Social things : an introduction to the sociological life / Charles Lemert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemert, Charles C., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Sociology--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

5th ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In fifteen years, Charles Lemert's Social Things has become a much-loved modern classic among teachers, students, and many other readers. It introduces the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition celebrates the book's fifteenth anniversary with important updates, an entirely new chapter that addresses the environmental challenges in our global world and many additions that bring the history of sociology up-to-date.<

Contents:

Imagining social things, competently

Personal courage and practical sociologies

Practicing the discipline of social things sociology

Sociology and the lost worlds of the new world order : 1848-1920

Sociology becomes the science of worldly structures : 1920-1960

Sociology reaches into the world : 1968-2000s

The mysterious power of social structures

The lively subjects of dead structures

Well-measured lives in a world of differences

Global methods

Global things on a fragile planet

Living against the conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-8185-093-7

1-283-23380-0

9786613233806

1-4422-1163-6

OCLC:

747410595