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Informationen zum Autor By Charles Lemert Klappentext Social Things introduces the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition celebrates the book's fifteenth anniversary with important updates, an entirely new chapter that addresses the environmental challenges in our global world, and many additions that bring the history of sociology up to date. Zusammenfassung Social Things introduces the sociological imagination through lively! memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition celebrates the book's fifteenth anniversary with important updates! an entirely new chapter that addresses the environmental challenges in our global world and many additions that bring the history of sociology up-to-date. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Fifth EditionIntroductionThe Sociological LifeChapter 1: Imagining Social Things, CompetentlyChapter 2: Personal Courage and Practical SociologiesChapter 3: Practicing the Discipline of Social ThingsSociologyChapter 4: Sociology and Lost Worlds of A New World Order: 1848 - 1920Chapter 5: Sociology Becomes a Science of Structures: 1920 - 1960Chapter 6: Sociology Reaches Out Into the World: 1968 - 2000sSocial ThingsChapter 7: The Mysterious Power of Social StructuresChapter 8: The Lively Subjects of Dead StructuresChapter 9: Well-Measured Lives in a World of DifferencesGlobal ThingsChapter 10: Global MethodsChapter 11: Global Things on a Fragile PlanetChapter 12: Living against the ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndexAbout the Author
