Introduction to Sociology: A Customization of Basic Sociology by Andrew Savchenko

ISBN-13: 9781792459894 / Angielski / Twarda / 1753

Robert Reed

Spis treści

• Preface: What Is Sociology?
• Part One. Theories, Perspectives, and Methods in Sociology
• Chapter 1. What Is Social Theory and Why We Need It
• Chapter 2. Methods, Data, and Other Ways to Look at the World
• Chapter 3. Conflicting Conflict Theories—Karl Marx versus Lewis Coser
• Chapter 4. Max Weber and Sociology of Economic Transformation
• Chapter 5. What Keeps Society Together—Functional Approach to Social Integration
• Chapter 6. Precision and Simplicity—Two Centuries of Utilitarian Perspective
• Part Two. Socialization, Interaction, Community
• Chapter 7. How Human Beings Become Social Beings
• Chapter 8. How Society Shapes Ourselves
• Chapter 9. How Conversation Builds Societies
• Chapter 10. Interaction as a Stage Play—The Dramaturgical Perspective
• Chapter 11. Communities—Real and Imagined
• Chapter 12. What Happens When There Are No Communities
• Part Three. State and Society
• Chapter 13. Why People Obey—Power and Authority
• Chapter 14. The State Has Its Own Interests
• Chapter 15. States Ancient and Modern—Differences and Evolution
• Chapter 16. Bureaucracy, Not as Bad as It Sounds
• Chapter 17. Organizational Pathologies
• Part Four. Economy and Society
• Chapter 18. What Traditional Economies Look Like
• Chapter 19. How Social Change Propelled Economic Transformation
• Chapter 20. Trust, Culture, and Economic Efficiency—How Economy and Society Interact
• Chapter 21. Social Inequality, Stratification, and Elites
• Suggestions for Further Reading