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Title: Introduction to Sociology by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum ISBN: 0-393-97770-6 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $68.20 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not good enough for college
Comment: This book may give you the "meat and potatoes" of sociology but unfortunetly it doesn't give you more than that. If your goal is to put some of your curiosity into perspective this is propably the book. But if you want to understand the field of sociology as an academic discipline this suffers from not focusing on theories but on themes. It will spark the "sociological imagination" but I will not read the book again and again.
This book may be helpful in high school but for college and up you need to supplement (or replace) it with one which focus on theories and theorists like "Classical & Modern Social Theory" by Heine Andersen and Lars Bo Kaspersen which is the best introduction to theorists from Marx to Giddens IMO. THIS is the book that will follow me always.
Rating: 5
Summary: A text book I will keep forever
Comment: This book makes me love sociology, and understand it. I love the down to earth examples from real life situations, such as people working in health clubs and people on the streets and the way this gets used to introduce the meat and potatoes of sociology.
Rating: 3
Summary: Squeezing all the information into one brick.
Comment: This [2nd Edition] is about as thick a book as some bibles are, but as bibles come also on pocket sizes, so should this book! It gives great previews on different aspects of everyday life, but doesn't offer anything new. This is like a referendum into sociology's different sides in whole. I wonder if the edition 3 will be as much "copy and paste" from edition 2 as this edition is from the first edition...
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Title: Readings for Sociology, Fourth Edition by Garth Massey ISBN: 0393978443 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 |
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Title: Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, New and Expanded Edition by Walter Lafeber ISBN: 0393323692 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America by Cynthia M. Duncan, Robert Coles ISBN: 0300084560 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson ISBN: 0393320782 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer ISBN: 0761986286 Publisher: Pine Forge Press Pub. Date: 19 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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