sociology

There are always two sides to every argument. Advocating for issues that matter to you is important, but what's equally as important is understanding those issues from the other perspective. This title dives deeper into this highly debated topic and provides readers with the tools and strategies to think critically and analyze the topic through an unbiased lens. Readers will learn how to use logic and facts to defend and argue against both stances while also learning how to stay empathetic and emotionally levelheaded. Book encourages, promotes, and helps build social-emotional learning (SEL) and highlights key 21st century skills and content. Includes research activity, table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, and educational matter.

The history of migration from prehistoric man's first steps out of the Rift Valley to the present-day exodus from Syria, and the effects migration has had on language and culture, artistic and scientific advancement throughout history. While recognizing that distinctions between categories are often fuzzy, Migration covers many types of migrants including explorers, slaves, pilgrims, mineworkers, laborers, exiles, refugees, students, tourists, retirees and expatriates. Cohen covers a long span of history and many regions and themes, giving context and color to one of the most pressing issues of our time. The text is supplemented by a series of vivid maps, evocative photographs and powerful graphics. Migration is present at the dawn of human history ? the phenomena of hunting and gathering, seeking seasonal pasture and nomadism being as old as human social organization itself. The flight from natural disasters, adverse climatic changes, famine, and territorial aggression by other communities or other species were also common occurrences.

"Explores the many and varied applications of 'new materialism', a key emerging trend in 21st century thought, to the practice of doing sociology. Offering a clear exposition of new materialist theory and using sociological examples throughout to enable the reader to develop a materialist sociological understanding"--Back cover.

An introduction to sociology, covering theories, sociologists, and important issues such as gender, identity, welfare, consumerism, and more.

Members of the LGBTQ community are under constant threat of physical violence and verbal harassment simply for wanting to be who they really are.

A memoir chronicling the author's upbringing in a Philadelphia housing project in the 1960s, covering his father's erratic and emotional behavior and his own flight from the confines of his youth to follow his dreams and better his circumstances.

Presents an illustrated guide to different types of power, what it means to have power, and what someone can do with one's own power to create positive change in the world.

This book examines what is occurring, how people learn to accept themselves and find acceptance from others, the challenges of transitioning, and the fight for transgender rights.

"The . . . story and . . . history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species. Explores how the tension between identity and anonymity defines how societies develop, function, and fail. Reveals how mankind created sprawling civilizations of unrivaled complexity--and what it will take to sustain them"--OCLC.

Explores the way the human body works, the origins of human beings, and the various ways that humans live and organize themselves socially and culturally.