This best-selling textbook returns with material on the most fundamental and fascinating issues in sociology today. The authors focus on the big picture, capturing students’ imaginations, while still providing the basic intricacies of theory and research needed in a good textbook.
· Long praised for offering a more integrated understanding of sociology and encouraging more critical thinking than other texts.
· Thoroughly introduces the basic approaches of sociology: functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist. Subsequent chapters use these theories to explain and integrate diverse topics, issues, and debates.
· Includes strong emphases on race, class, and gender in every chapter.
· Engages students with fascinating and thematically linked special features boxes: Personal Journeys into Sociology; Student Life; Sociological Insights; Global Sociology; Sociological Surprises; and Understanding Race, Class, and Gender.
· Makes teaching easier with such pedagogical aids as real-life vignettes, chapter summaries and key terms, critical thinking and debate exercises, and a full glossary.
· Offers helpful ancillary materials, including a test bank, instructor’s manual, and PowerPoint slides.
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John E. Farley is Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
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