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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Essentials of sociology</title>
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    <namePart>Giddens, Anthony.</namePart>
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    <publisher>W.W Norton &amp; Company</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xvii, 506 + various pagings.: chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents:Part I: The Sociological perspective: The sociological perspective -- Culture -- Socialization -- Social structure and social interaction -- Part II:  Social groups and social control -- Social groups and formal organizations -- Deviance and social control -- Part III: Social inequality: Global stratification -- Social class in the United States -- Inequalities of race and ethnicity -- Inequalities of gender and age -- Part IV: Social institutions: Politics and the economy -- Marriage and family -- Education and religion -- Part V: Social change: Population and urbanization -- Social change: technology, social movements and the environment.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Anthony Giddens</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Sociology</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HM585.G52</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780393930337</identifier>
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