Illuminating Social Life - Kivisto, Peter (ed.)
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Illuminating Social Life has enjoyed increasing popularity with each edition. It is the only book designed for undergraduate teaching that shows today's students how classical and contemporary social theories can be used to shed new light on such topics as the internet, the world of work, fast food restaurants, shopping malls, alcohol use, body building, sales and service, and new religious movements. A perfect complement for the sociological theory course to either a standard theory text or other source materials. 13 original essays by leading scholars in the field who…mehr

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Main description:
Illuminating Social Life has enjoyed increasing popularity with each edition. It is the only book designed for undergraduate teaching that shows today's students how classical and contemporary social theories can be used to shed new light on such topics as the internet, the world of work, fast food restaurants, shopping malls, alcohol use, body building, sales and service, and new religious movements. A perfect complement for the sociological theory course to either a standard theory text or other source materials. 13 original essays by leading scholars in the field who are also experienced undergraduate theory teachers. Substantial Introductions by the Editor link the applied essays to a complete review of the classical and modern social theories used in the book. Headnotes provide a complete context for each essay.

Table of contents:
Alcohol-Related Windows on Simmel's Social - William J. Staudenmeier
Contemporary Theories and Their Connections to the Classics - Peter Kivisto
Contrasts of Carnival: Mardi Gras between the Modern and Postmodern - Kevin Fox Gotham
Criminalizing Transgressing Youth - Paul Colomy, Laura Ross Greiner
Critical Theory, Legitimation Crisis, the Deindustrialization - Stephen P. Dandaneau
Globalization Theory Religious Fundamentalism - William H. Swatos
Goffman's Dramaturgical Sociology - Dan Pittman
Goffman's Dramaturgical Sociology: - Peter Kivisto
Negotiating the Social Landscape to Create Social Change - Anne F. Eisenberg
Surfing the Net for Community: - Anne M. Hornsby
The Socioally Constructed Body - Judith Lorber, Patricia Yancey Martin
The Weberian Theory of Rationalization - George Ritzer
Why Do African Americans Pay - Christopher Prendergast
WIld Thoughts: An Interactionist Analysis of Ideology, Emotion Nature - Kent L. Sandstrom
Wild Thoughts: An Interactionist Analysis of Ideology, Emotion, Nature - Gary Alan Fine
Working Longer, Living Less - John P. Walsh, Anne Zacharias-Walsh
Autorenporträt
Peter Kivisto, PhD (New School for Social Research), is the Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought and chair of sociology at Augustana College. Among his recent books are Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects (2007, with Thomas Faist), Intersecting Inequalities (2007, with Elizabeth Hartung), Incorporating Diversity: Rethinking Assimilation in a Multicultural Age (2005), Key Ideas in Sociology (2nd ed., 2004), Multiculturalism in a Global Society (2002), and Social Theory: Roots and Branches (2nd ed., 2002). His primary scholarly and teaching interests revolve around social theory and ethnic and immigration studies. He has served as secretary-treasurer of the American Sociological Associations Theory and International Migration Sections and is currently serving as Editor of The Sociological Quarterly.