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Author Fuchs, Robyn A. Goldstein, author.

Title Sociology essentials / Robyn A. Goldstein Fuchs, Ph. D
Published Piscataway, New Jersey : Research & Education Association, [2012], ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (113 pages)
Series Essentials study guides
Essentials study guides
Contents These "Little Books" have rescued lots of grades and more!; Title Page; Copyright Page; What REA's Essentials® Will Do for You; Table of Contents; CHAPTER 1 -- Introduction to Sociology; 1.1 Defining Sociology; 1.2 The Unit of Study; 1.3 The Perspective: Humanistic or Scientific; 1.4 The Sociological Imagination; 1.5 The Science; 1.6 The Social Sciences; 1.7 The Theory: Inductive or Deductive; 1.8The Theoretical Approach; 1.9 The Origins of Sociology; 1.10 Careers in Sociology; CHAPTER 2 -- The Methods of Research; 2.1 Defining Research Methods; 2.2 Survey Research; 2.3 Experimentation
2.4 Observation2.5 Secondary Analysis; 2.6 The Stages of Research; 2.7 Ethical Problems; CHAPTER 3 -- Socialization; 3.1 The Process of Socialization and Self-Formation; 3.2 Agents of Socialization; 3.3 Resocialization and the Role of Total Institution; 3.4 Sigmund Freud; 3.5 Charles Horton Cooley; 3.6 George Herbert Mead; 3.7 Erving Goffman; 3.8 Jean Piaget; 3.9 Erik Erikson; 3.10 Lawrence Kohlberg; 3.11 Carol Gilligan; CHAPTER 4 -- Culture; 4.1 Defining Culture; 4.2 Material and Nonmaterial Culture; 4.3 Aspects of Culture; 4.4 Cultural Diversity; 4.5 Subcultures and Countercultures
CHAPTER 5 -- Society5.1 Defining Society; 5.2 Sociocultural Evolution; 5.3 Types of Societies; 5.4 Theories of Society; CHAPTER 6 -- Social Interaction; 6.1 Defining Social Interaction; 6.2 Social Structure, Society, and Social Systems; 6.3 Status; 6.4 Roles; CHAPTER 7 -- Groups and Organizations; 7.1 Social Groups and Relationships; 7.2 Associations and Communal Relationships; 7.3 Social Groups; 7.4 Characteristics of Groups; 7.5 Group Leadership; 7.6 Organizations; 7.7 Bureaucracy; CHAPTER 8 -- Deviance; 8.1 Defining Deviance; 8.2 Deviance and Stigma
8.3 Deviance, Conformity, Social Order, and Social Control8.4 Deviance and Social Groups; 8.5 Functions and Deviance; 8.6 Biological Explanations of Deviance; 8.7 Psychological Explanations of Deviance; 8.8 Sociological Explanations of Deviance; CHAPTER 9 -- Family and Society; 9.1 Social Institutions; 9.2 Kinship; 9.3 Marriage; 9.4 Family; 9.5 Forms of Vested Authority; 9.6 Endogamy and Exogamy: Marriage Patterns; 9.7 Monogamy and Polygamy: Marriage Patterns; 9.8 Residential Patterns: Patrilocality, Matrilocality, and Neolocality; CHAPTER 10 -- Economics and Society
10.1 Traditionalism and Economic Rationality10.2 Division of Labor; 10.3 Comparative Economic Systems; 10.4 Sectors of the Economy; 10.5 Distribution Systems; CHAPTER 11 -- Politics and Society; 11.1 The Political Order; 11.3 Types of Government; 11.4 The Political Process; 11.5 C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite; 11.6 G. William Domhoff's Governing Class; 11.7 David Riesman's Pluralist Vision; CHAPTER 12 -- Religion and Society; 12.1 Defining Religion; 12.2 The Sacred and the Profane; 12.3 Durkheim; 12.4 Weber; 12.5 Forms of Religious Organization-Cult, Sect, Church; 12.6 World Religions
CHAPTER 13 -- Social Stratification
Summary REA's Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing for exams, doing homework and will remain a lasting reference source for students, teachers, and professionals. Sociology reviews sociological perspectives, methods of research, socialization and self-formation, cultures, society, theories of societies, social structure and the social process, so
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Subject Sociology.
Sociology
sociology.
Sociology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780738670331
0738670332
Other Titles Essentials of sociology