Sociology : concepts and applications in a diverse world / Thomas J. Sullivan.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Allyn and Bacon ; London : Pearson Education [distributor], 2009.Edition: 8th edDescription: 528 p. ; 28 cmISBN:- 9780205628063 (pbk.) :
- 9780205628063 (Paper)
- 301 SUL
- HM585 .S85 2009
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Short Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 301 SUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 209873 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I.The sociological perspective -- 1.What is sociology? -- 2.Culture, society, and diversity -- Part II.The individual in society -- 3.Socialization -- 4.Groups and organizations -- 5.Deviance, crime, and social control -- Part III.Stratification and social inequaility -- 6.Social stratification and social inequality -- 67.Social inequality: race and ethnicity -- 8.Social inequality: gender -- Part IV.Social institutions -- 9.Family and human sexuality -- 10.Health and health-care institutions -- 11.Religion -- 12.Education and the mass media -- 13.Political and economic institutions -- Part V.Human ecology and social change -- 14.Human ecology: population, community, and environment- 15.Collective behavior, social change, and modernization.
This eighth edition continues to expand the students mind through a series of probing questions, sociological theories and facts, which further go on and illustrate the issues and concepts that are faced by societies and cultures around the world.