Synopses & Reviews
Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Society: The Basics is designed to help students view their everyday lives through a sociological lens. With a strong theoretical framework and a global perspective, Society offers students an accessible and relevant introduction to sociology. In Society: The Basics, Eleventh Edition, John J. Macionis shares his enthusiasm and teaching experience with a clear and engaging approach. For instructors who want to create an integrated multimedia experience in-and-out of the classrrom, MySocLab can be packaged with the text for no additional cost. With a new emphasis on active learning with MySocLab activities integrated in each chapter, the new Eleventh Edition now features opportunities to put sociology in action with Social Explorer (census data) activities, video exercises and MySocLibrary primary source readings.
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Overall
"The overall design of the textbook is great - and very easy for the student to follow. "
Kimberly Bottema
Metropolitan State College of Denver
"Because I teach online, the prenhall website comes in handy due to the extensiveness of the instructor resources."
Kimberly Bottema
Metropolitan State College of Denver
"It's a great book!!"
Kathleen Holmes
Darton College
"The major strengths of "Society the Basics" include: (1) the fact that it well written and aimed at the indended audience, that is, students taking a sociology course for the first time; (2) the depth of coverage of essential principles, concepts, methodological and theoretical orientations; and (3) the book is well-illustrated."
Francis Adeola
University of New Orleans
"This text has a level of writing that allows a majority of students to be able to read and understand the concepts. "
Jody Nedley-Newcomb
Southwestern Community College
"This text uses current events to provide examples or expansion of the concepts."
Jody Nedley-Newcomb
Southwestern Community College
"The Making the Grade at the end of each chapter is listed with page numbers so students can easily find the information is a strength."
Jody Nedley-Newcomb
Southwestern Community College
"The 3 main strengths are its readability, quality and timiliness of information, and organization."
Lee Reineck
Stautzenberger College
"Good relationship between theory & practice (everyday life)."
Karla McLucas
Bennett College for Women
Online Support
"Because I teach online, the website comes in handy due to the extensiveness of the instructor resources."
Kimberly Bottema
Metropolitan State College of Denver
"One of the strengths of the book is the e-text version and MySocLab."
Kathleen Holmes
Darton College
"One of the main strenghs of the text is the option to use MySocLab activities offered in the text."
Heather Rimes
Florida Southern College
Making the Grade
"I love Making the Grade. The summary helps students understand how everything fits together."
Jane Elmore
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life box
Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life boxes allow for great discussion and seeing how sociology and its' perspective can be employed in our daily lives.
Tim Sexton
Chippewa Valley Technical College
Seeing Ourselves boxes
Seeing Ourselves boxes with national and global maps really brings home the fact that our lives our greatly influenced by the society in which we are born into.
Tim Sexton
Chippewa Valley Technical College
Applying Theory boxes
The Applying Theory boxes are of great assistance.
Tim Sexton
Chippewa Valley Technical College
Thank you to the following reviewers:
Kimberly Bottema | Metropolitan State College of Denver |
Kathleen Holmes | Darton College |
Jane Elmore | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
Mark Sherry | The University of Toledo |
Heather Rimes | Florida Southern College |
Francis Adeola | University of New Orleans |
Jody Nedley- Newcomb | Southwestern Community College |
Michael Abel | Brigham Young University-Idaho |
Lee Reineck | Stautzenberger College |
Karla McLucas | Bennett College for Women |
Rosalind Fisher | University of West Florida |
Emily Carroll | Arkansas State University- Jonesboro |
Tim Sexton | Chippewa Valley Technical College |
Scott Potter | Main Technical College |
Thank you to the following reviewers for reviewing MySocLab for Macionis Society The Basics 11/e:
Lindsey Peterson | Ohio State University |
Anne Borden | Morehouse College |
Walter Calgaro | Prairie State College |
Connie Veldink | Everett Community College |
Diane Levy | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
Kathleen Holmes | Darton College |
Karen Harrington | North Central University |
Roger Cunningham | Eastern Ilinois University |
Tammie Foltz | Des Moines Area Community College |
Suzanne Sutphin | University of South Carolina |
Jennifer Graves (formerly Fackler) | Houston Community College |
Marina Cunin | Community College of Denver |
Brenda Campbell | Troy University |
Ron Carter | Northeast Community College |
