The Power of Sociology

Höfundur: Gudmundur Oddsson (Útgáfa: 1)
The Power of Sociology

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Kynntu þér heim félagsfræðinnar í gegnum einkenni sem finnst í öllum samfélögum: vald. The Power of Sociology: Grasping Our Unequal World kynnir nemendum félagsfræði út frá helsta viðfangsefni greinarinnar, orsökum og afleiðingum félagslegs ójafnaðar og þar með valdi. Vald er meginskipulagsafl samfélagsins, snertir hvern einasta lesanda og er grundvallaratriði í öllum helstu undirgreinum félagsfræðinnar.

Höfundarnir Guðmundur Oddsson, Jenny M. Stuber og James Michael Thomas flétta umfjöllun um vald í gegnum alla bókina og helga hugtakinu heilan kafla. Til að draga fram samfélagsleg áhrif örrar hnattvæðingar og vaxandi ójafnaðar á heimsvísu tekur bókin þvermenningarlega og samanburðarnálgun og lyftir fram röddum úr félagsfræðisamfélaginu víða um heim sem sjaldan heyrast.

Þessi nálgun skorar á nemendur að líta á sig sem heimsborgara sem geta gert nærsamfélag sitt og heiminn betri.

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Útgefandi
SAGE Publications, Inc. (US)
ISBN
9781071954775
Print ISBN
9781071954737
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Gudmundur Oddsson
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-12-10
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
10
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter VM Vantage Module: Information Literacy, Academic Integrity, and Responsible AI Use: Essential Skills for Learning
  • Information Literacy and Critical Thinking
  • Transparency and Verification
  • Misinformation, Hallucination, and Disinformation
  • Misinformation
  • Hallucination
  • Disinformation
  • Steps to Evaluate Sources and Information
  • SIFT: Stop
  • SIFT: Investigate the Source
  • SIFT: Find Better Coverage
  • SIFT: Trace Claims, Quotes, and Media to Their Original Context
  • SIFT Summary
  • Key Takeaways: Why Evaluating Information Matters
  • Exercising Academic Integrity and Intellectual Honesty
  • Integrity in Practice
  • Academic Integrity
  • Integrity in the Workplace
  • Responsible Collaboration
  • How to Paraphrase and Cite Sources
  • Paraphrasing
  • Citing
  • Cheating
  • Consequences of Cheating
  • Key Takeaways: Why Academic Integrity Matters
  • Understanding AI: Types, Capabilities, and Limitations
  • How AI Works
  • Types of AI
  • What AI Can Do Well
  • AI in College
  • AI in the Workplace
  • Where AI Falls Short
  • AI (In)accuracy and Biases
  • AI Overreliance
  • AI Tensions
  • Key Takeaways: Why Understanding AI Matters
  • Using AI Responsibly
  • How to Build Good AI Habits
  • Use AI as a Helper—Not a Thinker
  • Think Critically About AI Data
  • How to Prompt AI Effectively
  • Prompting Approaches
  • Prompting Framework
  • Prompting Process
  • Revising Outputs
  • How to Put AI Guidelines Into Practice
  • Purpose
  • Transparency
  • Accuracy
  • Ethics and Policy
  • Key Takeaways: Why Responsible AI Use Matters
  • Chapter Summary
  • Closing Reflection
  • Glossary
  • Review Questions
  • Think Critically
  • Put the Chapter to Work
  • Case Study: Fact or Fiction? When AI Gets It Wrong
  • Disclosure Statement
  • Endnotes
  • Chapter 1 Grasping Sociology
  • Setting the Stage
  • The Sociological Eye, Social Structure, Social Position, and Social Inequality
  • Sociology and Society
  • Making It Pop: Belonging and Individuality
  • Sociology and Common Sense
  • You and the Sociological Imagination
  • The Sociological Imagination
  • Movers and Shakers: Forerunners of Sociology
  • The Founding and Founders of Sociology
  • Ibn Khaldun
  • Auguste Comte
  • Harriet Martineau
  • Émile Durkheim
  • Karl Marx
  • Max Weber
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Sociology and Inequality
  • Inequality and Power
  • Food for Thought: Sociology Makes the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange
  • Levels of Analysis
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • Culture Crossing
  • Why a Sociology Major?
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 1: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 2 Theory and Methods
  • Setting the Stage
  • The Social Contexts of Sociology
  • Sociological Theory and the Scientific Method
  • Sociological Theory
  • The Science of Sociology
  • Movers and Shakers: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Development of American Sociology
  • Common Methods for Gathering Evidence
  • Food for Thought: Chewing Over People’s Food Preferences
