Contemporary Society : An Introduction to Social Science
ISBN: 9780205578672 | 0205578675
Edition: 12thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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This best-selling text offers an integrated social science view of the world, emphasizing that social and cultural change are the pervasive realities of our era. One of the main themes ofContemporary Societyis that the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial order in the modern world is fraught with difficulties, as was the transition from an agricultural to an industrial order in an earlier era. Within this framework, we can observe the increasing fragmentation of the social order, which tends to lead people away from community and ... MORE
| Brief | |
| See Comprehensive | |
| Through the Lens of Science | |
| In the Beginning . . . | |
| Culture: Product and Guide to Life in Society | |
| Group Interaction: From Two to Millions | |
| Becoming a Person: The Birth of Personality | |
| Deviance and Criminality: The Need for Social Control | |
| The Great Divide: Ranking and Stratification | |
| ... MORE | |
| Minority Status: Age, Gender, and Sexuality | |
| From the Plow to the Computer: Change, Collective Behavior, and Social Movements | |
| Population, Urbanization, and Environment | |
| Pivotal Institutions: Marriage and the Family | |
| Pivotal Institutions: Religion and Education | |
| Government: The Institution and the Ideologies That Underlie It | |
| The Government of the United States of America | |
| Democracy in Action: We the People... | |
| The Economy: Concepts and History | |
| Principles of Economic Behavior : Microeconomics and Macroeconomics | |
| Nation Among Nations: Perspectives on International Relations | |
| Full: Every chapter concludes with "The Chapter in Brief," | |
| "Terms to Remember," | |
| "Suggested Reading," and "Websites of Interest." | |
| Through the Lens of Science | |
| The Social Sciences | |
| The Social World Seen through the Lens of Science | |
| The Scientific Method | |
| Concepts | |
| Theories | |
| Research | |
| Steps of the Scientific Method | |
| The Scientific Spirit: Skepticism, Objectivity, Relativity | |
| The Social Science Disciplines | |
| Anthropology | |
| Economics | |
| Geography | |
| History | |
| Political Science | |
| Psychology | |
| Sociology | |
| Research Methods in the Social Sciences | |
| Fur or Nakedness, Tools or Diet? | |
| Psychology: How Much of a Science? | |
| Consilience | |
| Sample Survey | |
| The Case Study | |
| Participant Observation | |
| The Experiment | |
| Statistical Analysis | |
| The Scientific Method in the Social Sciences | |
| In the Beginning . . . | |
| An Astrophysicist Views the Cosmos | |
| The Beginnings of Life | |
| Creating Life | |
| The Emergence of the Theory of Evolution | |
| A Revolution in Thought: Darwin and His Theory | |
| Natural Selection | |
| The Role of Heredity | |
| Genetics | |
| Population Genetics: Factors for Change | |
| Human Evolution Designed by Humans | |
| Evolution: Theory or Fact?The Lo ng Trek: Human Evolution | |
| Split Between Chimpanzee and Human Lines | |
| From Fossil to Fossil | |
| The Road to Homo Sapiens | |
| Homo Sapiens: Modern Humans | |
| Agriculture: Cultivation and Domestication | |
| The Evolution of Human Nature | |
| Biological Foundations | |
| Using Biology to Interpret History | |
| Culture: Product and Guide to Life in Society | |
| Culture: Concept and Importance | |
| Biological Predispositions to Culture | |
| The Birth of Culture | |
| Cultural Evolution and Sociobiology | |
| What, Then, Is Culture?The Symbolic Nature of Culture | |
| The Necessity of Sharing Symbols | |
| Language: The Most Important System of Symbols | |
| Does Language Create Reality?The Content of Culture | |
| Material Culture | |
| Nonmaterial Culture | |
| The Components of Nonmaterial Culture: Cognitive and Normative | |
| The Normative System | |
| Contradictory American Values | |
| Categories of Norms: Folkways, Mores, Taboos, and Laws | |
| The Need for Social Control | |
| From Folkways to Laws | |
| Overt and Covert, Real and Ideal Norms | |
| Traits, Complexes, and Institutions | |
| Pivotal Institutions | |
| Ethnocen | |
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