Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life 1st Edition, (Ebook PDF)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1138023388
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1138023383
• Author: Josee Johnston (Author), Kate Cairns (Author), Shyon Baumann (Author)

The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator. On the contrary, it is a question of again making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevant to today’s world of undergraduates.

This comparatively concise, highly visual, and affordable book offers a refreshingly new way forward to reach students, using one of the most powerful tools in a sociologist’s teaching arsenal―the familiar stuff in students’ everyday lives throughout the world: the jeans they wear to class, the coffee they drink each morning, or the phones their professors tell them to put away during lectures.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. A Day in the Life of Your Jeans: Using Our Stuff to Discover Sociology

Part I. Surviving (and thriving) in Consumer Culture

Chapter 2. You Are What You Eat: Culture, Norms, and Values

Chapter 3. Fast Food Blues: Work in a Global Economy

Chapter 4. Coffee: Status, Distinction, and ‘Good’ Taste

Part II. Fitting In: Being Part of the Group

Chapter 5. Shopping Lessons: Consuming Social Order

Chapter 6. Get in the Game: Race, Merit, and Group Boundaries

Chapter 7. Barbies and Monster Trucks: Socialization and ‘Doing Gender’

Chapter 8. Dreaming of a White Wedding: Marriage, Family, and Heteronormativity

Chapter 9. I <3 My Phone: Technology and Social Networks

Part III. Standing Out: Individuals Negotiating the Social World

Chapter 10. Branding Your Unique Identityâ„¢: Consumer Culture and the Social Self

Chapter 11. Looking Good: Ideology, Intersectionality, and the Beauty Industry

Chapter 12. What’s On Your Playlist? Subcultures, Racism, and Cultural Appropriation

Chapter 13. Our Love-Hate Relationship with the Car: Masculinity, Industry, and Environmental Sustainability

Appendix: Advertising and Society: An Overview of Sociological Methods

Glossary / Index

Index of Key Sociological Concepts

Bibliography

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