Making Sense of Social Theory : A Practical Introduction

Powers, Charles H.

ISBN 10: 0742530477 / ISBN 13: 9780742530478

Edité par Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2004

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Titre : Making Sense of Social Theory : A Practical ...

Éditeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Date d'édition : 2004

Reliure : Couverture souple

Etat : Good

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Synopsis :

This compact introductory text offers a coherent overview of sociological theory. Explaining sociology's seminal discoveries with an elegant simplicity that not only makes them easily understood, Charles H. Powers also conveys sociology's intellectual coherence as a discipline. He introduces sociology's most revealing insights in a way that makes it abundantly clear that sociology has real value as an explanatory science. This book takes sociology's most difficult and arcane subject matter and makes it understandable, utilitarian, and interesting. Students will become genuinely engaged with sociological theory as they find it arms them with meaningful insights that can be used in daily life.

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Making Sense of Social Theory is unusual in treating sociology as a real science with a body of understandable, robust, and powerful theoretical insights. These theoretical insights are formalized in twelve simple axioms and twenty-three more detailed principles readers can use to predict (1) differences among people in how they think, feel, and respond, (b) changes in the structure, culture, and effectiveness of organizations, and (c) trends in societal values, conflict, and priorities.