Cultures and Societies in a Changing World
Cultures and Societies in a Changing World

Author: Wendy Griswold

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2012-01-10

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1452289409

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In the Fourth Edition of Cultures and Societies in a Changing World, author Wendy Griswold illuminates how culture shapes our social world and how society shapes culture. She helps students gain an understanding of the sociology of culture and explore stories, beliefs, media, ideas, art, religious practices, fashions, and rituals from a sociological perspective. Cultural examples from multiple countries and time periods will broaden students′ global understanding. They will develop a deeper appreciation of culture and society, gleaning insights that will help them overcome cultural misunderstandings, conflicts, and ignorance; equip them to be more effective in their professional and personal lives, and become wise citizens of the world.

Sociology
Sociology

Author: George J. Bryjak

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9780205191550

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This text provides a balanced, thorough, and lively presentation of materials that capture student interest in their own society as well as others. The strong multicultural component of the book is developed through the extensive use of examples in every chapter, end-of-chapter inserts on Mexico and Japan, a set of boxed inserts, Ourselves and Others, effective use of maps, a CNN video connected to the book, and a reader of multicultural selections from the Washington Post. The authors carry the theme of modernization and social change throughout. Students will leave this text with a broad, multicultural, historical framework for making better sense out of their world, and an appreciation of the role of sociology in promoting an intelligent world view.

Ethnicity and Race
Ethnicity and Race

Author: Stephen Cornell

Publisher: Pine Forge Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1412941105

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Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.

Crime and Society
Crime and Society

Author: Frances Heidensohn

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1989-02-13

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1349197637

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Crime and Society is a comprehensive review of the sociological study of crime and the relationship between crime and society that combines theoretical analysis with up-to-date empirical surveys. Covering the major issues and concepts - urban crime, juvenile delinquency, corporate crime - this textbook also considers more recent concerns about victims, fear of crime, policing and control.

Sociology for Changing the World
Sociology for Changing the World

Author: Caelie Frampton

Publisher: Black Point, N.S. ; Fernwood

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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This volume sets out practical ways activists can map the social relations of struggle they are engaged in and produce knowledge for more effective forms of activism for changing the world.

Designing Social Systems in a Changing World
Designing Social Systems in a Changing World

Author: Bela H. Banathy

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-22

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1475799810

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In this original text/reference, Bela H. Banathy discusses a broad range of design approaches, models, methods, and tools, together with the theoretical and philosophical bases of social systems design. he explores the existing knowledge bases of systems design; introduces and integrates concepts from other fields that contribute to design thinking and practice; and thoroughly explains how competence in social systems design empowers people to direct their progress and create a truly participative democracy. Based on advanced learning theory and practice, the text's material is enhanced by helpful diagrams that illustrate novel concepts and problem sets that allow readers to apply these concepts.

Children in Changing Worlds
Children in Changing Worlds

Author: Ross D. Parke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-08

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1108265774

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Children live in rapidly changing times that require them to constantly adapt to new economic, social, and cultural conditions. In this book, a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the issues faced by children in contemporary societies, such as discrimination in school and neighborhoods, the emergence of new family forms, the availability of new communication technologies, and economic hardship, as well as the stresses associated with immigration, war, and famine. The book applies a historical, cultural, and life-course developmental framework for understanding the factors that affect how children adjust to these challenges, and offers a new perspective on how changing historical circumstances alter children's developmental outcomes. It is ideal for researchers and graduate students in developmental and educational psychology or the sociology and anthropology of childhood.

Sport in a Changing World
Sport in a Changing World

Author: Howard L. Nixon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 1317251547

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In a stressful, turbulent world, sports can be an escape from reality. Yet sport actually mirrors the issues and problems of our world today, bearing the imprint of powerful forces of social change. This book offers a sociological perspective for seeing and understanding the place of sport in society and how it is affected by big business and by demographic, cultural, organizational, economic, political, and technological change. Nixon's main focus is "big-time" commercialized and corporate sport, from Little League Baseball, Inc. to youth club sports, high school and college athletics, and professional and Olympic sports. He writes vividly of the making and unmaking of heroes and celebrities. Throughout he shows how the combined influence of networks of major sports organizations, media corporations, and corporate sponsors is shaping sport around the world.

Genre in a Changing World
Genre in a Changing World

Author: Charles Bazerman

Publisher: Parlor Press LLC

Published: 2009-09-16

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1643170015

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Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.