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Agger, Ben – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Reports on a study that evaluates sociology textbooks both in commercial terms and for what they say about the assumptions sociologists make concerning the world. Provides a Marxist-feminist critique of sociology textbooks. Concludes that most sociology instructors continue to adopt the fairly standard assumptions of the discipline. (KO)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Epistemology, Feminism, Higher Education