Sociology Now, Census Update

PART ONE Foundations of the Field

What Is Sociology? 2

Contents

Sociology as a Way of Seeing 4

Beyond Either/Or: Seeing Sociologically 5

Making Connections: Sociological

Dynamics 6

Sociological Understanding 7

Doing Sociology 8

Sociology and Science 9

Getting beyond “Common Sense” 10

Where Did Sociology Come From? 12

Before Sociology 12

The Invention of Sociology 13

Classical Sociological Thinkers 14

American Sociological Thinkers 20

The “Other” Canon 21

Contemporary Sociology 23

Symbolic Interactionism and the Sociology

of the Self 24

Structural Functionalism and Social

Order 24

Conflict Theories: An Alternative

Paradigm 26

Globalization and Multiculturalism: New

Lenses, New Issues 27

Sociology and Modernism 32

Sociology in the 21st Century, Sociology

and You 34

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Maps xviii

Features xix

Preface xxiii

About the Authors xxxv

A Note from the Publisher about Supplements xxxvii

Additional Acknowledgments xxxix

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