Description
Title: Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise
Author: Allan Johnson
ISBN: 9781439911877
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2014
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 3rd
Number of Pages: 198
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : New Third Edition!If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist’s response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to Third Edition features:
– Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama’s election, and gay marriage to transgender/cisgender and the Occupy Movement
– A glossary of terms
– The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath
– An additional analysis of how men’s violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men
– Chapter 7’s focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege
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