Description
Book SynopsisFully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies.
Since the third edition, everyone's life has changed. The pandemic at least temporarily stopped social life as we knew it and virtually forced governments to close down their economies. This is where this edition of The Big Issues starts. Staying at home posed a radical departure from routine life, but reactions to Covid-19 have exposed the endurance of particular social relations especially inequalities which characterize societies worldwide.
A few of the new big issues covered in this edition include:
- Changing selves and personal lives in light of racism and sexual and identity politics in a pandemic
- Changing pattern
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Identity matters
3. Political action, citizenship and social order
4. Markets: buying and selling
5. Mobilities and inequalities: place and race
6. A globalized planet: opportunities and inequalities
7. Conclusion
