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Introduction to Sociology (4th Edition) – Ritzer – PDF

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  • Author: George Ritzer
  • File Size: 24 MB
  • Format: ePub, PDF
  • Length: 633 Pages
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; 4th edition
  • Publication Date: September 29, 2017
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1506362672, 1506362664
  • ISBN-13: 9781506362670, 9781506362663

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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).

George Ritzer’s Introduction to Sociology, 4th Edition, (PDF/ePub) reveals faculty college students the importance of sociology to their lives. While providing a rock-stable basis, Ritzer reveals conventional sociological ideas and theories, as well as to a few of the most compelling modern social phenomena: globalization, the digital world, client tradition, and the “McDonaldization” of society. With examples on each web page from current occasions and modern analysis and tales about “public” sociologists who’re interesting to the essential problems with right now, the textbook reveals the facility of sociology to clarify the world and the variety of questions that sociologists search to reply. New to this 4th Edition:

  • New “Trending” bins emphasize influential ebooks written by sociologists which have turn into a part of the general public dialog about vital points.
    • Replacing “Public Sociology” bins, these bins present the variety of sociology′s practitioners, strategies, and subject material, and have such authors as:
      • Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow)
      • Randol Contreras (The Stick-Up Kids)
      • Matthew Desmond (Evicted)
      • Kimberly Hoang (Dealing in Desire)
      • Arlie Hochschild (Strangers in Their Own Land)
      • Eric Klinenberg (Going Solo)
      • C.J. Pascoe (Dude, You′re a Fag)
      • Lori Peek and Alice Fothergill (Children of Katrina)
      • Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton (Paying for the Party)
  • Allison Pugh (The Tumbleweed Society)Updated examples within the textbook and “Digital Living” bins hold velocity with modifications in digital expertise and on-line practices, together with Uber, bitcoin, internet neutrality, digital privateness, WikiLeaks, and cyberactivism.
  • New or up to date topics implement sociological pondering to the most recent points together with:
    • Brexit
    • constitution colleges
    • local weather change
    • the Flint water disaster
    • fourth-wave feminism
    • the 2016 U.S. election
    • the worldwide development of ISIS
    • the legalization of marijuana
    • transgender folks within the U.S. armed forces
    • President Trump′s proposed Mexican border wall
    • additional segmentation of rich Americans within the “tremendous-wealthy”

Additional ISBNs: 978-1506362663, 978-1506398884, 150639888X, 9781506398884 NOTE: The product only consists of the ebook Introduction to Sociology 4e in PDF and ePub by Ritzer. No access codes are included.

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