Introduction to Sociology

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

Overview

Taking a topical approach to the subject and treating conceptual material only as it arises in the discussion, Giddens (London School of Economics, UK), Duneier (City U. of New York and Princeton U., US), and Appelbaum (U. of California at Santa Barbara, US) undergraduate-level introduction to sociology. Twenty chapters discuss the standard concerns of the field, including socialization, groups and organizations, conformity and deviance, class and inequality, ethnicity and race, political power and social movements, education and the mass media, health and illness, urbanization and the environment, and globalization. Among the primary themes cited by the authors as motivating the character of the proceedings are the globalization of social life, the importance of comparative study, the necessity of a historical approach to sociology, issues of gender, and links between macro and micro levels of analysis. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781324062226
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2024
Edition description:	Seagull Thirteenth Edition
Pages:	1016
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Anthony Giddens, the 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 at the margins of society. His latest book, Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, traces the changing meaning of the ghetto and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the New York Times.

Richard P. Appelbaum, Distinguished Research Professor and former MacArthur Chair, Global and International 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 and coeditor of Critical Globalization Studies and Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy.

Deborah Carr is a demographer and an active teacher at Boston 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.

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