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You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction To Thinking Like A Sociologist (2008)

by Dalton Conley(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0393927601 (ISBN13: 9780393927603)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: I hated this book with a passion as a college freshman. The author tries so hard to sound cool and up to date, by simplifying every concept he comes across. (The descriptions for culture jamming were so cringe-worthy.) He made the social sciences sound like its goal was to define every phenomena with a pompous term (who the hell thought up of "culture jamming"?!). Completely turned me off from considering Sociology as a major. On the other hand, the design of the book was great. Colorful and engaging. But the text -- ugh!!!!If you like Malcolm Gladwell, you might like this.
review 2: (Read for my Sociology Class)-I'm admittedly not terribly interested in Sociology. There are some aspects that I believe are worth exploring, but mostly I felt as if I were wasting... more my time debating things that could never reach a conclusion. I understand the importance of self-awareness, but couldn't bring myself to LOVE the class. - That being said, this text was very well written. I wish all of my texts were written this way. The author used "plain english" to describe concepts and it was completely refreshing, such a break for my brain. I found it a lot easier to make myself dive into the reading in comparision to my other classes, so I had to rate 4 stars - because really, that's just amazing for a school text. less

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