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Social things : an introduction to the sociological life /

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In fifteen years, Charles Lemert's Social Things has become a much-loved modern classic among teachers, students, and many other readers for introducing the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition is fresh: the history of sociology sect...

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Main Author: Lemert, Charles C., 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]
Edition:5th ed.
Subjects:
Sociology > History.
Sociology > Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Social Science.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Imagining social things, competently
  • Personal courage and practical sociologies
  • Practicing the discipline of social things sociology
  • Sociology and the lost worlds of the new world order: 1848-1920
  • Sociology becomes the science of worldly structures: 1920-1960
  • Sociology reaches into the world: 1968-2000s
  • The mysterious power of social structures
  • The lively subjects of dead structures
  • Well-measured lives in a world of differences : global things
  • Global methods
  • Global things on a fragile planet
  • Living against the conclusion.