The Forest and the Trees

Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Methodology, Sociology
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Author: Allan Johnson ISBN: 9781439911884
Publisher: Temple University Press Publication: September 12, 2014
Imprint: Temple University Press Language: English
Author: Allan Johnson
ISBN: 9781439911884
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication: September 12, 2014
Imprint: Temple University Press
Language: English

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

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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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