Martin Joseph has taught Sociology for 11 years and is the author of Sociology for Business (Polity Press, 1989).

'Easy to read and refreshingly free from jargon.' Nursing Times '... one of the most exciting, stimulating introductory texts I have read. Imaginatively written, attractively presented, it requires the student to 'do' sociology and to make sense of the social world.' N.U.T. Education

• Introduction. 1. The Family.2. Infant Care.3. Education.4. Adolescence.5. Divorce.6. Old People.7. Medicine.8. Urban Sociology.9. Deviance.10. Religion.11. Political Sociology.12. Women's Rights.13. Racial Discrimination.14. The Mass Media.15. The Sociology of Work: I and II.16. Social Theory and Methods.17. Conversations with Skeptics and Others.