Discover Sociology

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by Daina S. Eglitis, William J. Chambliss, Susan L. Wortmann

5th Edition

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.

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Print ISBN	9781071839782
eText ISBN	9781071820063
Publisher	SAGE Publications, Inc.
Publishing Year	2021
Edition	5th Edition
Language	English

Discover Sociology, 5th Edition, authored by Daina S. Eglitis, William J. Chambliss, and Susan L. Wortmann, introduces students to the discipline by examining how social forces construct and transform individual and societal lives. Published by SAGE Publications, Inc., this textbook establishes a systematic framework for introductory sociology courses.

The material focuses on core thematic priorities including power and inequality, globalization and diversity, and technology and society. Through these analytical concepts, students encounter key subject areas such as sociological research methods, culture, socialization, deviance, and social class.

Instructors and students can access interactive learning options paired with the textbook, such as Sage Vantage with its integrated auto-graded assignments and multimedia tools. The print edition carries ISBN 9781071839782, while the eTextbook is available under ISBN 9781071820063.

Chapter 1: Discover Sociology
- • Sociology and the Curious Mind
- • The Sociological Imagination
- • Critical Thinking
- • The Development of Sociological Thinking
- • The Birth of Sociology: Science, Progress, Industrialization, and Urbanization
- • The Scientific Revolution
- • The Enlightenment
- • The Industrial Revolution
- • Urbanization: The Population Shift Toward Cities
- • Nineteenth-Century Founders
- • Auguste Comte
- • Harriet Martineau
- • Émile Durkheim
- • Karl Marx
- • Max Weber
- • Significant Founding Ideas in U.S. Sociology
- • Robert Ezra Park
- • W. E. B. Du Bois
- • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- • Robert K. Merton
- • C. Wright Mills
- • Women in Early Sociology
- • What Is Sociological Theory?
- • The Functionalist Paradigm
- • The Social Conflict Paradigm
- • Symbolic Interactionism
- • Principal Themes in This Book
- • Power and Inequality
- • Globalization and Diversity
- • Technology and Society
- • Sociologists Ask, What’s Next?
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? An Introduction
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 2: Discover Sociological Research
- • No Roof Overhead: Researching Eviction in America
- • Sociology and Common Sense
- • Common Wisdom
- • Sociological Research
- • Research and the Scientific Method
- • Relationships Between Variables
- • Testing Theories and Hypotheses
- • Validity and Reliability
- • Objectivity in Scientific Research
- • Doing Sociological Research
- • Sociological Research Methods
- • Survey Research
- • Fieldwork
- • Experimentation
- • Working With Existing Information
- • Participatory Research
- • Doing Sociology: A Student’s Guide to Research
- • Frame Your Research Question
- • Review Existing Knowledge
- • Select the Appropriate Method
- • Weigh the Ethical Implications
- • Collect and Analyze the Data
- • Share the Results
- • What’s Next? Sociology and the World Online
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Quantitative Research Skills
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 3: Culture and Mass Media
- • Monsters as Cultural Symbols
- • Culture: Concepts and Applications
- • Material and Nonmaterial Culture
- • Beliefs
- • Values
- • Norms
- • Ideal and Real Culture in U.S. Society
- • Ethnocentrism
- • Subcultures
- • Culture and Language
- • Language, Social Integration, and Social Conflict
- • Culture and Mass Media
- • Culture, Media, and Violence
- • Culture, Class, and Inequality
- • Culture and Globalization
- • What’s Next? Challenging Cultural Symbols
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Critical Thinking
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 4: Socialization and Social Interaction
- • My Robot, My Friend
- • The Birth of the Social Self
- • Behaviorism and Social Learning Theory
- • Socialization as Symbolic Interaction
- • Stages of Development: Piaget and Kohlberg
- • Biological Needs Versus Social Constraints: Freud
- • Agents of Socialization
- • Families
- • School and Teachers
- • Peers
- • Organized Sports
- • Religion
- • Mass Media and Social Media
- • Work
- • Socialization and Aging
- • Total Institutions and Resocialization
- • Social Interaction
- • Studies of Social Interaction
- • The Dramaturgical Approach: Erving Goffman
- • Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
- • What’s Next? Socialization, Social Interaction, and the Internet
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Applying Insights About Interaction: Interpersonal Skills
