Preliminary Seminar of Sociology

Preliminary Seminar of Sociology
Yasunori Kudo, Saya Oyama and Yoshinori Kasai (eds.)

210 mm x 148 mm
232 pages
JPY 2,100
ISBN 9784790716921
Pub date: February 2017

This is an introductory book that will help you get the hang of reporting and presenting through the four stages of “discovering questions”, “investigating”, “considering” and “deepening”. Experience sociology in its entirety, not only by reading, but also by writing and speaking. 

Points of Appeal
1) Balanced study of topics that sociology has dealt with
2) Experience the process of writing a report

Table of Contents
Introduction

Part I. Questioning everyday life
Chapter 1 What is the relationship between myself and others like?
　: Identity, others and the gaze

Chapter 2 What kind of society is the family?
　: Intimacy, primary group/secondary group, life course

Chapter 3 How are welfare and education determined?
　: Welfare state, big government, social norms

Chapter 4 Who builds local communities?　
　: Communities, action research and urbanism

Chapter 5 What does it mean to work?
　: Bureaucracy, organization

Part II. Questioning familiar culture
Chapter 6 What is culture?
　: Customs, modernology, consumer society

Chapter 7 How do we use the media?
　: Information technology, social character 

Chapter 8 When are we conscious of gender?
　: Gender, division of labour, sexuality

Chapter 9 Is ethnicity close at hand?
　: Globalisation, ethnicity and ethnic relations

Part III. Connecting to society
Chapter 10 Why is inequality not disappearing?
　: Inequality, academic society, class and hierarchy

Chapter 11 How do social problems arise?
　: Social problems, labelling and social control

Chapter 12 What is special about social movements?
　: NPOs/NGOs, networks and new social movements

Chapter 13 How do we face the natural environment?
　: Science, technology and risk

Chapter 14 Politics is not only for politicians?
　: Election, democracy, political socialisation

References/Index