Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life (Record no. 10397)
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| fixed length control field | 250430042016GB 276 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781138023383 |
| Qualifying information | BC |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Taylor & Francis |
| Terms of availability | GBP 62.99 |
| Form of issue | BB |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | 01 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | JHB |
| Source | thema |
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| Subject category code | JHB |
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| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | SOC026000 |
| Source | bisac |
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| Subject category code | 301 |
| Source | bisac |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Josee Johnston |
| 9 (RLIN) | 609 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 20161222 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 476 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Expansion of summary note | The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator. On the contrary, it is a question of again making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevant to today’s world of undergraduates. This comparatively concise, highly visual, and affordable book offers a refreshingly new way forward to reach students, using one of the most powerful tools in a sociologist’s teaching arsenal—the familiar stuff in students’ everyday lives throughout the world: the jeans they wear to class, the coffee they drink each morning, or the phones their professors tell them to put away during lectures. A focus on consumer culture, seeing the strange in the familiar , is not only interesting for students; it is also (the authors suggest) pedagogically superior to more traditional approaches. By engaging students through their stuff, this book moves beyond teaching about sociology to helping instructors teach the practice of sociological thinking . It moves beyond describing what sociology is , so that students can practice what sociological thinking can do. This pedagogy also posits a relationship between teacher and learner that is bi-directional. Many students feel a sense of authority in various areas of consumer culture, and they often enjoy sharing their knowledge with fellow students and with their instructor. Opening up the sociology classroom to discussion of these topics validates students’ expertise on their own life-worlds. Teachers, in turn, gain insight from the goods, services, and cultural expectations that shape students’ lives. While innovative, the book has been carefully crafted to make it as useful and flexible as possible for instructors aiming to build core sociological foundations in a single semester. A map on pages ii–iii identifies core sociological concepts covered so that a traditional syllabus as well as individual lectures can easily be maintained. Theory, method, and active learning exercises in every chapter constantly encourage the sociological imagination as well as the "doing" of sociology. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kate Cairns |
| Relationship | A01 |
| 9 (RLIN) | 610 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Shyon Baumann |
| Relationship | A01 |
| 9 (RLIN) | 611 |
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