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Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 8/E
Margaret Andersen, University of Delaware
Dana Hysock, Macon State

ISBN-10: 0205578721
ISBN-13: 9780205578726

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 480 pp
Published: 02/27/2008

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A comprehensive review of feminist scholarship in the social sciences, showing how gender operates in every aspect of society, and how the experiences of both men and women are created through social institutions.

  • Author Margaret Andersen is the former editor of Gender & Society, the recipient of the Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lecturer Award, and a leading scholar and teacher.
  • The text is interdisciplinary in its coverage, yet grounded in sociological theory and research.
  • Integrates discussions of race, class, and sexuality to show how gender is not experienced in isolation.
  • The opening chapters introduce students to the underlying sociological framework and show how research on women and women’s studies as a field developed from the feminist movement.
  • Exceptional student pedagogy includes end-of-chapter key terms, discussion questions, suggested readings, and a glossary.
  • Organization of text:
    • Part I, “Studying Women,” introduces students to the study of gender as it is rooted in feminist analysis. This section includes discussion of men’s studies and its connection to feminist scholarship.
    •  Part II, “Gender, Culture, and Sex,” focuses on the social construction of gender and the representation of gender in culture, particularly in the media.
    •  Part III, “Gender and Social Institutions” examines the institutional structures of work, family, health, religion, criminal justice, education, and politics.
    •  Part IV, “Gender and Social Change” introduces student to feminist theory and its link to the women’s movement.

  • Three new boxed features, found in every chapter (except Ch. 1), highlight key themes of the text: research, the media, and studies about men. The boxes are:
    • A Focus on Research, in which a new empirical research study, appropriate to the chapter subject, is described.
      • Example (Chapter 6): a discussion of “opting out”—that is, are well-educated, middle-class women dropping out of the labor market to raise children? The media claim this is a strong trend, but is it? This box feature examines new sociological research on this topic.
    • Media Matters, in which an empirical study examining some aspect of the media related to the chapter topic is presented

      • Example(Chapter 9): a box featuring new research on violent images of rape on the Internet. This box also shows how Asian women are overrepresented in pornographic web sites.

    • What about Men?, a box which features research examining some aspect of men’s lives that is related to the chapter topic.
      • Example(Chapter 4): a box on the peer socialization of young boys in which homophobic insults reinforce social norms of masculinity
  • New design - a new design, including more photographs, creates an open feel which is easier for students to read.
  • Throughout the new edition, new research has been incorporated, examples revised to appeal to contemporary students, and figures and empirical facts updated to reflect the most current information. In addition to the updating and incorporation of new research, here are some of the highlights of individual chapters:

Chapter-by-Chapter Changes

 

Chapter 1: Studying Women: Feminist Perspectives

    • new public opinion data on women’s and men’s attitudes on gender issues;


Chapter 2: The Social Construction of Gender

    • a discussion of gender-neutral parenting

    • discussion of patterns of gender segregation in college majors


Chapter 3: Gender, Culture, and the Media

    • increased focus on media studies, including images of older women


Chapter 4: Sexuality and Intimate Relationships

    • expanded discussion of the sexualization of young girls in popular culture

    • new research on men’s friendships


Chapter 5: Gender, Work, and the Economy

    • new data throughout on women’s status in the labor market

    • new data on the increase in U.S. poverty


Chapter 6: Women and Families

    • new research on power in marriage

    • inclusion of research on arranged marriages


Chapter 7: Gender, Health, and Reproduction

    • updated work on teen use of contraceptives


Chapter 8: Women and Religion

    • greater inclusion of Muslim women and men


Chapter 9: Women, Crime, and Deviance

    • new research on women as prostitutes


Chapter 10: Gender, Science, and Education

    • new work on the gender gap in education


Chapter 11: Women, Power, and Politics

    • New work on attitudes toward feminism among young women


Chapter 12: Women and Social Reform: Liberal Feminism.

