Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye. This item is unavailable.Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye

With over 20 essays examining popular conceptions on a wide range of social subjects, this student friendly collection encourages students to take a sociological approach to 'conventional wisdom'. It is a perfect supplement to any introductory sociology course, and a wonderful introduction to the sociological imagination.

Karen A. Cerulo (PhD, Princeton University) is Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Her research interests include culture and cognition, symbolic communication, media and technology, and comparative historical studies. Professor Cerulo's articles appear in a wide variety of journals, including the American Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology, Poetics, Social Forces, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Communication Research and annuals such as the Annual Review of Sociology and Research in Political Sociology. She is the author of three books: Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation, a work that won the ASA Culture Section's award for the Best Book of 1996 (Rose Book Series of the ASA, Rutgers University Press); Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong (Routledge); and Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst (University of Chicago Press). She has also edited a collection entitled Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition (Routledge). Professor Cerulo's teaching earned her the Rutgers University Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education. Janet M. Ruane (PhD, Rutgers University) is a Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. She has served as her department's Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising and as the Advisor of the Graduate Program in Applied Sociology. Professor Ruane's research interests include formal and informal social control mechanisms, domestic violence, media and technology, research methods and applied sociology. She is the author of Essentials of Research Methods (Blackwell) and has contributed articles to several journals, including Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Law and Policy, Communication Research, Sociological Focus, Journal of Applied Sociology, Science as Culture, Simulation and Games, and Virginia Review of Sociology. Over the years, Professor Ruane has over twenty years of classroom experience, teaching both introductory and advance-level sociology courses as well as graduate courses in applied sociology.