This groundbreaking new introduction to sociology is an innovative hybrid textbook and reader. Combining seminal scholarly works, contextual narrative and in-text didactic materials, it presents a rich, layered and comprehensive introduction to the discipline. Its unique approach will help inspire a creative, critical, and analytically sophisticated sociological imagination, making sense of society and the many small and large problems it poses.

Daniel Nehring

Chapter 1 Sociology; Chapter 2 Doing sociology; Chapter 3 Classical Western sociology; Chapter 4 Individual and social process; Chapter 5 Globalisation and the modern world; Chapter 6 Social inequalities and globalisation; Chapter 7 Why sociology? Some concluding remarks; epilogue Epilogue: A Manifesto for a Critical Humanism in Sociology: on Questioning the Human Social World, Ken Plummer;