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Sociology Matters
ISBN: 9780073528113 | 0073528110
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Pub. Date: 6/8/2010 5:39:00 PM
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Richard Schaefer'sSociology Mattersis a very concise introduction to the discipline of sociology. Its straightforward style, streamlined design, and highly focused coverage make it the perfect short, affordable, introductory text for instructors who use a variety of materials in their course.Sociology Mattershelps students understand and connect to the topics it covers by answering the question "How does sociology matter?""After more than 30 years of teaching sociology to students in colleges, adult education programs, nursing programs, an overseas program based in London, and even a maximum-security prison, I am firmly convinced that the discipline can play a valuable role in teaching critical thinking skills. Sociology can help students to better understand the workings of their own lives as well as of their society and other cultures."Richard T. Schaefer
| BRIEF CONTENTS | |
| The Sociological View | |
| Culture and Socialization | |
| Social Structure, Groups, and Organizations | |
| Deviance and Social Control | |
| Stratification in the United States and Worldwide | |
| Inequality by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender | |
| Inequality of Gender | |
| Family and Religion | |
| Education, Government, and the Ec... MORE | |
| Population, Community, Health, and the Environment | |
| Social Movements, Social Change, and Technology DETAILED CONTENTS Preface | |
| The Sociological View What Is Sociology? | |
| The Sociological Imagination | |
| Sociology and the Social Sciences | |
| Sociology and Common Sense What Is Sociological Theory? The Development of Sociology | |
| Early Thinkers | |
| Émile Durkheim | |
| Max Weber | |
| Karl Marx | |
| Modern Developments:Charles Horton Cooley | |
| Functionalist Perspective: Manifest and Latent Functions | |
| Conflict Perspective: The Marxist View | |
| A Different Voice: W. E. B Du Bois | |
| Interactionist Perspective | |
| Feminist Perspective What is the Scientific Method? | |
| Defining the Problem | |
| Reviewing the Literature | |
| Formulating the Hypothesis | |
| Collecting and Analyzing Data | |
| Selecting the Sample: Ensuring Validity and Reliability | |
| Developing the Conclusion: Supporting Hypotheses /Controlling the Other Factors /In Summary: The Scientific Method Major Research Designs | |
| Surveys | |
| Observation | |
| Experiments | |
| Use of Existing Sources Ethics of Research Applied and Clinical Sociology Summary | |
| Culture and Socialization Culture and Society Development of Culture Around the World | |
| Cultural Universals | |
| Innovation | |
| Globalization, Diffusion, and Technology Elements of Culture | |
| Language | |
| Norms: Types of Norms | |
| Acceptance of Norms | |
| Sanctions | |
| Values Culture and the Dominant Ideology Cultural Variation | |
| Subcultures | |
| Countercultures | |
| Culture Shock | |
| Ethnocentrism | |
| Cultural Relativism The Role of Socialization | |
| Environment: The Impact of Isolation: A Girl Called Isabelle | |
| Heredity: the Impact of Biology The Self and Socialization | |
| Cooley: Looking-Glass Self | |
| Mead: Stages of the Self | |
| Mead: Theory of the Self | |
| Goffman: Presentation of the Self Socialization and the Life Course | |
| The Life Course | |
| Anticipatory Socialization and Resocialization Agents of Socialization | |
| Family | |
| School | |
| Peer Group | |
| Mass Media and Technology | |
| Workplace | |
| The State Summary | |
| Social Structure, Groups, and Organizations Defining and Reconstructing Reality Elements of Social Structure | |
| Statuses: Ascribed and Achieved Status | |
| Master Status | |
| Social Roles: What Are Social Roles? | |
| Role Conflict/ Role Strain | |
| Groups: Primary and Secondary Groups | |
| In-Groups and Out-Groups | |
| Reference Groups Social Networks and Technology | |
| Social Institutions Social Structure in Global Perspective | |
| Tönnies’sGemeinschaftandGesellschaft | |
| Lenski’s Sociocultural Evolution Approach: Preindustrial Societies | |
| Industrial Societies | |
| Postindustrial and Postmodern Societies Understanding Organizations | |
| Formal Organizations and Bureaucracies | |
| Characteristics of a Bureaucracy | |
| Bureaucracy and Organizational Culture | |
| Voluntary Associations Technology Impact on the Workplace Summary | |
| Deviance and Social Control Social Control | |
| Conformity and Obedience | |
| Informal and Formal Social Control | |