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 5: Groups, Organizations, and Bureaucracies
- • Group Polarization: When Does Difference Become Extremism?
- • The Nature of Groups
- • The Power of Groups
- • Does Size Matter?
- • Types of Group Leadership
- • Conformity to Groups
- • Obedience to Authority
- • Groupthink
- • Economic, Cultural, and Social Capital
- • Organizations
- • Types of Formal Organizations
- • Bureaucracies
- • Written Rules and Regulations
- • A Critical Evaluation
- • Bureaucracy and Democracy
- • The Global Organization
- • International Governmental Organizations
- • International Nongovernmental Organizations
- • What’s Next? Groups, Organizations, and Bureaucracies
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Leadership Skills and Teamwork
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 6: Deviance and Social Control
- • Deviance in the Blood?
- • What Is Deviance?
- • How Do Sociologists Explain Deviance?
- • Biosocial Perspectives
- • Functionalist Perspectives
- • Deviance and Social Solidarity
- • Structural Strain Theory
- • Differential Opportunity Theory
- • Social Control Theory
- • Conflict Perspectives
- • Subcultures and Deviance
- • Class-Dominant Theory
- • Structural Contradiction Theory
- • Critical Perspectives
- • Feminist Theories
- • Critical Race Theories
- • Interactionist Perspectives
- • Labeling Theory
- • Differential Association Theory
- • Types of Deviance
- • Everyday Deviance
- • Deviance of the Powerful
- • Crime
- • Violent and Property Crimes
- • Organized Crime
- • White-Collar Crime
- • Police Corruption and Police Brutality
- • State Crimes
- • Social Control of Deviance
- • Schools and Discipline: Is There a School-to-Prison Pipeline?
- • Imprisonment in the United States
- • The Stigma of Imprisonment
- • The Death Penalty in the United States
- • What’s Next? Crime and Deviance
- • What Can I Do with a Sociology Degree? Understanding and Fostering Social Change
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 7: Social Class and Inequality in the United States
- • Homeless and Elderly
- • Stratification in Traditional and Modern Societies
- • Caste Societies
- • Class Societies
- • Sociological Building Blocks of Social Class
- • Income
- • Wealth
- • Occupation
- • Status
- • Political Voice
- • Class and Inequality in the United States: Dimensions and Trends
- • Income Inequality
- • Wealth Inequality
- • Other Gaps: Inequalities in Health Care, Health, and Access to Consumer Goods
- • Why Has Inequality Grown?
- • Poverty in the United States
- • The Problem of Neighborhood Poverty
- • Why Do Stratification and Poverty Exist and Persist in Class Societies?
- • The Functionalist Explanation
- • The Social Conflict Explanation
- • What’s Next for Economic Inequality?
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Making an Evidence-Based Argument
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 8: Global Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality
- • Migrants in Limbo
- • Dimensions of Global Inequality and Poverty
- • Hunger, Mortality, and Fertility in Poor Countries
- • Safe Sanitation
- • Education Matters
- • Armed Conflict and Poverty
- • Child Brides in a Time of Crisis
- • Refugees and Refuges
- • Technology: The Great Equalizer?
- • Theoretical Perspectives on Global Inequality
- • Applying the Theories: The Case of Nigerian Oil Wealth
- • Who Are the Global Elite?
- • What’s Next? Global Inequality and COVID-19
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Active Understanding of Diversity
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 9: Race and Ethnicity
- • The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity
- • Race
- • Ethnicity
- • Minorities
- • Minority and Dominant Group Relations
- • Expulsion
- • Segregation
- • Assimilation and Cultural Pluralism
- • Theoretical Approaches to Ethnicity, Racism, and Minority Status
- • The Functionalist Perspective
- • Conflict Perspectives
- • The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
- • Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
- • Criminal Justice, Politics, and Power
- • Consequences of Prejudice and Discrimination: Race and Health
- • Race and Ethnicity in Hollywood
- • Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States
- • American Indians
- • African Americans
- • Latinxs
- • Mexican Americans
- • Cuban Americans
- • Asian Americans
- • Arab Americans
- • White Americans
- • Multiracial Americans
- • Race and Ethnicity in a Global Perspective
- • Genocide: The Mass Destruction of Societies
- • What Explains Genocide?
- • What’s Next? Race and Ethnicity in the United States
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Advocating for Social Justice
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 10: Gender, Sexuality, and Society
- • Fighting for Who I Am, Who I Love, and Where I Started
