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The sociologically examined life:

pieces of the conversation
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McGraw-Hill, Mar 29, 2004 - Social Science - 250 pages
This lively and concise text uses analyses of everyday life to inspire students to think sociologically about society and about themselves as social actors.

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Review: The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversation

User Review  - Zach - Goodreads

Like Feminism is For Everybody, this is a book I wish I (and everyone else) had been forced to read in high school. Read full review

Review: The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversation

User Review  - Suzanne Roussin - Goodreads

Slightly interesting but extremely liberally biased, which is ironic for a text about sociology. For example, when referring to the abortion debate, he calls people who don't believe in abortion ... Read full review

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Contents

Preface
1
Inventing the Social World
15
Inventing Categories and Inventing People
22
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

Michael Schwalbe is a professor of sociology at North Carolina State University. He is author of Unlocking the Iron Cage: The Men's Movement, Gender Politics, and American Culture (1996), Remembering Reet and Shine: Two Black Men, One Struggle (2004), and The Sociologically Examined Life, Fourth
Edition (2008).

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