"Sociology: The Essentials, Fifth Edition", uses the theme of debunking myths to look behind the facades of everyday life; challenge ready-made, common-sense assumptions; and help students develop critical thinking skills and better understand how society is constructed and sustained. This thorough but streamlined text provides exceptional ...
"Race, Class, and Gender" includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book also provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; has ...
Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender 7th edition, provides a comprehensive review of feminist scholarship in the social sciences, showing how gender operates in every aspect of society, and how the experiences of both men and women are created through social institutions. The seventh edition introduces new discussions ...
This book includes modern readings that were handpicked for timeliness, diversity, and interest. Students across the country find the articles included to be easy to understand and intriguing. "Understanding Society: An Introductory Reader, Third Edition", includes the most up-to-date selection available today. Out of 70 total articles, 60 percent ...
"Andersen & Taylor" is a theoretically balanced, mainstream, comprehensive text characterized by its emphasis on diversity. In every chapter, students explore research and data that illustrate how class, race-ethnicity, gender, age, geographic residence, and sexual orientation relate to the topics covered. This text provides a solid research ...
This engaging reader consists of 57 edited articles organized according to seven unifying themes. Part I establishes the importance of examining race as a contemporary social issue. Part II introduces the analytical frameworks that are now being used to think about race in society. Part III examines the most immediately experienced dimensions of ...
Examine the sociological meaning in Hurricane Katrina, same-sex marriage, the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and scores of modern, compelling issues such as these in Andersen and Taylor's updated new edition of this easy-to-understand text. The book uses research and data to illustrate how class, race-ethnicity, gender, age, geographic residence, and ...
This best-selling anthology examines the interrelationship of race, class, and gender and explores how they have shaped the experiences of all people in the U.S. Drawing from an array of contemporary and historical readings, coupled with personal narratives from a diverse group of writers, this book helps students see the connections between ...
STUDY GUIDE WITH PRACTICE TESTS. Written by Carol Chenault of Calhoun Community College, this student study tool contains brief chapter outlines, a chapter focus, questions to guide your reading, a list of key terms and key people with page references to the text, detailed chapter outlines, Internet & InfoTrac College Edition exercises, and ...
"On Land and On Sea" features the lives of women in yachting, and also as workers, caregivers, and sportswomen over the course of the twentieth century. This beautiful book is illustrated with extraordinary photographs from the Rosenfeld Collection at Mystic Seaport, as captured by the Rosenfeld's photographic eye, and reveals a dimension of the ...
The authors demonstrate how to consider issues of race, class, and gender when interpreting problems so students can see issues from many vantage points. Historical and major theoretical perspectives successfully lend a solid foundation for student's analysis and comprehension.
Examine the sociological meaning in Hurricane Katrina, same-sex marriage, the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and scores of modern, compelling issues such as these in Andersen and Taylor's updated new edition of this easy-to-understand text. The book uses research and data to illustrate how class, race-ethnicity, gender, age, geographic residence, and ...
This is a life history of one of the leading collectors of African American art. The book chronicles the life of a man who grew up during the height of the Jim Crow segregation in Alabama and became one of the nation's leading collectors of African American art. His vision is to make African American art an integral part of American art. This book ...
STUDY GUIDE WITH PRACTICE TESTS. Written by Megan L. Duesterhaus of University of Central Florida, this student study tool contains brief chapter outlines, questions to guide your reading, key terms and key people matching exercises, a fill-in-the-blank chapter review, Internet & InfoTrac College Edition exercises, and practice tests consisting of ...
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