Sociology for the Twenty-first Century
Subtitle: Continuities and Cutting Edges
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780226001913
First sentence: A century ago, North America was experiencing its fourth wave of settlers and intellectual ideas, drawn across the currents of the Atlantic and deposited on a shore that, while rapidly Europeanizing in cultural roots, was ripe to generate a different synthesis-one born out of a different soil, a different history, a different mix of peoples and institutional arrangements.