Second thoughts : sociology challenges conventional wisdom / Janet M. Ruane, Montclair State University, Karen A. Cerulo, Rutgers University.

By:

Ruane, Janet M, 1954- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Cerulo, Karen A [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1506345794
9781506345796

Other title:

2nd thoughts
Sociology challenges conventional wisdom

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Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:

301 23

LOC classification:

HM585 .R867 2020

Contents:

Preface -- Introduction: The Sociological Perspective -- Methods -- Essay 1. Numbers Don't Lie -- Culture -- Essay 2. Winning Is Everything -- Essay 3. Children Are Our Most Precious Commodity -- Social Structure -- Essay 4. Love Knows No Reason -- Essay 5. Stress Is Bad for Your Well-Being -- Essay 6. The "Golden Years" Are Tarnished Years -- Socialization and Identity -- Essay 7. What's in a Name? That Which We Call a Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet -- Essay 8. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep -- Stratification -- Essay 9. The More We Pay, the More It's Worth -- Essay 10. Money Is the Root of All Evil -- Essay 11. You've Come a Long Way, Baby -- Essay 12. America Is the Land of Equal Opportunity -- Deviance, Crime, And Social Control -- Essay 13. Violence Is on the Rise in the United States-No One Is Safe -- Essay 14. There's Nothing We Can Do About the Weather -- Essay 15. There Ought to Be a Law -- Essay 16. Honesty Is the Best Policy -- Social Institutions: Marriage And Family -- Essay 17. The Nuclear Family Is the Backbone of American Society -- Essay 18. Marriage Is a Failing Institution -- Social Institutions: The Economy -- Essay 19. Welfare Is Ruining This Country -- Essay 20. Immigrants Are Ruining This Nation -- Social Institutions: Media And Technology -- Essay 21. Technology Is Taking Over Our Lives -- Social Institutions: Education -- Essay 22. Education Is the Great Equalizer -- Social Institutions: Religion -- Essay 23. We Are One Nation Under God -- Conclusion: Why Does Conventional Wisdom Persist?

Summary: "Is it true that "numbers don't lie?" Is America "the land of equal opportunity?" Is marriage a "dying institution?" Oft-repeated adages like these shape our beliefs about the society we live in. Each essay in Second Thoughts reviews a conventional wisdom familiar to both instructors and students. The authors introduce relevant sociological concepts and theories in order to explain, qualify, and sometimes debunk that conventional wisdom."--Publisher's website.

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Revised edition of the authors' Second thoughts, [2015].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Is it true that "numbers don't lie?" Is America "the land of equal opportunity?" Is marriage a "dying institution?" Oft-repeated adages like these shape our beliefs about the society we live in. Each essay in Second Thoughts reviews a conventional wisdom familiar to both instructors and students. The authors introduce relevant sociological concepts and theories in order to explain, qualify, and sometimes debunk that conventional wisdom."--Publisher's website.

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