  • The Relationship Between Theory and Method
  • Making It Pop: “Can I Hold a Twenty?” as Culturally Specific Knowledge
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 2: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 3 Culture
  • Setting the Stage
  • What Is Culture and How Do We Study It?
  • Cultural Transmission
  • Material vs. Nonmaterial Culture
  • Case Study: Clifford Geertz’s “Deep Play”
  • Dominant Culture and Subcultural Varieties
  • Culture and Inequality
  • Hegemony and the Culture of Poverty Thesis
  • Cultural Capital and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities
  • Movers and Shakers: Ai Weiwei
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • Making It Pop: The 1980s and 1990s
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 3: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 4 Structure, Agency, and Interaction
  • Setting the Stage
  • Structure
  • Agency
  • Interaction
  • Group Dynamics
  • Development of the Self
  • Structure and Inequality
  • Making It Pop: Born a Crime
  • Microsociology
  • Movers and Shakers: Wilma Mankiller
  • Macrosociology
  • Food for Thought: Thanksgiving
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 4: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 5 Power
  • Setting the Stage
  • The First Dimension of Power
  • The Second Dimension of Power
  • The Third Dimension of Power
  • Movers and Shakers: Empowering Girls and Women Through Education
  • Power and Inequality
  • Making It Pop: Big Brother Is Watching
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • Food for Thought: Bread and Circuses
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 5: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 6 Civic Engagement and Social Change
  • Setting the Stage
  • Sociology and the Study of Social Movements
  • Deprivation Theory
  • Resource Mobilization Theory
  • Political Process Theory
  • Contentious Politics
  • Making It Pop: The Zapatistas
  • Social Change and Inequality
  • Marxism and Social Movements
  • Feminism and Social Movements
  • #BlackLivesMatter and New Social Movements in the 21st Century
  • Movers and Shakers: Fred Hampton
  • Microsociology
  • Food for Thought: Georgia Gilmore
  • Macrosociology
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 6: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 7 Globalization
  • Setting the Stage
  • Globalization
  • Economic Globalization
  • Political Globalization
  • Cultural Globalization
  • Food for Thought: McDonaldization
  • Glocalization
  • Ecological Globalization
  • Globalization and Inequality
  • Movers and Shakers: Mahatma Gandhi
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • Making It Pop: K-Pop
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 7: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 8 Deviance, Crime, and Social Control
  • Setting the Stage
  • Deviance
  • Making It Pop: The Butter Battle Book
  • Crime
  • Social Control
  • Criminal (in)justice and Inequality
  • Movers and Shakers: #Women2Drive
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • Food for Thought: Whales
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 8: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 9 Social Class and Stratification
  • Setting the Stage
  • The Historical Context
  • Ancient Societies, Feudalism, and Capitalism
  • Slavery
  • Feudalism
  • Caste System
  • Estate System
  • Capitalism
  • Explaining Inequality
  • Movers and Shakers: International Workers’ Day
  • Class Inequality
  • Marx: Classes as Social and Political Actors
  • Making It Pop: Exploitation and Class Consciousness in A Bug’s Life
  • Weber: Classes as Structured Social and Economic Inequality
  • Bourdieu: Classes and Culture
  • Food for Thought: You Are What You Eat
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 9: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 10 Race and Ethnicity
  • Setting the Stage
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
  • Colonial Virginia and the Origins of American Racial Ideology
  • The Circular Logic of Racial Ideology
  • Case Study: Are Asians Naturally More Intelligent?
  • Chattel Slavery and the Making of American Inequality
  • Housing, Home Ownership, and Racial Inequality
  • Movers and Shakers: Harry Edwards
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • The Racial Wealth Gap
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 10: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 11 Immigration
