This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted
pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize
how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book's twelve chapters
students discover what Sociology is alongside its historical development and emergent new
concerns. They will be led through the theories that underpin the discipline and familiarized
with what it takes to undertake good sociological research. Ultimately students will be led and
inspired to develop their own sociological imagination - learning to question their own
assumptions about the society the culture and the world around them today.Historically the
majority of introductory Sociology textbooks have run to many hundreds of pages discouraging
students from further reading. By contrast Discovering Sociology has been carefully designed
and developed as a true introduction covering the key ideas and topics that first year
undergraduate students need to engage with without sacrificing intellectual rigour.
