Sociology: The Essentials - Softcover

Andersen, Margaret L.; Taylor, Howard F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495006831 ISBN 13: 9780495006831

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2006

Synopsis

Andersen & Taylor is a theoretically balanced, mainstream, brief text characterized by its emphasis on diversity. In every chapter, students explore research and data that illustrate how class, race-ethnicity, gender, age, geographic residence, and sexual orientation relate to the topics covered. This text provides a solid research orientation to the basic principles of sociology while maintaining an accessible style, appealing to the ever-changing student population, and inviting students to view the world through a sociological lens. This highly integrated, research-oriented, contemporary example approach combined with its depth of coverage in a brief-text format accounts for its wide appeal to professors and students alike.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret L. Andersen--raised in Oakland, California; Rome, Georgia; and Boston--is Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her B.A. from Georgia State University. She is the author of THINKING ABOUT WOMEN: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SEX AND GENDER (Allyn and Bacon) and the best-selling Wadsworth Cengage Learning text RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER: AN ANTHOLOGY (with Patricia Hill Collins). She is also the author of ON LAND AND ON SEA: A CENTURY OF WOMEN IN THE ROSENFELD COLLECTION and LIVING ART: THE LIFE OF PAUL R. JONES, AFRICAN AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR. She has recently served as Vice President of the American Sociological Association, from which she has also received the prestigious Jessie Bernard Award. She has also been awarded the SWS Feminist Lecturer Award, given annually by SWS (Sociologists for Women in Society) to a social scientist whose work has contributed to improving the status of women in society. She currently serves as Chair of the National Advisory Board of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. She has served as the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Delaware, where she has also won the University's Excellence in Teaching Award. She lives on the Elk River in Maryland with her husband, Richard Rosenfeld.

Review:

"Sociology: The Essentials is extremely well written and the explanations are quite clear. It is eye-catching and interesting. The additional materials presented in each chapter are very thought provoking and excellent learning devices for students to deal with individually or for the instructor to use as class exercises or homework assignments. Using diversity is certainly appealing and current. The lucid approach to the theoretical perspectives in each chapter is terrific and much appreciated."

"The text is well written. The concepts are explained in a clear concise way and the examples are relevant, interesting and such that they would/should attract the interest of our students."

"This text has a lively, relaxed style that does not ignore substance, which is probably the greatest asset of the book. Other texts, especially other essentials books, are so fluffy that they don't cover enough raw information."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0495006831
• ISBN 13: 9780495006831
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 552