Beschreibung:
The most difficult issue for teachers of introductory sociology is how to communicate to students the power of social structure and its relationship to individual human behaviour and experience. In this provocative new work, Babbie addresses the task, helping to teach and to provoke the sociological imagination whilst also exploring what is produced and institutionalized through social interaction and organization.
A supplementary text for introductory sociology courses. One of the most difficult concepts to convey to introductory students is social structure. This book achieves that goal for students the way few sociology texts do. Babbie also successfully explains for students what is fundamentally different about the social level of analysis in comparison to other behavioral science perspectives.
Introducing an Unusual Entity
Social Structure is Real
Freedom and Society
Structured for Survival
What Exactly Survives?
Society Run Amok
Sociological Diagnostics
Taking Charge