Sociology(2ndEdition) A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Steve Bruce, UniversityOfAberdeen Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-882296-7, ISBN: 0-19-882296-0
"Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society's role in shaping the individual, and demonstrates the value of sociology for understanding the modern world. In this new edition Steve Bruce discusses the continuing arguments for social egal ..."
"The aim of this work is to enthuse readers to compare their own interpretations of the stories with stories of others, and thus to relate fictions of ageing to their own experience and the work of social gerontologists."