★A concise and fascinating guide to the areas covered by a first degree in sociology.
★Fully illustrated with fascinating photographs and images.
★Handy timelines, information boxes, feature spreads and margin annotations will aid the reader in understanding terms and concepts easily and quickly.
★The Degree in a Book series has sold over 118,000 copies worldwide and has been published in 10 different languages.

This series include 4 titles:
A Degree in a Book: Electrical And Mechanical Engineering
A Degree in a Book: Sociology
A Degree In A Book: Physics
A Degree in a Book: Civil Engineering

A Degree in a Book: Sociology gives an introduction interested in how humans make and create our social world. Featuring vibrant full-colour graphics, helpful diagrams and summary sections, this book helps to bring clarity to complex ideas. Readers will soon be able to understand who created the subject area, how a sociologist thinks and studies and learn how we relate to social organisations from the family, to schools, corporations, religions, and governments as well as other forms of social organisation. They'll learn about inequality, status, sex and gender, ethnicity and get a broad view of culture, society and social networks. Subjects covered include: History of Sociology, Defining Culture, Equality, Gender and Ethnicity, Citizenship, Religion, Crime and Deviance, The Family, Social Movements, Understanding Social Change.