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It's not often that a classroom reader is published which combines both scholarship and heuristic utility. This is such a book. It strikes at the heart of two of the biggest and recurring problems faced by young students of sociology - the problem of critical thinking and the problem of distinguishing connotation of language. We can hardly expect our students to appreciate the significance of critical evaluation of symbolic culture, if we ignore it in our teaching. Teachers, who choose the seemingly more difficult road of taking this issue on, will find that both they and their students are rewarded many times over for their efforts. I can think of no better way to approach these issues/problems than by the application of this text in the introductory sociology classroom. Congratulations on a fine piece of work which will certainly become a staple in my introductory sociology classes. (David Iaquinta, University of Wisconsin)

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