Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Brief EditionAdapted from David M. Newman’s best-selling Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, this briefer, streamlined version continues to show students how to see the “unfamiliar in the familiar,” inspiring them to think critically about their own lives and social contexts. As in the full text, the author’s approachable writing style and lively personal anecdotes make the Brief Edition a text that “reads like a real book.” It uses the metaphors of “architecture” and “construction” to help students understand that society is not something that exists “out there,” independently of themselves; it is a human creation that is planned, formed, maintained, or altered by individuals. Rather than surveying every subfield in sociology, the Brief Edition focuses on the individual and society, the construction of self and society, and social inequality in the context of social structures. |
Contents
1 | |
The Insights of Sociology | |
Seeing and Thinking Sociologically | |
Key Terms | |
Part II The Construction of Self and Society | |
Ideology | |
Key Terms | |
Class Inequality in the United States | |
Racial Inequality in the Economic System | |
Sexism at the Personal Level | |
2 | |
Key Terms | |
Demographic Dynamics | |
Social Change | |
Social Movements | |
Key Terms | |
Life With Others | |
Family Life | |
Family Challenges | |
Chapter Highlights | |
Defining Deviance | |
Linking Power Deviance and Social Control | |
Part III Social Structure Institutions and Everyday Life | |
Institutions and Globalization | |
Chapter Highlights | |
Inequality | |
Sociological Perspectives on Stratification | |
Other editions - View all
Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Brief Edition David M. Newman Limited preview - 2016 |
Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings David M. Newman,Jodi O'Brien No preview available - 2004 |
Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Bundle David M. Newman,Jodi A. O'Brien No preview available - 2004 |