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Essentials of Sociology (3rd Edition) - eBook

Essentials of Sociology (3rd Edition) – PDF

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  • Authors: George Ritzer, Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy
  • File Size: 17 MB
  • Format: PDF
  • Length: 544 Pages
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; 3rd edition
  • Publication Date: January 16, 2018
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1506388957, 1506388949
  • ISBN-13: 9781506388953, 9781506388946

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About The Author

George Ritzer

George Ritzer

Dr. George Ritzer is a Distinguished University Professor and a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, where he has also received a Teaching Excellence Award. The American Sociological Association honoured him with the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University in Australia, and the Robin Williams Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society.

Over the course of two decades, his most well-known work, The McDonaldization of Society, has been read by hundreds of thousands of college students and translated into more than a dozen languages. Ritzer is also the editor of McDonaldization: The Reader and the author of a number of critical sociology books, including Enchanting a Disenchanted World, Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society, The Globalization of Nothing, as well as a number of best-selling social theory textbooks and Globalization: A Basic Text. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture and the editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2 volumes), the Encyclopedia of Sociology (11 volumes; 2nd edition forthcoming), and the Encyclopedia of Globalization (5 volumes).

Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy

Essentials of Sociology, 3rd Edition, (PDF) tailored from George Ritzer’s Introduction to Sociology, affords the identical rock-stable basis from one of sociology′s greatest-identified thinkers in a briefer and extra streamlined format. With new co-writer Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy, the up to date 3rd Edition continues to light up conventional sociological ideas and theories and stresses some of essentially the most compelling options of up to date social life: globalization, the web, shopper tradition, and the “McDonaldization” of society. New to this Third Edition (978-1506388953, 978-1506388946):

  • New “Trending” bins emphasize influential books by sociologists which have develop into half of the general public dialog about necessary points. Substituting “Public Sociology” bins, this characteristic reveals the range of sociology′s practitioners, strategies, and subject material, presenting authors resembling:
  • Matthew Desmond (Evicted)
  • Eric Klinenberg (Going Solo)
  • J. Pascoe (Dude, You′re a Fag)
  • Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow)
  • Allison Pugh (The Tumbleweed Society)
  • Arlie Hochschild (Strangers in Their Own Land)
  • Lori Peek and Alice Fothergill (Children of Katrina)
  • Updated examples within the ebook and “Digital Living” bins maintain tempo with variations in digital know-how and on-line practices, together with Uber, web neutrality, Bitcoin, digital privateness, WikiLeaks, and cyberactivism.
  • New or up to date topics implement sociological pondering to the newest points together with:
    • Brexit
    • local weather change
    • constitution colleges
    • the 2016 U.S. election
    • the Flint water disaster
    • fourth-wave feminism
    • the worldwide progress of ISIS
    • the legalization of marijuana
    • transgender individuals within the U.S. armed forces
    • additional segmentation of rich Americans because the “tremendous-wealthy”

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