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New to the Seventh Edition of the Text
- Presents new and updated coverage throughout, including new sections on Muslim-Americans, global warming, and sexual orientation
- Features Newman′s signature compelling writing style with slightly briefer chapters and integrated global content in each for a better fit with today′s courses
- Provides a more robust research methods section with innovative discussions of spuriousness in research, reading a research article correctly, and more, plus a new "Doing Social Research" feature
- Offers new examples from the myriad U.S. subcultures to engage students with examples that are relevant to their lives
- Features new and updated Micro-Macro Connections, including technology and erosion of privacy, the global health divide, and more, to help students make the link between their daily lives and the architecture of society
- Includes fresh examples and updated statistical information throughout the text, along with new exhibits and impactful visual essays
New to the Seventh Edition of the Reader
- Presents expanded coverage of global issues and world religions
- Features new readings that focus on globalization, macro-structure, post-9/11 conditions, and various ways that race, social class, gender, and sexual orientation intersect to influence daily experiences
- Expanded focus on sociological theory and methodologies
David M. Newman earned his BA from San Diego State University in 1981 and his graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle (MA 1984, PhD 1988). After a year at the University of Connecticut, David taught at DePauw University for more than 30 years. He currently teaches at Colgate University. David teaches courses in contemporary society, deviance, mental illness, family, social inequality, and research methods. He has published numerous articles on teaching and has presented research papers on the intersection of gender and power in intimate relationships. Recently most of his scholarly activity has been devoted to writing and revising several books, including Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life: Brief Edition (SAGE, 2020); Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill, 2021); and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 2009). His most recent book, A Culture of Second Chances: The Promise, Practice and Price of Starting Over in Everyday Life (Lexington Books, 2019), examines the cultural meaning, institutional importance, and social limitations of “second chance” and “permanent stigma” narratives in everyday life.
Jodi O’Brien is Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at Seattle University. She is the editor of the
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society and co-editor of the “Contemporary Sociological Perspectives” book series. Her books include
The Production of Reality, Social Prisms, and
Everyday Inequalities. Her courses and research focus on difference, power and discrimination, and religion and sexuality.
