Product Description: This book provides a compact collection of essays that convey a sense of what sociological studies of Singapore society are and have been about. There are a total of 28 articles, arranged into eight sections covering the main sub-fields in Sociology; an overview essay introducing the volume and discussing the foci and the raison d'tre for the selection of the essays; and a commentary for each section, highlighting the main themes and arguments in the component chapters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)