Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life - Softcover

Newman, David M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412928141 ISBN 13: 9781412928144

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2006

Synopsis

The new Sixth Edition of Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life once again invites students into the world of sociological thought! Author David M. Newman encourages students to think less about the next test and more about how sociology applies to their everyday lives.  

New to the Sixth Edition:

• Updated Examples and Statistical Information: This edition provides some sociological insight into contemporary events that have occurred since the last edition, namely, the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq that have altered the course of international relations and domestic politics. The most current statistical information is provided,  and many of the graphic exhibits have been updated.
• New Sociologists at Work and Micro-Macro Connections: These extended discussions link social institutions to personal experiences and provide insight into the methods sociologists use to gather information and draw conclusions about how our world works. Several new topics have been added, including the economics and politics of food, cell phones, human trafficking, how class and racial differences affect children, and much more!
• New and Improved Visual Essays: Several unique, vivid, and provocative new visual essays have been added to paint detailed, informative sociological portraits of the many concepts and ideas covered in the book. The visual essays are now embedded in most chapters, focusing on a wide range of diverse social phenomena.
• Increased Focus on Globalization: This edition also contains many more cross-cultural examples and discussions of globalization than the previous editions, showing how our lives are linked to, and affected by, our increasingly global society.

Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!  

• Instructors′ Resource CD-ROM: Includes ALL NEW digital test bank of sortable multiple-choice, short-answer, and essay questions, chapter summaries, class exercises and discussion topics, literary and visual resources, Internet resources, and much more!
• Student Study Site: Includes interactive quizzes, vocabulary flashcards, and resources for further study and research. The study site has been revised to include audio clips from "This American Life," as well as study guides related to those clips.

IRCDs are available for qualified instructors only. To request an IRCD for this book please contact Customer Care at 1.800.818.7243 (6 am – 5 pm Pacific Time) or by emailing info@sagepub.com with course name and enrollment and your university mailing address to expedite the process.

A new companion reader, Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Readings, Sixth Edition edited by David M. Newman and Jodi O′Brien, is also available.  

About this title

About the Author

David M. Newman earned his BA from San Diego State University in 1981 and his graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle (MA 1984, PhD 1988). After a year at the University of Connecticut, David taught at DePauw University for more than 30 years. He currently teaches at Colgate University. David teaches courses in contemporary society, deviance, mental illness, family, social inequality, and research methods. He has published numerous articles on teaching and has presented research papers on the intersection of gender and power in intimate relationships. Recently most of his scholarly activity has been devoted to writing and revising several books, including Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life: Brief Edition (SAGE, 2020); Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill, 2021); and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 2009). His most recent book, A Culture of Second Chances: The Promise, Practice and Price of Starting Over in Everyday Life (Lexington Books, 2019), examines the cultural meaning, institutional importance, and social limitations of “second chance” and “permanent stigma” narratives in everyday life.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412928141
• ISBN 13: 9781412928144
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 648