Sociology and Everyday Life

Traditional introductory topics grounded in the stuff of daily life! The authors' goal in this volume is to present students with a conceptual framework--based on symbolic interactionism--that can be used to expose and explain the patterned regularities that underlie everyday social experiences. Sociology's value lies in its ability to provide fresh insights into events and situations that people might take for granted. Each chapter of this highly regarded text shows that there are underlying patterns to everyday life and that these patterns become obvious only when we begin to look very hard at everyday phenomena and then apply sociological concepts to them.