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Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Brief Contents......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Special Features......Page 16 Guide to Social Maps......Page 18 To the Student . . . from the Author......Page 20 To the Instructor . . . from the Author......Page 22 About the Author......Page 33 Chapter 1 The Sociological Perspective......Page 34 Seeing the Broader Social Context......Page 36 Tradition versus Science......Page 37 Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism......Page 38 Emile Durkheim and Social Integration......Page 39 APPLYING DURKHEIM......Page 40 Sexism at the Time: Women in Early Sociology......Page 41 Jane Addams: Sociologist and Social Reformer......Page 43 Talcott Parsons and C. Wright Mills: Theory versus Reform......Page 44 PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY......Page 45 Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology......Page 46 SYMBOLS IN EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 47 From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft......Page 0 Functional Analysis......Page 48 APPLYING FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS......Page 49 APPLYING CONFLICT THEORY......Page 51 Levels of Analysis: Macro and Micro......Page 52 Doing Sociological Research......Page 53 3. Reviewing the Literature......Page 54 6. Collecting the Data

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
James M. Heslin
Publisher
Pearson
Published
2017
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Social Science, Sociology, Social_sciences
Rating
4.4 / 5 (130 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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