Gain an insight into the issues that matter today, such as who owns the media, who decides what is news, and the super-rich. This is the ultimate tool to help you get to grips with sociology in time for exams, from gender and identity to welfare and consumerism.

Sociology is the study of how societies are organised and what helps them function or go wrong. Why do people commit crimes? Who decides if someone has a mental illness? What's work for? Does aid do any good? Heads Up Sociology explores these fascinating questions plus all the key sociology topics, including poverty, gender, class, and crime.

Fascinating biographies give you insights into the lives and work of key players such as Judith Butler and Howard Becker, and case studies and real-life scenarios bring the ideas to life. Heads Up Sociology is an essential read for anyone keen to ask the big questions about the society we live in today.

This book is part of a book series called Heads Up .

There are 160 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2018 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: What is SOCIOLOGY?
• 2: What do SOCIOLOGISTS DO?
• 3: RESEARCH methods
• 4: Who AM I?
• • 1: What is my IDENTITY?
  • 2: GIRLS and BOYS
  • 3: WOMEN and work
  • 4: Biography JUDITH BUTLER
  • 5: What's my TRIBE?
  • 6: Does RACE matter?
  • 7: Biography ELIJAH ANDERSON
  • 8: Who do you LOVE?
  • 9: AGE and society
  • 10: What does FAMILY mean?
  • 11: Are we all MIDDLE CLASS now?
  • 12: Biography KARL MARX
  • 13: Identity IN CONTEXT
• 5: Does society EXIST?
• • 1: What do schools TEACH?
  • 2: Are INSTITUTIONS a good thing?
  • 3: Biography CHARLES WRIGHT MILLS
  • 4: Who holds the POWER?
  • 5: What role does RELIGION play in society?
  • 6: Does RELIGION still matter?
  • 7: RURAL life versus URBAN life
  • 8: A sense of COMMUNITY
  • 9: Biography MAX WEBER
  • 10: WHY do we WORK?
  • 11: How is work CHANGING?
  • 12: Biography ARLIE HOCHSCHILD
  • 13: WATCHING the workers
  • 14: Social institutions IN CONTEXT
• 6: When it all goes WRONG
• • 1: Why do people commit CRIMES?
  • 2: Biography EMILE DURKHEIM
  • 3: BREAKING society's RULES
  • 4: White-collar CRIME
  • 5: Are we all on CAMERA?
  • 6: WHODUNNIT?
  • 7: Biography HOWARD BECKER
  • 8: HEALTH and equality
  • 9: Not FITTING in
  • 10: Crime and health IN CONTEXT
• 7: Why is the world so UNFAIR?
• • 1: Super-RICH!
  • 2: Wealth and STATUS
  • 3: The POVERTY trap
  • 4: Who's to BLAME?
  • 5: Where did RACISM come from?
  • 6: Why haven't developing countries DEVELOPED yet?
  • 7: Biography BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS
  • 8: Is GLOBALIZATION a good thing?
  • 9: GLOCALIZATION
  • 10: Biography SASKIA SASSEN
  • 11: What's our IMPACT on the PLANET?
  • 12: Biography ANTHONY GIDDENS
  • 13: Wealth and development IN CONTEXT
• 8: Modern CULTURE
• • 1: I SHOP therefore I am?
  • 2: What is CULTURE?
  • 3: Biography PIERRE BOURDIEU
  • 4: LEISURE time
  • 5: We are living in UNCERTAIN times
  • 6: Biography ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
  • 7: Does the MASS MEDIA affect YOU?
  • 8: Who DECIDES what's news?
  • 9: Where do you get your NEWS from?
  • 10: What does the INTERNET DO for us?
  • 11: Do you live ONLINE?
  • 12: Culture and the media IN CONTEXT
• 9: Directory of sociologists
• 10: Glossary
• 11: Index and acknowledgments