| Law and Society Deviance | |
| What is Deviance? | |
| Deviance and Social Stigma | |
| Explaining Deviance: Functionalist Perspective | |
| Interactionist Perspective | |
| Labeling Theory | |
| Conflict Theory | |
| Feminist Perspective Crime | |
| Types of Crime: Professional Crime | |
| Organized CrimeWhite-Collar and Technology-Based Crime | |
| Victimless Crime | |
| Crime Statistics:Understanding Crime Statistics | |
| International Crime Rates Summary | |
| Stratification in the United States and Worldwide Understanding Stratification | |
| Systems of Stratification: Slavery | |
| Castes | |
| Social Classes | |
| Perspectives on Stratification: Karl Marx’s View of Class Differentiation | |
| Max Weber’s View of Stratification | |
| Is Stratification Universal? Functionalist ViewConflict View | |
| Lenski’s Viewpoint Stratification by Social Class | |
| Measuring Social Class: Objective Method | |
| Multiple Measures | |
| Wealth and Income | |
| Poverty: Studying Poverty | |
| Who Are the Poor? | |
| Explaining Poverty | |
| Life Chances Social Mobility | |
| Open versus Closed Stratification Systems | |
| Types of Social Mobility | |
| Social Mobility in the United States: Occupational Mobility | |
| The Impact of Education | |
| The Impact of Race | |
| The Impact of Gender Stratification in the World System | |
| Legacy of Colonialism | |
| Globalization | |
| Multinational Corporations: Functionalist View | |
| Conflict View | |
| Modernization Summary | |
| Inequality by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender The Privileges of the Dominant Race, Ethnicity, and Minority Groups | |
| Minority Groups | |
| Race | |
| Ethnicity Immigration and New Ethnic Groups Explaining Inequality by Race and Ethnicity | |
| The Functionalist View | |
| The Conflict Response | |
| The Interactionist Approach Prejudice and Discrimination | |
| Discriminatory Behavior | |
| Institutional Discrimination | |
| Measuring Discrimination Summary | |
| Inequality of Gender The Social Construction of Gender | |
| Gender-Role Socialization | |
| Women''s and Men''s Gender Roles | |
| A Cross-Cultural Perspective Explaining Inequality by Gender | |
| The Functionalist View | |
| The Conflict Response | |
| The Feminist Perpsective | |
| The Interactionist Approach Women: The Oppressed Majority | |
| Sexism and Sex Discrimination | |
| Sexual Harrassment | |
| The Status of Women Worldwide | |
| Women in the Workforce of the United States | |
| The Social Consequences of Women''s Employment The Double Jeopardy of Minority Women Summary | |
| The Family and Religion Studying Social Institutions | |
| Functionalist View | |
| Conflict View | |
| Interactionist View The Family: A Global View | |
| Composition: What is the Family? | |
| Kinship Patterns: To Whom Are We Related? | |
| Authority Patterns: Who Rules? Religion as a Social Institution | |
| The Integrative Function of Religion | |
| Religion and Social Support | |
| Religion and Social Change | |
| Religion and Social Control: A Conflict View | |
| Education, Government, and the Economy Education: Schools as Formal Organizations | |
| Bureaucratization of Schools | |
| Teachers: Employees and Instructors | |
| Student Subcultures Power and Authority | |
| Types of Authority: Traditional Authority | |
| Legal-Rational Authority | |
| Charismatic Authority Who Rules in the United States? | |
| Power Elite Models: Mill’s Model | |
| Domhoff’s ModelPluralist Model The Economy: Today and Tomorrow | |
| Economic Systems: Capitalism | |
| Socialism | |
| Economic Change: The Face of the Workforce | |
| Deindustrialization | |
| E-Commerce | |
| The Contingency Workforce Summary | |
| Population, Community, Health, and the Environment Demography: The Study of Population | |
| Malthus’s Thesis and Marx’s Response | |
| Studying Population Today | |
| Elements of Demography How Did Communities Originate? | |
| Early Communities | |
| Preindustrial Cities | |
| Industrial and Postindustrial Cities Urbanization and Its Consequences | |
| Functionalist View: Urban Ecology | |
| Conflict View: New Urban Sociology Health and Illness: Sociological Perspectives | |
| Functionalist Approach | |
| Conflict Approach The Medicalization of Society | |
| Inequities in Health Care | |
| Interactionist Approach | |
| Labeling Approach Social Epidemiology | |
| Social Class | |
| Race and Ethnicity | |
| Gender | |
| Age The Environment and Our Place in It | |
| Environmental Problems: An Overview: Air Pollution | |
| Water Pollution | |
| Contamination of Land | |
| Human Ecology | |
| A Conflic | |
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