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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 592 pages, kõrgus x laius: 279x216 mm, kaal: 10 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2020
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0199325944
  • ISBN-13: 9780199325948
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 592 pages, kõrgus x laius: 279x216 mm, kaal: 10 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2020
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0199325944
  • ISBN-13: 9780199325948
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Students are drawn to topics of urgent sociological concern--race, class, gender, family, popular culture, health, and crime--by a need to both understand the forces that shape their world, and their desire to make the world better. It can be challenging, however, for students to link sociological concepts with real-world applications. Living Sociologically: Concepts and Connections helps students make those connections.

Encouraging students to observe, explore, and think critically about the social world, Living Sociologically offers a new, class-tested framework for teaching introduction to sociology. The "paired concepts" approach demonstrates the interdependent ways in which social forces work, and encourages students to engage with complexity and contradiction. It also connects students to a broader set of questions and provides them with critical, analytical tools for their post-college lives.

In addition, each chapter includes an opening vignette, examples of contemporary research, box features that exemplify the five paired concepts, career boxes, methods and interpretation boxes, case studies, review sections, and practical activities.

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I LOVE Living Sociologically: Concepts and Connections. It is reader-friendly and the engaging writing style draws students in. The paired concepts approach is innovative, and the active learning questions are thoughtful and provocative. I love the pop culture references that relate to students' lives. The examples are not only useful but they prompt thoughtful discussion about controversial subjects, which can foster students' ability to think about issues from more than one perspective. * Andrea Deal, Madisonville Community College

* Living Sociologically is easy to read while still focusing on theory and other aspects that need to be included in an introductory class. The focus on intersectionality is the greatest strength of this book, hands down. I love the paired concepts! Putting them into context is very helpful and I really like how the authors have structured them. The examples are completely up to date and relevant to today's culture. * Jess Klein, Robert Morris University/University of Pittsburgh * The authors' use of the five paired concepts is what makes Living Sociologically stand out. I like these themes very much and no doubt my students would agree. The categories are not only relevant and informative, but are systematically followed in each chapter. This allows students to develop a sense of understanding and connection between the issues addressed in each chapter. Excellent approach! * Joachim Kibirige, Missouri Western State University *

Preface xvii
Part I: The Basics 1(80)
Chapter 1 What Is Sociology?
3(20)
What Is Sociology?
5(5)
The Sociological Imagination
6(1)
The Discipline of Sociology
7(2)
Sociology and Everyday Knowledge
9(1)
Levels of Analysis
10(4)
Microsociology
11(1)
Macrosociology
12(1)
Institutional Perspectives
13(1)
Thinking Relationally: The Paired Concepts
14(5)
Solidarity and Conflict
15(1)
Power and Resistance
15(1)
Inequality and Privilege
16(1)
Global and Local
17(1)
Structure and Contingency
18(1)
Why Sociology?
19
Careers: Opportunities for Sociology Majors
6(17)
Chapter 2 American Sociology: Theories and Contexts
23(30)
Thinking Like a Sociologist
23(3)
Critical Questions and the Sociological Imagination
25(1)
Social Theory, Sociology, and the Social Sciences
26(1)
Classical Sociology
27(9)
The Industrial Revolution
27(1)
The Democratic Revolution
28(1)
The Creation of Nation-States
29(1)
The European Canon
29(4)
The Forgotten Canon?
33(3)
Sociology in America
36(3)
The Chicago School and American Sociology
36(1)
Conflict, Consensus, and Symbolic Interaction
37(2)
Sociological Theory Today
39(6)
Moving Away from Grand Theories
40(1)
Theories about Difference
40(3)
The Cultural Turn
43(1)
Global Context
44(1)
Sociology Today
45
Thinking Sociologically
45(1)
Why Sociology?
