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The Forest and the Trees : Sociology As Life, Practice, and Promise / by Allan Johnson. [Electronic Resource]

By: Material type: Computer fileComputer filePublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014Edition: 3rd EdDescription: 200pISBN:
  • 9781439911884
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 J63F
Online resources: Summary: New Third Edition! 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, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender/cisgender and the Occupy Movement * A glossary of terms * The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath * An additional analysis of how men's violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men * Chapter 7's focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege
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New Third Edition! 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, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender/cisgender and the Occupy Movement * A glossary of terms * The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath * An additional analysis of how men's violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men * Chapter 7's focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege

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