Imagining Society
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Imagining Society

An Introduction to Sociology

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Imagining Society

An Introduction to Sociology

About this book

Imagining Society, Second Edition is an introductory text that presents sociology as a distinctly human enterprise. In every chapter, as they are learning the discipline's foundational concepts, readers are led on a journey, across time and space, to encounter some of sociology's key "makers"—the creative individuals whose representations of the social world enable us to make sense of it and change it for the better. At each stop they will be immersed in the actions, ideas, and original thoughts of these diverse and seminal thinkers, whose empirical methods and theoretical insights have inspired other sociologists and form the building blocks of the discipline.

Exercises in the text create opportunities for students to activate their own imaginations and to also see familiar contemporary culture and society—TV shows, popular music, advertising, organizations, thought-leaders and authority figures, fads and movements, etc.—through fresh eyes.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Brief Contents
  7. Detailed Contents
  8. Using Your Sociological Imagination
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. About the Author
  12. Part I Understanding Society
  13. 1 The Sociological Imagination
  14. 2 Socialization and Social Interaction
  15. 3 Deviance, Law, and Crime
  16. Part II Social Inequality
  17. 4 Social Stratification and Social Class
  18. 5 Race and Ethnicity
  19. 6 Gender at the Intersections
  20. Part III The Role of Institutions
  21. 7 Language, Media, and Culture
  22. 8 The Family and Intimate Relationships
  23. 9 Education
  24. 10 Work and Rationalization
  25. 11 Health
  26. 12 Globalization and Global Inequality
  27. Part IV Social Change
  28. 13 Change Through Policy and the Law
  29. 14 Social Movements
  30. Appendix 1: Readings in Imagining Society
  31. Appendix 2: Methods in Imagining Society
  32. Glossary
  33. References
  34. Index