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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/cisgender 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

The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise

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    Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
    Publication Date: 12/09/2014
    ISBN13: 9781439911877, 978-1439911877
    ISBN10: 1439911878

    Number of Pages: 198

    Non Fiction

    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/cisgender 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

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