The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise
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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
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1439911878
ISBN13:9781439911877
Release Date:September 2014
Publisher:Temple University Press
Length:198 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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