Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom

by Janet M. Ruane, Karen A. Cerulo

Is it true that "numbers don′t lie?" Is America "the land of equal opportunity?" Is marriage a "dying institution?"  Each of the 23 essays in  Second Thoughts  reviews a familiar conventional wisdom, and introduces relevant sociological concepts and theories in order to explain, qualify, and sometimes debunk that conventional wisdom.

Genres: Sociology

400 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 2011