PART 1 Theories of Society
4. Karl Marx - Human History as Class Conflict
5. Emile Durkheim - From Mechanical to Organic Solidarity
6. Sylvia Walby - Structuring Patriarchal Societies
7. Zygmunt Bauman - Intimations of Postmodernity
8. Anthony Giddens - Riding the Juggernaut of Modernity
Further Reading

PART 2 Research Methods
9. Alan Bryman - Quantitative versus Qualitative Methods?
10. Alan Buckingham & Peter Saunders - What is a Social Survey?
11. Barbara Merrill & Linden West - Researching Individual Lives
12. Philip Abrams - Sociology's Historical Imagination
13. Loïc Wacquant - Participant Observation / Observant Participation
Further Reading

PART 3 Natural and Urban Environments
14. Georg Simmel - Individuality in the Modern City
15. Richard Sennett - Creating Humane Cities
16. Saskia Sassen - The Global City
17. Riley E. Dunlap - A New Ecological Paradigm for Sociology
18. Anthony Giddens - A Politics for Global Warming
Further Reading

PART 4 Institutions and Organizations
19. Max Weber - The Spirit of Capitalism
20. Emile Durkheim - The Essence of Religion
21. Göran Therborn - Families in Global Perspective
22. John Taylor Gatto - The Hidden Curriculum - A Teacher's View
23. Alan S. Blinder - Work in the Next Industrial Revolution
Further Reading

PART 5 Social Inequalities
24. Wendy Bottero - What is Social Stratification?
25. Simone De Beauvoir - Woman - The Second Sex?
26. Patricia Hill Collins - Intersecting Inequalities
27. Rosemary Crompton - The Rise, Fall and Rise of Social Class
28. Colin Barnes, Geof Mercer & Tom Shakespeare - The Social Model of Disability
Further Reading

PART 6 Relationships and the Life-course
29. Stephen Hunt - Life Cycle or Life Course?
30. Jeffrey Weeks - Social Constructions of Sexuality
31. Ulrich Beck & Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -
The Normal Chaos of Love
32. Bill Bytheway - Ageing and Ageism
33. Norbert Elias - The Loneliness of the Dying
Further Reading

PART 7 Interaction and Communication
34. Erving Goffman - Presenting the Self in Social Life
35. Iris Marion Young - Throwing Like a Girl
36. Jack G. Shaheen - Hollywood's Misrepresentation of Arabs
37. James Slevin - The Internet Galaxy
38. Howard Rheingold - Building Virtual Communities
Further Reading

PART 8 Health and the Body
39. Bryan S. Turner - Defending Parsons' Sick Role
40. Lesley Doyal - What Makes Women Sick?
41. Mike Bury - The Experience of Illness and Recovery
42. Ivan Illich - The Problem with Medicine
43. Chris Shilling - Sociology and the Body
Further Reading

PART 9 Crime and Deviance
44. Emile Durkheim - The Normality of Deviance
45. Robert Merton - Crime as a Deviant Adaptation
46. Michel Foucault - The Birth of the Prison
47. John Braithwaite - Principles of Restorative Justice
48. David S. Wall - How Serious are 'Cybercrimes'?
Further Reading

PART 10 Political Sociology
49. Steven Lukes - Defining Power
50. Mary Kaldor - New Wars in a Global Age
51. David S. Meyer and Sidney Tarrow - The Social Movement Society?
52. Walter Laqueur - The New Terrorism
53. Daniele Archibugi - Cosmopolitan Democracy
Further Reading