The latest edition of SOCIOLOGY IN OUR TIMES: THE ESSENTIALS, International
Edition builds on the best of this popular text’s previous editions while offering new
chapter-opening first-person accounts of individuals’ lived experience and significantly
updated coverage, learning tools, and opportunities for students to apply what they learn
and make a difference in their own communities.
Compelling examples, a vivid writing style, and chapter themes grounded in
social issues already familiar to students hold students’ interest and engage their
sociological imaginations as they learn the concepts, theories, and research that comprise
sociology today. A vibrant new interior design and an exciting collection of new videos
with assignable activities complement the text’s new coverage of timely topics such as
health care legislation, the U.S. and global economies, Barack Obama’s presidency, and
the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Table of Contents
Part I: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL LIFE.
1. Understanding the Sociological Perspective and Research Process.
2. Culture.
3. Socialization.
Part II: SOCIAL GROUPS AND CONTROL.
4. Social Structure and Interaction in Everyday Life.
5. Groups and Organizations.
6. Deviance and Crime.
Part III: SOCIAL INEQUALITY.
7. Class and Stratification in the United States.
8. Stratification in Global Perspective.
9. Race and Ethnicity.
10. Sex and Gender.
Part IV: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
11. Families and Other Intimate Relationships.
12. Education and Religion.
13. Politics and the Economy in the United States and in Global Perspective.
14. Health, Health Care, and Disability.
Part V: SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND CHANGE.
15. Understanding Population and Urbanization Trends.
16. Collective Behavior, Social Movements, and Social Change.
640 pages, Paperback