A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology: Culture and Society in Transition, Edition 3

Jeffrey Alexander · Jeffrey C. Alexander · Kenneth Thompson · Laura Desfor Edles · Moshoula Capous-Desyllas

Jul 2023 · Taylor & Francis

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The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the physical and social environments seem uncertain. As culture rapidly changes in the 21st century, the authors have successfully incorporated these nuances with many important updates on race and racism, Black Lives Matter, the rise of populist politics, ISIS, new social media, feminist perspectives on sex work, trans and non-gender conforming identities, and more. New to this edition: New data, text box examples, photos, exercises, study questions, and glossary terms appear throughout. New discussions added of arts-based and participatory approaches to research, historical changes in the perception of deviance, legalization of marijuana; Islam vs. secularism in France, new forms of socialization, heteronormative and essentialist language related to sex and gender, intersections of social class and other identities, the prison industrial complex, informal sharing economies, atheism, and more. New text boxes include: Young Saudis Find Freedom in their Phones; How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life; School-to-Prison Pipeline; India’s Reproductive Assembly Line; Workers Feel Pain of Layoffs; Like Prohibition, the fight over guns is about something else; and Micro-aggression and Changing Moral Cultures.

About the author

Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, where he is co-director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. Among his many influential books are The Civic Sphere (Oxford University Press, 2006) and The Drama of Social Life (Polity Press, 2017).

Kenneth Thompson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Open University, has held positions at Yale, UCLA, Rutgers, and Smith. He is the author of Moral Panics (Routledge, 1998) and co-authored influential sociology textbooks with Stuart Hall and other OU colleagues..

Laura Desfor Edles is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge. Among her many publications are a best-selling series of sociological theory textbooks (co-authored with Scott Appelrouth).

Moshoula Capous-Desyllas is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University Northridge. Her arts-based research is featured in her latest co-authored anthology, Creating Social Change Through Creativity: Anti-Oppressive Arts-Based Research Methodologies (2017).

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