In Conflict and Order: Understanding Society (11th Edition)

Eitzen, D. Stanley; Baca Zinn, Maxine

ISBN 10: 0205484948 / ISBN 13: 9780205484942

Published by Allyn & Bacon, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Conflict and Order: Understanding Society (11th Edition)
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205484948
• ISBN 13: 9780205484942
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This introductory text, written from a conflict perspective, emphasizes four themes: diversity, the struggle to achieve social justice, economic and global transformations in the U.S., and a global perspective.

 

In Conflict and Order studies the forces that lead to both stability and change in society. As they examine the standard topics in an introductory course, the authors show how social problems are structural in origin. While the pace of social change is increasing, society's institutions are resistant to change.

 

Eitzen and Baca Zinn challenge students to develop a sociological perspective by questioning their own basic beliefs, and to debate the facts rather than merely accepting the authors' way of looking at the world.

From the Back Cover

This introductory text, written from a conflict perspective, emphasizes four themes: diversity, the struggle by the powerless to achieve social justice, the changing economy, and globalization.

 

In Conflict and Order studies the forces that lead to both stability and change in society. Who benefits from the existing social arrangements, and who does not? How are human beings shaped by society? What are the forces that maintain social stability, produce social inequality, and resist social change?

 

Eitzen and Baca Zinn challenge you to question your own taken-for-granted assumptions about society, look for the structural causes of social conditions, and ask how society can be restructured along more humane lines.