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Seeing Sociology: An Introduction, 3rd Edition

Joan Ferrante

  • Copyright 2016
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Offering instructors complete flexibility, SEEING SOCIOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION, 3rd Edition combines up-to-the-minute coverage with an easy-to-manage approach featuring brief, self-contained modules in each chapter that instructors can assign based on the needs of their class. The Third Edition includes such contemporary topics as globalization’s connection to technology and gay rights, the anti-aging industry, and The Affordable Care Act, and many others. Extremely student-friendly and engaging, the text continues to make photos an integral part of the learning process-resulting in a stronger, more memorable learning experience for students. The new “What Do Sociologists See?” feature includes a sociologist's insights on everyday images, showing students how sociological concepts can be applied to daily life. MindTap Sociology Powered by Knewton, a highly personalized, online learning platform, is also available for the third edition.

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Joan Ferrante

Joan Ferrante is Professor of Sociology at Northern Kentucky University and author of Sociology: A Global Perspective, 9th Edition and co-editor of The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States. She received her PhD from the University of Cincinnati.

What's New

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  • New “What Do Sociologists See?” photo features at the end of each module demonstrate how to apply key sociological concepts to everyday images.
  • New and updated “Applying Theory” modules now concentrate on functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism, and feminism. They discuss real-world topics such as blue jeans, interactive gaming, nail salons, and sex testing in utero.
  • The feminist perspective is addressed in all chapters.
  • New and updated modules cover such topics as research methods (Chapter 1); how both institutions and individuals influence social structure (Chapter 4); the relationship between upward mobility and unearned failures/unearned successes (Chapter 7); the two-tier labor market of privileged and disadvantaged workers (Chapter 10); and the connection between education and the U.S. and global economies (Chapter 12).
  • Chapter 11 on families has been extensively updated to address how the social definition of a “normal” family continues to change.

Features

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  • Offering ultimate flexibility in the course syllabus, SEEING SOCIOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION, 3rd Edition offers a student- and instructor-friendly module format that breaks material into manageable, easy-to-assign pieces. Each of the text's 13 chapters is presented in five to eight stand-alone modules, enabling you to teach your course in a traditional order or reorganize topics to suit your individual classroom needs.
  • The uniquely integrated relationship between the text and the visuals elevates chapter topics beyond the sum of their parts to give students insight about how to describe and know their world using sociological concepts.
  • Photographs, charts, and other visuals take on unprecedented significance in SEEING SOCIOLOGY's instructional content and approach. Each image was chosen by Joan Ferrante or taken for this text with a clear pedagogical purpose. Photographs and accompanying captions are integrated into the flow of the text to illustrate key sociological concepts and enhance student understanding. The engaging new “What Do Sociologists See?” feature further enhances the book's visual emphasis, demonstrating how sociological concepts apply to the everyday world.
  • The chapter-ending “Putting It All Together” section synthesizes key information from the chapter's modules into a concise one-page summary that helps students understand how each module fits into the “big picture” concept of the chapter and how the modules relate to one another.
  • In the Third edition, the Applying Theory module within each chapter highlights a specific social force or issue and analyzes it from four theoretical perspectives in sociology: functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism, and feminism.

Table of Contents

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Brief Contents.
1. The Sociological Perspective.
2. Culture.
3. Socialization.
4. Social Structures.
5. The Social Construction of Reality.
6. Deviance.
7. Social Inequalities.
8. Race and Ethnicity.
9. Gender and Sexualities.
10. Economics and Politics.
11. Families.
12. Education and Religion.
13. Social Change and the Pressing Issues of Our Times.

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MindTap Sociology, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Ferrante's Seeing Socioloogy: An Introduction

ISBN: 9781305274099
MindTap Sociology, powered by Knewton, for Ferrante's Seeing Sociology: An Introduction, 3rd Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. Powered by Knewton, MindTap Sociology’s adaptive learning capability recommends chapter sections, assessment questions, and other study materials on concepts on which individual students needs the most improvement. Access to this product is valid for 6 months of usage.

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MindTap Sociology, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Ferrante's Seeing Socioloogy: An Introduction

ISBN: 9781305274099
MindTap Sociology, powered by Knewton, for Ferrante's Seeing Sociology: An Introduction, 3rd Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. Powered by Knewton, MindTap Sociology’s adaptive learning capability recommends chapter sections, assessment questions, and other study materials on concepts on which individual students needs the most improvement. Access to this product is valid for 6 months of usage.

MindTap Sociology, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access, Enhanced for Ferrante's Seeing Sociology: An Introduction

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MindTap Sociology, enhanced for Ferrante's Seeing Sociology: An Introduction, 3rd Edition is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course—to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual, and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. MindTap combines all of a student’s learning tools, readings, and multimedia activities organized into one "Learning Path." Designed with the input of over 1,500 instructors and students, four new experiential activities cultivate students’ higher-order thinking with exploration, analysis, and creation to develop their sociological imagination through personal, local, and global lenses. MindTap gives you complete ownership of your content and learning experience. Customize the interactive syllabi, emphasize the most important topics, and add your own material or notes in the eBook. A new MindTap for Sociology: Course Management Navigator will help you integrate the new MindTap learning path into your course.