Introduction to Sociology / Edition 11

by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, Deborah Carr

Overview

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Authored by four leading scholars and teachers, Introduction to Sociology provides an authoritative introduction to basic concepts, major theories, and current research in a streamlined, easy-to-navigate format. A consistent four-part chapter structure makes the reading manageable without sacrificing coverage, while InQuizitive, Norton’s award-winning adaptive learning platform, helps ensure students are mastering the content. At the end of every chapter, a discussion of unanswered questions highlights the power of the sociological imagination to help us better understand our complex society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393639452
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2018
Edition description:	Seagull Eleventh Edition
Pages:	856
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Deborah Carr is a demographer and an active teacher at Rutgers University, where she regularly teaches the intro course. Her work focuses on sociology of the life course, aging, social psychology, and gender. Carr's latest book, Worried Sick: How Stress Hurts Us and How to Bounce Back, looks at how stress gets under our skin, makes us sick, and how and why people cope with stress differently.

Anthony Giddens, former director of the London School of Economics and a current member of the House of Lords, is a world-renowned social theorist who has written over forty books. He has written on just about every major topic in sociology but is best known for his work on modernization theory and globalization.

Mitchell Duneier is an award-winning urban ethnographer at Princeton University and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is most famous for his book Sidewalk, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Duneier's research focuses on the urban poor and other groups in the margins of society.

Richard P. Appelbaum, the MacArthur chair of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has won several awards for his teaching and works mainly on globalization and labor issues. Appelbaum is the coauthor of Behind the Label.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What is Sociology?
Chapter 2: Asking and Answering Sociological Questions
Chapter 3: Culture and Society
Chapter 4: Socialization and the Life Cycle
Chapter 5: Social Interaction and Everyday Life
Chapter 6: Conformity, Deviance, and Crime
Chapter 7: Stratification, Class, and Inequality
Chapter 8: Gender Inequality
Chapter 9: Ethnicity and Race
Chapter 10: The Rise of Modern Organizations
Chapter 11: Government, Political Power, and War
Chapter 12: Work and Economic Life
Chapter 13: Marriage and the Family
Chapter 14: Education and the Mass Media
Chapter 15: Religion in Modern Society
Chapter 16: The Sociology of the Body
Chapter 17: Urbanization, Population, and the Environment
Chapter 18: Social Change and Social Movements