Test Bank for Sociology in a Changing World, 9th Edition

Help your students visualize sociology all around them with William Kornblum’s vibrant, visual, and research-based new ninth edition of SOCIOLOGY IN A CHANGING WORLD. Comprehensive and student friendly, SOCIOLOGY IN A CHANGING WORLD presents a thematic approach that emphasizes the reality of social change and its impact on individuals, groups, and societies throughout the world. This unique emphasis on social change–which is visited in the book’s features–helps students understand our similarities, our differences, and society as a whole. The text carefully balances contemporary and classic theory and research, with special attention to the works of female and minority social scientists and cross-cultural studies. Kornblum applies all the major perspectives of sociology without giving undue emphasis to any single approach. Additionally, SOCIOLOGY IN A CHANGING WORLD is the chosen text for the Exploring Society: Introduction to Sociology Telecourse from Dallas TeleLearning. Challenging yet accessible, interesting and scholarly, Kornblum’s ninth edition helps students think like sociologists long after their college experience.

Table of contents:

1. Part 1: Social Foundations
2. Chapter 1: Sociology: An Introduction
3. THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
4. SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
5. FROM SOCIAL THOUGHT TO SOCIAL SCIENCE
6. MAJOR SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
7. SUMMARY
8. Chapter 2: The Tools of Sociology
9. APPLYING THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
10. THE BASIC METHODS
11. ANALYZING THE DATA
12. THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES
13. SUMMARY
14. Chapter 3: Culture
15. THE MEANING OF CULTURE
16. CULTURE, EVOLUTION, AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
17. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
18. CROSSING CULTURAL LINES
19. CIVILIZATIONS AND CULTURAL CHANGE
20. SUMMARY
21. Chapter 4: Societies and Nations
22. THE SOCIAL ORDER
23. POPULATIONS AND SOCIETIES
24. SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL
25. SOCIETIES AND NATION-STATES
26. SUMMARY
27. Part 2: Social Dynamics
28. Chapter 5: Socialization
29. BECOMING A SOCIAL BEING
30. NATURE AND NURTURE
31. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF
32. SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND EARLY SOCIALIZATION
33. SOCIALIZATION THROUGH THE LIFE COURSE
34. GENDER SOCIALIZATION
35. SUMMARY
36. Chapter 6: Interaction in Groups
37. THE IMPORTANCE OF GROUPS
38. CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL GROUPS
39. INTERACTION IN GROUPS
40. FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS AND BUREAUCRACY
41. GROUPS IN COMPLEX SOCIETIES
42. SUMMARY
43. Chapter 7: Sexuality
44. PERSPECTIVES ON SEXUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
45. BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL VIEWS OF SEXUALITY
46. SEX VERSUS GENDER
47. SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL INSTITUTIONS
48. SUMMARY
49. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control
50. WHAT IS DEVIANCE?
51. DIMENSIONS OF DEVIANCE
52. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL DEVIANCE
53. CRIME AND SOCIAL CONTROL
54. SUMMARY
55. Chapter 9: Collective Behavior, Social Movements, and Mass Publics
56. THE MEANINGS OF DISORDER
57. SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY
58. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY
59. MASS PUBLICS AND PUBLIC OPINION
60. SUMMARY
61. Part 3: Social Divisions
62. Chapter 10: Stratification and Global Inequality
63. THE MEANING OF STRATIFICATION
64. STRATIFICATION AND THE MEANS OF EXISTENCE
65. STRATIFICATION AND CULTURE
66. POWER, AUTHORITY, AND STRATIFICATION
67. STRATIFICATION IN THE MODERN ERA
68. THEORIES OF STRATIFICATION
69. STRATIFICATION AND GLOBAL POVERTY
70. SUMMARY