(eBook PDF) Living Sociologically: Concepts and Connections

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199325944
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199325948
• Authors: Ronald N. Jacobs (Author), Eleanor R. Townsley (Author)

Students are drawn to topics of urgent sociological concern―race, class, gender, family, popular culture, health, and crime―by a need to both understand the forces that shape their world, and their desire to make the world better. It can be challenging, however, for students to link sociological concepts with real-world applications. Living Sociologically: Concepts and Connections helps students make those connections.

Encouraging students to observe, explore, and think critically about the social world, Living Sociologically offers a new, class-tested framework for teaching introduction to sociology. The “paired concepts” approach demonstrates the interdependent ways in which social forces work, and encourages students to engage with complexity and contradiction. It also connects students to a broader set of questions and provides them with critical, analytical tools for their post-college lives.

Table contents:

Part I: The Basics

1. What Is Sociology?

2. American Sociology: Theory and Contexts

3. Doing Sociology: Research Methods and Critical Literacy

Part II: Structure and Control

4. Culture

5. Socialization, Social Interaction, and Group Life

6. Deviance, Crime, and Punishment

Part III: Difference and Inequality

7. Inequality, Mobility and Social Change

8. Race, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism

9. Gender, Sexuality and the Body

Part IV: Institutions and Issues

10. Marriage, Family and the Law

11. Science, Religion and Knowing

12. Health, Illness and Medicine

13. Politics, Media and Social Movements

14. Economy, Education, Work and Recreation

Part V: Change, Issues, and the Future

15. Population, Immigration and Urbanization

16. Living on the Planet: Environment, Disaster and Risk