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The Sociology Student Writer's Manual and Reader's Guide, Seventh
Edition, is a practical guide to research, reading, and writing in
sociology. The Sociology Student Writer's Manual and Reader's
Guide, Seventh Edition, is a set of instructions and exercises that
sequentially develop citizenship, academic, and professional skills
while providing students with knowledge about a wide range of
sociological concepts, phenomena, and information sources. Part 1
begins by teaching students to read newspapers and other
sociological media sources critically and analytically. It focuses
on the crafts of writing and scholarship by providing the basics of
grammar, style, formats and source citation, and then introduces
students to a variety of rich information resources, including the
sociological journals and the Library of Congress. Part 2 prepares
students to research, read, write, review, and critique sociology
scholarship. Finally, Part 3 provides advanced exercises in
observing culture, socialization, inequality, and ethnicity and
race.
Recent advances in cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and
socio-anthropology are revolutionizing our understanding of
literacy. However, this research has made only minimal inroads
among classicists. In turn, historians of literacy continue to rely
on outdated work by classicists (mostly from the 1960's and 1970's)
and have little access to the current reexamination of the ancient
evidence. This timely volume seeks to formulate interesting new
ways of conceiving the entire concept of literacy in the ancient
world, as text-oriented events embedded in particular
socio-cultural contexts.
In the volume, selected leading scholars rethink from the ground up
how students of classical antiquity might best approach the
question of literacy in the past, and how that investigation might
materially intersect with changes in the way that literacy is now
viewed in other disciplines. The result will give readers new ways
of thinking about specific elements of "literacy" in antiquity,
such as the nature of personal libraries, or what it means to be a
bookseller in antiquity; new constructionist questions, such as
what constitutes reading communities and how they fashion
themselves; new takes on the public sphere, such as how literacy
intersects with commercialism, or with the use of public spaces, or
with the construction of civic identity; new essentialist
questions, such as what do "book" and "reading" signify in
antiquity, why literate cultures develop, or why literate cultures
matter.
Containing new work from today's outstanding scholars of literacy
in antiquity, Ancient Literacies will be an indispensable
collection for all students and scholars of reading cultures in the
classical world.
In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William
Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite
in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study
fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the
communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher,
Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves
on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines,
including the medical community around Galen, the philological
community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curious
reading habits of Fronto's pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the
intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian. Along
the way, evidence from the papyri is deployed to help to understand
better and more concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the
social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. The result is
a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that
differentiate themselves in interesting ways even while in
aggregate showing a coherent reading culture with fascinating
similarities and contrasts to the reading culture of today.
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