Soc 1st edition by Robert Brym, John Lie ISBN 0176699996 9780176699994

Soc 1st edition by Robert Brym, John Lie ISBN 0176699996 9780176699994

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ISBN 10: 0176699996
ISBN 13:  9780176699994
Author: Robert Brym, John Lie 

"SOC" is an introductory textbook that offers a comprehensive overview of sociology. It introduces students to the fundamental concepts, theories, and methods used in sociological analysis. The book covers a wide range of topics including socialization, culture, social institutions, inequality, and social change, making it ideal for students beginning their study of sociology. The authors, Brym and Lie, use clear and accessible language while drawing on both classical and contemporary sociological theories. The text is designed to engage students through real-world examples, case studies, and discussion questions.

Soc+ 1st Table of contents:

1 Introducing Sociology

Introduction

My Road to Sociology

A Change of Mind

The Sociological Imagination

Social Structures

Origins of the Sociological Imagination

Founders

Émile Durkheim and Functionalism

Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton

Karl Marx and Conflict Theory

Max Weber

The Cultural Turn and Poststructuralism: Gramsci and Foucault

George Herbert Mead and Symbolic Interactionism

Harriet Martineau and Feminist Theory

Modern Feminism

Conducting Research

The Research Cycle

Ethics in Sociological Research

The Main Sociological Research Methods

Experiments

Surveys

Field Research

Analysis of Existing Documents and Official Statistics

Challenges Facing Us Today

More Opportunity?

More Freedom?

Where Do You Fit In?

2 Culture

Culture as Problem Solving

The Origins and Components of Culture

Abstraction: Creating Symbols

Cooperation: Creating Norms and Values

Production: Creating Material Culture

Culture and Social Class

Language and the Sapir–Whorf Thesis

Culture as Freedom and Constraint

A Functionalist Analysis of Culture: Culture and Ethnocentrism

Culture as Freedom

Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Production

Cultural Diversification

Multiculturalism

A Conflict Analysis of Culture: The Rights Revolution

From Diversity to Globalization

Postmodernism

Is Canada the First Postmodern Country?

Culture as Constraint

Rationalization

Consumerism

From Counterculture to Subculture

3 Socialization

Social Isolation and Socialization

The Crystallization of Self-Identity

The Symbolic-Interactionist Foundations of Childhood Socialization

Sigmund Freud

Charles Horton Cooley

George Herbert Mead

Gender Differences

Civilization Differences

Function, Conflict, Symbolic Interaction, and Gender: How Agents of Socialization Work

Family Functions

Schools: Functions and Conflicts

Symbolic Interactionism and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Peer Groups

The Mass Media

The Mass Media and the Feminist Approach to Socialization

Resocialization and Total Institutions

Socialization across the Life Course

Adult Socialization and the Flexible Self

Self-Identity and the Internet

Dilemmas of Childhood and Adolescent Socialization

The Emergence of Childhood and Adolescence

Problems of Childhood and Adolescent Socialization Today

Declining Adult Supervision and Guidance

Increasing Media and Peer Group Influence

Declining Extracurricular Activities and Increasing Adult Responsibilities

“The Vanishing Adolescent”

4 From Social Interaction to Social Organizations

Feminist Theory and Social Interaction

Social Structure and Emotions

Emotional Labour

Conflict Theories of Social Interaction

Competing for Attention

Interaction as Competition and Exchange

Symbolic Interaction Theory and Social Interaction

Goffman’s Dramaturgical Analysis

Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

Networks, Groups, and Organizations

The Holocaust

How Social Groups Shape Our Actions

Social Networks

The Value of Network Analysis

Groups

Group Conformity

Primary and Secondary Groups

Bureaucracy

Organizational Constraints and Freedom

5 Deviance and Crime

The Social Definition of Deviance and Crime

The Difference between Deviance and Crime

Sanctions

Measuring Crime

Criminal Profiles

Explaining Deviance and Crime

Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Deviance and Crime

Functionalist Explanations

Conflict Theories

Feminist Contributions

Punishment

The Medicalization of Deviance

The Prison

Moral Panic

Other Forms of Punishment: Two Extremes

Alternative Strategies

6 Social Stratification: Canadian and Global Perspectives

Social Stratification: Shipwrecks and Inequality

Patterns of Social Inequality

Wealth

Income

Explanations of Income Inequality

Poverty

Is Stratification Inevitable? Three Theories

Marx’s Conflict Theory

The Functionalist Theory of Davis and Moore

Weber’s Compromise

Social Mobility

Politics and the Perception of Class Inequality

Global Inequality

Levels and Trends in Global Inequality

Modernization Theory: A Functionalist Approach

Dependency Theory: A Conflict Approach

Core, Periphery, and Semiperiphery

7 Race and Ethnicity

Defining Race and Intelligence

What Is Race?

