Exploring Self and Society

• Author(s): Rosamund Billington, Sheelagh Strawbridge, Jenny Hockey,
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 1349266329
  ISBN_13: 9781349266326
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family ,

Description:... This text addresses contemporary society in an immediate and thought-provoking manner and will be a timely and topical introduction to the dynamic and critical dimensions of sociology. It adopts a broad social science approach which reflects both the authors' competencies and also the widening and overlaying boundaries of the social sciences. Starting with the problem-oriented agenda of the social sciences, it explores the tensions between structure, agency and process via the idea of a structure-bound and yet creative and participatory self.