The Promise of Sociology : : Classical Approaches to Contemporary Society, Second Edition / / Rob Beamish.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Beamish, Rob,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

Unlike most introductory texts that take a topical approach to studying sociology, this smart, challenging, and accessibly written text looks at the core principles of the discipline, making links to a contemporary context. The second edition of this award-winning book has been substantially revised, making more direct connections between Generation Z, Mills’s concept of the sociological imagination, and the challenges students face in higher education today. The section on popular culture contains a new chapter on the history of popular music from early rock ’n’ roll to contemporary pop and R&B. New chapter objectives, end-of-chapter review and reflection questions, key terms, and glossary, as well as an instructor’s manual, make this text much more useful in the classroom.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One Why Think Sociologically? -- 1. Visions and Profiles of Students Today -- 2. Generation Z and the Promise of Sociology -- 3. The Light of Reason: Higher Education’s Challenges -- Part Two The Classical Tradition -- 4. Marx and the Dialectic of Dynamic, Unstable Social Formations -- 5. Marx, the Communist Manifesto, and Modernity -- 6. From Descartes to Durkheim: Toward a Science of Society -- 7. Durkheim and the Systematic Study of Social Facts -- 8. Weber and the Interpretive Understanding of Social Action -- 9. The Spirit of Capitalism, Modernity, and the Postmodern World -- Part Three Sociology and Contemporary Popular Culture -- 10. Culture and Critique -- 11. The Dialectics of Popular Culture -- 12. Rock ’n’ Roll as Complex Culture -- 13. The Promise of Sociology -- Glossary of Key Terms and Names -- Bibliography -- Index