Dan Woodman is T.R. Ashworth Professor in Sociology at University of Melbourne. He researches youth, young adulthood and generational change using longitudinal method. Dan is co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Youth Studies and the President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia. He has been teaching first year sociology students at the University of Melbourne for a more than a decade.  Steven Threadgold is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Newcastle. His research focuses on youth and class, with particular interests in unequal and alternate work and career trajectories; underground and independent creative scenes; and cultural formations of taste. Steve is the co-director of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network, an Associate Editor of Journal of Youth Studies, and on the Editorial Boards of The Sociological Review and Journal of Applied Youth Studies. His latest book is Bourdieu and Affect: Towards a Theory of Affective Affinities (Bristol University Press).  Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles (Routledge) won the 2020 Raewyn Connell Prize for best first book in Australian sociology. Steve’s current research projects are on online cultural taste communities called ‘Dank Distinction and Homologies of Snark’; the ARC funded ‘Young Hospitality Workers and Value Creation in the Service Economy’ investigating the immaterial forms of labour young people perform to create value in the night-time economy; and the FEDUA funded research program ‘Regional youth in precarious times: Work, wellbeing and debt’. Contact at steven.threadgold@newcastle.edu.au

This book is more than a clear, very accessible, and often fun introduction to sociology. It is an introduction to our world through sociology. Be careful: once you start reading it, you will never again see the world in the same way. The brilliance of its authors is to explain the key debates and approaches from around the world in a very accessible way. A must-read for every citizen.

• Chapter 1: What is Sociology?Chapter 2: The Foundations of SociologyChapter 3: Building a More Inclusive SociologyChapter 4: Living in a Connected WorldChapter 5: Social SelvesChapter 6: Culture and MediaChapter 7: Digital LivesChapter 8: ClassChapter 9: Sex, Gender and SexualityChapter 10: Race and EthnicityChapter 11: Changing the World

Dan Woodman is T.R. Ashworth Professor in Sociology at University of Melbourne. He researches youth, young adulthood and generational change using longitudinal method. Dan is co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Youth Studies and the President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia. He has been teaching first year sociology students at the University of Melbourne for a more than a decade.  Steven Threadgold is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Newcastle. His research focuses on youth and class, with particular interests in unequal and alternate work and career trajectories; underground and independent creative scenes; and cultural formations of taste. Steve is the co-director of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network, an Associate Editor of Journal of Youth Studies, and on the Editorial Boards of The Sociological Review and Journal of Applied Youth Studies. His latest book is Bourdieu and Affect: Towards a Theory of Affective Affinities (Bristol University Press).  Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles (Routledge) won the 2020 Raewyn Connell Prize for best first book in Australian sociology. Steve’s current research projects are on online cultural taste communities called ‘Dank Distinction and Homologies of Snark’; the ARC funded ‘Young Hospitality Workers and Value Creation in the Service Economy’ investigating the immaterial forms of labour young people perform to create value in the night-time economy; and the FEDUA funded research program ‘Regional youth in precarious times: Work, wellbeing and debt’. Contact at steven.threadgold@newcastle.edu.au

This book is more than a clear, very accessible, and often fun introduction to sociology. It is an introduction to our world through sociology. Be careful: once you start reading it, you will never again see the world in the same way. The brilliance of its authors is to explain the key debates and approaches from around the world in a very accessible way. A must-read for every citizen.

• Chapter 1: What is Sociology?Chapter 2: The Foundations of SociologyChapter 3: Building a More Inclusive SociologyChapter 4: Living in a Connected WorldChapter 5: Social SelvesChapter 6: Culture and MediaChapter 7: Digital LivesChapter 8: ClassChapter 9: Sex, Gender and SexualityChapter 10: Race and EthnicityChapter 11: Changing the World