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Society: The Basics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780131922440
Edition: 8th
ISBN: 0131922440
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: January 14, 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Rating:  - Are you kidding me?
After reading the first chapter of this book, I couldn't help but think is this what kind of education I am paying for? The poster who wrote that this is racial propaganda was being modest. This is communist BS. If you are white, you are rich and powerful trying to keep everyone down, if you are black you are poor and have no options, if you are Mexican you are unwanted...etc. This is stereotyping at its finest and the author doesn't understand that stereotyping goes beyond the meathead comments ... Read More
Rating: - sent me the wrong edition
I purchased 978-0-13-228490-5 the 9th edition. they sent me the 5th edition!!!! They totally screwed up my semester....
Rating:  - Thanks!
Book was in great shape; I would have liked shipping to be a little faster though.
Rating:  - Wrong edition
the text arrived in good condition and promptly. My only issue was it was the wrong edition.
Rating: - Thorough Disappointment
I felt as if Macionis was trying to be uber-apologetic for what he believed are sins of the white race. I feel that he negatively stereotypes whites and Asian-Americans, bashes anthropological research, quotes himself too much, and contradicts his quotes and the quotes of sociology's greats. These faults will be obvious to anyone who processes the material rather than just memorizing for testing purposes.
Macionis emphasizes Weber's fundamental belief that when a sociologist adds ... Read More
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