Study Guide for Kendall's Sociology in Our Times, 9th


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The perfect way to prepare for exams and get the grade you want! Easy access to chapter summaries, student learning objectives, a list of key terms and key people with page references to the text, detailed chapter outlines, critical thinking questions, practice tests consisting of over 75 questions per chapter, InfoTrac readings and exercises, Internet exercises, and student class projects and activities. All multiple-choice and true-false questions include answer explanations and page references to the text.




Study Guide for Kendall's Sociology in Our Times: The Essentials, 7th


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The perfect way to prepare for exams and get the grade you want! Easy access to brief chapter outlines, chapter summaries, student learning objectives, a list of key terms and key people with page references to the text, detailed chapter outlines, Analyzing and Understanding the Boxes, study activities, learning objectives, practice tests consisting of 25-30 multiple choice questions, 10-15 true-false questions, 5 essay questions, InfoTrac? readings and exercises, Internet exercises, and student class projects and activities. All multiple-choice and true-false questions include answer explanations and page references to the text.




Study Guide for Kendall's Sociology in Our Times


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This student study tool contains both a brief and detailed chapter outline, chapter summary, learning objectives, key terms and key people with page references to the text, diversity issue focus questions, student projects and activities, and Internet and InfoTrac exercises for each chapter. The guide also includes practice tests consisting of 20-25 multiple-choice and 10-15 true/false questions, all with page references to the text, as well as 5 short answer/essay questions for each chapter.




Sociology in Our Times


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This cutting-edge, applied book highlights the relevance of sociology by including a diverse collection of theories, research, and "lived experiences" that accurately mirror the diversity in society itself. The author's vivid, applied, personal writing style engages students, and activates compelling everyday examples that make sociology particularly relevant to diverse students. A social issue or application opens each chapter and provides various topics for boxes, features, and examples that are carried throughout the entire chapter. Kendall's text is acclaimed in the field for being the first textbook to integrate race, class, and gender issues; as well as for its thorough presentation of sociological theory, which includes diverse theoretical viewpoints such as feminist and postmodernist theory. Kendall shows students that sociology involves important questions and issues that they confront both personally and vicariously.




Sociology in Our Times


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Author Diana Kendall and Kathryn Mueller of Baylor University created this supplement to give students further opportunities to think sociologically and master course material. For each chapter of Sociology In Our Times, Fourth Edition, the study guide includes a brief chapter outline, chapter summary, learning objectives, key terms and people, detailed chapter outline, and student projects. The study guide also includes practice tests consisting of 20 multiple-choice questions with page references, 10-15 true-false questions, and 5 short answer and essay questions for each chapter of the text.




Sociology in Our Times


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This best-selling comprehensive book conveys the relevance of sociology by including a timely collection of theories, research, and examples, including its signature first-person accounts that open chapters. Experiences represented in the chapter openers accurately mirror the richness and complexity of society itself while also establishing the themes that are carried throughout the chapters. The author's vivid, inviting writing style, emphasis on applications, eye for the most compelling current examples, and use of assignable photo-essays and companion video engages readers and further highlights sociology relevance to all students. Kendall's text is acclaimed in the field for being the first textbook to integrate race, class, and gender issues, and for its thorough presentation of sociological theory, including contemporary perspectives such as feminism and postmodernism.




Telecourse Guide for Kendall's Sociology in Our Times: The Essentials, 7th


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This Telecourse Guide for Kendall's SOCIOLOGY IN OUR TIMES: THE ESSENTIALS, Seventh Edition is designed to accompany the "Exploring Society: Introduction to Sociology" telecourse produced by DALLAS TeleLearning of the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD). This Telecourse Guide provides the essential integration of videos and text, providing students with valuable resources designed to direct their daily study in the "Exploring Society" telecourse. Each chapter of the Telecourse Guide contains a lesson that corresponds to each of the 22 video segments in the "Exploring Society" telecourse. Each lesson includes the following components: Overview, Lesson Assignment, Lesson Goal, Lesson Learning Objectives, Review, Lesson Focus Points, Related Activities, Practice Tests, and an Answer Key.




Sociology in Our Times


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The latest edition of SOCIOLOGY IN OUR TIMES: THE ESSENTIALS, International Edition builds on the best of this popular text’s previous editions while offering new chapter-opening first-person accounts of individuals’ lived experience and significantly updated coverage, learning tools, and opportunities for students to apply what they learn and make a difference in their own communities. Compelling examples, a vivid writing style, and chapter themes grounded in social issues already familiar to students hold students’ interest and engage their sociological imaginations as they learn the concepts, theories, and research that comprise sociology today. A vibrant new interior design and an exciting collection of new videos with assignable activities complement the text’s new coverage of timely topics such as health care legislation, the U.S. and global economies, Barack Obama’s presidency, and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.




Framing Class


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Framing Class explores how the media, including television, film, and news, depict wealth and poverty in the United States. Fully updated and revised throughout, the second edition of this groundbreaking book now includes discussions of new media, updated media sources, and provocative new examples from movies and television, such as The Real Housewives series and media portrayals of the new poor and corporate executives in the recent recession. The book introduces the concepts of class and media framing to students and analyzes how the media portray various social classes, from the elite to the very poor. Its accessible writing and powerful examples make it an ideal text or supplement for courses in sociology, American studies, and communications.




Studyguide for Sociology in Our Times


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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780521673761