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This best-selling textbook returns for a seventh edition with material on the most fundamental and fascinating issues in sociology today. The authors continue their tradition of focusing on the big picture, with an emphasis on race, class, and gender in every chapter. The... Read Full Overview

This best-selling textbook returns for a seventh edition with material on the most fundamental and fascinating issues in sociology today. The authors continue their tradition of focusing on the big picture, with an emphasis on race, class, and gender in every chapter. The... Read Full Overview

This volume introduces the major methods, theories and findings of sociology, and relates them to today's sociological institutions, movements and issues.

Introduces sociology with an emphasis on connectedness; the idea that different subject areas within sociology relate to one another and to sociology's three overarching perspectives: Functionalist, Conflict, and Interactionist. This comprehensive book introduces coherent coverage... Read Full Overview

This best-selling textbook returns for an eighth edition with material on the most fundamental issues in sociology today, building on the seventh edition's discussion of reproductive justice after the revocation of Roe v. Wade, social movements such as BLM and #MeToo, a discussion... Read Full Overview