Sociology A Global Perspective

by Ferrante, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780495390916
• ISBN10: 0495390917
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-24
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

SOCIOLOGY: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, 7/E will introduce you to the discipline, and show you how sociology gives you powerful tools for thinking about and understanding what is going on in the world as well as the United States.

Table of Contents

The Sociological Imagination

Theoretical Perspectives and Methods of Social Research (With Emphasis on Mexico)

Culture (With Emphasis on North and South Korea)

Socialization (With Emphasis on Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza)

Social Interaction and the Social Construction of Reality (With Emphasis on the Democratic Republicof the Congo)

Social Organizations (With Emphasis on McDonald's, a U.S.-Based Multinational Corporation with Operations in 119 Countries)

Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control (With Emphasis on the People's Republic of China)

Social Stratification (With Emphasis on the World's Richest and Poorest Peoples)

Race and Ethnic Classification (With Emphasis on the Peopling of the United States (A Global Story)

Gender (With Emphasis on American Samoa)

Economics and Politics (With Emphasis on Iraq)

Family and Aging (With Emphasis on Japan)

Population and Urbanization (With Emphasis on India)

Education (With Emphasis on the European Union)

Religion (With Emphasis on the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan)

Social Change (With Emphasis on Greenland)

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