Sociological Snapshots 5
Sociological Snapshots 5

Author: Jack Levin

Publisher: Pine Forge Press

Published: 2008-06-11

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1412956498

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A collection of short, informal and contemporary essays that start students on the road to thinking sociologically.

Sociological Snapshots
Sociological Snapshots

Author: Jack Levin

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1998-07-16

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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This textbook helps introductory sociology students 'see' abstract, but nonetheless basic sociological concepts. Each essay relates some abstract sociological concept. Each section offers three to five snapshots and shows how sociological concepts emerge from the overlapping themes.

Sociological Impressionism (Routledge Revivals)
Sociological Impressionism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Frisby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1135018464

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When Sociological Impressionism was first published in 1981, it was the first comprehensive study on Simmel’s social theory to appear in English since 1925. A pioneering work, it did much to bring about the rediscovery of Georg Simmel as one of the key sociologists of the twentieth century. David Frisby provides a provocative introduction to aspects of Simmel’s social theory, seriously challenging many interpretations of his work, most notably the view that Simmel produced a formal sociology. By drawing on many little-known essays and pieces by Simmel and his contemporaries, the book locates him within the social and intellectual milieu in which he was working. This is a reissue of the second edition, published in 1992, which includes a new afterword confronting critical responses to the first edition. This is an important work, which will be of interest to students of sociology and social philosophy in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

A Guide to Sociological Thinking
A Guide to Sociological Thinking

Author: Vincent Ryan Ruggiero

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0803957424

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This book draws on the insights of critical & creative thinking to guide students to a mastery of the necessary cognitive habits and skills. The objective is to increase students' appreciation of, and enthusiasm for the field of sociology.

TV Snapshots
TV Snapshots

Author: Lynn Spigel

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2022-04-08

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1478022892

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In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today’s selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not just watch TV: women used the TV set as a backdrop for fashion and glamour poses; people dressed in drag in front of the screen; and in pinup poses, people even turned the TV setting into a space for erotic display. While the television industry promoted on-screen images of white nuclear families in suburban homes, the snapshots depict a broad range of people across racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds that do not always conform to the reigning middle-class nuclear family ideal. Showing how the television set became a central presence in the home that exceeded its mass entertainment function, Spigel highlights how TV snapshots complicate understandings of the significance of television in everyday life.

Sociology in Action
Sociology in Action

Author: David S. Hachen

Publisher: Pine Forge Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780761986638

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Part 1 Doing Sociology Seeing Society Using Theory Decoding Culture Uncovering Inequalities and Power Imagining Futures Part 2 Decision Cases The Worth of a Sparrow Conflict at Riverside Tossin' and Turnin' Lucy Allman In the Eye of the Beholder The Case of the Minnetonka Kawn Ordinance Off to College What's So Scary about the Truth? People Like You Lisa's Hidden Identity.