Books
Recent sociology books from members of the department.
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Age-friendly cities and communities: A global perspective
Edited by Tine Buffel, Sophie Handler and Chris Phillipson
In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The book considers the different ways in which cities are responding to population ageing, the different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices.
Published in 2018.
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Qualitative Researching
Jennifer Mason
The third edition of this best-selling text guides students and researchers through the process of doing qualitative research, clearly explaining how different theoretical approaches inform what you do in practice. The text bridges the gap between ‘cookbook’ and more abstract approaches to qualitative research, by posing ‘difficult questions' that researchers should be asking themselves .
Published 2018.
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Talking Race in Young Adulthood: Race and everyday life in contemporary Britain
Bethan Harries
Drawing on ethnographic research with young adults in Manchester, Harries engages with ideas of the post-racial to explore how young adults make sense of their identities, relationships and new forms of racism, consequently revealing how and in what ways race remains a salient dimension of social experience.
Published 2018.
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Shared Housing, Shared Lives: Everyday Experiences Across the Lifecourse
Sue Heath, Katherine Davies, Gemma Edwards, Rachael Scicluna
With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives.
Published in 2018.
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Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life
Jennifer Mason
How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless.
Published December 2017.
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The craft of writing in sociology: Developing the argument in undergraduate essays and dissertations
Andrew Balmer and Anne Murcott
This is an indispensable companion for students studying sociology and related disciplines, such as politics and human geography, as well as courses which draw upon sociological writing, such as nursing, social psychology or health studies. It demystifies the process of constructing coherent and powerful arguments, starting from an essay's opening paragraphs, building evidence and sequencing key points in the middle, through to pulling together a punchy conclusion.
Published 2017
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