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New and Bestselling titles Sociology 2016-2017 www.sagepub.in Sociology | 2016-17 Seconds with Alice W Clark How is this book helpful for young women of Any memorable experience that you hadhadw whilehile rural areas with career aspirations? writing this book? Many rural families are now keeping their girls Becoming part of the Women’s Studies program in school longer, and this book encourages at Allahabad University; sharing in the colourful page 27A these families to see real benefit for themselves student and faculty life of SNDT University in supporting career development for their in Mumbai; living in Vadodara again after daughters. It contributes in this way by many years, enjoying friends and colleagues; identifying the individual roles that can be played reconnecting with friendships made in by supportive fathers and mothers, even those Bangalore. Being given entrée to lively students with very little education themselves. by professors who cared greatly about them. Being treated wonderfully by my interviewees. What facets of this book bring-in international Any particular advice that you would like to readership? share with young women aiming for a successful Views of women’s striving for self-identity career? through professionalism; the factors motivating For women not yet in college: Find supporters and encouraging them or setting barriers to their in your family to help argue your case to those accomplishments. who aren’t so supportive. Often it’s submissive Upward trends in women’s education, the and dutiful mothers who need a prompt from narrowing of the gender gap, and the effects a relative with a broader viewpoint. Negotiate these trends will have on world population. wisely with your family. In college, find a field The need for economic development to make that fascinates you and a mentor who cares about you. room for the talents, energies and idealism of 2016 • 212 pages • ` 595.00 newly educated women. Hardback (978-93-515-0888-5) 20 July 2016 Purdah To Piccadilly: The autobiography of page 26A an ordinary woman What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken Sleeping Beauty?” Simone de Beauvoir stirs up quite a thought in her monumental The Second Sex. And what happens when the sleeping beauty is up? Virginia Woolf opines in A Room of One’s Own: “Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.” Zarina Bhatty is one such Indian Muslim society was highly feminist movements. Bhatty, in example. An ordinary life led in feudal as well as caste and gender De Beauvoir’s words, “is not born, an extraordinary way, the record discriminative, yet it had a certain but rather becomes, a woman”. of which is documented in her grace of its own.” And yet, this only recently published memoir, Purdah forms the backdrop. to Piccadilly. The octogenarian, a A coming-of-age story of former president of the Delhi-based This is a coming-of-age story successive generations of Indian Association for Women’s of successive generations of women—her mother, herself Studies (IAWS), sums up the story women—her mother, herself and for us in the Afterword: “I have tried her daughters—stepping out from and her daughters—stepping to give a glimpse of the Oudh region the bounds of the zenana, out out from the bounds of of the province of Uttar Pradesh, of ignorance, out of suffocating 2016 • 218 pages • ` 595.00 India, as well as my experiences of the zenana, out of ignorance, marriages, out of dependence Hardback (978-93-515-0824-3) the British society in the second half on men. The “sleeping beauty” out of suffocating marriages, of the twentieth century, when I lived now awakened, she would out of dependence on men. for nearly 10 years in London. The make sweeping strides in Sociology | 2016 / 2017 NEW AND MUST-HAVE RESOURCES Contents Childhood, Youth and Ageing .......................................... 2-3 Crime & Deviance ............................................................ 3-5 Cultural Sociology ................................................................6 Education ..........................................................................6-7 Gender & Sexuality ..............................................................8 Globalization & Social Change ........................................8-9 Health & Body ....................................................................10 Introductory Sociology ...................................................... 11 Media & Culture ............................................................12-14 Race & Ethnicity ................................................................. 14 Bestsellers in Sociology ...............................................16-17 Research Methods & Methodology ..............................15-24 Social Theory ............................................................... 25-26 Sport, Leisure & Tourism ...................................................27 Work & Organizations ........................................................28 Urban Sociology & The City ..............................................29 Reference ...........................................................................29 Index ............................................................................. 30-36 SAGE India Sociology & Social Theory .......................................... 1A-7A Dalit Sociology ...................................................................8A Ethnic & Minority Studies ..................................................8A Sociology of Religion .................................................9A-13A Cultural Studies ....................................................... 14A-19A Film & Theatre Studies.............................................20A-23A Sociology of Gender ................................................23A-29A Sociology of Health ........................................................ 30A Media & Communication Studies ............................31A-36A Advertising .......................................................................37A Social Work ..............................................................37A-38A SAGE Law ........................................................................39A SAGE Classics .........................................................40A-41A History ......................................................................42A-50A Philosophy ........................................................................51A Political Sociology .......................................................... 52A Peace & Conflict Studies .........................................53A-57A Environmental Studies .............................................58A-60A Urban Studies ..........................................................61A-64A Childhood, Youth & Ageing SOCIOLOGY OF EARLY CHILDHOOD Critical Perspectives Norman Gabriel University of Plymouth Towards a Sociology of Early Childhood is a theoretically and historically grounded examination of young children's experiences in contemporary society. Asserting that a sociology of early childhood must bring together and integrate different disciplines, the book: • synthesizes different sociological perspectives on childhood • incorporates multi-disciplinary research findings on the lives of AGE STUDIESDIES young children A Sociologicalcal Examination of How • explains key theoretical concepts such as investment, early intervention, professional power and discourse we Age through the Life Course • examines the importance of play, memory and place Susan Pickard University of Liverpool • evaluates long-term parenting trends • uses illustrative examples and case studies, discussion questions and With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan annotated further reading to engage and stimulate readers. Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that Invigorating and thought provoking, Towards a Sociology of Early students will love Childhood is an invaluable read for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students looking for a more nuanced and progressive - Rosalind Gill, City University London understanding of childhood. A scholarly tour-de-force that brings into focus the various CONTENTS disciplines, histories, literatures and knowledge that have Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Childhood / Towards a Sociology of Early transformed us into modern subjects of age Childhood / Growing Up Beside You – Social Habitus in Early Childhood / Young Children's Play / Civilizing Young Children – Long-Term Parenting Trends / New Media Technologies - Stephen Katz, Trent University and the Sexualisation of Childhood 2017 • 152 pages Age Studies takes an invigorating approach to the study of age and Hardback (9781446272985) • £75.00 ageing in contemporary society. Encompassing ageing throughout the Paperback (9781446272992) • £24.99 life course, taking in childhood, adolescence, mid-life and older age, and situated explicitly within a sociological disciplinary framework, Age Studies: • explores current social science debates on the study of ageing linking these to core sociological concepts CHILDHOODCHILDHOO IN SOCIETY • links theory and application, using a variety of examples and international case studies FOR THE EARLY YEARS • includes chapter summaries, further reading and guided questions. A thought-provoking companion to advanced undergraduates and Third Edition postgraduate students studying ageing, older people, social gerontology Rory McDowall Clark University and related courses.