Annual editions : sociology /

By: Kurt Finsterbusch [editor]
Language: English Publisher: Dubuque, IA : Dushkin/McGraw-Hill , 2006Edition: Thirty fourth editionDescription: xviii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0073108367; 9780073108360Subject(s): Sociology--PeriodicalsDDC classification: 301 An78 2006
Contents:
Culture: Kindness of strangers / R.V. Levine; Mountain people / C.M. Turnbull; What's so great about America? / D. D'Souza -- Socialization and social control: What makes you who you are / M. Ridley; New sex scorecard / H.E. Marano; Criminal menace, shifting global trends / G. Stephens; Parents or prisons / J.R. Morse -- Groups and roles in transition: American family / S. Coontz; Battle over gay marriage / J. Cloud -- Stratification and social inequalities: For richer, how the permissive capitalism of the boom destroyed American equality / P. Krugman; Corporate welfare / D.L. Barlett and J.B. Steele; Requiem for welfare / E. Brodkin; What's at stake / B. Kantrowitz and P. Wingert; Why we hate / M. Monteith and J. Winters; Human rights, sex trafficking, and prostitution / A. Leuchtag; New gender gap / M. Conlin -- Social institutions, issues, crises, and changes: Who rules America? / G.W. Domhoff; Off the books / W.M. Cox and R. Alm; Whose hospital is it? / A. Allen -- Social change and the future: Rescuing a planet under stress / L. Brown; Secret nuclear war / E. Goncalves; New terrorism, securing the nation against a messianic foe / S. Simon; Across the great divide / F. Zakaria.
Summary: This book will] help you to develop the sociological perspective that will enable you to determine how the issues of the day relate to the way that society is structured. The articles provide not only information but also models of interpretation and analysis that will guide you as you form your own views.... This ... edition ... emphasizes social change, institutional crises, and prospects for the future. It provides intellectual preparation for acting for the betterment of humanity in times of crucial change. The sociological perspective is needed more than ever as humankind tries to find a way to peace, prosperity, health, and well-being that can be maintained for generations in an improving environment ... The goals of this edition are to communicate to students the excitement and importance of the study of the social world and to provoke interest in and enthusiasm for the study of sociology. -Pref.
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Culture: Kindness of strangers / R.V. Levine; Mountain people / C.M. Turnbull; What's so great about America? / D. D'Souza --
Socialization and social control: What makes you who you are / M. Ridley; New sex scorecard / H.E. Marano; Criminal menace, shifting global trends / G. Stephens; Parents or prisons / J.R. Morse --
Groups and roles in transition: American family / S. Coontz; Battle over gay marriage / J. Cloud --
Stratification and social inequalities: For richer, how the permissive capitalism of the boom destroyed American equality / P. Krugman; Corporate welfare / D.L. Barlett and J.B. Steele; Requiem for welfare / E. Brodkin; What's at stake / B. Kantrowitz and P. Wingert; Why we hate / M. Monteith and J. Winters; Human rights, sex trafficking, and prostitution / A. Leuchtag; New gender gap / M. Conlin --
Social institutions, issues, crises, and changes: Who rules America? / G.W. Domhoff; Off the books / W.M. Cox and R. Alm; Whose hospital is it? / A. Allen --
Social change and the future: Rescuing a planet under stress / L. Brown; Secret nuclear war / E. Goncalves; New terrorism, securing the nation against a messianic foe / S. Simon; Across the great divide / F. Zakaria.

This book will] help you to develop the sociological perspective that will enable you to determine how the issues of the day relate to the way that society is structured. The articles provide not only information but also models of interpretation and analysis that will guide you as you form your own views.... This ... edition ... emphasizes social change, institutional crises, and prospects for the future. It provides intellectual preparation for acting for the betterment of humanity in times of crucial change. The sociological perspective is needed more than ever as humankind tries to find a way to peace, prosperity, health, and well-being that can be maintained for generations in an improving environment ... The goals of this edition are to communicate to students the excitement and importance of the study of the social world and to provoke interest in and enthusiasm for the study of sociology. -Pref.

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