Pip Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 4588922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pip Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pip |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introductory Sociology
Introductory Sociology has established itself as one of the most popular textbooks in its field. The third edition is completely revised, updated and redesigned, to include additional diagrams, charts
Theorising Modern Family Life
This chapter attempts to identify the agencies at work in modern society which promote nuclear family living. Different perspectives on the virtues of this form of family are examined and the assumptions about individual freedom and obligation underpinning these are explored. Recent evidence about an increase in diversity in family living offers an opportunity for alternative theories of modern family life to be articulated, and these are the sub…
Education
This chapter explores central sociological issues in education. We consider the changing social context of education, including the major policy shifts of recent decades. We examine debates about the social nature of the curriculum, and about the relationship of education to the labour market and to social inequality. In addition, we document the ways that class, race, ethnicity and gender are reflected in educational outcomes. Finally, the chapt…
Health, Illness and Medicine
This chapter introduces the reader to the main sociological approaches to health, illness and medicine. The intention is to show how the distribution, experience, definition and treatment of illness cannot simply be understood, as most people think, in physical or biological terms. Health, illness and their medical management are part of wider cultural systems and as such are closely associated with processes of social control, by both profession…
The New Dynamics of Class
This chapter examines the ways in which occupational classes (the middle and working classes) have been reproduced over generations, and the ways in which this has depended on a stable, nationally determined labour market. It goes on to suggest how this reproduction is weakened through the impact of global processes at the national level. The implications these changes have for established jobs, new recruits to the labour market and social mobili…
Knowledge, Belief and Religion
This chapter examines one of the major debates concerning the emergence of modern social life: does the rise of rationalism, represented by scientific thinking and practices, mean that modern human beings have access to a form of cognition, and consequently, a kind of knowledge, which is markedly superior to any other kind?
Making Our Futures
In this final chapter we argue that there is still a vital role for sociology to play in helping people to shape their own lives and build their own diverse futures. Despite all the doubts about the modernist project of progress through reason, sociology can still claim to offer vital insights to people in society about the possibilities and limits that face them.
Power, Politics and the State
In this chapter we show how political sociology focuses on power in society and on the relationship between state power and social groups. We outline the nature of the state and examine models of the distribution of power before using the example of Britain’s Thatcher governments to show how political change may be analysed. We go on to see how different forms of social division, not only class, can be mobilised politically and we look at the imp…
Understanding Crime
This chapter examines the diversity of sociological explanations of crime by comparing them along a number of different dimensions. While highlighting key differences between these approaches, we try to show how they have shared a common commitment to the ‘modernist project’ — that is, to a belief in the possibility and legitimacy of constructing a valid explanation of the phenomenon of crime and, hence, of developing strategies for doing somethi…
Varieties of Social Theories
This chapter explores the ideas of the classic sociological theorists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber — and then examines twentieth-century developments insociological theorising. The aim is to provide a brief history of sociological thought and to introduce the reader to the core concepts of the discipline which will be encountered in the other chapters in the book.
Race and Ethnicity
This chapter introduces the sociological analysis of racial and ethnic divisions. It explores their continued significance as bases for both social inequalities and social identities. The chapter concludes by linking discussion of race and ethnicity to consideration of other dimensions of stratification covered in detail in Chapters 6, 7 and 8.
Understanding Social Stratification
After introducing the importance of stratification to sociological analysis, this chapter explores the concept of social class, and asks whether class is still a significant feature of contemporary society. You should gain a sense of the different approaches to social class, and how these build on but go beyond the classical Marxist and Weberian perspectives. You should also be able to understand the substantive issues that surround the debates o…
Sociologists, Modernity and Progress
We open this chapter by recapping some of the main features of modernity in order to understand how key founding sociologists shaped theories in response to this new society. Focusing throughout on social structure, the chapter asks how far sociologists have been able to sustain a belief in social progress backed by scientific knowledge. We see how deep-seated doubts about the consequences of modernity in the twentieth century replaced earlier op…
Work and Non-Work
Work has been of central interest to Sociology for much of our social and material fabric rests on the work that we do, whether paid or not. The chapter examines the relationship between work, non-work and the variety of experience associated with both, especially as mediated by gender. The boundaries between work and non-work are growing increasingly blurred, while the importance of work as a source of personal identity declines.
