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Year: 2,006
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Language: English
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......Page 2 Title page
......Page 4 Copyright page
......Page 5 Brief Contents......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Boxes......Page 17 REVEL Boxes......Page 18 Maps......Page 19 Preface......Page 21 About the Author......Page 29 Chapter 1 The Sociological Perspective......Page 30 The Power of Society to guide our choices in marriage partners......Page 31 Seeing the General in the Particular......Page 32 Seeing the Strange in the Familiar......Page 33 Seeing Society in Our Everyday Lives......Page 34 Seeing Sociologically: Marginality and Crisis......Page 35 1.2: State several reasons that a global perspective is important in today’s world.......Page 36 Sociology and Public Policy......Page 38 Sociology and Personal Growth......Page 39 Careers: The “Sociology Advantage”......Page 40 Science and Sociology......Page 41 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.......Page 42 The Structural-Functional Approach......Page 43 The Social-Conflict Approach......Page 44 Race-Conflict Theory......Page 45 The Symbolic-Interaction Approach......Page 47 Sports and Conflict......Page 48 Sports as Interaction......Page 50 Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life......Page 52 Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life......Page 53 Making the Grade......Page 54 Chapter 2 Sociological Investigation......Page 56 The Power of Society to influence our life chances......Page 57 Common Sense versus Scientific Evidence......Page 59 Positivist Sociology......Page 60 Interpretive Sociology......Page 65 Critical Sociology......Page 66 Gender......Page 67 Research Ethics......Page 68 Testing a Hypothesis: The Experiment......Page 70 Asking Questions: Survey Research......Page 71 In the Field: Participant Observation......Page 75 Using Available Data: Existing Sources......Page 78 Research Methods and Theory......Page 81 Putting It All Together: Ten Steps in Sociological Investigation......Page 82 Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life......Page 83 Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life......Page 84 Making the Grade......Page 85 Chapter 3 Culture......Page 87 The Power of Society to guide our attitudes on social issues such as abortion......Page 88 3.1: Explain the development of culture as a human strategy for survival.......Page 89 Culture and Human Intelligence......Page 91 Symbols......Page 93 Language......Page 95 Values and Beliefs......Page 96 Norms......Page 98 Material Culture and Technology......Page 99 High Culture and Popular Culture......Page 100 Multiculturalism......Page 102 Cultural Change......Page 105 Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism......Page 106 A Global Culture?......Page 108 Structural-Functional Theory: The Functions of Culture......Page 109 Feminist Theory: Gender and Culture......Page 110 Sociobiology: Evolution and Culture......Page 111 Culture as Freedom......Page 112 Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life......Page 113 Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life......Page 114 Making t