You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking like a Sociologist / Edition 5

by Dalton Conley

Overview

The "untextbook" that teaches students to think like sociologists.

You May Ask Yourself gives instructors an alternative to the typical textbook by emphasizing the big ideas of the discipline. Dalton Conley's "non-textbook" strategy explains complex concepts through personal examples and storytelling, integrates coverage of social inequality throughout the textbook, and provides the largest collection of instructor resources for a book in its price range. The Fifth Edition now comes with an ebook, which gives students access to everything they need in one place.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393614275
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Edition description:	Fifth Edition
Pages:	864
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. In 2005, Conley became the first sociologist to win the prestigious National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award, which honors an outstanding young U.S. scientist or engineer. He writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Slate, and Forbes. He is the author of Honky (2001) and The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become (2004). His other books include Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America (1999), The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances (2003), Elsewhere, U.S.A. (2009), Parentology (2014), and The Genome Factor (2017). He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.