Written by three eminent professors, this work reflects the shifts of sociological thought, making it a comprehensive dictionary. It is useful to students and teachers of sociology and other related courses.

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Product Description: This exciting new reader brings together some of the best recent sociological writing on British society. The volume features carefully selected extracts from books and journals, which have been chosen for the high quality of their sociological analysis and their relevance to understanding social change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Audiences are problematic and the study of audiences has represented a key site of activity in the social sciences and humanities. Offering a timely review of the past 50 years of theoretical and methodological debate Audiences argues the case for a paradigmatic shift in audience research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This textbook is designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society. It explores the structure of the television text, the way in which the text is produced and the way it is consumed. The first section deals with the analysis of television programmes as texts. It covers, for example, the issues of realism, narrative, genre and ideology, the domestication of television programming, and the nature of soap operas and news. The section on the production of television deals firstly with the structure of the industry as a whole - the ways in which television is financed and distributed, the globalization of television and media imperialism - and the political economy of television. This is followed by a consideration of the internal workings of television organizations, including the role of the producer, the functioning of the production team, the television personality and producer's perceptions of the audience. The final section investigates theories of the television audience, and combines qualitative and quantitative studies. There is discussion on the history of audience research, methods of measuring the audience, the domestic context of viewing and television talk. This should be a suitable textbook for students of media studies, cultural studies and the sociology of culture.

Product Description: This book is a lively and up-to-date account of the major developments in British society over the last twenty-five years. It is an excellent teaching text and ideal companion volume to the highly successful textbook Contemporary British Society...read more

Product Description: In this sequel to their acclaimed The Dominant Ideology Thesis, the authors develop their analysis of the social and cultural underpinnings of modern capitalism. They confront a central assumption of western culture: namely, that the individual is sovereign, and that capitalism above all other economic forms depends on individualism...read more