TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beamish,Rob
TI  - The Promise of Sociology: Classical Approaches to Contemporary Society, Second Edition
SN  - 9781442634077
AV  - HM586.B436 2016 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Sociology-Philosophy-Textbooks
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One Why Think Sociologically? -- Chapter 1 Visions and Profiles of Students Today -- Chapter 2 Generation Z and the Promise of Sociology -- Chapter 3 The Light of Reason: Higher Education's Challenges -- Part Two The Classical Tradition -- Chapter 4 Marx and the Dialectic of Dynamic, Unstable Social Formations -- Chapter 5 Marx, the Communist Manifesto, and Modernity -- Chapter 6 From Descartes to Durkheim:  Toward a Science of Society -- Chapter 7 Durkheim and the Systematic Study of Social Facts -- Chapter 8 Weber and the Interpretive Understanding of Social Action -- Chapter 9 The Spirit of Capitalism, Modernity, and the Postmodern World -- Part Three Sociology and Contemporary  Popular Culture -- Chapter 10 Culture and Critique -- Chapter 11 The Dialectics of Popular Culture -- Chapter 12 Rock 'n' Roll as Complex Culture -- Chapter 13 The Promise of Sociology -- Glossary of Key Terms  and Names -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Unlike most introductory texts that take a topical approach to studying sociology, this smart, challenging, and accessibly written text looks at the core principles of the discipline, making links to a contemporary context
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