    • more focus on current debates about affirmative action and race/gender-blind justice


Chapter 13: Contemporary Frameworks in Feminist Theory

    • inclusion of research on women’s mobilization in labor unions

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:


Section I: Introduction

    Chapter 1. Studying Women: Feminist Perpectives

Section II: Gender, Culture, and Sex    

    Chapter 2. The Social Construction of Gender
    Chapter 3. Gender, Culture and the Media: The Social Construction of Knowedge

    Chapter 4. Secuality and Intimate Relationships

Section III: Gender and Social Institutions

    Chapter 5. Gender, Work and the Economy

    Chapter 6. Women and Families

    Chapter 7. Gender, Health, and Reproduction

    Chapter 8. Women and Religion

    Chapter 9. Women, Crime and Deviance

    Chapter 10. Gender, Education, and Science

    Chapter 11. Women, Power and Politics

Section IV: Gender and Social Change: Frameworks of Feminism

    Chapter 12. Women and Social Reform: Liberal Feminism

    Chapter 13. Contemporary Frameworks in Feminist Theory                                                



COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 * All chapters end with Chapter Summary and Themes; Key Terms; Discussion Questions/Projects for Thought; Internet Resources; and Suggested Readings


I. INTRODUCTION
Chapter1. Studying Women: Feminist Perspectives

Why Study Women?

The Sociological Imagination

Defining Feminism

Women's Studies and the Inclusion of Women

The Significance of Gender, Race, and Class

The Growth of Men's Studies

A Sociological Framework for Thinking about Women


II. GENDER, CULTURE, AND SEX

2. The Social Construction of Gender

The Biological Basis of Sex Differences
 Ambiguous Sex Identities
 Nature/Nurture and Sexually Dimorphic Traits
 Biological Determinism
 The Difference Culture Makes
 The Institutional Basis of Gender
 Socialization and the Formation the Gender Identity
 Socialization across the Life Course
 Theoretical Perspectives on the Formation of Gender Identity

3.  Gender, Culture and the Media: The Social Construction of Knowledge

Gender, Language and Popular Culture

Gender and the Media

The Sociology of Knowledge

4. Sexuality and Intimate Relationships

The Social Construction of Sexuality

The History of Sexuality in the United States

Contemporary Sexual Attitudes and Behavior

Race, Sexuality, and Power

Sexual Development over the Life Cycle

Love and Intimate Relationships

Friendship

Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences

III. GENDER AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

5. Gender, Work and the Economy

Historical Perspectives on Women's Work

What is Work?

Gender and Class Stratification

The Contemporary Status of Women

Poverty and Welfare

Work Environments

Intersections of Family and Work

Policies for Gender Equity

6. Women and Families

Historical Perspectives on Modern Families

Feminist Perspectives on Families

The Diversity of Contemporary Families

Race, Gender, and Families

Families and Social Problems

7. Gender, Health, and Reproduction

The Social Structure of Health

Race, Class and Health

Gender, Health, and Social Problems

The Politics of Reproduction

Gender and the Health Care System

8. Women and Religion

Sociological Perspectives on Religion

Religion and Social Control

Religion and the Emergence of Feminism in the United States

Women and Religiosity

Women's Status in Religious Institutions

Religion and Social Justice

9. Women, Crime, and Deviance

Sociological Perspectives on Crime and Deviance

Defining Deviance

Labeling and Social Deviance

Deviance, Power, and Social Conflict

Feminist Perspectives on Deviance

Women as Criminals

Women as Victims of Crime

Women in the Criminal Justice System

10. Gender, Education, and Science

Women and the History of Education

Gender and Educational Success

Women in Higher Education

Gender, Science, and Society

11. Women, Power, and Politics

Defining Power

Women and the State

Women and the Law

Women in Government

Women and the Military

Rethinking the Political

The Women's Movement

IV. GENDER AND SOCIAL CHANGE: FRAMEWORKS OF FEMINISM

12. Women and Social Reform: Liberal Feminism

Frameworks of Feminism

The Liberal Basis of Modern Feminism

Liberalism as a Mode of Social Thought

Early Liberal Feminists

The Critique of Liberal Feminism

13. Contemporary Frameworks in Feminist Theory

The Radical Origins of Feminist Theory: The Critique of Liberal Feminism

Historical Roots of Radical Feminisms

Socialist Feminism: The Importance of Class and Capitalism

The Socialist Feminist Critique of Marx

Radical Feminism: The Power of Patriarchy

Multiracial Feminism

Postmodernist Feminism

Queer Theory and Sexualities

Continuing Questions for Feminist Theory

Glossary

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

 

"This book is so well done it makes Margaret L. Anderson an authority in Women’s Studies. It is logically structured, thorough in its discussion and inclusive of the most important themes in the contemporary literature. Anderson writes in a relaxed, engaging style that is highly readable yet is informative and well-researched."