Principles of Sociological Research
This chapter introduces the reader to some of the basic principles of doing sociological research and discusses the key concepts and concerns that have shaped sociological inquiry. After reading this chapter, you should understand the relationship between and assumptions lying behind methodologies and methods. You should recognise how conventional research approaches in the discipline are challenged by feminism and postmodernism, though perhaps n…
Living in Modernity
This chapter aims to further understanding of the meaning and significance of the concept of modernity by exploring the distinctiveness of life in modern societies. It will highlight the many ways in which structural changes, often of global proportion, have altered and continue to alter our everyday experience. In particular, the chapter will consider the impact of four key processes of modernity: the development of industrial capitalism; the gr…
Gender Relations
This chapter provides an overview of some of the social processes that shape gender relations in contemporary societies. It emphasises that there are many forms of masculinity and femininity. It describes and assesses two major accounts of the individual acquisition of gendered identity, and argues for the necessity of viewing gender as a property of social institutions and of culture as much as of individuals. Therefore, the chapter examines in …
Globalisation and Modernity
This chapter discusses the concept of ‘globalisation’ and its roots in modernity. The concept raises new issues for sociologists who are shown to handle it in different ways. You should understand the tensions between the global and the local as they relate to economic, cultural and political processes.
Making Social Life
Theories which account for the Making of Social Life in terms of action, language and meaning are the focus of this chapter. In the first part, we examine a range of theories which centre on active, creative social action. Although we begin by looking at theories where actors are shaped by society, the emphasis in the action theories discussed is on the creative construction of social life by actors in settings. In the second part of the chapter …
Introductory Sociology
Theorising Modern Family Life
This chapter attempts to identify the agencies at work in modern society which promote nuclear family living. Different perspectives on the virtues of this form of family are examined and the assumptions about individual freedom and obligation underpinning these are explored. Recent evidence about an increase in diversity in family living offers an opportunity for alternative theories of modern family life to be articulated, and these are the sub…
Education
This chapter explores central sociological issues in education. We consider the changing social context of education, including the major policy shifts of recent decades. We examine debates about the social nature of the curriculum, and about the relationship of education to the labour market and to social inequality. In addition, we document the ways that class, race, ethnicity and gender are reflected in educational outcomes. Finally, the chapt…
Health, Illness and Medicine
This chapter introduces the reader to the main sociological approaches to health, illness and medicine. The intention is to show how the distribution, experience, definition and treatment of illness cannot simply be understood, as most people think, in physical or biological terms. Health, illness and their medical management are part of wider cultural systems and as such are closely associated with processes of social control, by both profession…
The New Dynamics of Class
This chapter examines the ways in which occupational classes (the middle and working classes) have been reproduced over generations, and the ways in which this has depended on a stable, nationally determined labour market. It goes on to suggest how this reproduction is weakened through the impact of global processes at the national level. The implications these changes have for established jobs, new recruits to the labour market and social mobili…
Knowledge, Belief and Religion
This chapter examines one of the major debates concerning the emergence of modern social life: does the rise of rationalism, represented by scientific thinking and practices, mean that modern human beings have access to a form of cognition, and consequently, a kind of knowledge, which is markedly superior to any other kind?
Making Our Futures
In this final chapter we argue that there is still a vital role for sociology to play in helping people to shape their own lives and build their own diverse futures. Despite all the doubts about the modernist project of progress through reason, sociology can still claim to offer vital insights to people in society about the possibilities and limits that face them.
