The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise - Allan Johnson

Descriere The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise - Allan Johnson

\nNew Third Edition \n 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. \n \n This Third Edition features: \n - Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender/cisgender and the Occupy Movement \n - A glossary of terms \n - The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath \n - An additional analysis of how men's violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men \n - Chapter 7's focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege \n\n

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Temple University Press

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9781439911877

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