Developments in Sociology

<p>Appropriate as a supplemental text to courses in Sociology. Providing an overview grounded in research. <i>Developments in Sociology</i> focuses on the major areas of theoretical, methodological and substantive developments in sociology. Each author takes a field of study in which they are an acknowledged expert and highlights the way in which the subject has developed over the last fifty years.</p> <p>1. Introduction. <br>2. Theory, Metatheory, and Discourse. <br>3. Postmodernism and Feminism in Social Theory. <br>4. Sociologists and the Survey. <br>5. Developments in Ethnographic and Qualitative Research. <br>6. Alternative Thoughts on Social Mobility. <br>7. The Underclass. <br>8. Sociology of Work and Employment. <br>9. Family Sociology. <br>10. Developments in the Sociology of Education. <br>11. Sociology of Religion. <br>12. Sociology of Crime and Deviance. <br>13. Sociology and Health. <br>14. Science and Technology Studies. <br>15. On the Cusp of the Cultural. <br>16. Developments in the Sociology of Gender and Women s Studies. <br>17. Social Policy and Welfare.</p>