  • Setting the Stage
  • Immigration and Migration
  • The Historical Context
  • Constructing Citizenship, Making Race (1790–1952)
  • The Bracero Program and Operation Wetback (1942–1964)
  • Immigration in the United States post–1965
  • A Note on the Undocumented
  • Movers and Shakers: The “Dreamers”
  • Immigration and Inequality
  • Making It Pop: The British Invasion
  • Microsociology
  • Navigating the Detention and Deportation Regimes
  • Macrosociology
  • Black Immigration in the United States
  • Food for Thought: Summer Avenue
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 11: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 12 Gender and Sexuality
  • Setting the Stage
  • Sex: Defining Our Terms
  • Gender: Defining Our Terms
  • Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation: Defining Our Terms
  • Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality
  • Movers and Shakers: Inserting Intersectionality Into Feminist Movements
  • Gender Inequalities in Education
  • Gender Inequalities at Work
  • Microsociology
  • Making It Pop: Delighting In and Demonizing Drag
  • Macrosociology
  • Food for Thought: Baking Up a Debate Over Rights
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 12: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 13 The Family and Intimate Relationships
  • Setting the Stage
  • Marriage and Family: Defining Our Terms
  • Families in the Classic Western Tradition
  • Families of the Pre-Industrial Era and Colonial Period
  • Families of the Industrial Era
  • Families of the 20th Century and Beyond
  • Food for Thought: Social Class and the Feeding of Children
  • Inequality in the Family and Other Intimate Relationships
  • The Family Versus Other Close Relationships
  • Gender Inequalities in Family and Intimate Relationships
  • LGBTQIA+ Families
  • Race and Family Life
  • Microsociology
  • Making It Pop: Mate Selection Norms in Popular Media
  • Macrosociology
  • Marriage Rates
  • Fertility Rates
  • Movers and Shakers: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom
  • Divorce Rates
  • Culture Crossing
  • A Cross-National Look at “Out-of-Wedlock Births”
  • A Cross-National Look at Teen Sexuality
  • Fertility Around the World
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 13: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 14 Education
  • Setting the Stage
  • The Historical and Contemporary Context of Education in the United States
  • Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Education
  • The Functionalist Approach to the Study of Education
  • Movers and Shakers: Reclaiming Native American Knowledge
  • The Conflict Approach to the Study of Education
  • Education and Inequality
  • Racial Inequalities in Education: Historical Context
  • Race and Class Disparities in Educational Outcomes
  • Food for Thought: Serving Up Opportunity Through the School Lunch Program
  • Microsociology
  • Making It Pop: High School Peer Dynamics and the Politics of “Fetch”
  • Macrosociology
  • Inequalities Between Schools
  • Inequalities Within Schools
  • Inequalities as a Result of the Academic Calendar
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 14: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 15 Economy
  • Setting the Stage
  • The Agricultural Revolution
  • The First Industrial Revolution
  • The Second Industrial Revolution
  • The Third Industrial Revolution
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution
  • Economic Systems
  • Making It Pop: The Anti-Capitalist Roots of a Capitalist Board Game
  • Economy and Inequality
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • Movers and Shakers: Union Activism
  • Culture Crossing
  • Food for Thought: The Bitter Taste of Chocolate
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 15: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Chapter 16 Health and the Medical System
  • Setting the Stage
  • The History and Evolution of Modern Medicine
  • Medicalization
  • Making It Pop: Dissecting Grey’s Anatomy
  • Inequality in Health and Well-being
  • Key Health Indicators: An Overview
  • Gender
  • Movers and Shakers: Trans Health Activism
  • Social Class and the Social Gradient in Health
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Microsociology
  • Macrosociology
  • Culture Crossing
  • Act Now
  • Chapter Review
  • Chapter 16: Review Questions
  • Key Terms
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index