Sociology in the News (4)
Three articles about the close and friendly relationship between politicians and big business caught my attention this week. The three […]
Neoliberalism and The New Right, Sociology in the News
Social Theories
Book summaries, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim, Social Theories
Sociological Perspectives on Identity (1)
A brief summary of Steph Lawler’s ‘Identity’ – Chapter One – Stories, Memories, Identities Introduction: living lives and telling stories
Functionalism, Social Theories
Functionalism in Sociology: An Introduction
Functionalists believe society shapes the individual and that social order and value consensus are good.
Book summaries, Social Theories
Sociological Perspectives on Identity
A summary of Michel Foucault’s work on identity, deviance and normality, governmentality, subjectification and technologies of the self, taken from
Book summaries, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim
Giddens – The Trajectory of the Self
A Summary of chapter three of Anthony Giddens’ Modernity and Self-Identity Self-identity, history, modernity Drawing on a therapeutic text –
Social class, wealth and income inequalities, Social Theories
Sociological Analysis of The Olympics
The British media love The Olympics, especially when ‘Team GB’ are so successful, but there’s a lot more to individual
Feminism, Sex and gender
12 Facts about Gender Inequality
Evidence from Kat Banyard (2010) The equality illusion– the truth about women and men today, Faber and Faber. Today it
Globalisation, Social Theories
Runaway World by Anthony Gidden: A Summary
In Runaway world Giddens examines how the rise of a ‘risk consciousness’ and detraditionalisation’ have affected social life. He argues
Crime and Deviance, Social Action Theory (Interpretivism and Interactionism)
Labelling Theory of Crime and Deviance
Labelling theory argues that criminal and deviant acts are a result of labelling by authorities – and the powerless are more likely to be negatively labelled.
Book summaries, Consumerism, Culture and Identity, Globalisation, Marxism, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim, Social Theories
Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Times – A Summary
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world’s leading sociologists. He is particularly interested in how the west’s increasing obsession with