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Sociology : Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life
by David M. NewmanEdition:
9th
ISBN13:
9781412987295
ISBN10:
1412987296
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
11/23/2011
Publisher(s):
SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary
Continuing his tradition of highly engaging, trade-like writing, best-selling author David Newman once again starts in a familiar place-the everyday world-and then introduces sociological concepts and institutions as they influence students'¬" 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.
Table of Contents
| About the Author | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Individual and Society | |
| Taking a New Look at a Familiar World | |
| Seeing and Thinking Sociologically | |
| The Construction of Self and Society | |
| Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge | |
| Building Order: Culture and History | |
| Building Identity: Socialization | |
| Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self | |
| Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Families | |
| Constructing Difference: Social Deviance | |
| Social Structure, Institutions, and Everyday Life | |
| The Structure of Society: Organizations, Social Institutions, and Globalization | |
| The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality | |
| The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity | |
| The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender | |
| Demographic Dynamics: Population Trends | |
| Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society | |
| References | |
| Photo Credits | |
| Glossary/Index | |
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