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For those who are new to sociology, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May’s (2019) Thinking Sociologically (3rd edn, Chichester: Wiley Blackwell) is an up-to-date guide to developing and using your sociological imagination, with many everyday examples. Something closer to a personal view of sociology can be found in Richard Jenkins’s (2002) Foundations of Sociology: Towards a Better Understanding of the Human World (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), which explores the role of sociology and sociologists in an age of globalization.

One other useful resource is a good sociology dictionary. John Scott’s (2014) Oxford Dictionary of Sociology (4th edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press) and Bryan S. Turner’s (2006) The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) are reliable and comprehensive. For a guide to some of the key concepts used in sociological work, see our own companion, Giddens and Sutton’s Essential Concepts in Sociology (3rd edn, Cambridge: Polity, 2021).

For a collection of readings covering the range of sociology, see the accompanying Sociology: Introductory Readings (4th edn, Cambridge: Polity, 2021).