Sociology: A Down-to-earth Approach- Every chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated, based on feedback from adopters. - Boxed inserts have been updated to reflect the most current issues and meaningful topics to students and instructors. New hot topical coverage includes cloning, bio-engineering, and terrorism. - New topical coverage includes the connection between money and happiness; paying reparations for slavery; the Third Wave of feminsim; racism in the rental market; the decline of two-parent families; technology and terrorism; the home-schooling movement; the implicit association test (for subconscious prejudice); Mexican immigrants and health care; the Timothy McVey execution; new research on the roles of education and marriage in keeping people out of prison. - New and expanded supplements package: Test Bank - New singly volume, extremely comprehensive test bank now includes alternative assessment and a section of Open Book questions for every chapter: Printed practice tests now also provide students with a complete set of printouts of the instructors PowerPoint lecture outlines, with ample space for in-class note-taking: A Spanish-English Study Guide is designed specifically to help native Spa |
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... Perspective 468 468 What Is a Family ? Common Cultural Themes 470 467 Cultural Diversity Around the World : Promoting Gender Equality : Family Life in Sweden 472 Marriage and Family in Theoretical Perspective 472 The Functionalist ...
... Perspective 468 468 What Is a Family ? Common Cultural Themes 470 467 Cultural Diversity Around the World : Promoting Gender Equality : Family Life in Sweden 472 Marriage and Family in Theoretical Perspective 472 The Functionalist ...
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... Perspective 533 Functions of Religion 533 □ Down - to - Earth Sociology : News Flash ! Prayer Works ! 534 Functional Equivalents of Religion 536 Dysfunctions of Religion 536 The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 537 Religious Symbols ...
... Perspective 533 Functions of Religion 533 □ Down - to - Earth Sociology : News Flash ! Prayer Works ! 534 Functional Equivalents of Religion 536 Dysfunctions of Religion 536 The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 537 Religious Symbols ...
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... perspective understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context society a term used by sociologists ... PERSPECTIVE The Sociological Perspective Chapter The Sociological Perspective Seeing the Broader Social Context.
... perspective understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context society a term used by sociologists ... PERSPECTIVE The Sociological Perspective Chapter The Sociological Perspective Seeing the Broader Social Context.
Contents
The Sociological | 2 |
It Feeds My Soul 618 | 7 |
Origins of Sociology | 8 |
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