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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Understanding society : an introductory reader</title>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Australia</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Thomson</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2005</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd edition</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>xxii,431p.: ill.;  24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Sociological perspectives and sociological research: The Sociological imagination -- The Forest and the tress -- Not our kind of girl -- Sense and nonsense about surveys -- Culture: Body ritual among the Nacirema -- September 11 2001: mass murder and its roots in the symbolism of American consumer culture -- Barbie doll culture and the American waistland -- Buy this 24-year-old get all his friends absolutely free -- Socialization and the life course: Leaving home for college: expectations for selective reconstruction of self -- Navajo women and the politics of identity -- Gender and aging -- Society and social interaction -- The Presentation of self in everyday life -- Code of th street -- Life beyond the screen: embodiement and identity through the internet -- Groups and organizations: Clique dynamics -- Fraternities and collegiate rape culture: why are some fraternities more dangerous places for women? -- Social networks: the value of variety -- Deviance and criminal justice: The function of crime -- The Medication of deviance -- The Rich get richer and the poor get prison? -- Social class and social stratification: The communist manifesto -- Great divides -- Wealth matters -- Studying the quagmire welfare reform -- Global stratification: The garment industry in the restructuring global economy -- The Nanny chain -- Michael Jordan and the new global capitalization -- Race: The souls of black folk -- Seeing more than black and white -- Immigrant America: who they are and why they come -- Color-blind priviledge: the social and political functions of erasing the color-line in post race America -- Gender: The social construction of gender -- The Politics of masculinities -- Catchung sense: learning from our mothers to be black and female -- Challenges for middle eastern women -- Sexuality and intimate relationships: Pluralistic ignorance and hooking up -- Masculinity as homophobia -- The Long godbye -- Social insttutions: Family -- Religion -- Education -- Work -- Government and politics -- Health care -- Population, urbanization and the environment: American apartheid -- Black, brown, red and poisoned -- Mobilizing minority communities -- Social movements and social change.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Margaret L Andersen, Kim A Logio, Howard Francis Taylor</note>
  <note>Includes glossary and index</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Sociology</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HM585.U54</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0534588158 9780534588151 0534274943 9780534274948</identifier>
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