You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist - Softcover

Conley, Dalton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393537781 ISBN 13: 9780393537789

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021

Synopsis

The bestselling “untextbook” that makes the familiar strange

The market leader for introductory sociology courses and a welcome alternative to traditional textbooks, You May Ask Yourself engages students with an irreverent narrative style. It questions what is often taken for granted and helps students apply sociological ways of thinking to their own experiences. The Seventh Edition features new coverage of pressing social issues related to aging, health, and inequality. Several new video interviews introduce important current research, and a thoughtfully revised InQuizitive course uses what learning experts call the “retrieval effect” to help students master core concepts.

About this title

About the Author

Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. In 2005, Conley became the first sociologist to win the prestigious National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award, which honors an outstanding young U.S. scientist or engineer. He writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Slate, and Forbes. He is the author of Honky (2001) and The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become (2004). His other books include Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America (1999), The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances (2003), Elsewhere, U.S.A. (2009), Parentology (2014), and The Genome Factor (2017). He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393537781
• ISBN 13: 9780393537789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552