Sarah Draper | Rend Lake College |
Patricia Gibbs Stayte | Foothill College |
George Wilson | University of Miami |
Daniel Phillips | Lindsey Wilson College |
Kevin Dunagan | Triton College |
Rebecca Riehm | Jefferson Community College |
Wendy Moore | Texas A&M University |
Amy Holzgang | Cerritos College |
Robin Crawford | Kennesaw State University |
Yvonne Vissing | salem state college |
Sonali Jain | Duke University |
Janel Rabinowitz | Valencia College |
Claudette Jackson | McLennan Community College |
Scott Magnuson-Martinson | Normandale Community College |
Lloyd Klein | York College, CUNY |
Zachary Miner | SUNY Oswego |
Rita Sakitt | Suffolk County Community College |
Irena Stepainkova | University of South Carolina - Columbia |
Lesley Reid | Georgia State University |
Lynn Ritchey | University of Cincinnati - Raymond Walters College |
Robert Freymeyer | Presbyterian College |
Stephanie Wensil-Purvis | Rowan-Cabarrus Community College |
Bridget Costello | Kings College |
Kim Mac Innis | Bridgewater State University |
Maureen Sperrazza | Naugatuck Valley Community College |
Helen Marie Miamidian | Temple University |
Mike Klemp-North | North Central Technical College |
Michael Barton | University at Albany |
Yih-Jin Young | Nassau Community College |
Muhammed Asadi | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
Amanda Miller | University of Central Oklahoma |
Carolyn Liebler | University of Minnesota |
Lori Anderson | Tarleton State University |
Kim Winford | Blinn College |
Erica Hunter | University at Albany |
Virginia Rutter | Framingham State University |
Tiffany Parsons | University of West Georgia |
Bernard Fitzpatrick | Western Connecticut State University |
Ethel Nicdao | University of the Pacific |
Deidre Tyler | Salt Lake Community College |
Jeanne Humble | Bluegrass Community & Technical College |
Susan Claxton | Georgia Highlands College |
Carla Pfeffer | Purdue University North Central |
Mary Ellen Batiuk | Wilmington College |
Daniel Farr | Randolph College |
Aurea Osgood | Winona State University |
Mikaila Arthur | Rhode Island College |
Anne Marenco | College of the Canyons |
William Seaton | The College of New Jersey |
Ingrid Castro | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts |
Laurence Segall | Southern Connecticut State University |
Carlos Zeisel | North Shore Community College |
Meryl Damasiewicz | Community College of Baltimore County |
Otis Grant | Indiana University South Bend |
Synopsis
Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
Society: The Basics is designed to help students view their everyday lives through a sociological lens. With a strong theoretical framework and a global perspective, Society offers students an accessible and relevant introduction to sociology.
In Society: The Basics, Eleventh Edition, John J. Macionis shares his enthusiasm and teaching experience with a clear and engaging approach.
This is just the standalone book.
Synopsis
This package contains the following components:
-0205003788: Society: The Basics
-0205010083: Study Guide for Sociology: The Basics
About the Author
John J. Macionis was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
John Macionis' publications are wide-ranging, focusing on community life in the United States, interpersonal intimacy in families, effective teaching, humor, new information technology, and the importance of global education.
In addition, John Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis have edited the best-selling anthology Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology. Macionis and Vincent Parrillo have written the leading urban studies text, Cities and Urban Life (Pearson). Macionis’ most recent textbook is Social Problems (Pearson).
John Macionis is Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he has taught for almost thirty years. During that time, he has chaired the Sociology Department, directed the college’s multidisciplinary program in humane studies, presided over the campus senate and the college’s faculty, and taught sociology to thousands of students.
In 2002, the American Sociological Association presented Macionis with the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching, citing his innovative use of global material as well as the introduction of new teaching technology in his textbooks.
Professor Macionis has been active in academic programs in other countries, having traveled to some fifty nations. He writes, “I am an ambitious traveler, eager to learn and, through the texts, to share much of what I discover with students, many of whom know little about the rest of the world. For me, traveling and writing are all dimensions of teaching. First, and foremost, I am a teacher–a passion for teaching animates everything I do.”
At Kenyon, Macionis teaches a number of courses, but his favorite class is Introduction to Sociology, which he offers every semester. He enjoys extensive contact with students and invites everyone enrolled in each of his classes to enjoy a home-cooked meal.
