The Forest and the Trees - Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

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

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Allan Johnson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	198
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4399-1187-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4399-1187-8
Barcode:	9781439911877

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