A comprehensive guide to understanding New Zealand society through a sociological lens.This 4th edition introduces core sociological concepts and methods, then applies them to key areas of New Zealand life: class, race, gender, family, health, technology, and more. Case studies from working sociologists illustrate real-world applications and encourage critical thinking. Updated data and a new chapter on death reflect contemporary issues.Understand soc...

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country-specific, ways of caring for the dead. It provides an account of diverse funerary practices that have taken shape through the various cultures that have settled here.In the backdrop of the colonising history of Aotearoa New Zealand, the book examines the complex legislative framework that separates Māori and non-Māori funerary leg...