Principles of Sociology

Lorne Tepperman is professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. Lorne is one of Canada's leading sociologists and the former president of the Canadian Sociological Association. He has authored and edited several sociology texts for OUP Canada. He is currently researching gambling addiction. Patrizia Albanese is associate professor of sociology at Ryerson University. She is the co-director of the Centre for Children, Youth, and Families at Ryerson and president of the Canadian Sociological Association. Patrizia has authored and edited several texts for OUP Canada. She is currently researching children & childhood; social/family policies; youth; and families.

• PUBLISHER'S PREFACE; PREFACE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PART I: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY; LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND BOXES; INTRODUCTION: WHY NOT BECOME A SOCIOLOGIST?; LORNE TEPPERMAN AND PATRIZIA ALBANESE; INTRODUCTION; A DEFINITION OF SOCIOLOGY; HOW SOCIOLOGY DIFFERS FROM OTHER ACADEMIC FIELDS; CONCLUSION; BRUCE ARAI AND ANTHONY THOMSON; INTRODUCTION: WHY THEORY AND METHODS?; THE BIRTH OF SOCIOLOGY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION; EMILE DURKHEIM; KARL MARX; MAX WEBER; SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM; CONFLICT THEORY; FEMINIST SOCIOLOGY; THEORY AND RESEARCH; RESEARCH TECHNIQUES; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; PART II: MAJOR SOCIAL PROCESSES; SHYON BAUMANN; INTRODUCTION: WHY STUDY CULTURE?; WHAT IS CULTURE?; THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN SOCIAL THEORY; CULTURAL REALMS; CULTURAL DYNAMICS; CANADIAN CULTURE; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; BARBARA A. MITCHELL; INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS SOCIALIZATION?; HUMAN BEHAVIOUR-NATURE OR NURTURE?; THEORIZING SOCIALIZATION; THE FAMILY; THE PEER GROUP; SCHOOLS; MASS MEDIA; THE LIFE COURSE, AGING, AND SOCIALIZATION; SOCIALIZATION PROCESSES: PAWNS, PUPPETS, OR FREE AGENTS?; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; DOROTHY PAWLUCH, WILLIAM SHAFFIR, AND LORNE TEPPERMAN; INTRODUCTION; A FUNCTIONALIST VIEW OF STATUSES AND ROLES; SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: ROLES, SELF, IDENTITY; SETS OF PEOPLE, DIFFERENTLY ORGANIZED; CLIQUES; BUREAUCRACIES; HOW BUREAUCRACIES ACTUALLY WORK; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; VINCENT F. SACCO AND ALICIA D. HORTON; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS DEVIANCE?; DEVIANCE AS A SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPT; RESEARCHING DEVIANCE; THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR; MAKING SENSE OF THE 'FACTS' OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR; THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT CATEGORIES; DEVIANCE AND POST-MODERNISM; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; PART III: TYPES OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY; ANN D. DUFFY AND SARA J. CUMMING; INTRODUCTION; CLASS AND STATUS INEQUALITIES IN SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT; UNDERSTANDING POVERTY; POLICIES TO ADDRESS POVERTY; CONCLUSION: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES-FUTURE TRENDS; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; JANET SILTANEN, ANDREA DOUCET, AND PATRIZIA ALBANESE; INTRODUCTION: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND YOU; GENDER AND SEXUALITY AS CRITICAL VANTAGE POINTS; LIVING GENDERED LIVES; CONCLUSION: ON TO THE FUTURE ... GENDER RELATIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; NIKOLAOS I. LIODAKIS; INTRODUCTION; DEFINING ETHNICITY AND RACE; BUILDING A NATION OR TWO: CANADA'S DEVELOPMENT THROUGH IMMIGRATION; THE NEW MOSAIC: RECENT CANADIAN IMMIGRATION TRENDS; MULTICULTURALISM AND ITS CRITICS; PREJUDICE AND RACISM; CULTURALISM AND POLITICAL ECONOMY: EXPLAINING SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES; FROM THE VERTICAL TO THE COLOUR-CODED MOSAIC; DIFFERENTIALS WITHIN ETHNIC AND RACIALIZED GROUPS: THE ROLES OF CLASS, GENDER, AND PLACE OF BIRTH; CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF RACE AND ETHNICITY; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; PART IV: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS; MAUREEN BAKER; INTRODUCTION; FAMILY VARIATIONS; EXPLAINING FAMILY PATTERNS AND PRACTICES; RECENT ISSUES IN CANADIAN FAMILIES; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; TERRY WOTHERSPOON; INTRODUCTION; THE CHANGING FACE OF EDUCATION; ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTS OF EDUCATIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL PARTICIPANTS; EDUCATIONAL POLICY, POLITICS, AND IDEOLOGIES; EDUCATION, WORK, AND FAMILIES; EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND INEQUALITIES; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; PAMELA SUGIMAN; INTRODUCTION; WORLD ECONOMIC SYSTEMS; THE GLOBAL ECONOMY; THE CAPITALIST ECONOMY: WHERE PEOPLE WORK; THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WORK TODAY; THE CHANGING FACE OF LABOUR: DIVERSITY AMONG WORKERS; WORKERS' COPING AND RESISTANCE: THE STRUGGLE FOR DIGNITY AND RIGHTS; CONCLUSION: WORK IN THE FUTURE, OUR FUTURE AS WORKERS; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; JUANNE CLARKE; INTRODUCTION; THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, DISEASE, AND SICKNESS; SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICINE; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; LORI G. BEAMAN; INTRODUCTION; RELIGION IN PROFILE; DEFINITIONS OF RELIGION; NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS; THEORIES OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY; THE QUIET REVOLUTION; RELIGION AND LAW; RELIGION AND GENDER; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; RANDLE HART, HOWARD RAMOS, KAREN STANBRIDGE, JOHN VEUGELERS; INTRODUCTION; POWER; THE STATE; CULTURAL AND SOCIAL PROCESSES; INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES; TRANSNATIONALISM; WHAT IS A SOCIAL MOVEMENT?; THEORETICAL APPROACHES; THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; PART V: CANADIAN SOCIETY AND THE GLOBAL CONTEXT; LIAM SWISS; INTRODUCTION; CONVERGENCE VS. DIVERGENCE; SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO GLOBALIZATION; GLOBAL FLOWS; CONCLUSION: CONVERGENCE, DIVERGENCE, AND SOCIAL CHANGE; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; CHERYL TEELUCKSINGH; INTRODUCTION; DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS; DEVELOPMENT OF CANADIAN CITIES; CITIES AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE ENVIRONMENT; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; DAVID YOUNG; INTRODUCTION; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF THE MEDIA; POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MEDIA; CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE MEDIA; THE INTERNET: EXTENDING POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CULTURAL STUDIES; CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; RECOMMENDED WEBSITES; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX