Sociology : exploring the architecture of everyday life
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Sociology : exploring the architecture of everyday life
SAGE Publications, c2012
9[th ed]
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The intro textbook that keeps students reading.
Continuing his tradition of highly engaging, trade-like writing, best-selling author David Newman once again starts in a familiar place - the everyday world - and then introduces sociological concepts and institutions as they influence students' daily existence. Full of vivid, real-world examples and touching personal vignettes, this text offers a solid introduction to basic sociological concepts and helps students realize their role in constructing, planning, maintaining, and fixing society.
New to the Ninth Edition:
* all statistical information and all contemporary illustrative examples have been updated to keep the book as fresh as possible both from the students' and instructors' perspectives
* micro-macro connections help students better understand the link between individual lives and the structure of society
* research features expose students to the importance and functionality of social scientific research
* visual essays have been strategically changed to provide a fresh perspective
Table of Contents
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Individual and Society
1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World
2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically
Part II. The Construction of Self and Society
3. Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge
4. Building Order: Culture and History
5. Building Identity: Socialization
6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self
7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Families
8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance
Part III. Social Structure, Institutions, and Everyday Life
9. The Structure of Society: Organizations, Social Institutions, and Globalization
10. The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality
11. The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity
12. The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender
13. Demographic Dynamics: Population Trends
14. Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society
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by "Nielsen BookData"