Jeff Torlina

Utah Valley State College

 

"The main reason I adopted Andersen's text is because of her conceptualization of race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of power and privilege."

 

"I see Andersen’s text as a comprehensive introduction to feminist scholarship and research. It is extremely well written, current, empirically grounded, and, most importantly, very easy to read and exciting."

Daphne S. Cain

Louisiana State University 

 

"I use this text because it covers a broad range of social institutions, includes good demographic information and reader-friendly charts, graphs, etc. I also like that the text introduces higher-level concepts (like the dominance of scientific epistemology, the role of ideology, etc.) in a way that is accessible to lower division students."

Joy C. Honea

Montana State University-Billings

 

"The overall strength of this text is its use of the socioogical perspective and the wide range of topics covered that relate to women/families."

Sharon K. Araji

University of Alaska-Anchorage

 

"I adopted this text primarily because of its specific focus on the sociological investigation and theoretical framing of women's issues (as opposed to a treatment of gender in general)."

Susan L. Wortmann

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

 

 

 

Margaret L. Andersen (B.A., Georgia State University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware. She is the author of On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection (Mystic Seaport Museum); Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (co-edited with Patricia Hill Collins); Sociology: Understanding a Diverse Society (with Howard F. Taylor); Sociology: The Essentials (with Howard F. Taylor); Understanding Society: An Introductory Reader (co-edited with Kim Logio and Howard F. Taylor); and, Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape (co-edited with Elizabeth Higginbotham).

 

Professor Andersen is the Vice President of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and recipient of the ASA’s prestigious Jessie Bernard Award–given annually to someone whose work expands the horizons of sociology to include the study of women. She also received the 2004 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lecturer Award and the 2008 Eastern Sociological Society Robin F. Williams Lecturer Award. She has received two teaching awards at the University of Delaware: the University Excellence in teaching Award and the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award. She currently chairs the National Advisory Board for the Stanford University Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and is the former editor of Gender & Society.

Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 8/E

Margaret  Andersen

ISBN-10:      0205578721

 

 

This text is a comprehensive review of feminist scholarship in the social sciences; it shows how gender operates in every aspect of society, and how the experiences of both men and women are created through social institutions.Thinking About Women is interdisciplinary in its coverage, yet grounded in sociological theory and research. Also, it integrates discussions of race, class, and sexuality to show how gender is not experienced in isolation.

 

As with every edition, the text is thoroughly updated. The list below highlights some of the new features.

 

Every new chapter (except Chapter 1) now includes three new boxed features. These features highlight key themes of the text: research, the media, and studies about men. The boxes are:

  • A Focus on Research, in which a new empirical research study, appropriate to the chapter subject, is described.

Example (Chapter 6): a discussion of “opting out”–that is, are well-educated, middle-class women dropping out of the labor market to raise children?The media claim this is a strong trend, but is it? This box feature examines new sociological research on this topic.

  • Media Matters, in which an empirical study examining some aspect of the media related to the chapter topic is presented.

Example (Chapter 9): a box featuring new research on violent images of rape on the Internet. This box also shows how Asian women are overrepresented in pornographic web sites.

  • What About Men?, a box which features research examining some aspect of men’s lives that is related to the chapter topic.

Example (Chapter 4): a box describing the peer socialization of young boys in which homophobic insults reinforce social norms of masculinity

 

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    • Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme — that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction among governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity — the Sixth Edition of this text brings city politics of the global era into sharp focus by tracing the continuous development of urban America from the nation’s founding to the present.

  • 0205522165City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America, 6/E
    Judd & Swanstrom
    © 2008 | Longman | Paper; 432 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205522165 | ISBN-13: 9780205522163
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    • The psychology of human memory and cognition is fascinating, dealing with questions and ideas that are inherently interesting, such as how we think, reason, remember, and use language. This text is directed primarily toward undergraduate students at junior and senior level. Using a first person narrative, posing direct questions to the reader, and balancing classic research with cutting edge topics, the author draws in the reader and conveys the excitement of the field.

