2 edition of Understanding sociology through research found in the catalog.
Understanding sociology through research
Donald R. MacQueen
|Statement||[compiled by] Donald R. MacQueen.|
|LC Classifications||HM51 .M2335|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||xix, 539 p.|
|Number of Pages||539|
|LC Control Number||72000581|
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This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative. Sociology and Social Reform: Public Sociology. This book’s subtitle is “understanding and changing the social world.” The last several pages were devoted to the subtitle’s first part, discussion of Mills’s and Ryan’s perspectives in turn points to the implications of a sociological understanding for changing the social world.
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Steven E. Barkan (PhD State University of New York at Stonybrook) is Professor and Chair of Sociology at The University of Maine. He is the author of four FlatWorld titles (Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World comprehensive and brief versions, Fundamentals of Criminal Justice, and Social Problems).
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His M.A. and Ph.D. were earned at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has authored seven books and published 35 articles and book chapters, which have appeared in Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Social Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Critical Asian Availability: This title is out of print.
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