750 Laws in Sociology: A Customized Version of Mark Bird's 4th Edition designed specifically for Karl Wielgus at Anoka Ramsey Community College
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Copyright: 2017
Pages: 288
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This sociology text is organized around a “laws” framework used to interpret major areas of social life, beginning with theory and research topics that address how sociological laws are formed and applied through research processes. It then examines culture and socialization, including cultural systems, developmental processes, and the role of social learning, followed by group behavior topics such as lying and bureaucracy. The work continues into deviance, stratification, gender, and ethnic/minority issues, focusing on crime, violence, poverty, inequality, prejudice, and social power structures. It further explores political systems, marriage and family, religion, education, health, demographics, and environmental challenges, applying the same explanatory framework to patterns such as governance, family change, schooling outcomes, public health, population shifts, and resource scarcity. The text concludes with sociological perspectives on future trends, including societal decline, stability, and transformation.
TABLES
QUOTES ABOUT SCIENCE
THEORY AND RESEARCH TOPICS
Introduction to laws
Research laws
Research steps as laws
CULTURE TOPICS
Culture laws
Amish cultural laws
Hispanic cultural laws
Japanese cultural success laws
Laws of western civilization
SOCIALIZATION TOPICS
Socialization laws
Laws of psychosocial development
Nurturing intervention laws
GROUP TOPICS
Laws of lying
Laws of bureaucracies
DEVIANCE TOPICS
FBI Crime laws
Warning laws of suicide
Homicide laws
Laws of child abuse
STRATIFICATION TOPICS
US poverty laws
Worker non-laws in 1848
Laws of global poverty
UN poverty solution laws
Laws of elite perpetuation
Laws of economic health
GENDER TOPICS
Gender socialization laws
Teen pregnancy laws
Campus sexual assault laws
Domestic violence laws
ETHNIC AND MINORITY TOPICS
Laws of prejudice
Authoritarian personality laws
Laws of urban riots
Laws explaining black crime
POLITICAL TOPICS
Laws of democracies
Anti-democratic laws
Laws of Fascism
Presidential voting laws
Genocide laws
Laws of war
Laws of nuclear war
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY TOPICS
Laws of declining fertility
Laws indicating fathers matter
Mate selection laws
Laws of love
Good parenting laws
Divorce laws
Successful marriage laws
Family trend laws
US anti-family laws
RELIGIOUS TOPICS
Religious affiliation laws
Laws of religious trends
Laws explaining early Christianity
Religious laws of millennials
EDUCATION TOPICS
Education excellence laws
Education inequality laws
Anti-education laws
Laws for improving education
Laws of college benefits
HEALTH TOPICS
Laws on leading health indicators
Health care cost laws
Life expectancy laws
DEMOGRAPHIC TOPICS
Laws from the 2010 census
Population migration laws
Urban problem laws
ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS
Laws of $6.00 gas benefits
Global warming laws
Water shortage laws
Resource tipping point laws
SOCIOLOGY OF THE FUTURE TOPICS
Megatrend laws in the US
Laws of declining violence
Laws of societal collapse
Laws of national success
Laws of US decline
Conclusion to laws
GLOSSARY
PRIMARY REFERENCES
AUTHOR INDEX
Karl Wielgus is a professor in the Sociology department at Anoka-Ramsey Community College.