46
Methods And Interpretation: Measuring the Effect of Education on Earnings
24(23)
Careers: The Importance of Theory
47(1)
Case Study: W.E.B. Du Bois and the History of American Sociology
47
Paired Concepts:
Power And Resistance: Sociological Theorists in the Real World
31(3)
Inequality And Privilege: Forgotten Founders in Sociology
34(2)
Global And Local: The Importance of Immigration in American Sociology
36(3)
Structure And Contingency: Inverting and Subverting the Social Script
39(2)
Solidarity And Conflict: The History of SWS
41(12)
Chapter 3 Doing Sociology: Research Methods and Critical Literacy
53(28)
Social Research
54(5)
Social Research and Ethics
55(1)
Social Research and Sociology in Media, Politics, and Everyday Life
56(2)
Science and Complex Societies
58(1)
The Research Process
59(7)
Data and Measurement
60(2)
Variables, Data Collection, and Causal Relationships
62(4)
Three Common Strategies for Sociological Research
66(6)
Talking to People: Survey Analysis, Interviews, and Focus Groups
66(2)
Observation: Ethnography and Experiments
68(2)
Analysis of Publicly Available Data Sources: Media Reports, Government Documents, Official Statistics, and Big Data
70(2)
The Social Nature of Social Research
72
The Challenge of Studying People
73(2)
Basic, Applied, and Public Sociology
75
Methods And Interpretation: Major Surveys Conducted by Sociologists
67(8)
Careers: Careers in Applied Sociology
75(2)
Case Study: Doing Sociology in Society (Including Society Online)
77
Paired Concepts:
Power And Resistance: Protecting Human Subjects in Social Research
57(1)
Solidarity And Conflict: Race, Difference, and the Politics of Medical Research
58(11)
Inequality And Privilege: Studying Doormen in New York
69(3)
Global And Local: Citizen Science: Using Local Data to Understand Global Patterns
72(2)
Structure And Contingency: The Baby Einstein Phenomenon
74(7)
Part II: Structure And Control 81(96)
Chapter 4 Culture
83(32)
How Do Sociologists Study Culture?
84(6)
What Is Culture?
84(2)
Ideal Culture and Material Culture
86(4)
Culture and Power
90(7)
Cultural Power
90(5)
Resisting Cultural Power
95(2)
Types of Culture in Today's World
97
Global Culture
98(3)
Dominant Cultures and Subcultures
101(3)
Popular Culture and Commercial Culture in Industrializing Europe and around the World
104(1)
High Culture
105
Methods And Interpretation: Measuring Culture Using Big Data
87(19)
Careers: Working in the Creative Industries
106(3)
Case Study: Protesting the National Anthem
109
Paired Concepts:
Structure And Contingency: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
93(8)
Global And Local: The History of Manga
101(2)
Solidarity And Conflict: Music and Social Protest
103(4)
Power And Resistance: Fanfiction
107(2)
Inequality And Privilege: Who Goes to the Museum and Opera?
109(6)
Chapter 5 Socialization, Social Interaction, and Group Life
115(32)
Socialization and Selfhood
116(9)
Nature and Nurture
116(1)
The Social Self
117(2)
Agents of Socialization
119(3)
Adult Socialization
122(3)
Interaction and the Social Construction of Reality
125(6)
Status and Role
126(2)
Performance and the Social Self
128(1)
Social Interaction in a Digital Age
129(2)
Group Life
131
Group Size
131(1)
Primary Groups and Secondary Groups
132(1)
Reference Groups
133(2)
Bureaucracy in Group Life
135(3)
Social Networks in Group Life
138
Methods And Interpretation: Life-Course Research on Socialization
126(14)
Careers: Getting a Job: The Strength of Weak Ties
140(1)
Case Study: Caitlyn Jenner and Gender Socialization
141
Paired Concepts:
Inequality And Privilege: Different Styles of Parenting
125(2)
Structure And Contingency: What Is the Meaning of Fair Play? The 2012 Olympic Badminton Controversy
127(3)
Power And Resistance: Challenging Gender Stereotypes with the SlutWalk Campaign
130(4)
Solidarity And Conflict: The Stanford Prison Experiment
134(3)
Global And Local: Bureaucracy in Singapore
137(10)
Chapter 6 Deviance, Crime, and Punishment
147(30)
Deviance
148(10)
Why Does Deviance Exist?
150(4)
The Social Construction of Deviance
154(4)
Crime
158(10)
Categories of Crime
160(5)
Policing Crime
165(1)
Surveillance
166(2)
Punishment
168
Punishment as a Public Display of Morality
168(1)
Punishment and Treatment
169(1)
Incarceration
170
Careers: The Criminal Justice Field
159(3)
Methods And Interpretation: Measuring the Crime Rate
162(11)
Case Study: Why Are Crime Stories So Popular?
