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By Jan Abu-Shakrah of Portland Community College. This student study tool contains brief chapter outlines, chapter focus sections, questions to guide your reading, a list of key terms and key people with page references to the text, detailed chapter outlines, "Writing about Society" exercises, practice tests consisting of 20-25 multiple choice questions, 10-15 true-false questions, 3-5 essay questions, 2-3 InfoTrac® exercises, and 2-3 Internet exercises. All multiple-choice and true-false questions include answer explanations and page references to the text.
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Margaret L. Andersen is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of THINKING ABOUT WOMEN: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SEX AND GENDER, SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, RACE AND ETHNICITY IN U.S. SOCIETY: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE and UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTORY READER, among others. A recipient of the University of Delaware's Excellence-in-Teaching Award and the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Teaching Award, she is the 2008-2009 Vice President of the American Sociological Association and has served as President of the Eastern Sociological Society. She currently chairs the National Advisory Board for the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, where she has also been a visiting professor. She has received the ASA Jessie Bernard Award (2006) and the 2004-2005 SWS Feminist Lecturer, an award for significant contributions to the study of women in society. Dr. Andersen received her B.A. from Georgia State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Howard F. Taylor was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hiram College and has a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. He has taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and Princeton University, where he is presently Professor of Sociology and former director of the African American Studies program. He has published over forty articles in sociology, education, social psychology, and race relations. His books include THE IQ GAME (Rutgers University Press), a critique of hereditarian accounts of intelligence; BALANCE IN SMALL GROUPS (Van Nostrand Reinhold); and the forthcoming RACE, CLASS, AND THE BELL CURVE IN AMERICA. He has also written SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, Fifth Edition (Wadsworth 2007, co-authored with Margaret L. Andersen), and UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTORY READER, Second Edition. (Wadsworth, 2004, co-edited with Margaret L. Andersen and Kim Logio). He has appeared widely before college, radio, and TV audiences, including ABC’s Nightline. He is past president of the Eastern Sociological Society; a member of the American Sociological Association and the Sociological Research Association, an honorary society for distinguished research. He is a winner of the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award, given by the American Sociological Association for distinguished research in race and ethnic relations, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He lives in Pennington, New Jersey, with his wife, a corporate lawyer.
By Jan Abu-Shakrah of Portland Community College. This student study tool contains brief chapter outlines, chapter focus sections, questions to guide your reading, a list of key terms and key people with page references to the text, detailed chapter outlines, "Writing about Society" exercises, practice tests consisting of 20-25 multiple choice questions, 10-15 true-false questions, 3-5 essay questions, 2-3 InfoTrac® exercises, and 2-3 Internet exercises. All multiple-choice and true-false questions include answer explanations and page references to the text.
About the Author
Margaret L. Andersen is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of THINKING ABOUT WOMEN: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SEX AND GENDER, SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, RACE AND ETHNICITY IN U.S. SOCIETY: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE and UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTORY READER, among others. A recipient of the University of Delaware's Excellence-in-Teaching Award and the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Teaching Award, she is the 2008-2009 Vice President of the American Sociological Association and has served as President of the Eastern Sociological Society. She currently chairs the National Advisory Board for the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, where she has also been a visiting professor. She has received the ASA Jessie Bernard Award (2006) and the 2004-2005 SWS Feminist Lecturer, an award for significant contributions to the study of women in society. Dr. Andersen received her B.A. from Georgia State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Howard F. Taylor was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hiram College and has a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. He has taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and Princeton University, where he is presently Professor of Sociology and former director of the African American Studies program. He has published over forty articles in sociology, education, social psychology, and race relations. His books include THE IQ GAME (Rutgers University Press), a critique of hereditarian accounts of intelligence; BALANCE IN SMALL GROUPS (Van Nostrand Reinhold); and the forthcoming RACE, CLASS, AND THE BELL CURVE IN AMERICA. He has also written SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, Fifth Edition (Wadsworth 2007, co-authored with Margaret L. Andersen), and UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTORY READER, Second Edition. (Wadsworth, 2004, co-edited with Margaret L. Andersen and Kim Logio). He has appeared widely before college, radio, and TV audiences, including ABC’s Nightline. He is past president of the Eastern Sociological Society; a member of the American Sociological Association and the Sociological Research Association, an honorary society for distinguished research. He is a winner of the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award, given by the American Sociological Association for distinguished research in race and ethnic relations, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He lives in Pennington, New Jersey, with his wife, a corporate lawyer.
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