    The fourth edition thoroughly covers the foundation areas in cognition. Reflecting the increasing use of new technologies to study memory and cognition, Ashcraft continues to integrate sections on neurosciences withing individual chapter topics. A major section in the introductory chapters provides background and information on neurons and the brain, so even students without formal coursework on the biological bases of congnition will be prepared for the cognitive neuroscience coverage in the text.

    Other important new developments also examined in the new edition include: false memory research, new research on working memory and individual differences, new strides in online investigations of comprehension and reading, and new challenges to the classic research in heurstics in decision-making.

  • 0131552716Cognition, 4/E
    Ashcraft
    © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 640 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131552716 | ISBN-13: 9780131552715
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    • For undergraduate courses of beginning graduate courses in Introductory Cognitive Psychology.

     

    Using a unique question-and-answer format, this text comprehensively addresses many of the overarching questions that confront and motivate today's cognitive scientists.

     

    When Daniel Willingham first approached the prospect of creating his own cognitive psychology text, he did so with the knowledge that his years of teaching experience had brought him: while many texts were relatively adequate in coverage, his students never liked them. Usually underexposed to social sciences in pre-college courses, he found his students often struggled with understanding how and why cognitive psychologists approach the problems that they do. Here, by using a unique question-and-answer format, he is able to start with questions frequently asked by students, relate those to questions cognitive scientists ask in their own research, present clear answers, and frame those answers in an interesting, lively, and comprehensive coverage of the core material. Through this accessible narrative style, Willingham shows the logical connections between each section and, by means of several new pedagogical features, encourages students to apply what they have learned in their daily lives.

     

  • 0131736884Cognition: The Thinking Animal, 3/E
    Willingham
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 600 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131736884 | ISBN-13: 9780131736887
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    • One of the top sellers in the field, Cognitive Psychology is well-written, humorous, and remains the most comprehensive and balanced text in the area of undergraduate cognition. MacLin and MacLin, inheriting the textbook from the late Robert L. Solso, boldly revised and reorganized the Eighth Edition to reflect emerging trends in the field, while retaining the strengths that made it one of the most popular texts among students and professors. The text features a sequential model of human cognition from sensation to perception, to attention, to memory, to higher-order cognition, and features new cutting-edge coverage of consciousness, cognitive neuroscience, memory and forgetting, and evolutionary psychology.

  • 0205521088Cognitive Psychology, 8/E
    Solso, MacLin & MacLin
    © 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 592 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205521088 | ISBN-13: 9780205521081
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    • For courses in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Learning and Memory, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Psychology.

     

    The first book that fully integrates information about the brain and neural processing into the standard curriculum in cognitive psychology.

     

    Based on a need for a text that could accurately, productively, and seamlessly integrate information on both the brain and neural processing, Edward E. Smith (Columbia University) and Stephen M. Kosslyn (Harvard University) created Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain 1.e. Without question, the study of cognition has progressed enormously over the past decade. Most importantly, much of the recent progress in cognitive studies has come from the advent of cognitive neuroscience, which uses neuroscientific methods and data to address psychological issues. However, throughout years of academic teaching, the authors came to realize that no currently available book was able to summarize and make accessible the major findings, theories, and research the field had produced. Now, in this text's first edition, these issues have been addressed. Using findings in neuroscience to illuminate and motivate key distinctions in cognitive psychology, the authors have written a cognitive psychology book that is informed by neuroscience - the first of its kind and one poised to set a new standard in undergraduate cognitive studies.   

     

     

     

  • 0131825089Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain
    Smith & Kosslyn
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 608 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131825089 | ISBN-13: 9780131825086
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    • A comprehensive collection of primary documents for students of early American and Atlantic history, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World gives voice to the men and women–Amerindian, African, and European–who together forged a new world.

     

    These compelling narratives address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective of the people who lived at the time: Spanish priests and English farmers, Indian diplomats and Dutch governors, French explorers and African abolitionists. Evoking the remarkable complexity created by the bridging of the Atlantic Ocean, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World suggests that the challenges of globalization–and the growing reality of American diversity–are among the most important legacies of the colonial world.

  • 0132342375Colonial North America and the Atlantic World: A History in Documents
    Rushforth & Mapp
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 339 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0132342375 | ISBN-13: 9780132342377
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    • For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Comparative Politics, World Politics, as well as Introduction to Politics with a comparative focus.

