Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings

Dr. David M. Newman, Dr. Jodi A. O'Brien

ISBN 10: 1412979420 / ISBN 13: 9781412979429

Editore: Sage Publications, Inc, 2009

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• Titolo: Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings
• Editore: Sage Publications, Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1412979420
• ISBN 13: 9781412979429
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Fair

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Providing provocative, eye-opening examples that illuminate the relationship between the individual and society, this Eighth Edition of David M. Newman’s and Jodi O'Brian's acclaimed Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings includes a mix of short articles, chapters, and excerpts. In addition to new readings and more coverage of global issues and world religions, the Eighth Edition focuses on sociological theory, methodologies, and history to help students learn how to analyze what they read, as well as understand how research is done and how today's theories developed over time.

Informazioni sugli autori

Jodi O'Brien (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Professor of Sociology at Seattle University. She teaches courses in social psychology, sexuality, inequality, and classical and contemporary theory. She writes and lectures on the cultural politics of transgressive identities and communities. Her other books include Everyday Inequalities (Basil Blackwell), Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (Pine Forge Press), Social Prisms: Reflections on Everyday Myths and Paradoxes (Pine Forge Press), and The Production of Reality: Essays and Readings on Social Interaction, Fifth Edition (Pine Forge Press).

David Newman earned his bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University in 1981 and his graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle (M.A. 1984, PhD 1988). After a year at the University of Connecticut, David came to DePauw in the fall of 1989 and has been here ever since. David teaches courses in Deviance, Mental Illness, Family, Social Psychology, and Research Methods. He has published numerous articles on teaching and has presented several research papers on the intersection of gender and power in intimate relationships. Recently most of his scholarly activity has been devoted to writing and revising several books, including Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life (SAGE ©2010); Identities and Inequalities : Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill ©2006); and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill ©2009). He is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines the cultural meaning, institutional importance, and everyday experience of “second chances.”