Power, Politics and the State
In this chapter we show how political sociology focuses on power in society and on the relationship between state power and social groups. We outline the nature of the state and examine models of the distribution of power before using the example of Britain’s Thatcher governments to show how political change may be analysed. We go on to see how different forms of social division, not only class, can be mobilised politically and we look at the imp…
Understanding Crime
This chapter examines the diversity of sociological explanations of crime by comparing them along a number of different dimensions. While highlighting key differences between these approaches, we try to show how they have shared a common commitment to the ‘modernist project’ — that is, to a belief in the possibility and legitimacy of constructing a valid explanation of the phenomenon of crime and, hence, of developing strategies for doing somethi…
Varieties of Social Theories
This chapter explores the ideas of the classic sociological theorists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber — and then examines twentieth-century developments insociological theorising. The aim is to provide a brief history of sociological thought and to introduce the reader to the core concepts of the discipline which will be encountered in the other chapters in the book.
Race and Ethnicity
This chapter introduces the sociological analysis of racial and ethnic divisions. It explores their continued significance as bases for both social inequalities and social identities. The chapter concludes by linking discussion of race and ethnicity to consideration of other dimensions of stratification covered in detail in Chapters 6, 7 and 8.
Understanding Social Stratification
After introducing the importance of stratification to sociological analysis, this chapter explores the concept of social class, and asks whether class is still a significant feature of contemporary society. You should gain a sense of the different approaches to social class, and how these build on but go beyond the classical Marxist and Weberian perspectives. You should also be able to understand the substantive issues that surround the debates o…
Sociologists, Modernity and Progress
We open this chapter by recapping some of the main features of modernity in order to understand how key founding sociologists shaped theories in response to this new society. Focusing throughout on social structure, the chapter asks how far sociologists have been able to sustain a belief in social progress backed by scientific knowledge. We see how deep-seated doubts about the consequences of modernity in the twentieth century replaced earlier op…
Work and Non-Work
Work has been of central interest to Sociology for much of our social and material fabric rests on the work that we do, whether paid or not. The chapter examines the relationship between work, non-work and the variety of experience associated with both, especially as mediated by gender. The boundaries between work and non-work are growing increasingly blurred, while the importance of work as a source of personal identity declines.
Principles of Sociological Research
This chapter introduces the reader to some of the basic principles of doing sociological research and discusses the key concepts and concerns that have shaped sociological inquiry. After reading this chapter, you should understand the relationship between and assumptions lying behind methodologies and methods. You should recognise how conventional research approaches in the discipline are challenged by feminism and postmodernism, though perhaps n…
Living in Modernity
This chapter aims to further understanding of the meaning and significance of the concept of modernity by exploring the distinctiveness of life in modern societies. It will highlight the many ways in which structural changes, often of global proportion, have altered and continue to alter our everyday experience. In particular, the chapter will consider the impact of four key processes of modernity: the development of industrial capitalism; the gr…
Gender Relations
This chapter provides an overview of some of the social processes that shape gender relations in contemporary societies. It emphasises that there are many forms of masculinity and femininity. It describes and assesses two major accounts of the individual acquisition of gendered identity, and argues for the necessity of viewing gender as a property of social institutions and of culture as much as of individuals. Therefore, the chapter examines in …
Globalisation and Modernity
This chapter discusses the concept of ‘globalisation’ and its roots in modernity. The concept raises new issues for sociologists who are shown to handle it in different ways. You should understand the tensions between the global and the local as they relate to economic, cultural and political processes.
Making Social Life
Theories which account for the Making of Social Life in terms of action, language and meaning are the focus of this chapter. In the first part, we examine a range of theories which centre on active, creative social action. Although we begin by looking at theories where actors are shaped by society, the emphasis in the action theories discussed is on the creative construction of social life by actors in settings. In the second part of the chapter …
Introductory Sociology
Introductory Sociology
Introductory Sociology has established itself as one of the most popular textbooks in its field. The third edition is completely revised, updated and redesigned, to include additional diagrams, charts
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