- • Sociologically Understanding Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
- • Sex and Gender
- • Sexuality
- • Learning and Performing Gendered Selves in a Gendered World
- • The Roots of Gender: Families and Gender Role Socialization
- • Gendered Playgrounds, Gendered Interactions: Schools and Peers
- • Schools
- • Peers
- • Media Power: Reflecting and Reinforcing Stereotypes of Gender and Sexuality
- • Television and Movies
- • Music, Gaming, Fantasy Sports
- • Gender Inequalities: Family, School, and Work
- • Gender and Family Life
- • Gender and Higher Education
- • Gender and the Wage Gap
- • Feminisms, Feminist Sociology, and Masculinities
- • Feminist Perspectives on Doing Sociology
- • The Sociology of Masculinities
- • Gender and Sexuality in a Global Perspective
- • Women and Families
- • Girls and Education
- • Girls, Women, and Work
- • Gender and Pandemic: The Gendered Impact of COVID-19
- • Change Happens: Women’s Empowerment
- • What’s Next? Equality, Gender, and Sexuality
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Ethical Decision Making
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 11: Families and Society
- • Assortative Mating and Rising Inequality in the United States
- • How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
- • Families and the Work of Raising Children
- • Theoretical Perspectives on Families
- • The Functionalist Perspective
- • The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective . . . and Beyond
- • His and Her Marriage
- • The Psychodynamic Feminist Perspective
- • U.S. Families Yesterday and Today
- • Marriage and Divorce in the United States
- • Who’s Minding the Children?
- • Immigration and Family Patterns
- • America’s First Nations: Native American Families
- • Deaf Culture and Family Life
- • Families in Crisis
- • Socioeconomic Class and Family in the United States
- • Social Class and Child-Rearing
- • Economy, Culture, and Family Formation
- • Parenting in Poverty
- • Family Life in the Middle Class
- • Globalization and Families
- • International Families and the Global Woman
- • What’s Next for Families and Family Life?
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Problem Solving
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 12: Education and Society
- • Hungry and Homeless College Students?
- • Education, Industrialization, and the “Credential Society”
- • Theoretical Perspectives on Education
- • Functionalist Perspectives
- • Conflict Perspectives
- • Symbolic Interactionist Perspectives
- • Education, Opportunity, and Inequality
- • Word Poverty and Literacy
- • School Segregation
- • Issues in U.S. Higher Education
- • Education, Employment, and Earnings
- • Internships and Higher Education
- • Dropping In, Dropping Out: Why Are College Dropout Rates So High?
- • Education in a Global Perspective
- • Higher Education and Job Opportunities
- • American and International Students Study Abroad
- • What’s Next? Education After COVID-19
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Considering Graduate and Professional Education
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 13: Religion and Society
- • A New Religion Rises: The Jedi Faithful
- • Why and How Do Sociologists Study Religion?
- • Theoretical Perspectives on Religion and Society
- • Classical Views: Religion, Society, and Secularization
- • Émile Durkheim
- • Karl Marx
- • Max Weber
- • The “Religious Economy” Perspective
- • Types of Religious Organizations
- • Church
- • Sect
- • Cults and New Religious Movements
- • The Great World Religions
- • Christianity
- • Islam
- • Judaism
- • Hinduism
- • Buddhism
- • Confucianism
- • Religion in the United States
- • Trends in Religious Affiliation
- • Religion and Politics
- • “Civil Religion” in the United States
- • Religion, Gender, Sexuality, and Race
- • Religion and Globalization
- • What’s Next? Religion and Society
- • What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree? Community Resource and Service Skills
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 14: The State, War, and Terror
- • Who Chooses an American President?
- • The Modern State
- • The Welfare State
- • Political Rights and Civil Liberties
- • Theories of State Power
- • The Functionalist Perspective and Pluralist Theory
- • The Conflict Perspective and Class Dominance Theory
- • Power and Authority
- • Traditional Authority
- • Rational-Legal Authority
- • Charismatic Authority
- • Forms of Governance in the Modern World
- • Authoritarianism
- • Totalitarianism
- • Democracy
- • The U.S. Political System
- • Electoral Politics and the Two-Party System
- • Voter Activism and Apathy in U.S. Politics
- • Power and Politics
- • Social Movements, Citizens, and Politics
Chapter 15: Work, Consumption, and the Economy
Chapter 16: Health and Medicine
Chapter 17: Population, Urbanization, and the Environment
Chapter 18: Social Movements and Social Change