Screen LibraryIntroduction to sociology /
The book is constructed around eight basic themes, each of which helps give the work a distinctive character, one of the central themes is the micro and macro link, world in change, globalization of social life, comparative study, historical approach, social class, gender, and race, sociological res...
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| Published: |
W.W. Norton & Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2012] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Eighth edition. |
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| Summary: |
The book is constructed around eight basic themes, each of which helps give the work a distinctive character, one of the central themes is the micro and macro link, world in change, globalization of social life, comparative study, historical approach, social class, gender, and race, sociological research methods and the relation between the social and the personal. |
| Item Description: | Donation. |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 633, 76 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages A13-A45) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780393912135 (pbk.) : 0393912132 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | HM585 |
| CLC: | C91 |
| Call Number: | C91/G453/8th ed. |
| Contents: | What is sociology? -- Asking and answering sociological questions -- Culture and society -- Socialization and the life cycle -- Social interacion and everyday life in the age of the internet -- Groups, networks, and organizations -- Conformity, deviance, and crime -- Stratification, class, and inequality -- Global inequality -- Gender inequality -- Ethnicity and race -- Aging -- Government, political power, and social movements -- Work and economic life -- Families and intimate relationships -- Education and the mass media -- Religion in modern society -- The sociology of the body : health and illness and sexuality -- Urbanization, population, and the environment -- Globalization in a changing world. |