This text integrates three major theories of sociology (conflict, symbolic interactionist, & functionist) throughout each chapter and its popular SQ3R format. A new chapter (12) on Age Inequality: The Elderly has been added and Chapters 18 and 19 have been combined in the new Chapter 19 Population and Urbanization. A new feature entitled Voices with excerpts from articles and/or books now appears in each Critical Application. Up-to-date topics include The Children of Waco (Ch. 20), and Child Care (Part IV) a Critical Application. New Doing Research studies include The Demise of Rural Iris Gerontocracy (Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Ch. 12) and The Withering of the American Dream? (Katherine S. Newman, Ch. 21).
- ISBN10 0829905006
- ISBN13 9780829905007
- Publish Date March 1981 (first published 1 January 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint West Publishing Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English