Screen LibraryA contemporary introduction to sociology : culture and society in transition /
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Paradigm Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Boulder : |
| Publication Dates: | [2008] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 636 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 584-610) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781594512704 1594512701 |
| Index Number: | HM585 |
| CLC: | C91 |
| Call Number: | C91/A376-1 |
| Contents: |
Sociological stories -- The individual and the social -- The sociological imagination -- Society today: so what's new? -- How do we understand today's social world? -- Avoiding easy answers: theory and evidence? -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Research methods -- Introduction -- Some key research terms -- Concepts and theories -- Methodology and methods -- Postmodernism, relativism, and research methods -- Research in the future -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Culture -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Thinking sociologically about culture -- Postmodernity, globalization, and the cultural turn -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading. Media and communication -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- The importance of the mass media -- The mass media-concepts and history -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Socialization and the life cycle -- Introduction -- An individual or a sociological story? -- The paradox of socialization -- The "self" in history -- Creating the self -- Primary socialization: the family -- Secondary socialization -- Life stages and the life cycle -- Emotion work in postmodern life -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Sexuality -- An individual or a social story? -- Naturalism versus constructivism -- Sexuality before modernity -- Modern sexuality -- Polluting non-procreative sex -- Underground sexual practices -- Sexuality in the postmodern transition -- Historical developments -- Sex today -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading. Marriage and the family -- Introduction -- An individual or a sociological story? -- Marriage and family: the social forces of change -- Marriage from modern to postmodern society -- The modern family -- The postmodern family: emerging possibilities -- The conservative backlash -- A new consanguinity? -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Inequality -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Social stratification -- Social mobility -- Beliefs and attitudes -- Inequality: past, present and future -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Gender -- Introduction -- An individual or sociological story? -- Gender at work -- Exploitation and violence -- Everyday culture and mass media -- Looking to the future -- changing times -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading. Race and ethnicity -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- The social construction of?race? and?ethnicity? -- Minority group theory -- The great debate: origins of the racial underclass in america -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Crime and deviance -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Defining and describing deviance and crime -- Theories of crime and deviance -- The future of crime and deviance in postmodern society -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Work and the economy -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Structural and cultural dimensions of work and the economy -- Organization of work -- Conflict and control -- From modernity to postmodernity ... Health and medicine -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Medicine, structure, and organization -- Social and cultural construction of health and medicine -- Social structure and inequalities -- Race, ethnicity, and gender -- Health and medicine in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Religion -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- What is religion? -- Religion, modernity and the secularization thesis -- Religion and cultural change -- Personal stories and ethnographies -- New age -- Public religion -- Cassie's story and the future of religion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Urbanism and population -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- The growth of cities -- Urban sociology in the twentieth century -- The city of the future-postmodern urbanism -- Population trends and the future -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading ... |