Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Brief Edition - Softcover

Newman, David M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544325797 ISBN 13: 9781544325798

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2018

Synopsis

This new Brief Sixth Edition of David Newman’s text is the streamlined version of Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life with the same goal: to be a textbook that, in the author’s words, "reads like a real book." 

Newman shows how to see the "unfamiliar in the familiar"―to step back and see organization and predictability in our taken-for-granted personal experiences. He uses the metaphors of "architecture" and "construction" to help us understand that society is not something that exists "out there," independently of ourselves; rather, it is a human creation that is planned, maintained, or altered by individuals. Instead of surveying every subfield in sociology, this text focuses on the structural features of society, the social construction of the self and identity, and social inequality in the context of social institutions.

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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: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1544325797
• ISBN 13: 9781544325798
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 408