You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking like a Sociologist (Sixth Edition)

913 Pages·2019·71.502 MB·English

by  Dalton Conley

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Sixth Edition
May Ask
Yourself
an introduction to thinking
like a sociologist
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You
May Ask
Yourself
an introduction to thinking
like a sociologist
Dalton Conley
Princeton university
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Sixth Edition
May Ask
Yourself
an introduction to thinking
like a sociologist
Dalton Conley
Princeton university
w. w. norton
new York | London
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Names: Conley, Dalton, 1969– author.
Title: You may ask yourself : an introduction to thinking like a sociologist/
Dalton Conley, Princeton University.
Description: Sixth edition. | New York : W.W.N orton, [2019] | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018048480 | ISBN 9780393674170 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Sociology—Methodology. | Sociology—Study and teaching.
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Brief Contents
Part 1
Using Your Sociological Imagination 2
Chapter 1 The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction 4
Chapter 2 Methods 48
Chapter 3 Culture and Media 82
Chapter 4 Socialization and the Construction of Reality 122
Chapter 5 Groups and Networks 160
Chapter 6 Social Control and Deviance 198
Part 2
Fault Lines . . . Social Division and Inequality 248
Chapter 7 Stratification 250
Chapter 8 Gender 294
Chapter 9 Race 340
Chapter 10 Poverty 394
Chapter 11 Health and Society 434
Part 3
Building Blocks: Institutions of Society 480
Chapter 12 Family 482
Chapter 13 Education 530
Chapter 14 Capitalism and the Economy 576
Chapter 15 Authority and the State 616
Chapter 16 Religion 658
Chapter 17 Science, the Environment, and Society 710
Chapter 18 Collective Action, Social Movements, 748
and Social Change
Glossary A1
Bibliography A13
Credits A42
index A48
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Contents
xxiii Preface
2 Part 1: USING YOUR SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
4 chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination:
An Introduction
6 The Sociological Imagination
8 HOW TO BE A SOCIOLOGIST ACCORDING TO QUENTIN TARANTINO:
A Scene From Pulp Fiction
10 What Are the True Costs and Returns of College?
13 Getting That “Piece of Paper”
17 What Is a Social Institution?
20 The Sociology of Sociology
20 Two centuries of Sociology
21 Auguste Comte and the Creation of Sociology
25 Classical Sociological Theory
29 American Sociology
33 Modern Sociological Theories
37 Sociology and Its Cousins
37 History
39 Anthropology
40 The Psychological and Biological Sciences
41 Economics and Political Science
42 Divisions within Sociology
43 Microsociology and Macrosociology
44 Conclusion
44 Questions for Review
46 Practice: Seeing Sociologically
Contents ix
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