     

    Written in aclear, jargon-free style, Comparative Politics emphasizes political institutions and behavior–rather than on abstract conceptual frameworks. This approach makes the text  more accessible to introductory students than most other texts on comparative politics. It features both a cross-national approach which focuses helping students develop develop a comparative understanding of the types of institutions (e.g., constitutions, executives, legislatures, political parties, etc.)–as well as a country-by-country approach that examines those institutions within the contexts of eight different countries. This approach allows students to develop the ability to look how all the “pieces” fit together in various countries.

  • 0136155561Comparative Politics: An Institutional and Cross-National Approach, 5/E
    Mahler
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 456 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0136155561 | ISBN-13: 9780136155560
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    • Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts’ Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings that argue about the shape of international conflict in this post-Cold War and post-9/11 era.

     

    Contextualized within a broader philosophical and historical context, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader introduce students to the core debates about the causes and the future of war and peace. Through the precision of its approach and attention to new issues, this reader challenges conventional wisdom and encourages more critical examination of the political, economic, social, and military factors that underlie political violence.

     


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  • 0205583520Conflict After Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, 3/E
    Betts
    © 2008 | Longman | Paper; 672 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205583520 | ISBN-13: 9780205583522
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    • For undergraduate courses in Sociology of Asian Americans or Introduction to Asian American Studies.

     

    Combining the rigor of scholarship with the accessibility of journalism, this text examines the contemporary history, culture, and social relationships that form the fundamental issues confronted by Asians in America today. Comprehensive, authoritative, yet concise, it focuses on a broad range of issues, and features a unique comparative approach that analyzes how race, class, and gender intersect throughout the contemporary Asian American experience.

  • 013185061XContemporary Asian American Experience, The: Beyond the Model Minority, 3/E
    Fong
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 400 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 013185061X | ISBN-13: 9780131850613
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    • For one-semester, junior/senior-level courses in Contemporary Sociological Theory.

    This text examines the assumptions and concepts of the five major sociological theories and the classical roots of the modern theories. It focuses specifically on functionalism, conflict theory, theories of rational choice, symbolic interactionism, and phenomenology.

  • 0131850512Contemporary Sociological Theory: Expanding the Classical Tradition, 6/E
    Wallace & Wolf
    © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 480 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131850512 | ISBN-13: 9780131850514
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    • A best-selling title in the urban planning market, Contemporary Urban Planning provides students with an insider's view of sub-state urban planning including details on the interplay of politics, law, money, and interest groups. This text is exceptional in its coverage of economics, law, finance, and urban governance.

     

  • 0136025455Contemporary Urban Planning, 8/E
    Levy
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 448 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0136025455 | ISBN-13: 9780136025450
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    • Systematically examining politics from around the world, Countries and Concepts presents ten accessible and in-depth studies of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, India, Mexico, Nigeria, and Iran.

     

    This text looks at similarities and differences in five key areas of each country to facilitate comparative analysis, defining important concepts and integrating examples from current events throughout. Highly readable and thought-provoking, Countries and Concepts introduces students to the politics and governments of the world and bolsters their civic education by considering the historical, political, economic, geographical, and moral aspects of democracy.

  • 0136026532Countries and Concepts: Politics, Geography, Culture, 10/E
    Roskin
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 640 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0136026532 | ISBN-13: 9780136026532
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    • This highly accessible book provides a basic introduction to the nature of research questions and methods of empirical research in political science. It describes the cooperative process, as well as the logic of empirical measurement and analysis of observations, in the conception and pursuit of a research project. Emphasizing the design of interesting research questions and basic problems of measurement and data analysis, the book relies more on intuitive understanding than on formal development.

     

    W. Phillips Shively wrote this book in 1970, when he was an assistant professor at Yale University. In teaching a number of sections of Introduction to Research to undergraduates there, he had found that the students benefited from an introduction that emphasized the internal logic of research methods and the collective, cooperative nature of the research process. He could not find a book that presented things in this way at a sufficiently elementary level to be readily accessible by undergraduates. And so he wrote The Craft of Political Research.

     

  • 0136029485The Craft of Political Research, 7/E
    Shively
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 192 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0136029485 | ISBN-13: 9780136029489
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    • This landmark text on the sociology of death and dying draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literatur