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Pedagogical Resources Table of Contents; Preface; Part I The Sociological Perspective and the Basic Language of Sociology; 1 Understanding Human Behaviour; Science as a Way of Knowing; Sociology and the Social Sciences; Sociology as the Study of Structure and Agency; Sociology as Critical Thought and Thinking; Science, Theory, and the Origins of Sociology; The Sociological Imagination and Its ’Promise’; Developing the Sociological Perspective; Getting on with Sociological Analysis; 2 Homo sapiens: Biology and Culture; Physiological Needs and Drives; Instinct; Human Physiology; Culture: The Work of Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead; The Characteristics of Culture; 3 Social Structure and the Language of Sociology; Culture and Society; The Elements of Social Structure; The Tools of Sociology; 4 Socialization; The Biological Processes; The Human Personality; Types of Socialization; Agents or Agencies of Socialization; The Cultural Determinist Position; The Cases of Feral Children; What Do Twin Studies Tell Us?; Socialization as Unique and Shared; 5 Theories of Socialization; Conditioning Theory; Jean Piaget; The Symbolic Interactionist Approach; Sigmund Freud; Moving on; 6 The Sex and Gender Puzzle: Biology Is Not Destiny; Sex and Gender as a Fundamental Dimension of the Human Condition; Sex and Gender: Conceptual Clarification; The Basic Biology of Sex; Awash in a Sea of Hormones?; Sex, Gender, and Brain Hemispheres; Sexual and Gender Reassignment; Biology Yes-Destiny No; Sex, Gender, and Social Learning; Moving on-Neither Nature nor Nurture; Towards a Sociological Synthesis; Part II Theorizing Society; 7 Science, Theory, and the Origins of Sociology; The Historical Background; Auguste Comte and the Emergence of a Discipline; Marx and the Study of Human Society; Emile Durkheim; Max Weber’s New Blueprint for Analysis; 8 Contemporary Sociological Theory; Early Contemporary Theory: The Structural Functionalist Perspective; Early Contemporary Theory: Neo-Marxist Social Theory; Early Contemporary Theory: The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective; Beyond Early Contemporary Theory; Structure and Agency: New Visions; Conclusion; 9 Feminist Theory: Addressing Sociology’s Lacuna; Introduction; Women’s Rights, Patriarchy, and the First Wave; Sex and Gender in Structural Functionalist Thought; Liberal Feminism; Marxian Feminism; The Domestic Labour Dispute; Radical Feminism; Socialist Feminism: Hartmann and Barrett; Third Wave Feminism; Conclusion; Part III Applying Sociological Theories and Concepts; 10 Ways of Knowing and Research Methods; Ways of Knowing; Conceptual Digression; Conventional Western Science; Critical Realism and Science; Feminist Research and Critical Realism; From Philosophy to Research; Social Science Techniques: A Preliminary Sketch; Survey; Participant Observation; Content Analysis; Experimental Design; Conclusion; 11 Explaining Social Inequality; Social Inequality in Canada; The ’Discovery’ of Class in North America; The Structural Functionalists: Parsons, Davis, and Moore; The Dimensions of Social Stratification; Marxist Theories of Class; Neo-Marxism and Class Analysis; The Study of Social Inequality in Canada: New Directions in Class Analysis; Conclusion; 12 The Polity, Political Power, and Social Movements; Pluralism; Power and the Ruling Class: The Marxian Perspective; Revising Marx: Neo-Marxism on the State; Classical Elite Theory; Beyond Class Politics: Feminism and the State; Power in Numbers: Modern Social Movements; 13 Towards a Critical Sociology of Men and Masculinities; Should We Study Men and Masculinity?; Gender as Sex Roles: A Critique; Gender as Social Practice; Hegemonic Masculinity; Patriarchy and Capitalism; Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Hegemonic Masculinity; 14 Sociological Approaches to the Study of Familial Relations; Basic Definitions; The Structural Functionalist Approach; The Neo-Marxist Approach; The Feminist Challenge to Sociological Thought; 15 ’Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?’; Definitions; Understanding Health Inequalities; Classical Sociology and Health; The Sociology of Health Emerges; Symbolic Interactionism; Power Conflict Theory and Health; Feminist Theory; Post Structuralism; Towards a Holistic Approach; Healthcare Systems: A Comment; 16 Deviance and Social Control; Biological Explanations; Emile Durkheim; Parsons and Merton; Conflict Theory and the Study of Deviance; Neo-Marxist or Power-Conflict Theory; Symbolic Interactionism and Deviance: Labelling Theory; Feminist Theory; 17 Race and Ethnicity and Difference; Defining Race, Ethnicity, and ’Other’; Race in Western Thought: Early Views of Difference, Inequality, and Race; Race and Modernity; Genome Science and Race; Sociological Theory, Race, and Ethnicity; Some Theoretical and Empirical Considerations; 18 Globalization; A Brief History of World Capitalism; How Do We Make Sense of the World Economy?; Conclusion; Postscript The Sociological Imagination and New Directions in Social Theory; Sociology as a Mode of Thought; Some Preliminary Premises; The Limits of Abstract Theory; The Sociological Imagination Revisited; References; Index $ Core text for introductory sociology at the university level.

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