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Annual editions : Sociology / Editor, Kurt Finsterbusch

Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary learning seriesPublication details: Dubuque : McGraw-Hill, c2006Edition: 34th editionDescription: xviii,237 p. ; 28 cm. ; illISBN:
  • 0073397334
  • 9780073397337
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.05 22 ANN
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CONTENT

UNIT 1. CULTURE
Part A. Modern, Traditional and unusual cultures
1. The kindness of strangers
2. The mountain people

Part B. American culture and cultural change
3. The atrophy of social life
4. Self-Reliance: Those rugged individuals
5. What's so great about America?

UNIT 2. SOCIALIZATION AND SOCIAL CONTROL
Part A. Influences on personality and behaviour
6. What makes you who you are
7. The new sex scorecard

Part B. Crime, law enforcement and social control
The criminal menace
Parents or prisons
The aggregate burden of crime

UNIT 3. GROUPS AND ROLES IN TRANSITION
Part A. Marriage and the family
Part B. Gender and gender roles
Part C. City and community

UNIT 4. STRATIFICATION AND SOCIAL INNEQUALITIES
Part A. Income inequalities
Part B. Welfare and welfare reform
Part C. Racial and ethnic issues inequalities

UNIT 5. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS: ISSUES, CRISES AND CHANGES
Part A. The political sphere: power, politics and administration
Part B. The economic sphere: changing consumption, workplaces, workforce
Part C. The social sphere: Education, health and religion


UNIT 6. SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE FUTURE
Part A. Population issues
Part B. Environment and safety
Part C. Technology for better or for worse
40. Biotech on the farm
41. The secret nuclear war
etc...
Part D. The new crisis: terrorism
Part E. Macro changes for the world and the United States


Includes index

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