173
Paired Concepts:
Structure And Contingency: Is Chewing Gum Deviant?
149(2)
Solidarity And Conflict: The Moral Panic over School Bullying
151(2)
Power And Resistance: What's Wrong with Graffiti?
153(11)
Global And Local: The Global Drug Trade
164(7)
Inequality And Privilege: Punishment and Plea Bargaining
171(6)
Part III: Difference And Inequality 177(100)
Chapter 7 Inequality, Mobility, and Social Change
179(32)
What Is Inequality?
180(3)
Is Inequality Natural or Social?
181(1)
Is Inequality Good or Bad?
181(2)
Inequality and Stratification
183(1)
Types of Stratification
183(7)
Caste Systems
184(2)
Class Systems
186(1)
Status Systems
187(1)
Party Systems: Inequality through Meritocracy
187(1)
The Role of Consumption in Reproducing Inequality
188(2)
A Portrait of Stratification Today
190(6)
Stratification in the United States
190(3)
Global Stratification
193(3)
Social Mobility
196(5)
Social Factors Associated with Mobility
197(4)
Structural Mobility
201(1)
Social Change and the Attempt to Create More Equality
201
Social Policy
202(1)
Social Conflict
202
Methods And Interpretation: Measuring Status Attainment and Social Mobility
198(2)
Careers: Social Mobility and Career Planning
200(5)
Case Study: The Bachelor: Crystallizing Stratification on TV
205
Paired Concepts:
Power And Resistance: Ending Apartheid in South Africa
185(4)
Inequality And Privilege: Marketing to the Super-Rich
189(6)
Global And Local: Wealthy Chinese Students at Elite US Schools
195(8)
Structure And Contingency: Creating Social Security
203(1)
Solidarity And Conflict: A Short History of the Workers' Strike in the United States
204(7)
Chapter 8 Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism
211(34)
The Social Construction of Race
212(4)
Race and Biology
212(1)
The Changing Understanding of Race over Time
213(2)
Race and Ethnicity
215(1)
Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States
216(11)
Native Americans
218(1)
White Ethnic Groups
219(2)
African Americans
221(1)
Latinas and Latinos
222(3)
Asian Americans
225(2)
Race, Privilege, and Inequality
227(7)
The Privileges of Being in the Majority Group
227(2)
Racial Discrimination and Segregation
229(1)
Consequences of Discrimination
230(1)
Colorblind Racism
231(1)
Racial Conflict
231(3)
Multiculturalism and Diversity
234
Assimilation and Racial Privilege
234(1)
Challenging Assimilation
235(1)
Multiculturalism (Movement and Policy)
236(1)
Multiracial and Multiethnic Identities
236
Methods And Interpretation: Defining and Measuring Race in Official Government Data
217(20)
Careers: Multiculturalism in the Workplace
237(2)
Case Study: Intersecting Identities
239
Paired Concepts:
Structure And Contingency: The Growth and Success of Native American Casinos
220(3)
Solidarity And Conflict: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Struggle to Define African American Politics
223(2)
Global And Local: Latino Computer Engineers from Colombia and Puerto Rico
225(3)
Inequality And Privilege: How Irish Americans Became White
228(5)
Power And Resistance: Black Lives Matter
233(12)
Chapter 9 Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
245(32)
Sex, Gender, and the Body
246(5)
Gender and Performance
247(2)
Gender Stereotypes
249(2)
Gender and Power
251(13)
Masculinity and Femininity
252(1)
The Gender Order
252(2)
Divisions of Labor
254(5)
Workplace Harassment and Sexual Exclusions in Work and Public Spaces
259(1)
Challenging Patriarchy and the History of the Women's Movement
260(4)
Sexuality and the Body
264
Romance
264(1)
Marketing Desire
265(2)
Heteronormativity
267(2)
Queer Identities beyond the Closet
269
Careers: Women, Men, and Social Networks
250(12)
Methods And Interpretation: Gender Bias in Social Research
262(9)
Case Study: Gender Intersections at McDonald's
271
Paired Concepts:
