Providing a brief introduction to sociology, this work encourages students to think seriously about the choices they will face in education, career, marriage, parenthood, and other important aspects of life. Popular ideology argues that people can - and should - get what they want from life, but the research highlighted in this book indicates that most people do not get what they want, and settle instead for what they can get. How choices are shaped and limited by the actions of others underlies the authors' explanation of social structure and sociology - the systemic study of social relations.
- ISBN10 0813325730
- ISBN13 9780813325736
- Publish Date 4 April 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 January 2017
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Westview Press Inc
- Edition 2nd New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English