Sociology: The Basics provides a sociological background for understanding society, day-to-day life, social structure, and contemporary social issues in the twenty-first century. With exposure to basic sociological perspectives and tools for understanding social life , people will arrive at and embrace a new level of understanding cooperation.
Sociology: The Basics integrates contemporary box readings, tables, graphs, research, and recommended readings to make the book as up-to-date as possible. One of the primary objectives of this book is to model valuable sociological perspectives for understanding the social relationships, history, and cultures that constitute everyday social life.
In the Student Guide and Activity book for Sociology: The Basics is packaged with a student guide and activity book that includes fill -in-the-blank exercises, key concepts, a variety of learning exercises, and multiple choice/true or false questions for each chapter
Chapter 1: Perceiving and Understanding Social Life Sociologically: Theory and Methods
Chapter 2: Types of Societies and Social Groups
Chapter 3: Culture and Organizations
Chapter 4: Globalization
Chapter 5: Socialization
Chapter 6: The Family and Social Structure
Chapter 7: Stratification
Chapter 8: Sex and Gender
Chapter 9: Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 10: Crime and Deviance
Chapter 11: Demography
Chapter 12: Religion