The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise 3rd Ed.
Book Details
Author(s)
Allan G Johnson
Publisher
Temple University Press
ISBN / ASIN
1439911878
ISBN-13
9781439911877
Availability
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Sales Rank
#99,662
Category
Social Science
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
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 it.
This Third Edition features:
* Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender 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
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 it.
This Third Edition features:
* Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender 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
