Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach

by Henslin, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780205570232
• ISBN10: 0205570232
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This best selling comprehensive text shares the excitement of sociology with the acclaimed "down-to-earth" approach that highlights the sociology of everyday life. The 8th Edition of this highly regarded text retains all the features that have made previous editions so successful. The author has a unique ability to engage students without sacrificing content or talking down to them. With wit, personal reflection, and illuminating examples, Henslin shares his passion for sociology with his readers like no other author of an introductory text can.

Table of Contents

Brief

The Sociological Perspective

The Sociological Perspective

Seeing the Broader Social Context

The Growing Global Context Sociology and the Other Sciences

The Natural Sciences

The Social Sciences

Down-to-Earth Sociology: An Updated Version of the Old

Elephant Story

The Goals of Science

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Enjoying A Sociology

QuizSociological Findings Versus

Common Sense Origins of Sociology

Tradition Versus Science Auguste Comte and Positivism

Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism

Karl Marx and Class Conflict Emile

Durkheim and Social Integration Max

Weber and the Protestant

Ethic Values in Sociological

Research Verstehen and Social

Facts Weber and Verstehen

Durkheim and Social Facts

How Social Facts and Verstehen

Fit Together Sexism in Early Sociology

Attitudes of the Time

Harriet Martineau and Early Social Research

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Listening to an Early Feminist

Sociology in North America Early History

The Tension Between Social Reform and Sociological

Analysis Jane Addams and Social

Reform W.E.B. Du Bois and Race Relations

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Early Sociology in North America: Du Bois and Race Relations

Talcott Parsons and C. Wright Mills: Theory Versus Reform

The Continuing Tension and the Rise of Applied

Sociology

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Careers in Sociology: What Applied Sociologists Do

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Capturing Saddam

Hussein: A Surprising Example of Applied

Sociology Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology

Symbolic Interactionism Functional Analysis Conflict

Theory Levels of Analysis: Macro and Micro Putting the Theoretical

Perspectives Together

Trends Shaping the Future of Sociology Sociology

Full Circle: Reform Versus Research

Cultural Diversity in the United States:Studying Job Discrimination: Another Surprising

Example of Applied Sociology

Globalization

Summary and Review

Culture What Is Culture?

Culture and Taken-for-Granted

Orientations to Life Practicing

Cultural Relativism

Cultural Diversity Around the World: You Are

What You Eat?: An Exploration in Cultural

Relativity Components of Symbolic

Culture Gestures Language

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Emoticons: Written Gestures for Expressing

Yourself Online

Cultural Diversity in the United States: MiamiLanguage in a Changing City

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Race and Language: Searching for Self-Labels Values

Norms, and Sanctions Folkways and Mores Many

Cultural Worlds Subcultures Countercultures

Values in U.S. Society An Overview of U.S. Values

Down-to-Earth Sociology:Why Do Native Americans Like Westerns?

Value Clusters Value Contradictions and Social

Change Emerging Values Culture

Wars: When Values Clash

Values as Blinders Ideal

Versus Real Culture

Cultural Universals Technology in the Global Village

The New Technology Cultural

Lag and Cultural Change

Technology and Cultural Leveling

Summary and Review

Socialization What Is Human Nature?

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Heredity or Environment?

The Case of Oskar and Jack, Identical Twins Feral

Children Isolated Children Institutionalized

Children Deprived Animals Socialization into the Self and Mind

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