Essentials of Sociology 4th Edition Giddens Test Bank
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 9780393918830
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393918830
- Author: Anthony Giddens
Every chapter of Essentials of Sociology, Fourth Edition, is organized around stories pulled from the news. New features in the Fourth Edition pull together the big questions in each chapter and organize them around a concept map to help students synthesize concepts and see the personal and global applications of a sociological imagination.
Table contents:
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Sociology in the Global Age
- Learning Objectives
- A Sociology of Revolutions and Counterrevolutions
- The Changing Nature of the Social World—and Sociology
- Central Concerns for a Twenty-First-Century Sociology
- Globalization
- Consumption
- McDonaldization
- Critiquing Consumption
- • Trending: The McDonaldization of Society
- The Digital World
- Digital Living: Blogging and Tweeting about Sociology
- Globalization, Consumption, the Digital World, and You
- Sociology: Continuity and Change
- The Sociological Imagination
- Private Troubles and Public Issues
- The Micro–Macro Relationship
- The Agency–Structure Relationship
- The Social Construction of Reality
- Social Structures and Processes
- Sociology’s Purpose: Science or Social Reform?
- Sociology, the Other Social Sciences, and Common Sense
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review Questions
- Chapter 2: Thinking About and Researching the Social World
- Learning Objectives
- Do Sociological Theory and Research Help Us Understand Today’s Overheated Politics?
- Theorizing the Social World
- Classical Sociological Theory
- Karl Marx
- Max Weber
- Émile Durkheim
- Georg Simmel
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- • Trending: The Scholar Denied
- Thorstein Veblen
- Contemporary Sociological Theory
- Structural/Functional Theories
- Structural–Functionalism
- Structuralism
- Conflict/Critical Theories
- Conflict Theory
- Critical Theory
- Feminist Theory
- Queer Theory
- Critical Theories of Race and Racism
- Postmodern Theory
- Inter/Actionist Theories
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Ethnomethodology
- Exchange Theory
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