sociology

Provides information on the various career paths available to sociology majors and includes advice on self-assessment, resumes and cover letters, networking, interviewing, and advanced degrees.

Discusses the people and cultures of many nations, including responsibilities and customs, and how families, neighborhoods and nations throughout the world work together. Includes activities.

Presents a comprehensive textbook with full coverage of sociological concepts, such as social inequality and change, discussing the subject as a scientific discipline and as a means for understanding social interactions, and includes a study guide, practice tests, and more.

Discusses the relationship between science and politics and examines how our current culture of partisanship on both the right and the left have created a huge gap between scientific understanding of a problem and the antiscience views about it. Stresses the need for the media's obligation to provide accurate information and the importance of educating our leaders in science. Includes the five core principles of freedom, science, and knowledge, the top fourteen science questions facing America, and an index.

Describes the impact of Charles Darwin's scientific writings on the intellectual life of the late nineteenth century, and discusses the use of such Darwinian ideas as "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest," to justify conservative resistance to government efforts to relieve inequality during that period.

Presents a guide for consumers to help identify questionable statistics stated even in the most respected publications that are often miscalculated, misinterpreted, hyped, or misleading. Includes common signs of dubious data as well as chapter notes and an index.

Offers advice on how to understand social statistics and how to recognize bad statistics that are sometimes put out by the media, or special interest groups; and presents analyses of a selection of bad statistics.

Presents an introduction to sociology, and provides information on the key concepts of the social science, including what sociology offers, its history, theory, and its major thinkers, with an overview of its research methods. Includes glossary and index.