The Student's Companion to Sociology - Rilegato

Jon Gubbay is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East Anglia. He has a wide range of research interests including the sociology of higher education curricula, housing satisfaction, research methods and class analysis. He is the author, with Rosemary Crompton, of Economy and Class Structure.

Chris Middleton lectures in sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has written widely on the sociological history of class and gender and, more recently, on teaching in higher education.He is the principal editor of The Sociology Teaching Handbook, a sourcebook produced collaboratively by and for university teachers with the support of the British Sociological Association.

The Companion sets out to realize several objectives:

• To stimulate interest in sociology by emphasizing the discipline's engagement with the "real world".
  
• To help orient students within a complex and varied discipline.
  
• To enthuse the reader with the possibilities for sociological engagements with contemporary problems and issues.
  
• To introduce the full range of approaches within the discipline.
  
• To encourage the development of transferable skills.
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