Sociology [Paperback]

Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors

1. Sociology: The Discipline
2. How Sociology Is Done
3. Perspectives on Society and Interaction
4. Culture and Social Structure
5. Socialization
6. Stratification: Structured Social Inequality
7. Race and Ethnic Relations
8. Sex, Gender, and Society
9. Groups, Organizations, and the Workplace
10. Deviance, Crime, and Social Control
11. Economy and Society
12. Politics, Power, and Society
13. Marriages and Families
14. Education
15. Religion
16. Health, Population, and Aging
17. Urban Society: City Life and Collective Behavior
18. Social Movements and Change

This best-selling textbook returns for an eighth edition with material on the most fundamental issues in sociology today, building on the seventh editions discussion of reproductive justice after the revocation of Roe v. Wade, social movements such as BLM and #MeToo, a discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic and Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

This best-selling textbook returns for an eighth edition with material on the most fundamental 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 chapterbuilding on the seventh editions discussion of reproductive justice after the revocation of Roe v. Wade, social movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, a discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic and Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

The text frames sociological debates around the major theoretical perspectives of sociology and focuses on capturing students iml£‰