• ISBN13: 9780199452781
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: November 21, 2014
• Pages: 348
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

This revised and updated edition of the highly successful sociology textbook, Contemporary Sociology, continues to throw light on key issues and concerns of present-day society. M. Francis Abraham’s vast experience and extensive research cuts across conventional themes and geographical boundaries to include: • Theoretical perspectives and research methods • Key concepts and theories • Relevant issues in education, economy, politics, population, stratification, minorities, urbanization, and environment • Social institutions, organizations, and recent trends of change • Examples drawn from numerous cultural contexts   This second edition introduces the following new concepts in a comparative perspective: • Theoretical perspectives in a global age • Crystallization of social interaction • Race, gender, and stratification • New social movements • Gender and deviance • Women’s movements and caste-oriented movements   The crucial topics of modern-day sociology such as gender, race, lifestyle changes, ecological issues, and domestic violence are explained separately, distinguishing the book from general sociology textbooks. 

M. Francis Abraham has taught in India and the United States for over thirty years and is President of American International University Foundation, USA. He has authored, co-authored, and edited 13 books including the seminal Modern Sociological Theory (1983).