Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Brief Edition

Adapted from David M. Newman’s best-selling Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, this briefer, streamlined version continues to show students how to see the "unfamiliar in the familiar," inspiring them to think critically about their own lives and social contexts.  As in the full text, the author’s approachable writing style and lively personal anecdotes make the Brief Edition a text that "reads like a real book." It uses the metaphors of "architecture" and "construction" to help students understand that society is not something that exists "out there," independently of themselves; it is a human creation that is planned, formed, maintained, or altered by individuals. Rather than surveying every subfield in sociology, the Brief Edition focuses on the individual and society, the construction of self and society, and social inequality in the context of social structures. 

• SAGE Readings for Introductory Sociology
• Sociology, Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life: Readings
• SAGE Readings for Introductory Sociology
• How Can We Solve Our Social Problems?
• The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things: Crime, Drugs, Minorities, Teen Moms, Killer Kids, Mutant Microbes, Plane Crashes, Road Rage, & So Much More
• The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
• American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
• Life after Death Row: Exonerees' Search for Community and Identity (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
• In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)
• A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America