Readings for Sociology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393927008 ISBN 13: 9780393927009

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Synopsis

With 11 new articles and expanded coverage on race and inequality, the Fifth Edition of Readings for Sociology provides students with engaging selections that reveal the complexities of our social world and help students think sociologically.

New selections include articles by William Julius Williams, Mary C. Waters, Anthony Walton, Michael Burawoy, Russell Shorto, and Michael Messner, as well as new articles on globalization by James Watson, Robert Glennon, Robert Inglehart and Wayne Baker, and Paul Wapner.  In addition, a wide range of classic essays by C. Wright Mills, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and others make Readings for Sociology a comprehensive and balanced supplement to the introductory course.

About this title

About the Author:

Garth Massey (PhD, Indiana University―Bloomington) is Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the University of Wyoming, where he was Director of International Studies and Professor of Sociology, and taught courses in political economy and social change, research methods and social theory, social inequality and stratification, and the sociology of work. After retiring from the University of Wyoming in 2008, Massey moved to Portland, and currently teaches at Portland State University. In addition to editing Readings for Sociology, he is the author of Ways of Social Change, a textbook on social change from Sage Publications. His interests in comparative sociology led him to live and do research in Eastern Europe, East Africa, Australia, and the Middle East.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0393927008
• ISBN 13: 9780393927009
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Massey Garth