Title: Essentials of Sociology Pdf
Author: George Ritzer
Published Date: 2018-01-16
Page: 544
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association, an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University in Australia, and the Robin Williams Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. His best-known work, The McDonaldization of Society (8th ed.), has been read by hundreds of thousands of students over two decades and translated into over a dozen languages. Ritzer is also the editor of McDonaldization: The Reader; and author of other works of critical sociology related to the McDonaldization thesis, including Enchanting a Disenchanted World, The Globalization of Nothing, Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society, as well as a series best-selling social theory textbooks and Globalization: A Basic Text. He is the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2 vols.), the Encyclopedia of Sociology (11 vols.; 2nd edition forthcoming), the Encyclopedia of Globalization (5 vols.), and is Founding Editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. In 2016 he will publish the second edition of Essentials of Sociology with SAGE.
Essentials of Sociology, adapted from George Ritzer’s Introduction to Sociology, provides the same rock-solid foundation from one of sociology′s best-known thinkers in a shorter and more streamlined format. With new co-author Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy, the Third Edition continues to illuminate traditional sociological concepts and theories and focuses on some of the most compelling features of contemporary social life: globalization, consumer culture, the internet, and the "McDonaldization" of society.
New to this Edition
- New "Trending" boxes focus on influential books by sociologists that have become part of the public conversation about important issues. Replacing "Public Sociology" boxes, this feature demonstrates the diversity of sociology′s practitioners, methods, and subject matter, featuring such authors as
o Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow)
o Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton (Paying for the Party)
o Matthew Desmond (Evicted)
o Arlie Hochschild (Strangers in Their Own Land)
o Eric Klinenberg (Going Solo)
o C.J. Pascoe (Dude, You′re a Fag)
o Lori Peek and Alice Fothergill (Children of Katrina)
o Allison Pugh (The Tumbleweed Society)
- Updated examples in the text and "Digital Living" boxes keep pace with changes in digital technology and online practices, including Uber, Bitcoin, net neutrality, digital privacy, WikiLeaks, and cyberactivism.
- New or updated subjects apply sociological thinking to the latest issues including:
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- the 2016 U.S. election
- Brexit
- the global growth of ISIS
- climate change
- further segmentation of wealthy Americans as the "super rich"
- transgender people in the U.S. armed forces
- charter schools
- the legalization of marijuana
- the Flint water crisis
- fourth-wave feminism
ok okGood The book passes all of my personal requirements for a good book. Let me share them with you. Believe it or not, we all judge a book by its cover. I speak of the broader category which I call "appearance". The cover graphics are interesting, but so are the graphics throughout the book. Text is in double, sometimes triple columns, which makes reading easier. There is a good mix of graphs, charts, and photographs to accompany the text, and the color scheme is meaningful. The color scheme applies overall, but particularly to text that draws our attention, like headers and such. The effective use of colors assists the reader in digesting the material in an orderly way.Finally, and most importantly, is the content. The information is factual as opposed to opinionated. Finally, the writing style is matter of fact, but not boring. If you are interested in Sociology, this book is a good start and should keep you turning the pages.This was a readable, interesting, and RELEVANT text on sociology. Wow. The thing that jumps out at me about this book is the cutting edge nature of the examples used. This is a 2018 text, and there is a great focus on local and global events happening in 2016-17.Essentials of Sociology, by George Ritzer and Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy, was something I really needed to read. I teach a university course that has one module dealing with the sociology of natural resources, but I've never had a formal course in sociology. Luckily, other texts, lectures, and colleagues have pulled me through here. Now, I can say that I've read a sociology text cover to cover. The cutting edge focus of this Ritzer and Murphy text (this is the 3rd edition) made it relevant, easy to read and follow, and... did I say relevant?As I finished the book today at my local coffee house, I found myself discussing with a friend who stopped by the concept of the "voluntariat" (p. 40). I will incorporate in my course more discussion of how smart devices are transforming society's views toward natural resource management. This afternoon, I'll observe "bigorexia" at the gym (p. 353).Unless I missed it, there was an obvious omission of school and mass shootings, or gun control. That was surprising.All in all, this was a readable, interesting, and RELEVANT text on sociology.
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