Ethnicity, Culture, and Social Structure

Resources and Opportunities

Symbolic Interactionism, Race, and Ethnic Relations

Labels and Identity

Choice Versus Imposition

Conflict Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations

Colonialism and Internal Colonialism

Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples

The Québécois

Black Canadians

Split Labour Markets and Asian Canadians

Some Advantages of Ethnicity

The Future of Race and Ethnicity in Canada

8 Sexualities and Genders

Sex, Intersex, Gender, Transgender

Sex and Intersex

Gender and Transgender

The Social Learning of Gender

Gender Theories

Essentialism

Functionalism and Essentialism

A Critique of Essentialism from the Conflict and Feminist Perspectives

Social Constructionism and Symbolic Interactionism

Gender Socialization

The Mass Media and Body Image

Male–Female Interaction

Homosexuality

Sexual Orientation and Queer Theory

Homosexuality

Gender Inequality

The Earnings Gap

Male Aggression against Women

Sexual Assault

Sexual Harassment

Gender Risk across 137 Countries

Toward 2089

Child Care

Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value

The Women’s Movement

9 Families

Introduction

Is “The Family” in Decline?

Functionalism and the Nuclear Ideal

Functional Theory

Functions of the Nuclear Family

The Canadian Middle-Class Family in the 1950s

Power and Families

Love and Mate Selection

Marital Satisfaction

Divorce

Reproductive Choice

Housework and Child Care

Spousal Violence

Family Diversity

Heterosexual Cohabitation

Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions

Lone-Parent Families

Zero-Child Families

Family Policy

10 Religion and Education

Religion

Classical Approaches in the Sociology of Religion

Durkheim’s Functionalist Theory

Religion, Feminist Theory, and Conflict Theory

Weber and the Problem of Social Change: A Symbolic Interactionist Interpretation

The Rise, Decline, and Partial Revival of Religion

Secularization

Religious Revival and Religious Fundamentalism

The Social and Political Context of Muslim Fundamentalism

The Revised Secularization Thesis

The Market Model

Religion in Canada

Church, Sect, and Cult

Religiosity

The Future of Religion

Education

Macrosociological Processes

The Functions of Education

The Effect of Economic Inequality from the Conflict Perspective

Functionalist versus Conflict Theories of the Community College

Gender and Education: The Feminist Contribution

Microsociological Processes

The Stereotype Threat: A Symbolic Interactionist View

Canadian Education in an International Perspective

11 Health and Medicine

The Black Death

Health and Inequality

Defining and Measuring Health

The Social Causes of Illness and Death

Class Inequalities and Health Care

Racial Inequalities in Health Care

Comparative Health Care from a Conflict Perspective

The Professionalization of Medicine

The Social Limits of Modern Medicine

Challenges to Traditional Medical Science

12 The Mass Media

The Significance of the Mass Media

Illusion Becomes Reality

What Are the Mass Media?

The Rise of the Mass Media

Causes of Media Growth

Theories of Media Effects

Functionalism

Conflict Theory

Interpretive Approaches

Feminist Approaches

Centralized Control and Resistance on the Internet

Access

Content

Media Convergence

The Rise of Social Media

13 Technology, the Environment, and Social Movements

Technology: Saviour or Frankenstein?

Technology and People Make History

How High Tech Became Big Tech

Global Warming

The Social Construction of Environmental Problems

The Social Distribution of Risk

What Is to Be Done?

The Market and High-Tech Solutions

The Cooperative Alternative

Social Movements

Breakdown Theory: A Functionalist Account

Solidarity Theory: A Conflict Approach

Framing Theory: The Contribution of Symbolic Interactionism

New Social Movements

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