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Author
Publisher
Digireads
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Émile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. "The Division of Labor in Society", published in 1893, was his first major contribution to the field and arguably one his most important. In this work Durkheim discusses the construction of social order in modern societies, which...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species
If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists have done little to explain this: for years, they have held that our biology puts a hard upper...
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights; the effects of globalization; the role of institutions; and the rise of urban living in modern society.
Author
Publisher
Sage/Pine Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This textbook integrates a case study approach into an introduction that helps students understand how they can address social problems in their communities by applying basic theories and concepts. It presents case studies intended to draw students into the discussion of the specific social problem addressed in each chapter. This work includes a set of definitions and statistical portraits of problems ranging from social and economic inequality to...
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"El libro de la sociología es una recopilación brillante y clara de las teorías de los sociólogos más importantes de la actualidad como Bauman, Haberman, Sennet, Sassen, Wallerstein, Bordieu... que explica con un lenguaje claro apoyado por gráficos e ilustraciones teorías tales como la modernidad líquida, glocalización, sistema-mundo, la sociedad red o macdonalización con las que los especialistas nos ayudan a comprender nuestra sociedad."--Amazon.es....
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