This text offers the quality scholarship of Hughes and Kroehler's Sociology: The Core in a more condensed, more affordable form. Focusing on the essentials, Inside Sociology covers core sociological concepts in a clear, accessible, ten-chapter presentation. The authors apply the major sociological perspectives throughout the book, helping students develop their understanding of functionalism, conflict theory, and interactionism. Using sociological data, feature boxes, compelling chapter openers, cartoons, photos, and abundant real-world examples, Inside Sociology is designed to engage today's students.
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Michael Hughes is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Vanderbilt University in 1979 and has taught introductory sociology over the past 34 years. He also regularly teaches courses in minority group relations, deviant behavior, the sociology of mental illness, and data analysis. From 2000 to 2004, he served as editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. He has held positions as research fellow at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (1992–1994) and research associate at Vanderbilt University (1980–1982). With Walter R. Gove he is the author of the book, Overcrowding in the Household. His research interests in mental health and mental illness, race and ethnicity, and crowding and living alone have resulted in over 60 professional articles published in a variety of journals. In 2004–2005, he served as president of the Southern Sociological Society.
CAROLYN J. KROEHLER is a professional writer and editor who has received her sociological education “on the job.” Before her work on Sociology: The Core, she contributed to criminology and criminal justice textbooks. She edited and helped with the writing of a guide to academic success for college students, Straight A’s: If I Can Do It, So Can You. At the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, she wrote public education and technical materials about water quality and other environmental issues, including a book on drinking water standards. Her writing experience also includes several years in a college public relations office and writing and editing for the Lancaster Independent Press. She earned her Ph.D. in botany at Virginia Tech and has published in the Canadian Journal of Botany, Plant and Soil, and Oecologia. Mike and Carrie live in Blacksburg, Virginia, with their children Edmund and Camilla.
CAROLYN J. KROEHLER is a professional writer and editor who has received her sociological education “on the job.” Before her work on Sociology: The Core, she contributed to criminology and criminal justice textbooks. She edited and helped with the writing of a guide to academic success for college students, Straight A’s: If I Can Do It, So Can You. At the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, she wrote public education and technical materials about water quality and other environmental issues, including a book on drinking water standards. Her writing experience also includes several years in a college public relations office and writing and editing for the Lancaster Independent Press. She earned her Ph.D. in botany at Virginia Tech and has published in the Canadian Journal of Botany, Plant and Soil, and Oecologia. Mike and Carrie live in Blacksburg, Virginia, with their children Edmund and Camilla.
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Very Readable and To The Point,
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This review is from: Inside Sociology (Paperback)
Hughes and Kroehler have published introductory sociology books in various editions. Their Sociology: The Core is now in its 10th Edition. Inside Sociology is essentially the same book in a smaller format. A few more topics are covered in The Core compared with Inside Sociology, but not as many as one might expect since The Core is 545 pages compared to Inside Sociology's 368. The difference in the number of pages comes mostly from The Core's larger print, charts and images.
While both books are good, well-written introductions to sociology, I prefer Inside Sociology for its conciseness and lower cost. Carolyn Kroehler is a professional writer while Michael Hughes is a sociologist. One is tempted to think that she is the one who has made this such a readable book. There are concepts such as social distance and measures of central tendency that are omitted in Inside Sociology that I wish had been included. But they are omitted in The Core as well. For unknown reasons, McGraw-Hill has never really promoted Inside Sociology although it is evidently still in print. I am told that no new edition of Inside Sociology is planned. That's o.k. with me since there's not much new in Sociology: The Core 10th Edition (2011) compared with Inside Sociology (2007). Some data have been updated, but that doesn't change the important points. Does it really matter that the richest 20% of American families controlled 83.41% of the privately held wealth in 2007 compared with "only" 82.62% in 2001? The point is the same. A punctilious instructor might present more recent figures in class making the point that the rich have continued to grow richer over the last decade. With no new edition, many used copies of Inside Sociology are available. Why not save your students some money? If you want a concise text for an introductory sociology course, Inside Sociology is a good choice. And if it were to someday become unavailable, then one could easily switch to Sociology: The Core.
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