Imagining Society

Daniel Nehring is Associate Professor of Sociology at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai.Dylan Kerrigan is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester and a Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West Indies.

• Preface: How to read this book?Making sense of societyThe sociological imaginationWhat is the social?Seven Key Moments in Western sociologySociologies in a Global WorldDecolonising SociologyStructure, Agency, Power and Conflict Difference, Stratification and InequalitiesThe Social SelfSociology in the Early 21st Century

"This is a comprehensive and critically engaged review of the discipline written by two passionate authors wishing to remind us all of the beauty of questioning and engaging with the ultimate purpose of sociological debates: to reshape, re-establish and ultimately reignite the reveal of the sociological imagination!" Athanasia Chalari, University of Northampton