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Sociology For Dummies

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Produktdetails

Verkaufsrang

45149

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

03.05.2021

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

384

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23,3/18,7/2,2 cm

Gewicht

522 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-77281-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Verkaufsrang

45149

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

03.05.2021

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

384

Maße (L/B/H)

23,3/18,7/2,2 cm

Gewicht

522 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-77281-1

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Libri GmbH
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Sociology For Dummies
  • Introduction 1

    About This Book 2

    Foolish Assumptions 4

    Icons Used In This Book 5

    Beyond the Book 6

    Where To Go From Here 6

    Part 1: Getting the Basic Basics 7

    Chapter 1: Getting Your Head around Sociology 9

    Focusing Your Sociological Lens 10

    Defining sociology 10

    Knowing the history of sociology 10

    Doing sociology 11

    The Nuts and Bolts of Society 12

    Understanding culture 13

    Microsociology 13

    Understanding Differences Among People and Groups 14

    Social stratification 14

    Race and ethnicity 15

    Sex and gender 15

    Religion 16

    Crime, deviance, and social control 16

    How People Get Organized (Or At Least Try To) 17

    Organizations and networks 17

    Social movements and political sociology 17

    Urban and rural sociology 18

    Changes In Your Life, Changes In Your Society 18

    The life course 19

    Social change 19

    Sociology For Dummies, for Dummies 20

    Chapter 2: Knowing Why Sociology Matters 21

    Figuring Out What Sociology is 22

    Defining sociology 22

    Studying society scientifically 22

    Asking and answering sociological questions 25

    Discovering Where Sociology is "Done" 27

    Colleges and universities 27

    Think tanks and research institutes 27

    Nonprofit organizations 28

    Government 29

    Journalism and reporting 29

    Business and consulting 30

    Everyday life 31

    Recognizing How Sociology Affects Your Life and Your World 31

    Thinking about the social world in an objective, value-free way 32

    Visualizing connections across times and places 33

    Uncovering what really matters and what doesn't 34

    Informing social policy 35

    Keeping a unique perspective for everyday problems 36

    Chapter 3: Conflict and Cooperation: The History of Sociology 37

    So Who Cares about History? 38

    Thinking about Society before There Was Sociology 39

    People are the same everywhere you go except when they aren't 39

    Pre-sociologists: People with ideas about society 40

    Political and industrial revolution: Ready or not, here it comes 41

    The Development of "Sociology" 43

    Figuring out life with positivism 43

    Common themes of early sociologists 43

    Sociology: The most ambitious science 44

    Sociology's Power Trio 46

    Karl Marx 47

    Emile Durkheim 49

    Max Weber 51

    Sociology in the 20th Century 53

    Sociology in America: W.E.B Du Bois and the Chicago School 53

    Mass society: Are we, or are we not, sheep? 54

    The Power Elite: Marx's revenge 56

    Sociology Today 58

    Chapter 4: Understanding the Research Methods: You Can't Put Society in a Test Tube 59

    Performing Sociological Research 60

    Asking your question 60

    Checking the literature 62

    Operationalizing your question and find your data 63

    Analyzing your data 65

    Step 5: Interpreting your results 65

    Getting to Know the Research Methods 67

    Getting quantitative data 68

    Gathering qualitative data 72

    Choosing hybrid methods 73

    Preparing For Potential Pitfalls 75

    Using inappropriate data 75

    Getting overzealous 75

    Overlooking relevant information 78

    Misusing statistics 79

    Making mistakes just plain oops! 80

    Part 2: Seeing Society Like a Sociologist 83

    Chapter 5: Getting Some Culture: How Socialization Works 85

    Understanding What Culture is - and Isn't 86

    Defining "culture" 86

    Breaking down structure 87

    Does culture matter? 89

    Studying Culture: Makin' It and Takin' It 91

    Other angles on culture 91

    The production and reception of culture 93

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