The Macionis family–John, Amy, and children McLean and Whitney–live on a farm in rural Ohio. In his free time, Macionis enjoys tennis, swimming, hiking, and playing oldies rock-and-roll (he recently released his first CD). Macionis is as an environmental activist in the Lake George region of New York’s Adirondack Mountains, working with a number of organizations, including the Lake George Land Conservancy, where he serves as president of the board of trustees.
Table of Contents
IN THIS SECTION:
1. BRIEF
2. COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
Chapter 2: Culture
Chapter 3: Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age
Chapter 4: Social Interaction in Everyday Life
Chapter 5: Groups and Organizations
Chapter 6: Sexuality and Society
Chapter 7: Deviance
Chapter 8: Social Stratification
Chapter 9: Global Stratification
Chapter 10: Gender Stratification
Chapter 11: Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 12: Economics and Politics
Chapter 13: Family and Religion
Chapter 14: Education, Health, and Medicine
Chapter 15: Population, Urbanization, and Environment
Chapter 16: Social Change: Modern and Postmodern Societies
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
The Sociological Perspective
Seeing the General in the Particular
Seeing the Strange in the Familiar
Seeing Society in Our Everyday Lives
Seeing Sociologically: Marginality and Crisis
The Importance of a Global Perspective
Applying the Sociological Perspective
Sociology and Public Policy
Sociology and Personal Growth
Careers: The "Sociology Advantage"
The Origins of Sociology
Social Change and Sociology
Science and Sociology
Sociological Theory
Seeing Sociology in the News "In Poor Economy, Laid-off Workers Flocking to Community Colleges"
The Structural-Functional Approach
The Social-Conflict Approach
Feminism and the Gender-Conflict Approach
The Race-Conflict Approach
The Symbolic-Interaction Approach
Three Ways to Do Sociology
Positivist Sociology
Interpretive Sociology
Critical Sociology
Research Orientations and Theory
Gender and Research
Research Ethics
Research Methods
Testing a Hypothesis: The Experiment
Asking Questions: Survey Research
In the Field: Participant Observation
Using Available Data: Existing Sources
Putting It All Together: Ten Steps in Sociological Research
Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
Making the Grade
Visual Summary
Chapter 2: Culture
What Is Culture?
Culture and Human Intelligence
How Many Cultures?
The Elements of Culture
Symbols
Language
Values and Beliefs
Norms
Ideal and Real Culture
Technology and Culture
Hunting and Gathering
Horticulture and Pastoralism
Agriculture
Industry
Postindustrial Information Technology
Cultural Diversity
High Culture and Popular Culture
Subculture
Multiculturalism
Counterculture
Cultural Change
Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
Seeing Sociology in the News "US Troops Train for Both Combat and Conversation"
A Global Culture?
Theoretical Analysis of Culture
The Functions of Culture: Structural-Functional Analysis
Inequality and Culture: Social-Conflict Analysis
Evolution and Culture: Sociobiology
Culture and Human Freedom
Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
Making the Grade
Visual Summary
Chapter 3: Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age
Social Experience: The Key to Our Humanity
Human Development: Nature and Nurture
Social Isolation
Understanding Socialization
Sigmund Freuds's Elements of Personality
Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Carol Gilligan's Theory of Gender and Moral Development
George Herbert Mead's Theory of the Social Self
Erik H. Erikson's Eight Stages of Development
Agents of Socialization
The Family
The School
The Peer Group
The Mass Media
Seeing Sociology in the News "The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their Twenties"
Socialization and the Life Course
Childhood
Adolescence
Adulthood
Old Age
Death and Dying
The Life Course: Patterns and Variations
Resocialization: Total Institutions
Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
Making the Grade
Visual Summary
Chapter 4: Social Interaction in Everyday Life
Social Structure: A Guide to Everyday Living
Status
Ascribed and Achieved Status
Master Status
Role
Role Conflict and Role Strain
Role Exit
The Social Construction of Reality
Seeing Sociology in the News "For Teenagers, Hello Means 'How about a Hug?'"
"Street Smarts"
The Thomas Theorem
Ethnomethodology
Reality Building: Class and Culture
Dramaturgical Analysis: The "Presentation of Self"
Performances
Nonverbal Communication
Gender Performances
Idealization
Embarrassment and Tact
Interaction in Everyday Life: Three Applications
Emotions: The Social Construction of Feeling