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Readings for Sociology provides students with engaging selections that reveal the complexities of our social world and offer insights into sociological analysis. Readings for Sociology includes selections from popular and academic journals as well as lively book excerpts. All of the selections help students reach a new level of sociological understanding. While Readings for Sociology is comprehensive in its scope, offering a wide range of selections on the standard topics in the introductory course, its emphasis is particularly on social inequality and race, class, and gender.
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Calling the core of sociological understanding, "the study of the social structure that is most forcefully expressed in the hierarchical structuring of social relations: class, race, and gender," Massey (U. of Wyoming) presents 49 readings that explore current realities of social structure. The emphasis is more on engaging students than presenting scholarly work, thus while the work does contain some of the classic writings of figures such as Marx, Durkheim, and others, it also includes such material as an excerpt from Barbara Ehrenreich's best selling book Nickel and Dimed Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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