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Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life 5th Edition
Author(s): Charles Lemert (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: 5 Aug. 2011
- Edition: 5th
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1442211628
- ISBN-13: 9781442211629
Book Description
In fifteen years, Charles Lemert’s Social Things has become a much-loved modern classic among teachers, students, and many other readers. It introduces the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition celebrates the book’s fifteenth anniversary with important updates, an entirely new chapter that addresses the environmental challenges in our global world and many additions that bring the history of sociology up-to-date.
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About the Author
Charles Lemert is university professor and John C. Andrus Professor of Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University and senior fellow of the Center for Comparative Research at Yale University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Why Niebuhr Matters, The Structural Lie, Globalization: A Reader (edited with Anthony Elliott, Daniel Chafee, and Eric Hsu), and The New Individualism (with Anthony Elliott).
