Doing Sociology

Author(s): James K Semones

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Doing Sociology: A Basic Text provides a learning resource that will meet the needs of both typical students and potential sociology majors. It directly responds to increasing critical needs among faculty and students in many colleges and universities throughout the United States. This text focuses on 14 core essentials of sociology as a discipline, with each topic treated more comprehensively and with greater depth of coverage than most traditional texts.

Doing Sociology features:

  • Pre- and Post-test Fluency Assessment Tool
  • Interactive chapter study guides
  • Chapter introductions and summaries
  • Suggested readings to expand knowledge and skills

 

Doing Sociology is accompanied by Achieving Sociological Fluency: An Interactive Guide and Workbook to engage students in the subject matter of sociology through various learning strategies.

 

PART ONE The Sociological Imagination

Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination

Chapter 2: Sociology: Then and Now

Chapter 3: How Sociologists Do Research

Chapter 4: Culture: Our Way of Life

PART TWO Essential Elements of Social Life

Chapter 5: Socialization: The Process of Becoming Human

Chapter 6: Social Organization

Chapter 7: Groups in Society

PART THREE Organizations, Rank, and Diversity

Chapter 8: Formal Organizations and Bureaucracy

Chapter 9: Social Stratification

Chapter 10: Racial and Ethnic Relations

PART FOUR Issues, Institutions, and Change

Chapter 11: Deviance and Social Control

Chapter 12: Population and Human Ecology

Chapter 13: The Family: Most Basic of Institutions

James K Semones

Doing Sociology: A Basic Text provides a learning resource that will meet the needs of both typical students and potential sociology majors. It directly responds to increasing critical needs among faculty and students in many colleges and universities throughout the United States. This text focuses on 14 core essentials of sociology as a discipline, with each topic treated more comprehensively and with greater depth of coverage than most traditional texts.

Doing Sociology features:

  • Pre- and Post-test Fluency Assessment Tool
  • Interactive chapter study guides
  • Chapter introductions and summaries
  • Suggested readings to expand knowledge and skills

 

Doing Sociology is accompanied by Achieving Sociological Fluency: An Interactive Guide and Workbook to engage students in the subject matter of sociology through various learning strategies.

 

PART ONE The Sociological Imagination

Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination

Chapter 2: Sociology: Then and Now

Chapter 3: How Sociologists Do Research

Chapter 4: Culture: Our Way of Life

PART TWO Essential Elements of Social Life

Chapter 5: Socialization: The Process of Becoming Human

Chapter 6: Social Organization

Chapter 7: Groups in Society

PART THREE Organizations, Rank, and Diversity

Chapter 8: Formal Organizations and Bureaucracy

Chapter 9: Social Stratification

Chapter 10: Racial and Ethnic Relations

PART FOUR Issues, Institutions, and Change

Chapter 11: Deviance and Social Control

Chapter 12: Population and Human Ecology

Chapter 13: The Family: Most Basic of Institutions

James K Semones