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Title: Sociology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Steve Bruce ISBN: 0-19-285380-5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Decent introduction, perhaps not up to usual VSI standard
Comment: I was interested in discovering more about this subject and having read the volumes on British Politics, Psychology and Buddhism I decided to read this. Unfortunately it is not the best in the series - it fails to group its ideas into a particularly memorable structure, leaving the reader with disjointed thoughts but little essence of the main points of the subject. Nevertheless, as always with this series, a good way to get into a topic you don't know much about. The use of anecdotes and examples is engaging but occasionally seemingly off-point. Nevertheless, eminently readable. 3 stars.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nonetheless, a worthwhile review
Comment: David Ross (in another review) is accurate and forthright. Bruce's read is indeed willy-nilly and impressionistic. These characteristics are the fault, but also the tool, of his writing many short such summaries. Someone who has only briefly visited the discipline for a writing assignment cannot be expected to know, for example, that there is already a body of theory (developed by Donald Black) which does what Bruce implies is either impossible or uninteresting: provide scientific order to a vast array of variation in social life without regard to individuals as such, and without the use of anything remotely psychological.
Befitting a "very short introduction", the reader should not be relied upon for much more than a brief glance. However, it does provide the glance, and even does so continuity as well as both humor and grace. While the coverage is lacking, the verbiage is pleasingly precise.
Don't read this to *complete* your investigation into sociology. But don't back away from it as a very short introduction. That is all it is, and all it was meant to be.
Rating: 3
Summary: Very brief, but a good introduction
Comment: Steve Bruce's introduction to Sociology is concise, yet covers the major ideas, problems, and architects of a discipline that seeks to be empirical, but suffers from being categorized outside the natural sciences.
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Title: Psychology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Gillian Butler, Freda McManus ISBN: 0192853813 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by John Monaghan, Peter Just, John Monagham ISBN: 0192853465 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Politics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Kenneth Minogue ISBN: 0192853880 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Catherine Belsey ISBN: 0192801805 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS) by Christopher Butler ISBN: 0192802399 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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