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008			080117s2008 coua b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781594512704 (pbk)
035			_a(OCoLC)181142806
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn181142806
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dBTCTA _dBAKER _dYDXCP _dC#P _dBWX _dLMR _dDLC _dEG-ScBUE
082	0	4	_a301 _bALE _222
100	1		_aAlexander, Jeffrey C., _d1947- _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA contemporary introduction to sociology : _bculture and society in transition / _cJeffrey C. Alexander, Kenneth Thompson ; with the assistance of Lisa McCormick [and five others]
264		1	_aBoulder : _bParadigm Publishers, _c[2008]
264		4	_cc2008
300			_axx, 636 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c24 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	2		_aSociological stories -- The individual and the social -- The sociological imagination -- Society today: so what's new? -- How do we understand today's social world? -- Avoiding easy answers: theory and evidence? -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Research methods -- Introduction -- Some key research terms -- Concepts and theories -- Methodology and methods -- Postmodernism, relativism, and research methods -- Research in the future -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Culture -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Thinking sociologically about culture -- Postmodernity, globalization, and the cultural turn -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading.
505	2		_aMedia and communication -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- The importance of the mass media -- The mass media-concepts and history -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Socialization and the life cycle -- Introduction -- An individual or a sociological story? -- The paradox of socialization -- The "self" in history -- Creating the self -- Primary socialization: the family -- Secondary socialization -- Life stages and the life cycle -- Emotion work in postmodern life -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Sexuality -- An individual or a social story? -- Naturalism versus constructivism -- Sexuality before modernity -- Modern sexuality -- Polluting non-procreative sex -- Underground sexual practices -- Sexuality in the postmodern transition -- Historical developments -- Sex today -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading.
505	2		_aMarriage and the family -- Introduction -- An individual or a sociological story? -- Marriage and family: the social forces of change -- Marriage from modern to postmodern society -- The modern family -- The postmodern family: emerging possibilities -- The conservative backlash -- A new consanguinity? -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Inequality -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Social stratification -- Social mobility -- Beliefs and attitudes -- Inequality: past, present and future -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Gender -- Introduction -- An individual or sociological story? -- Gender at work -- Exploitation and violence -- Everyday culture and mass media -- Looking to the future - changing times -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading.
505	2		_aRace and ethnicity -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- The social construction of ?race? and ?ethnicity? -- Minority group theory -- The great debate: origins of the racial underclass in america -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Crime and deviance -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Defining and describing deviance and crime -- Theories of crime and deviance -- The future of crime and deviance in postmodern society -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Work and the economy -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Structural and cultural dimensions of work and the economy -- Organization of work -- Conflict and control -- From modernity to postmodernity -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Education -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Education and modernity -- Different perspectives on education -- Education in a multicultural, postmodern society -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading.
505	2		_aHealth and medicine -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Medicine, structure, and organization -- Social and cultural construction of health and medicine -- Social structure and inequalities -- Race, ethnicity, and gender -- Health and medicine in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Religion -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- What is religion? -- Religion, modernity and the secularization thesis -- Religion and cultural change -- Personal stories and ethnographies -- New age -- Public religion -- Cassie's story and the future of religion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Urbanism and population -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- The growth of cities -- Urban sociology in the twentieth century -- The city of the future-postmodern urbanism -- Population trends and the future -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Politics, publics, and the state -- An individual or a social story? -- States and impersonal power -- Pre-political societies -- Personal rule in traditional societies -- The origins of impersonal authority in modernity -- The rise of absolutist states -- States as bureaucracies -- States as servants of the collectivity -- States and domination -- The autonomy of the state -- Politics and personal power -- What is politics? -- Authority and legitimation -- Postmodern authority: charisma and culture -- Social power and politics -- The power behind the throne: the power elite? -- Does the economic elite control politics? -- Citizenship, publics, and the civil sphere -- Solidarity and public life -- Presidents and publics -- The struggle for full citizenship -- Political parties -- The discourse of decline -- The deepening of the civil sphere -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Social change, collective action and social movements -- Introduction -- An individual or a social story? -- Analyzing social change -- Defining and analyzing social change -- Industrial society -- Post-industrial society -- Information society, globalization, and social movements -- Globalization -- Conclusion -- Exercises -- Study questions -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Index.
650		7	_aSociology _xPhilosophy. _2BUEsh
650		7	_aSociology _xHistory. _2BUEsh
653			_bGGEN _cMarch2020
655			_vReading book _934232
700	1		_aThompson, Kenneth, _d1937- _eauthor.
700	1		_aMcCormick, Lisa,‏ _d1975- _eauthor.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip089/2008001228.html
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