Imagining Society, Second Edition is an introductory text that presents sociology as a distinctly human enterprise. In every chapter, as they are learning the discipline’s foundational concepts, readers are led on a journey, across time and space, to encounter some of sociology’s key ‘makers’—the creative individuals whose representations of the social world enable us to make sense of it and change it for the better. At each stop they will be immersed in the actions, ideas, and original thoughts of these diverse and seminal thinkers, whose empirical methods and theoretical insights have inspired other sociologists and form the building blocks of the discipline.
Exercises in the text create opportunities for students to activate their own imaginations and to also see familiar contemporary culture and society—TV shows, popular music, advertising, organizations, thought-leaders and authority figures, fads and movements, etc.—through fresh eyes.
Tabla de materias
Part I: Understanding Society
Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination
Chapter 2: Socialization and Social Interaction
Chapter 3: Deviance, Law, and Crime
Part II: Social Inequality
Chapter 4: Social Stratification and Social Class
Chapter 5: Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 6: Gender at the Intersections
Part III: The Role of Institutions
Chapter 7: Language, Media, and Culture
Chapter 8: The Family and Intimate Relationships
Chapter 9: Education
Chapter 10: Work and Rationalization
Chapter 11: Health
Chapter 12: Globalization and Global Inequality
Part IV: Social Change
Chapter 13: Change Through Policy and the Law
Chapter 14: Social Movements
Appendix 1: Readings in Imagining Society
Appendix 2: Methods in Imagining Society
Glossary
References
Index
Sobre el autor
Catherine Corrigall-Brown is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her research focuses on social movements and protest, particularly examining what keeps individuals involved in activism over time, framing, and identity. She is the author of 4 books, including her first book Patterns of Protest, published with Stanford University Press. She has also published more than 42 articles, book chapters, and review essays. These works have appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Mobilization, the American Behavioral Scientist, the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Social Movement Studies and the Canadian Review of Sociology. This research was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (US) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada). She has served as the Chair of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict section of the American Sociological Association and on the council of the Collective Action and Social Movement Section of the American Sociological Association. She is currently a deputy editor of Mobilization, the premiere social movements journal, and on the editorial board of Sociological Compass. She was awarded the Killam Faculty Teaching Prize in 2017 and received the Early Investigator Award for best early career scholar from the Canadian Sociological Association in 2013.
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