Table of Contents

About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Individual and Society
1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World
2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically
Part II. The Construction of Self and Society
3. Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge
4. Building Order: Culture and History
5. Building Identity: Socialization
6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self
7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Families
8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance
Part III. Social Structure, Institutions, and Everyday Life
9. The Structure of Society: Organizations, Social Institutions, and Globalization
10. The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality
11. The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity
12. The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender
13. Demographic Dynamics: Population Trends
14. Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society
References
Photo Credits
Glossary/Index

About the Author

David M. Newman earned his BA from San Diego State University in 1981 and his graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle (MA 1984, PhD 1988). After a year at the University of Connecticut, David taught at DePauw University for more than 30 years. He currently teaches at Colgate University. David teaches courses in contemporary society, deviance, mental illness, family, social inequality, and research methods. He has published numerous articles on teaching and has presented research papers on the intersection of gender and power in intimate relationships. Recently most of his scholarly activity has been devoted to writing and revising several books, including Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life: Brief Edition (SAGE, 2020); Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill, 2021); and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 2009). His most recent book, A Culture of Second Chances: The Promise, Practice and Price of Starting Over in Everyday Life (Lexington Books, 2019), examines the cultural meaning, institutional importance, and social limitations of “second chance” and “permanent stigma” narratives in everyday life.

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