Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology

By Susan J. Ferguson and Sandra J. Ferguson

Book Overview

The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award--enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.

Mapping The Social Landscape is one of the most established and widely-used readers for Introductory Sociology. The organization follows that of a typical introductory sociology course and provides coverage of key concepts including culture, socialization, deviance, social structure, social inequality, social institutions, and social change. Susan J. Ferguson selects, edits, and introduces 58 readings representing a plurality of voices and views within sociology. The selections include classic statements from great thinkers like C. Wright Mills, Karl Marx, and Max Weber, as well of the works of contemporary scholars who address current social issues. Throughout this collection, there are many opportunities to discuss individual, interactional, and structural levels of society; the roles of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping social life; and the intersection of statuses and identities.


Included with this title:

The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint(R) slides.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1544334664
• ISBN13: 9781544334660
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

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Just another textbook

The book itself offers many different essays on a large variety of subjects. The textbook by itself, however can get really dry, and without professor direction, things can get really stale.

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A very thought provoking book

I read this book for a sociology class and thought it was very very good. It has many short stories which are very thought provoking and deal with very important issues, problems and observations in our society. It speaks about crime, socialization, culture, groups, social inequality, the economy, social change etc. These seem like technical terms but it is a very easy to read and straight forward book. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.