Sociology: Your Compass for a New World, Paper Version (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

This balanced, mainstream, beautifully written and totally up-to-date text is unrivalled in its ability to get students to see the connection between themselves and the social world. It teaches students "how" to think sociologically, not just "what" to think, and emphasizes the importance of diversity and a global perspective. It has been heralded for its inclusion of pop culture examples that instantly connect with today's students, and for its presentation of sociological concepts in a fresh, contemporary light.

Robert J. Brym (pronounced "brim") is an internationally known scholar. He studied in Canada and Israel and received his PhD from the University of Toronto, where he is now on faculty and where he especially enjoys teaching Introductory Sociology to more than 1,500 students every year. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarly work, which has been translated into half a dozen languages. His main areas of research are in political sociology, race and ethnic relations, and sociology of culture. His major books include Intellectuals and Politics (London and Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1980), From Culture to Power (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989), The Jews of Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk (New York: New York University Press, 1994), and New Society (Toronto: Nelson, 2004), Canada's best-selling introductory sociology textbook, now in its fourth edition. From 1992-97, Robert Brym served as Editor of Current Sociology, the journal of the International Sociological Association, and he is now Editor of East European Jewish Affairs, published in London. He recently completed a study of the Russian civil service with sociologists at the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and is now analyzing the results of the 2000 World Values Survey.