SOCY 122 Chapter 1: Week 1 Readings

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

The introduction to the concise encyclopedia and the entry theory. The introduction (pp. xiv xviii) to the concise encyclopedia is not long and you are not going to memorize any of it. George ritzer and michael ryan make the important point (see the section using the. Concise encyclopedia of sociology ) that this particular encyclopedia provides you with a unique opportunity to explore the most significant aspects of sociology from a number of different perspectives, following one or more of the strategies that they indicate. In many ways, the concise encyclopedia can serve as a parallel introduction to sociology that fully complements the course"s other two core texts the promise of sociology: the classical. Tradition and contemporary sociological thinking and the classical tradition and. At the end of that section, just prior to the section on how to use the.