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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PROVOCATIONS -- VOX POPS -- GOOD SOCIOLOGY -- BAD SOCIOLOGY -- About the companion website -- Tour of the Book -- INTRODUCTION -- Text boxes -- PROVOCATION -- VOX POP -- PAUSE FOR REFLECTION -- HOW WOULD…? -- STRUCTURED FURTHER READING -- Author Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- MARK McCORMACK -- ERIC ANDERSON -- KIM JAMIE -- MATTHEW DAVID -- Preface -- INVOKING COGNITIVE DISSONANCE -- OUTLINE OF THE BOOK -- Chapter 1 What is Sociology? -- INTRODUCTION -- PROVOCATION 1 -- DEFINING SOCIOLOGY -- Further distinguishing sociology -- WHAT IS SOCIETY AND WHY SHOULD WE STUDY IT? -- APPROACHING SOCIOLOGY -- Sociology as critical inquiry -- GOOD SOCIOLOGY -- Sociology as a mode of thought -- PAUSE FOR REFLECTION -- Sociology as a discipline -- Sociology as personal -- PAUSE FOR REFLECTION -- The use of sociology -- VOX POP -- Final-year Sociology Student -- CONCLUSION -- HOW WOULD…? -- STRUCTURED FURTHER READING -- Chapter 2 A Brief History -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY -- Thinking critically -- Sociology in a changing society -- FOUNDATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS -- Karl Marx and a social theory of society -- PROVOCATION 2 -- Auguste Comte and a science of society -- Emile Durkheim and becoming a discipline -- Max Weber and becoming a dialogue -- EXPANSION AND CONSOLIDATION OF SOCIOLOGY -- The Chicago School -- PAUSE FOR REFLECTION -- CRITIQUING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY -- Women's contributions to early sociology -- VOX POP -- Professor Betsy Ettorre -- Lesbian Feminist Sociologist -- W.E.B. Du Bois and theorizing 'race' -- Recognizing exclusionary practice in the history of sociology -- Sociology in a global context -- CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY -- PAUSE FOR REFLECTION -- CONCLUSION -- HOW WOULD…? -- STRUCTURED FURTHER READING.

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