates analysis of key studies and theoretical debates with a variety of activities designed to help students develop their sociological understanding and skills. Advice is also given on how to approach examination questions.

Crime and Deviance

Reference

McMillin Pub Llc

Religion and belief influence many areas of all our lives. Comprehensive and clear, this book gives a thoroughly up-to-date overview of religion in contemporary society. With great pedagogical features to encourage students' learning and engagement with the subject, this is a key text for students of the sociology of religion.

Religion and Belief (Skills-based Sociology)

Heaton, Tim

Garrod, Joan

Palgrave

Introductory Sociology is one of the most ambitious, scholarly and popular textbooks in its field. This welcome new edition builds on the strengths of its predecessor in its thematic coherence, clarity of exposition and analytical depth. It is carefully structured to cover all the main substantive topics studied at an introductory level within a framework that engages with exciting contemporary debates about modernity, globalisation and social identity. Key features of the new edition include: - a completely new chapter on the media - extended coverage of social divisions to include disability, youth and old age as well as class, gender and race - clearer and more compact treatment of social theory, incorporating discussion of work by such contemporary theorists as Habermas, Giddens and Beck - an even stronger blend of theoretical, empirical and illustrative material, consolidating the critical and applied approach that is one of the text's most well-liked defining features With outstanding presentation and pedagogical support for the student and hard-pressed lecturer alike, the text includes: - an Instructor's Resource Pack, complete with powerpoint slides, available on the Palgrave website (or in hardcopy for adopters of the textbook, by written request) - a detailed and extensive glossary - practically a 'mini dictionary' of sociology in its own right and an ideal reference tool - chapter-specific further reading lists, annotated for further guidance and support - questions to think about, which can be used as the basis for essays, class discussion and further study - pictures, figures, graphs and tables.

Introductory Sociology: Fourth Edition

WEBSTER, Andrew

Skinner, David

Bilton, Tony

Bonnett, Kevin

Stanworth, Michelle

Jones, Pip.

The A-Z Sociology Handbook explains all the key terms in your A-level course, and has been completely updated for the new AS and A2 specifications. Each entry begins with a clear definition and is followed by explanation, worked examples and cross-references where relevant. The handbook provides expert advice from leading authors that will help familiarize you with the language of sociology--the more important the term, the more detailed the entry. It is invaluable for students of all pre-university courses, as well as undergraduates. This new digital edition includes free access to a supporting website to make searching for terms even quicker, and a free desktop widget to bring concise definitions instantly to your fingertips.

A-Z Sociology Handbook

Hodder Education Publishers

The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology (Economics as Social Theory)

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation of the widely acknowledged failings of the social sciences, not least of modern economics, this book sets about rectifying matters. Providing an account of the nature of social material in general, as well as of the specific natures of central components of the modern world, such as money and the corporation, Lawson also considers the implications of this theory regarding possibilities for social change. Readers will gain an understanding of how social phenomena, from tables and chairs, to money and firms, and nurses and Presidents are constituted. Fundamental to Lawson’s conception is a theory of community-based social positioning, whereby people and things within a community become constituted as components of emergent totalities, with actions governed by the rights and obligations of relevant members of the community. This theory isolates a set of basic principles that will offer the reader an understanding of the natures of all social phenomena. 
The Nature of Social Reality is for all those, academics and non-academics alike, who wish to gain a grasp on the nature of social phenomena that goes beyond the superficial.

Keynes' Economics: Methodological Issues

XXX Pesaran, M. Hashem

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

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