Sociology /
Steve Bruce.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- [viii], 105 p. ; 18 cm.
- A very short introduction .
Originally published: 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-100) and index.
In this brief and forthright essay Steve Bruce reasserts the value of sociology as a social science, a way of understanding the human condition that grounds its explanations in reliable observations of the real world.