Praised for its writing style that reads like a book you’d pore over at the corner café, this best-selling core text starts in a familiar place - the everyday world - and then introduces sociological concepts and institutions as they impact the student’s 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. INDICE: Part I. The Individual and SocietyCh. 1 Taking a New Look at a Familiar WorldCh.2 Seeing and Thinking SociologicallyPart II. The Construction of Self and SocietyCh.3 Building Reality: The Social Construction of KnowledgeCh.4 Building Order: Culture and HistoryCh.5 Building Identity: SocializationCh.6 Supporting Identity: The Presentation of SelfCh.7 Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and FamiliesCh.8 Constructing Difference: Social DeviancePart III. Social Structure, Institutions, and Everyday LifeCh.9 The Structure of Society: Organizations, Social Institutions, and GlobalizationCh.10 The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and InequalityCh.11 TThe Architecture of Inequality: Race and EthnicityCh.12 The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and GenderCh.13 Demographic Dynamics: Population TrendsCh.14 Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society
- ISBN: 978-1-4522-7594-9
- Editorial: SAGE Publications, Inc
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 640
- Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2014
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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