Discover Sociology Interactive eBook

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4522-1879-3
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 1 Seiten, Gewicht: 26 g

Ideal for students in online and traditional courses who prefer a more contemporary, multimedia-integrated presentation for learning, this Interactive eBook version of Discover Sociology provides students with the identical content and page layout of the traditional printed book in a flexible electronic format. Users of the eBook can link directly from the “page” to video, audio, additional enrichment readings, glossary terms, and other relevant resources that bring sociology to life in a way that a traditional print text can’t. Students will also have immediate access to study tools such as highlighting, bookmarking, note-taking, helpful links to video, podcasts, SAGE journal articles, reference links, and much more! Students can use the interactive eBook on its own, or package it with the printed textbook for no additional cost.

View a demo chapter by visiting http://www.sagepub.com/chamblissintro/demo/

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chambliss, William J.

Eglitis, Daina S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Discovering Sociology
2. Discovering Sociological Research
3. Culture
4. Socialization and Social Interaction
5. Groups, Organization, and Bureaucracies
6. Deviance and Social Control
7. Class and Inequality
8. Race & Ethnicity
9. Gender and Society
10. Families and Society
11. Education and Society
12. Religion and Society
13. The State, Politics, and Power
14. Work, Consumption, and the Economy
15. Health and Medicine
16. War, Terror, and Genocide
17. Population, Urbanization, and the Environment
18. Social Change and Social Movements

Über Autor(innen)

Chambliss, William J.
William J. Chambliss, professor of sociology at The George Washington University, was a critical sociological theorist whose research has ranged broadly from studies of law creation and the legal system to participant observation studies of juvenile gangs, organized crime, policing, and the impact of social movements on political and economic change. He served as president of the American Society of Criminology and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the prestigious Edwin H. Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association, the Bruce Smith Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. He has authored and edited over 35 books in sociology, criminology and criminal justice and numerous articles in social science journals.

Eglitis, Daina S.
Dr. Daina Eglitis (PhD, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor) is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology and Criminal Justice at the George Washington University. Her scholarly interests include history and collective memory, gender and social change, socioeconomic class and inequality, demography and population studies, and scholarship on teaching and learning. Dr. Eglitis is a two-time Fulbright Fellow in Latvia, and has been a research fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Dr. Eglitis is the author of Imagining the Nation: History, Modernity, and Revolution in Latvia and a co-editor of Central and East European Politics 5th edition, and has published articles and book chapters on collective memory, socioeconomic inequality, gender, and demographic issues in Central and East Europe. She also presents and writes on the topic of teaching and learning in sociology, and is the author of the Teaching Sociology article “Performing Theory: Dramatic Learning in the Theory Classroom” and co-author of the article “Social Issues and Problem-Based Learning in Sociology: Opportunities and Challenges in the Undergraduate Classroom.” At GWU, she teaches courses on introductory sociology, class and social inequality, contemporary sociological theory, and the sociology of banned books, among others. Dr. Eglitis is an avid reader (recent delightful discoveries in fiction include Yesteryear, the Red Rising series, the Broken Earth trilogy, and Our Missing Hearts) and loves to travel to new places.