Understanding social life: An introduction to sociology. /
Frances A. Boudreau.
- U.S.A: West publishing company, 1993.
- xi, 353p.: ill.; 25cm.
Includes index, bibliography and glossary.
Contents: The art and science of sociological analysis -- Doing sociology: theory and research -- Culture: what makes humans unique -- Social structure and social interaction -- Social institutions: patterns in transition -- Selves, others, and social interaction -- The processes of social deviance -- Social stratification: structures of inequality -- Status relations: barriers to equality -- Social change: macrosociology -- Modernity: bureaucratization, secularization, and metropolitanization -- Glossay -- Name index -- Subject index.