Social Sciences: The Big Issues

ISBN-13: 9780367522377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 212 str.

Kath Woodward

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Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic, and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously-unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies.

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Kath Woodward, FAcSS, FLSW, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Her research is in social inequalities, embodied selves and body practices, and critical feminist theory, especially as evidenced in the field of sport, in particular boxing, football and the Olympics. Recent publications include Birth and Death: Experience, Ethics, Politics with Sophie Woodward (2020), Psychosocial Studies: An Introduction (2014), The Politics of In/Visibility (2015), Planet Sport (2012) and Sporting Times (2012). She has taught at all levels and chaired a number of sociology and social sciences courses at postgraduate and undergraduate levels, including the very popular OU level 1 ‘Introducing Social Sciences’ modules, having contributed to the most recent version presented in 2020.