The Forest and the Trees : Sociology As Life, Practice, and Promise

New Third Edition! If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it. This Third Edition features: • Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender/cisgender and the Occupy Movement • A glossary of terms • The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath • An additional analysis of how men's violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men • Chapter 7's focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it. It is about what that insight is and why it matters that we understand it, use it, and pass it on. It is about the future of a discipline whose influence and credibility will stand or fall on the ability to foster a clear and widespread understanding of what it means to think sociologically.

About the Author:
Allan G. Johnson is a sociologist, writer, and public speaker

The Forest, The Trees, And The One Thing -- Culture : Symbols, Ideas, And The Stuff Of Life -- The Structures Of Social Life -- Population And Human Ecology : People, Space, And Place -- Us, It, And Social Interaction -- Living The Practice And The Promise -- A Simple Framework For A Complicated World. Allan G. Johnson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 187-196) And Index. If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? This title explores sociology as a way of thinking and why it matters that we understand it, use it, live it, and pass it on. It features a discussion of how individuals can participate in social change by stepping off paths of least resistance. Explains how the fact that individuals always participate in something larger than themselves is a core tenet of sociology, as well as the means to understand the essence of sociological thinking. -- Back cover