Ebook: The forest and the trees: sociology as life, practice, and promise

"If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical - the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it. This Third Edition features: Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender/cisgender and the Occupy Movement ; A glossary of terms ; The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath ; An additional analysis of how men's violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men ; Chapter 7's focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege."--Provided by publisher.;Introduction: life, practice, and promise -- The forest, the trees, and the one thing -- Culture: symbols, ideas, and the stuff of life -- The structures of social life -- Population and human ecology: people, space, and place -- Us, it, and social interaction -- Things are not what they seem -- Sociology as worldview: where white privilege came from -- Epilogue: who are we really?