Sociology: A Down-to-earth ApproachThe text is laid out in five parts. Part 1 focuses on the sociological perspective ... Part 2, which focuses on groups and social control, adds to the students' understanding of how far-reaching society's influence is -- how group membership penetrates even their thinking, attitudes, and orientations to life.... In Part 3, [the author turns his] focus on social inequality. [He] examine[s] how social inequality pervades society and how it has an impact on our own lives.... Part 4 helps students to become more aware of how social institutions encompass their lives. [The author] first look[s] at economy, the social institution that has become dominant in U.S. society ... and then at politics, our second overarching social institution ... With its focus on broad social change, Part 5 provides an appropriate conclusion for the book. Here [the author] examine[s] why our world is changing so rapidly, as well as catch a glimpse of what is yet to come. -To the instructor from the author. |
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PART I | xxxii |
Exploring Cultural Privilege 343 | xxxiii |
THE 192 | xxxiv |
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