Aha! : that's why there are pirates in the supermarket

![CDATA[That brings us to the end of this book and our journey through a sociological analysis of everyday life. Over the 23 chapters, many authors have presented you with a different slice of our society. While doing this, they have also attempted to explain how these slices are interlinked. As you have read these pages, you have been challenged in many ways: from the introduction of new ideas to being encouraged to ask your lecturer if a siesta would be acceptable! You have also been challenged to use the various tools of analysis presented to you in an attempt to change the world. As I write these final lines, there are things happening all around us that may make some of the things we have discussed seem a little 'old'. If this book was written five years ago, there would be little reference to tablets, Face book or Instagram; rather, the authors would be talking about 'MySpace', a social networking website that few people can even remember. That is fine; it is a consequence of studying contemporary events-it makes it both challenging and exciting.]]