Down-to-Earth Sociology: Heredity or environment? The case of Oskar and Jack, identical twins.
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Front Cover; Front Matter; Half title; Full title; Imprint; Brief contents; Contents; To the student...from the authors; To the instructor...from the authors; Acknowledgments; About the authors; Part 1 The Sociological Perspective; Chapter 1 The sociological perspective; The sociological perspective; Seeing the broader social context; Mass Media in Social Life: Revolutionary Road (2008); The global context--and the local; Sociology and the other sciences; The natural sciences; The social sciences; The goals of science; The risks of sociology.
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Attitudes of the timeHarriet Martineau and early social research; Sociology in Australia; Early history: The tension between social reform and sociological analysis; Down-to-Earth Sociology: Listening to an early feminist; Australian sociologists; The continuing tension and the rise of applied sociology; Talcott Parsons and C Wright Mills: Theory versus reform; Theoretical perspectives in sociology; Symbolic interactionism; Down-to-Earth Sociology: Careers in sociology: What sociologists do; Down-to-Earth Sociology: Capturing Saddam Hussein: A surprising example of applied sociology.
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Components of symbolic cultureValues, norms and sanctions; Folkways and mores; Many cultural worlds; Subcultures; Countercultures; Values in Australian society; Mateship; Egalitarian ideals and tall poppy syndrome; An Australian study of values; What is "un-Australian"?; What is human nature?; Feral children; Down-to-Earth Sociology: Her behaviour toward strangers, especially men, was almost that of a wild animal, manifesting much fear and hostility; Isolated children; Socialisation into the self and mind; Cooley and the looking-glass self; Mead and role taking.
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Down-to-Earth Sociology: Enjoying a sociology quiz--Sociological findings versus common senseOrigins of sociology; Tradition versus science; Auguste Comte and positivism; Down-to-Earth Sociology: Sociological findings versus common sense--Answers to the sociology quiz; Herbert Spencer and social Darwinism; Karl Marx and class conflict; Emile Durkheim and social integration; Max Weber and the Protestant ethic; Values in sociological research; Verstehen and social facts; Weber and Verstehen; Durkheim and social facts; How social facts and Verstehen fit together; Sexism in early sociology.
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Functional analysisConflict theory; Levels of analysis: Macro and micro; Putting the theoretical perspectives together; Trends shaping the future of sociology; Sociology full circle: Reform versus research; Globalisation; Summary and review; Thinking critically about Chapter 1; Discussing Chapter 1; Suggested readings; References; Chapter 2 Culture and socialisation; What is culture?; Culture and taken-for-granted orientations to life; Practising cultural relativism; Cultural Diversity Around the World: You are what you eat: An exploration in cultural relativity.