Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life by Jos... - 9781032479743

Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday LifeAuthor(s): Josee Johnston, Kate Cairns, Shyon Baumann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032479743, 978-1032479743\nSynopsis\nThe challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials very different from the norm. It is a question of making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevant to todays world of undergraduates.\n\nThis comparatively concise, highly visual, and engaging book offers a refreshingly new way forward to reach students, using one of the most powerful tools in a sociologists teaching arsenal the familiar stuff in students everyday lives throughout the world: the jeans they wear to class, the coffee they drink each morning, or the phones their professors tell them to put away during lectures.\n\nA focus on consumer culture, seeing the strange in the familiar, is not only interesting k