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by Allan G. Johnson

  • ISBN: 1592138764
  • Category: Politics
  • Author: Allan G. Johnson
  • Subcategory: Social Sciences
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Temple University Press; Revised and Expanded edition (March 21, 2008)
  • Pages: 216 pages
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  • Rating: 4.4
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Allan G. Johnson is a novelist, nonfiction writer, sociologist, teacher, and public speaker who has spent much of his life trying to understand the human condition, especially as shaped by issues of gender, race, and social class.

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An updated exploration of sociology as a way of thinking. I needed this for my Sociology class and there were no markings or anything. Thank you! I have had bad experiences purchasing books via online that claim brand new but had tons of markings and highlighting. This stuck true to the descriptions and great book.

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The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise. Allan G. Johnson was born in Washington, DC. He lived there until he was six years old, when he and his family moved to Oslo, Norway, for two years while his father served at the . Privilege, Power, and Difference. The First Thing and the Last. When the family returned to the United States, they settled in Massachusetts. Johnson earned his bachelor's degree in Sociology and English at Dartmouth College and his P. in Sociology at the University of Michigan. His dissertation focused on women's roles in Mexico City.

If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? What insight about the nature of social life could serve as a gateway to questions that point . Johnson is a sociologist, writer, and trainer/consultant.

If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? What insight about the nature of social life could serve as a gateway to questions that point toward everything we want to know? What could we use as a starting point, a core view of reality on which sociological practice of all kinds is based, consciously or not? . He teaches at Hartford College for Women and works in major corporations and universities on issues of gender and diversity.

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What is sociology really about? Allan Johnson's answer goes to the heart of sociology as a way of thinking and explains why it's important that we understand it, use it, live it. .1. The Forest, the Trees, and the One Thing.

What is sociology really about? Allan Johnson's answer goes to the heart of sociology as a way of thinking and explains why it's important that we understand it, use it, live it, and pass it on. Johnson takes us into every nook and cranny of social life, from the meaning of "I love you" to the ravages of social oppression. 2. Culture: Symbols, Ideas, and the Stuff of Life. 3. The Structures of Social Life. 4. Population and Human Ecology: People, Space, and Place. 5. Us, It, and Social Interaction

If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response . In the book, Dr. Johnson gives the readers a lot of examples in our daily life to make connection with the sociology

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. Johnson gives the readers a lot of examples in our daily life to make connection with the sociology. The book is not only the introduction book to the Sociology but also a reference book of it, of course, in the interesting way. It makes readers thinking in sociological way. For the people who are always curious about the world, you should read this book, 'cause the sociology will give you another answer that you've never seen before.

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

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 revised and updated edition features: a new chapter that brings together the various aspects of the sociological model described in previous chapters with a detailed application to the origins of racism; a discussion of how individuals can participate in social change by stepping off paths of least resistance; and, the addition of graphics to illustrate the sociological model of systems and individuals.
Reviews about The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise (7):
Giamah
Got this for a class and I HATED this book. So confusing and boring fell asleep reading many times
Fordregelv
I needed this for my Sociology class and there were no markings or anything. Thank you! I have had bad experiences purchasing books via online that claim brand new but had tons of markings and highlighting. This stuck true to the descriptions and great book.
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Shakar
Johnson explains the sociological imagination and its importance in simple, easy to understand language. He references the major thinkers in sociology such as Mills, Marx, Mead, etc. while describing their ideas in more contemporary language. My students love reading this book prior to everything else in the course. It sets the framework for dealing with issues like gender inequality, definitions of selfhood, and the structure of institutions. Also, if you want students to read the original theories from writers like Derrida or Berger and Luckman, this is a good reference book for them if they're not sure they get the main idea.
Furthermore, Johnson's use of section headings helps students study for exams. For example, they know what the main ideas in each chapter are just by flipping through the pages. If they see a heading they can't define, then they can just re-read that section.
Because the whole book is his narration, I recommend a reader of some sort - either one you put together yourself or one from Pine Forge Press or something. I've found that students actually ENJOY applying these ideas to sociological articles.
At the beginning of this book the author states that they think sociology has a strong moral dimension. Personally I prefer the alternative view that as a social science it attempts to explain parts of human behavior, and that an explanation is not the same as a moral value judgement.

Ultimately because of the is-ought problem one can use any implicit moral premises and in a logically consistent way moralize anything in terms of their biases. By the second chapter Jonhson's biases become clear, he states out right that people have nothing to show for growth under capitalism. The only evidence he offers is a citation, the book being cited pertaining to the apparent decline of leisure in America.

Conveniently I am taking both a sociology and an economics course and my economics text offered an alternative explanation to the alleged decline despite economic growth. Americans prefer to consume more goods and services rather than work less, it shows this by comparing America to European countries with comparable growth showing that hours worked remained relatively constant, growing in some years, in the US as consumption went up and consumption remained relatively constant in Europe as hours worked went down. Also importantly the book states this is one possible explanation among others rather than the only one.

Contrast this to Forest and the Trees where Johnson states his assertion as an absolute with no argument or evidence beyond the citation even though the idea that different cultures would have different preferences regarding consumption and labor would be equally consistent, if not more consistent, with what he's trying to tell the reader about cultures and how they reinforce social values.

This would be all well and good if it didn't interfere with learning sociology, but I frankly find it very distracting and frustrating. One could make the argument that it is impossible to entirely avoid one's biases influencing one's work but there are ways to compensate by presenting other views and there is at least the bare minimum of not bashing the reader over the head with it. Johnson didn't do either.

Unless this book is a course requirement like it was for me, or you are much more tolerant of an author's irrelevant sanctimony, buyers should shop around for other books on sociology before considering this one.

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