"Forest and the trees: sociology as life, practice and promise" (Record no. 180345)

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International Standard Book Number 9781439911877
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Classification number 301 JOH
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Personal name "Johnson, Allan G."
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Title "Forest and the trees: sociology as life, practice and promise"
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Philadelphia
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Temple University Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
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Extent 186
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Summary, etc. 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. ***Table of Contents***Acknowledgments** Introduction: Life, Practice, and Promise 1. The Forest, the Trees, and the One Thing 2. Culture: Symbols, Ideas, and the Stuff of Life 3. The Structures of Social Life 4. Population and Human Ecology: People, Space, and Place 5. Us, It, and Social Interaction 6. Things Are Not What They Seem 7. Sociology as Worldview: Where White Privilege Came From *Epilogue: Who Are We Really? *Notes *Glossary *Index
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Sociology
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