Sociology Suggested Reading

For the lower school

All Jacqueline Wilson books are sociological. Most teenage fiction deals with sociological issues in some shape or form. The Librarian is more than happy to discuss genres with pupils and is extremely familiar with the catalogue.

For the senior school

Newspaper articles from The Guardian are a good way of enriching reading on sociological issues, as the subject changes so rapidly. The Library also takes delivery of all the quality broadsheet newspapers

Sociology Review available in the Library

The State of the Nation 2007 and 2008

N Abercrombie et al Contemporary British society

E Abrams Below the Breadline - Life on the Minimum Wage

J Bains & S Johal Corner Flags and Corner Shops

M G Boulton On being a mother

K Fox Watching the English - the hidden rules of English behaviour

J Gershuny & H Laurie Seven years in the lives of British Families

V Hey The company she keeps - an ethnography of Girl's
Friendship

J Jones Somewhere to go? Something to do?

H Mirza Young, female and black

A Oakley Housewife

A Oakley The Sociology of Housework

S Sharpe Just like a girl - How girls learn to be women