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Essentials of Sociology, Eighth Edition, features thoroughly revised coverage of the local and global impacts of increasing inequality, showing students how inequality impacts their own lives, communities around the globe, and even the planet itself. A new focus on applying sociological... Read Full Overview

Drawing on up-to-the-minute examples, cutting-edge research, and the most current data, Essentials of Sociology powerfully illustrates how a sociological imagination can make us more thoughtful members of our social world, better citizens, and more effective future workers. (NEW)... Read Full Overview

Essentials of Sociology, Eighth Edition, features thoroughly revised coverage of the local and global impacts of increasing inequality, showing students how inequality impacts their own lives, communities around the globe, and even the planet itself. A new focus on applying sociological... Read Full Overview

Essentials of Sociology moves students beyond their individual experiences by highlighting the macro social forces at work in our everyday lives. New "Digital Life" features in the Fifth Edition encourage students to think critically about how the Internet and smartphones are... Read Full Overview

With a combination of up-to-the minute examples, cutting-edge research, and the latest available data, Essentials of Sociology gets students thinking sociologically about what they're seeing in the news and on their screens. Highlighting the macro social forces at work in our... Read Full Overview

Every chapter of Essentials of Sociology, Fourth Edition, is organized around stories pulled from the news. New features in the Fourth Edition pull together the big questions in each chapter and organize them around a concept map to help students synthesize concepts and see the... Read Full Overview

With a combination of up-to-the minute examples, cutting-edge research, and the latest available data, Essentials of Sociology gets students thinking sociologically about what they're seeing in the news and on their screens. Highlighting the macro social forces at work in our... Read Full Overview

Deborah Carr draws on her extensive experience teaching introductory sociology at Rutgers University to revise the book and add new material that underscores the relevance of sociology to students' lives. New chapter openers include a discussion of Hurricane Katrina in the urbanization... Read Full Overview

Essentials of Sociology is organized around two themes: globalization and everyday life and the connections between micro- and macrosociology. The authors have updated the Third Edition with new "Do It Yourself" features that show students how these specific themes and sociology... Read Full Overview

The best-selling Introduction to Sociology is now available in an abridged edition. Featuring a striking design, helpful pedagogy, and a global perspective, Essentials of Sociology packages the best facets of the Fifth Edition of Introduction to Sociology in a shorter, more flexible... Read Full Overview

10 ESSENTIAL READINGS "The Evolution of American Families," by Stephanie Coontz "On the Normality of Crime," by Emile Durkheim "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," by Barbara Ehrenreich "Performances," by Erving Goffman "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing... Read Full Overview