Introduction: The Sociological Perspective

1. Sociology as the Science of Social Life - W.E.B. Du Bois

2. The Promise of Sociology - C. Wright Mills

3. Sociology as the Study of Figurations: Beyond Individual and Society? - Norbert Elias

4. Decolonizing Sociology - Raewyn Connell

5. Understanding Ourselves and Others - Zygmunt Bauman & Tim May

Further Reading

PART 1 Thinking Sociologically

6. The Capitalist Revolution - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

7. Tastes, Distinctions and Social Structure - Pierre Bourdieu

8. Learning from the Outsiders Within - Patricia Hill Collins

9. The Consequences of Modernity - Anthony Giddens

10. Sociology after the Postcolonial Turn - Gurminder K. Bhambra

Further Reading

PART 2 Doing Sociology

11. Treat Social Facts as Things - Émile Durkheim

12. Sociology's Historical Imagination - Philip Abrams

13. Mixing Methods in Empirical Research - Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson & Michael Silk

14. Digital Sociology: Opportunities and Dangers - Noortje Marres

15. What is Feminist Research? - Patricia Leavy & Anne Harris

Further Reading

PART 3 Environment and Urbanism

16. The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

17. A Sociology of Climate Change - John Urry

18. Navigating the 'White Space' - Elijah Anderson

19. Urban Transitions in the Global South - AbdouMaliq Simone & Edgar Pieterse

20. Entering an Anthropocene Era? - Rolf Lidskog & Claire Waterton

Further Reading

PART 4 Structures of Society

21. Religion and the Origins of Capitalism - Max Weber

22. The Feminization of Work - Teri L. Caraway

23. Families and Personal Life - Deborah Chambers & Pablo Gracia

24. Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Social Inequalities? - Christy Kulz

25. Capitalism and the Digital Revolution - Shoshana Zuboff

Further Reading

PART 5 Social Inequalities

26. Intersectionality: Structural and Political - Kimberlé Crenshaw

27. Producing Disability and Abledness - Fiona Kumari Campbell

28. Wealth Concentration and Inequality - Thomas Piketty

29. Racial Distinctions and Social Structures - Michael Banton

30. 'Doing Gender' via Domestic Labour - Clare Lyonette & Rosemary Crompton

Further Reading

PART 6 Relationships and the Life Course

31. I, Me and the Social Self - George Herbert Mead

32. Towards a Sociology of Personal Life - Carol Smart

33. Love as a Sociological Problem - Eva Illouz

34. From the Life Cycle to the Life Course - Stephen J. Hunt

35. The Significance of Generational Experience - Lorraine Green

Further Reading

PART 7 Interaction and Communication

36. Self Presentation and Impression Management - Erving Goffman

37. Violence in Sociological Perspective - Randall Collins

38. Misogyny, Beauty and Body Modification - Sheila Jeffreys

39. Constructing and Negotiating Social Identity - Susie Scott

40. Knowledge Production in a Post-Truth World - Dominic Malcolm

Further Reading

PART 8 Health, Illness and the Body

41. The Medical Re-definition of Social Life - Peter Conrad

42. Does Inequality Cause Poor Health Outcomes? - Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

43. Challenging the Dominance of Biomedicine - Sarah Nettleton

44. Health and Illness in Sociological Perspective - William C. Cockerham

45. The Exceptional and the Normal After COVID-19 - Jens O. Zinn

Further Reading

PART 9 Crime and Social Control

46. The Social Construction of Outsiders - Howard S. Becker

47. The Shifting Politics of Punishment - David Garland

48. Race, Blackness and Exclusion in the USA - Loïc Wacquant

49. The Digital Transformation of Criminality - David S. Wall

50. Back to the Future: The Return of Banishment - Katherine Beckett & Steve Herbert

Further Reading

PART 10 Political Sociology

51. Conceptualizing Power in Sociological Theory - Steven Lukes

52. Ethnic Cleansing and the Dark Side of Democracy - Michael Mann

53. Populist Politics and Mobilization - Bart Bonikowski

54. Representations of British Muslims During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Elizabeth Poole & Milly Williamson

55. Social Media Use in Black Lives Matter Activism - Marcia Mundt, Karen Ross & Charla M. Burnett Further Reading