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Uncovering Social Life - Critical Perspectives from Sociology (Paperback)
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Uncovering Social Life - Critical Perspectives from Sociology (Paperback)
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In an era when rapid social change, the disappearance of
traditional communities, the rise of political populism and the
threat posed by radical religious movements makes it appear that
'all that is solid melts into air', the classical sociological
problem of how peaceable societies can be created and maintained
assumes renewed urgency. Uncovering Social Life: Critical
Perspectives from Sociology explores how contemporary institutional
changes erode existing social relationships and identities but also
create space for opposition to, or creative adaptation of, these
broader shifts. Exploring the threats and opportunities associated
with the contemporary age, this book identifies how sociology helps
us understand the problems associated with social order and change
before focusing on the most important institutional transformations
to have occurred in: bodies and health; sex, gender and sexuality;
employment; finance; the Internet and new social media; technology
and artificial intelligence; religion; governance and terrorism.
After a critical introduction placing these issues in their
historical and sociological context, theoretical chapters analysing
how sociology views the individual/society relationship, and the
volatile processes endemic to the modern era, provide an innovative
and comprehensive context for these explorations. This book
provides a clear and engaging account of social life. Covering a
broad range of sociological topics, the diverse chapters are united
in a concern with three major themes: the growing complexity of the
current era, and the 'doubled' identities with which it is
associated; the opportunities and constraints such developments
pose to different groups; and the capacity of institutional changes
to both erode existing social relationships, and create space for
the emergence of new collective identities that oppose these
structural shifts.
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