The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
This concise text carries the public sociology movement into the introductory sociology classroom. While teaching students to think sociologically and to develop a sociological eye, it also demonstrates how sociology can be used as a tool for improving society. As they explains the discipline′s basic theories and concepts, the authors provide many examples of ‘engaged’ sociologists who are working to solve some of society′s most intractable problems. Through a number of exercises and projects in every chapter, students are encouraged to become engaged in their own communities. The authors put their own commitment to public sociology into action by donating 10% of their royalties to a non-profit organization that works to alleviate social injustice.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface: A Note From the Authors to the Students Reading This Book
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Engaged Sociologist: The Sociological Perspective and the Connections Among Sociology, Democracy, and Civic Engagement
Chapter 2. Founders and Foundations of Sociology: Theory
Chapter 3. How Do We Know What We Think We Know? Sociological Methods
Chapter 4. Creating Civic Engagement Versus Creating Apathy: Culture
Chapter 5. Learning How to Act in Society: Socialization
Chapter 6. Deviant Behavior and Social Movements
Chapter 7. Big Money Doesn’t Always Win: Stratification and Social Class
Chapter 8. What Does a “Typical American” Look Like Today? Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 9. Sex, Gender, and Power
Chapter 10. Social Institutions: Family and Economy
Chapter 11. Social Institutions, Continued: Education, Government, and Religion
Chapter 12. The Engaged Sociologist in Action
Index
About the Authors
Circa l’autore
Shelley K. White, Ph D, MPH, is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Public Health at Worcester State University. She recently taught in the Sociology Department at Simmons College, where she also coordinated the Simmons World Challenge – an interdisciplinary, student-led learning program which creates actionable solutions to global social justice problems. Shelley’s teaching and research focus on health and illness, globalization and development, inequalities, social movements and social justice. She previously worked in HIV/AIDS policy globally and domestically, and serves on the board of directors of Free the Children and Soc Med. She is co-editor of Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Justice (with Kathleen Odell Korgen and Jonathan White), (2nd Edition, Sage 2013) and her recent publications appear in the Journal of Human Rights Practice; Education, Citizenship and Social Justice; Public Health Reports; and Critical Public Health.
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