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If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it.
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• Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender/cisgender and the Occupy Movement
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• The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath
• An additional analysis of how men's violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men
• Chapter 7's focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege
If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it.
This Third Edition features:
• Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender/cisgender and the Occupy Movement
• A glossary of terms
• The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath
• An additional analysis of how men's violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men
• Chapter 7's focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege
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Publisher
Temple University PressYear
2014Print ISBN
9781439911877, 9781439911860eBook ISBN
9781439911884
62
Chapter
2
ture
and
how
we
live
and
use
it.
‘Ethnocentrism’
is,
after
all,
just
a
word
and
as
such
is
a
part
of
culture,
the
very
thing
it
helps
us
see
more
clearly.
In
this
sense,
culture
can
take
us
in
two
directions
at
once.
It
can
take
us
inward,
into
the
limited
space
of
our
particular
cultural
box.
But
as
tools
for
socio-
logical
practice,
such
concepts
as
culture
and
ethnocentrism
also
point
to
the
box
itself
and
toward
the
powerful
experience
of
imagining
ourselves
inside
and
outside
at
the
same
time.
Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Life, Practice, and Promise
- 1. The Forest, the Trees, and the One Thing
- 2. Culture: Symbols, Ideas, and the Stuff of Life
- 3. The Structures of Social Life
- 4. Population and Human Ecology: People, Space, and Place
- 5. Us, It, and Social Interaction
- 6. Things Are Not What They Seem
- 7. Sociology as Worldview: Where White Privilege Came From
- Epilogue: Who Are We Really?
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index