Structure And Contingency: Classifying Intersex Babies
248(10)
Inequality And Privilege: Men in Pink-Collar Work
258(5)
Solidarity And Conflict: Feminist Politics
263(3)
Global And Local: Sex Work
266(4)
Power And Resistance: Stonewall
270(7)
Part IV: Institutions And Issues 277(158)
Chapter 10 Marriage, Family, and the Law
279(30)
Family and Society
280(8)
Family, Kinship, and Society
281(5)
Marriage and Family as Social Institutions
286(2)
Changes in Marriage and Family
288(8)
Traditional Families and Nuclear Families
288(2)
Divorce
290(2)
Single-Parent Families
292(1)
Delay and Decline of Marriage
293(2)
Boomerang Kids and Sandwich Parents
295(1)
Transnational Families
295(1)
Challenging Family Forms
296
Feminist Challenges to the Family
298(1)
Blended Families
299(2)
Multiracial Families
301(1)
Lesbian and Gay Families
302
Careers: Marriage and Family Therapists
283(2)
Methods And Interpretation: The Debate about Birth-Order Effects
285(19)
Case Study: Family Names
304
Paired Concepts:
Inequality And Privilege: Legal Biases in Favor of Marriage
286(5)
Solidarity And Conflict: Disagreements over Parenting Styles
291(2)
Structure And Contingency: "Bird-Nesting" as a Co-Parenting Strategy after Divorce
293(4)
Global And Local: Korean "Wild Geese" Families
297(5)
Power And Resistance: Loving v. Virginia
302(7)
Chapter 11 Science, Religion, and Knowing
309(34)
Religion and Science as Ways of Knowing the World
310(4)
Religious Cosmologies
311(1)
Scientific Cosmologies
312(2)
Religion as a Social Institution
314(10)
Elements of Religious Institutions
316(2)
The Major Religions and Their Global Impact
318(6)
Modern Society and Secularism
324(6)
The Secularization Thesis
324(1)
The Persistence of Religion
325(2)
Religion and Politics
327(3)
Science as a Social Institution
330(5)
The Sociology of Science
332(2)
Science and Technology Studies
334(1)
The Crisis of Knowing, and the Importance of Belief
335
Epistemological Doubts
336(1)
Can Science and Religion Coexist?
336
Methods And Interpretation: Measuring Religious Commitment
315(16)
Careers: Women's Careers in STEM
331(7)
Case Study: Debating Evolution in Public Schools
338
Paired Concepts:
Power And Resistance: Galileo, Darwin, and the Church
313(8)
Global And Local: Catholicism in Africa
321(7)
Solidarity And Conflict: Religious Proselytizing
328(5)
Inequality And Privilege: Science and the Matthew Effect
333(2)
Structure And Contingency: The Invention of Velcro
335(8)
Chapter 12 Health, Illness, and Medicine
343(32)
Health
345(6)
Geography, Class, Race, Gender, Age, and Other Differences
345(1)
Genetics
346(1)
Environment
347(2)
An Intersectional Understanding of Health Disparities
349(2)
Illness
351(7)
Experiencing Illness Differently
351(1)
Being a Patient
352(4)
Medicalization
356(2)
Medicine
358
Medical Institutions
358(2)
Public Health
360(4)
Social Responses to Sickness and Illness
364(2)
Access to Health Care
366
Methods And Interpretation: Race-Based Medicine
348(12)
Careers: Sociology and Medicine
360(9)
Case Study: Genetic Testing
369
Paired Concepts:
Inequality And Privilege: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years
350(5)
Power And Resistance: Stigma and Size
355(6)
Solidarity And Conflict: Disruptive Behavior in Medical Settings
361(2)
Global And Local: Does Modern Society Make You Sick?
363(2)
Structure And Contingency: Waiting for an Organ Transplant
365(10)
Chapter 13 Politics, Media, and Social Movements
375(28)
Politics as the Struggle for Influence
376(3)
Coercive Power and Persuasive Power
377(1)
Hegemony, Critique, and Resistance
378(1)
Politics and Democracy
379(5)
The Democratic Revolution
380(1)
Comparing Systems of Representation
380(1)
Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty
381(2)
Representing the People
383(1)
Mediated Politics
384(5)
Who Speaks for the Public?
