Product Description

You May Ask Yourself teaches students to think like a sociologist and put those lessons into action. Conley's groundbreaking "non-textbook textbook" draws students into reading with his irreverent style, provocative critical analysis, and emphasis on students cultivating their own sociological imaginations. As part of his effort to get students to think like a sociologist, Conley emphasizes the social inequalities that are built into our lives. He also relies on a set of tools in every chapter to help students connect sociology to their own experiences: a Person, a Paradox, a Policy, and a Practice section.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7951 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 802 pages

About the Author
Every year, Dalton Conley teaches the introduction to sociology course at New York University, where he is the University Professor of the Social Sciences and Chair of the Sociology department. He also holds appointments at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service, as an Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2005, Conley became the first sociologist to win the prestigious NSF Alan T Waterman Award, which honors an outstanding young U.S. scientist or engineer. Dalton Conley will be publishing a new trade book with Pantheon in January 2009 called The Elsewhere Society. His other books include: the memoir Honky (2001), The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become (2004), Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America (1999), and The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances (2003).