Sociology
Subtitle: a down-to-earth approach
By: James M. Henslin.
Edition: 10th ed.
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780205688623
Subjects: Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New collage : photo wheel of early female sociologists; title: New topic : a new stage in the life course : the transitional older years; title: New down-to-earth sociology box : looks : the last frontier for socially acceptable discrimination?; title: New topics : case studies added to research methods; title: New topic : replication of milgram's obedience to authority experiments; title: New down-to-earth sociology box : the power of cascades : when errors escalate; title: New down-to-earth sociology box : group pranking : escaping the boredom of bureaucracy?; title: New topics : citigroup as a career criminal; title: New topics : wealth of the global superclass; title: New topics : $35,000 bottles of champagne; title: New topic : Rwanda, the first country in the world to elect more women than men to its national legislature; title: New photo essay : ethnic work; title: New topic : Tuti Yusupova, claiming age 128, perhaps the world's oldest living person; title: New topics : the economic crisis; title: New topic : how "handlers" in U.S. politics bypass limits to political contributions; title: New topics : the emerging equality in U.S. marriages (research by Morin and Cohn); title: New topics : Japan's low birth rate is leading to easier admission to college; title: New topics : ghostwriting medical research; title: New topics : biofuels as a threat to the world food supply.