Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology
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Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology by Of Sociology Kenneth A Gould
Designed to introduce students to key concepts and methods in sociology and to engage them in critical thinking, Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology provides a brief and valuable overview to four major questions that guide the discipline: * Why sociology?* What unites us?
* What divides us?
* How do societies change? Deftly balancing breadth and depth, the book makes the study of sociology accessible, relevant, and meaningful. Contextualizing the most important issues, Ten Lessons helps students discover the sociological imagination and what it means to be part of an engaged public discourse.
Gould, Kenneth A.: - Kenneth A. Gould is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Brooklyn College, and Professor of Sociology, and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology and development, and is best known for its contribution to the development of the Treadmill of Production model of socio-environmental dynamics. He has published numerous articles examining the responses of communities to environmental problems, the role of socioeconomic inequality in environmental conflicts, environmental social movement coalitions, and the impacts of economic globalization on efforts to achieve sustainable development trajectories. He is co-author of Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict (1994), The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy (2008) and Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology (2009). His recent work examines ecotourism, labor environmentalism, ecodisaster and green gentrification.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199746910 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199746915 |
| Title | Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology |
| Author | Of Sociology Kenneth A Gould |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | OUP India |
| Year published | 2013-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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