Study Guide for Stark's Sociology

by Rodney Stark

By Robert Wortham of North Carolina Central University. This student study tool contains extended abstracts (chapter summaries), key learning objectives, chapter outlines, key terms and key research studies (with page references), InfoTrac College Edition exercises, Internet exercises, and practice tests consisting of 25-30 multiple choice questions, 10 true-false questions, 10 short answer questions, and 3-5 essay questions. All questions include answer explanations and page references to the text.

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Rodney Stark grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota, and began his career as a newspaper reporter. Following a tour of duty in the U.S. Army, he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he held appointments as a research sociologist at the Survey Research Center and at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He left Berkeley to become Professor of Sociology and of Comparative Religion at the University of Washington. In 2004 he joined the faculty of Baylor University. He published 30 books and more than 140 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as prejudice, crime, suicide, and city life in ancient Rome. However, the greater part of his work has been on religion. He was former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. He also won a number of national and international awards for distinguished scholarship. Many of his books and articles have been translated and published in foreign languages, including Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Slovene, and Turkish.