Social Sciences
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ISBN13: | 9780367522278 |
ISBN10: | 0367522276 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 222 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Weight: | 340 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 18 Illustrations, black & white; 14 Halftones, black & white; 4 Line drawings, black & white; 3 Tables, black & white |
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Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic, and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously-unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies.
Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies.
Since the third edition, everyone?s life has changed. The pandemic ? at least temporarily ? stopped social life as we knew it and virtually forced governments to close down their economies. This is where this edition of The Big Issues starts. Staying at home posed a radical departure from routine life, but reactions to Covid-19 have exposed the endurance of particular social relations ? especially inequalities ? which characterize societies worldwide.
A few of the new big issues covered in this edition include:
- Changing selves and personal lives in light of racism and sexual and identity politics in a pandemic
- Changing patterns of consumption in relation to market production and what it means for climate change
- Changing intersections of citizenship, migration and globalization in the context of the virus crossing borders, and both the opportunities and sources of inequality involved
- Changing ideas about power, politics and populism in the aftermath of Brexit
Building on the strong foundation of this well-loved text, this fully revised fourth edition explores how big issues and social forces intersect to create both change and evidence of continuity, especially of social inequalities. It provides a clear, accessible introduction to the ideas and approaches of the social sciences across a range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology and politics.
1. Introduction
2. Identity matters
3. Political action, citizenship and social order
4. Markets: buying and selling
5. Mobilities and inequalities: place and race
6. A globalized planet: opportunities and inequalities
7. Conclusion