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.
Daina S. Eglitis is an associate professor of sociology and international affairs and director of the undergraduate program in the Department of Sociology at The George Washington University. Her research highlights sociological dimensions of change in the post-communist world, with a particular focus on stratification, poverty, and gender. She has been the recipient of Fulbright, IREX, and Open Society awards and is the author of several articles and a book on post-communist social change. She also writes for and about teaching in the undergraduate classroom and is the author of the article, “The Uses of Global Poverty: How Inequality Benefits the West,” and the Teaching Sociology article, “Performing Theory: Dramatic Learning in the Theory Classroom.”