Readings for Sociology (Eight Edition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393938840 ISBN 13: 9780393938845

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Synopsis

The perfect mix of classic and contemporary readings.

Readings for Sociology provides students with engaging selections that reveal the complexities of our social world and offer insights into sociological analysis. Garth Massey includes selections from popular and academic journals as well as lively book excerpts that will help students reach a new level of sociological understanding. While comprehensive in scope, offering a wide range of selections on the standard topics taught in introductory courses, this book particularly focuses on social inequality and race, class, and gender.

About this title

About the Author:

Garth Massey (PhD, Indiana University―Bloomington) is Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the University of Wyoming, where he was Director of International Studies and Professor of Sociology, and taught courses in political economy and social change, research methods and social theory, social inequality and stratification, and the sociology of work. After retiring from the University of Wyoming in 2008, Massey moved to Portland, and currently teaches at Portland State University. In addition to editing Readings for Sociology, he is the author of Ways of Social Change, a textbook on social change from Sage Publications. His interests in comparative sociology led him to live and do research in Eastern Europe, East Africa, Australia, and the Middle East.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393938840
• ISBN 13: 9780393938845
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Massey Garth