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A Critical Introduction to Sociology: Modernity, Colonialism, Nation-Building, and Post-Modernity

A Critical Introduction to Sociology: Modernity, Colonialism, Nation-Building, and Post-Modernity

Author(s): Amir Mirfakhraie

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Copyright: 2019

Pages: 462

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A Critical Introduction to Sociology: Modernity, Colonialism, Nation-Building, and Post-Modernity approaches sociology as public discourse and from a critical transhistorical and transnational perspective; explores the unequal and contradictory relationships between individuals and larger societal structures; examines how people from diverse backgrounds relate to, shape, and are shaped by local, national, and global structures of power; and analyzes the effects of various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, sexism, ableism, ageism, and heterosexism, on marginalized and oppressed groups. The consequences of colonialism, imperialism, capitalist relations/structures, and nation-building processes in various parts of the world are critically evaluated and narrated. A Critical Introduction to Sociology analyzes how effective positive change, promoting social justice and diversity, can result from praxis, human agency, and grassroots movements.

Key features for students include:

  • exploring their personal biographies in light of how structures of power in various parts of the world affect marginalized peoples.
  • examining the unequal and contradictory interrelations between personal experiences and dominant and minority groups’ biographies.
  • analyzing the consequences of modern and postmodern relations in terms of inequality, injustice, and oppression from an intersectional approach.

List of Boxes
Preface

PART ONE Introducing Critical Sociology
Chapter One: Sociology, Discourse, and Public Philosophy
Chapter Two: Sociological Imagination and Critical Sociology

PART TWO Sociology, Sociological Theories, Controversies, and Debates
Chapter Three: Sociology: a multi-facetted field
Chapter Four: Sociology, Debates, and Methods

PART THREE From Premodernity to Modernity
Chapter Five: Sociological Field, Context, and History
Chapter Six: Sociology and the Rise of Modern Societies

PART FOUR Modernity and the Birth of Sociology
Chapter Seven: Sociology, Modernity, and Change
Chapter Eight: Modernity, Expert Systems, and Modernism

PART FIVE Modernity, Historical Epochs, Nation-States, and Construction of Identity
Chapter Nine: Modernity, the Enlightenment, Society, and Nation-States
Chapter Ten: Identity and the Self in Modernity

PART SIX Industrialization, Political Revolutions, Urbanization, Capitalism, Militarization, and Modernity
Chapter Eleven: Sociology and Modern Technological, Social, and Economic Changes
Chapter Twelve: Sociology and the Rise of Capitalism
Chapter Thirteen: The Welfare State, Neoliberalism, and Postindustrialism

PART SEVEN Capitalism, the State, Nation-States, Surveillance, and Violence
Chapter Fourteen: Sociology, Power Structure, and Canada
Chapter Fifteen: Theory, the State, and Sociology: An introductory Reflection
Chapter Sixteen: Nation-States, Violence, and Imagined Identities

PART EIGHT Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonial Relations
Chapter Seventeen: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonial Relations
Chapter Eighteen: Colonialism, Domination, and Resistance
Chapter Nineteen: Theory, Capitalist Formation, and Economic and Cultural Oppressions
Chapter Twenty: Canada, the Nation-Building Process, and Aboriginal Others
Chapter Twenty-One: Immigration, Multiculturalism, and the Canadian Nation-State

PART NINE Globalization, Postindustrialism, and Postmodernity
Chapter Twenty-Two: Modernity and Globalization
Chapter Twenty-Three: Ideology, Globalization, and the Neoliberal Framework
Chapter Twenty-Four: Postindustrial Societies and Changes from Industrialism
Chapter Twenty-Five: Postmodernism: A critique of modernity

Conclusion
References & Bibliography

Amir Mirfakhraie
Amir Mirfakhraie (PhD) teaches sociology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. His research interests are: textbook studies, curriculum studies, racialization and ethnic relations in Canada, and diaspora studies.

A Critical Introduction to Sociology: Modernity, Colonialism, Nation-Building, and Post-Modernity approaches sociology as public discourse and from a critical transhistorical and transnational perspective; explores the unequal and contradictory relationships between individuals and larger societal structures; examines how people from diverse backgrounds relate to, shape, and are shaped by local, national, and global structures of power; and analyzes the effects of various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, sexism, ableism, ageism, and heterosexism, on marginalized and oppressed groups. The consequences of colonialism, imperialism, capitalist relations/structures, and nation-building processes in various parts of the world are critically evaluated and narrated. A Critical Introduction to Sociology analyzes how effective positive change, promoting social justice and diversity, can result from praxis, human agency, and grassroots movements.

Key features for students include:

  • exploring their personal biographies in light of how structures of power in various parts of the world affect marginalized peoples.
  • examining the unequal and contradictory interrelations between personal experiences and dominant and minority groups’ biographies.
  • analyzing the consequences of modern and postmodern relations in terms of inequality, injustice, and oppression from an intersectional approach.

List of Boxes
Preface

PART ONE Introducing Critical Sociology
Chapter One: Sociology, Discourse, and Public Philosophy
Chapter Two: Sociological Imagination and Critical Sociology

PART TWO Sociology, Sociological Theories, Controversies, and Debates
Chapter Three: Sociology: a multi-facetted field
Chapter Four: Sociology, Debates, and Methods

PART THREE From Premodernity to Modernity
Chapter Five: Sociological Field, Context, and History
Chapter Six: Sociology and the Rise of Modern Societies

PART FOUR Modernity and the Birth of Sociology
Chapter Seven: Sociology, Modernity, and Change
Chapter Eight: Modernity, Expert Systems, and Modernism

PART FIVE Modernity, Historical Epochs, Nation-States, and Construction of Identity
Chapter Nine: Modernity, the Enlightenment, Society, and Nation-States
Chapter Ten: Identity and the Self in Modernity

PART SIX Industrialization, Political Revolutions, Urbanization, Capitalism, Militarization, and Modernity
Chapter Eleven: Sociology and Modern Technological, Social, and Economic Changes
Chapter Twelve: Sociology and the Rise of Capitalism
Chapter Thirteen: The Welfare State, Neoliberalism, and Postindustrialism

PART SEVEN Capitalism, the State, Nation-States, Surveillance, and Violence
Chapter Fourteen: Sociology, Power Structure, and Canada
Chapter Fifteen: Theory, the State, and Sociology: An introductory Reflection
Chapter Sixteen: Nation-States, Violence, and Imagined Identities

PART EIGHT Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonial Relations
Chapter Seventeen: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonial Relations
Chapter Eighteen: Colonialism, Domination, and Resistance
Chapter Nineteen: Theory, Capitalist Formation, and Economic and Cultural Oppressions
Chapter Twenty: Canada, the Nation-Building Process, and Aboriginal Others
Chapter Twenty-One: Immigration, Multiculturalism, and the Canadian Nation-State

PART NINE Globalization, Postindustrialism, and Postmodernity
Chapter Twenty-Two: Modernity and Globalization
Chapter Twenty-Three: Ideology, Globalization, and the Neoliberal Framework
Chapter Twenty-Four: Postindustrial Societies and Changes from Industrialism
Chapter Twenty-Five: Postmodernism: A critique of modernity

Conclusion
References & Bibliography

Amir Mirfakhraie
Amir Mirfakhraie
Amir Mirfakhraie (PhD) teaches sociology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. His research interests are: textbook studies, curriculum studies, racialization and ethnic relations in Canada, and diaspora studies.