The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise; Third Edition
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- Synopsis
- If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it. This Third Edition features: Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Barack Obama's election, and gay marriage to the Occupy Wall Street Movement A glossary of terms A new framework for the short essays in Chapter 6, exhibiting the power of sociology to dig beneath easy and popular understandings An additional analysis of how men’s violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men Chapter 7’s new focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781439911884
- Publisher:
- Temple University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/13/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Allan G. Johnson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.