385(1)
Media and Agenda Setting
386(1)
Economic Distortions of the Media Agenda
386(3)
Social Movements
389
Challenging the Powerful
389(2)
Organizing for Change
391(3)
Getting Noticed
394(2)
Movement Success
396
Methods And Interpretation: Does Concentration of Media Ownership Matter?
388(3)
Careers: Sociology and Politics
391(6)
Case Study: The Strange History of the US Electoral College
397
Paired Concepts:
Power And Resistance: Public Protests in Tahrir Square
378(1)
Inequality And Privilege: Who Gets Elected to the US Senate?
379(3)
Solidarity And Conflict: Push Polls and the Politics of Division
382(5)
Structure And Contingency: Barack Obama and "Joe the Plumber"
387(5)
Global And Local: The Creation of Greenpeace
392(11)
Chapter 14 Economy, Education, Work, and Recreation
403(32)
What Is Education for?
404(6)
Literacy, Socialization, Citizenship, and Job Training
405(3)
Social Sorting, Social Reproduction, and Social Mobility
408(1)
Childcare and Employment
409(1)
Going to School
410(11)
Types of Schools
410(3)
Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
413(5)
Making Friends and Building Networks
418(3)
Work and Recreation
421(5)
Power, Privilege, and Inequality in the Workplace
422(1)
The Sociology of Job Satisfaction
422(4)
Historical Changes in the Economy
426
The Transition to Capitalism
426(2)
Post-Industrialism and the Changing Nature of the Economy
428(1)
Economic Crisis and Insecurity in an Age of Globalization
428
Methods And Interpretation: Measuring Learning Outcomes and Teaching Effectiveness
417(12)
Careers: The Uber-ization of the Economy
429(1)
Case Study: What Kind of Education Do People Need in Today's Economy?
430
Paired Concepts:
Solidarity And Conflict: The Fight over Campus Speech Codes
414(4)
Global And Local: The Spread of Singapore Math
418(2)
Inequality And Privilege: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
420(3)
Power And Resistance: The #MeToo Movement
423(2)
Structure And Contingency: How Indoor Cycling Became a Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry
425(10)
Part V: Change, Issues, And The Future 435(47)
Chapter 15 Population, Immigration, and Urbanization
437(32)
Population
438(5)
Demography and Population Growth
438(1)
Trends in Population Growth
439(4)
Urbanization
443(9)
Basic Concepts and Theories of Urbanization
444(1)
Historical Patterns and Current Trends in Urbanization
445(1)
Living in Cities
445(7)
Immigration
452
Trends in Immigration
452(2)
What Causes Immigration?
454(1)
Immigrant Communities
455(3)
The Politics of Immigration
458
Careers: Careers in Gerontology
442(11)
Methods And Interpretation: Measuring Immigration Flows
453(10)
Case Study: Retirement Migration to Central America
463
Paired Concepts:
Structure And Contingency: The Growth of Brambleton, Virginia
447(2)
Inequality And Privilege: Why London Real Estate Is So Expensive
449(2)
Global And Local: How the H-1B Visa Program Transformed Tech and Education in the United States and India
451(8)
Solidarity And Conflict: The Jewish American Diaspora and US Foreign Policy
459(3)
Power And Resistance: A Day Without Immigrants
462(7)
Chapter 16 Living on the Planet: Environment, Disaster, and Risk
469(13)
Living in Risk Society
470(1)
Learning about the Environment: Culture and Socialization, Science and Religion
471(2)
The Unequal Distribution of Environmental Risk
473(1)
The Politics and Business of Environmental Destruction and Conservation
474(1)
Making Wastefulness Deviant: Movements of Environmental Consciousness
475(2)
Sociological Realism: Limits on Environmental Progress
477(5)
Glossary 482(14)
References 496(45)
Credits 541(2)
Index 543
Ron Jacobs (Ph.D, UCLA) is Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Eleanor Townsley (Ph.D., UCLA) is the Andrew A. Mellon Professor of Sociology and the Director of the curriculum to career program, Nexus, at Mount Holyoke College.