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Year: 2,016
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Edition: 14
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City: Hoboken, NJ
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Pages: 566
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Pages In File: 593
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Language: English
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Topic: 194
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Identifier: 0134206320, 9780134206325
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Society
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Toc: Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Brief Contents......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Boxes......Page 15 REVEL Boxes......Page 16 Maps......Page 17 Preface......Page 20 About the Author......Page 27 Chapter 1 Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method......Page 28 The Power of Society to guide our choices in marriage partners......Page 29 SEEING THE GENERAL IN THE PARTICULAR......Page 30 SEEING THE STRANGE IN THE FAMILIAR......Page 31 SEEING SOCIETY IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES......Page 32 SEEING SOCIOLOGICALLY: MARGINALITY AND CRISIS......Page 33 THE IMPORTANCE OF A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE......Page 35 THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY......Page 36 SOCIOLOGY AND PERSONAL GROWTH......Page 38 CAREERS: THE “SOCIOLOGY ADVANTAGE”......Page 39 THE STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH......Page 40 THE SOCIAL-CONFLICT APPROACH......Page 42 RACE-CONFLICT THEORY......Page 43 1.4: Describe sociology’s three research orientations.......Page 45 POSITIVIST SOCIOLOGY......Page 47 INTERPRETIVE SOCIOLOGY......Page 49 CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY......Page 50 GENDER......Page 51 RESEARCH ETHICS......Page 52 TESTING A HYPOTHESIS: THE EXPERIMENT......Page 54 ASKING QUESTIONS: SURVEY RESEARCH......Page 55 IN THE FIELD: PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION......Page 57 USING AVAILABLE DATA: EXISTING SOURCES......Page 60 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: TEN STEPS IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH......Page 63 Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life......Page 65 Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life......Page 66 Making the Grade......Page 67 Chapter 2 Culture......Page 69 The Power of Society to guide our attitudes on social issues such as abortion......Page 70 2.1: Explain the development of culture as a human strategy for survival.......Page 71 HOW MANY CULTURES?......Page 74 LANGUAGE......Page 75 VALUES AND BELIEFS......Page 78 IDEAL AND REAL CULTURE......Page 80 HUNTING AND GATHERING......Page 81 INDUSTRY......Page 82 HIGH CULTURE AND POPULAR CULTURE......Page 83 SUBCULTURE......Page 84 MULTICULT