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The Forest and the Trees

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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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    Publisher: Temple University Press

    Kindle Book

    • Release date: September 12, 2014

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    • ISBN: 9781439911884
    • Release date: September 12, 2014

    PDF ebook

    • ISBN: 9781439911884
    • File size: 1315 KB
    • Release date: September 12, 2014

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    Languages

    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

  • Expand title description text