Introduction to Sociology 1st Edition by Frank van Tubergen

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0815353855
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0815353850

Complete and fascinating, this textbook introduces college students not solely to foundational sociological work, but additionally to insights from up to date sociological idea and analysis. This mixed strategy ensures that college students change into conversant in the core of sociology: key ideas, theories, views, strategies, and findings. College students will purchase the power to suppose like a sociologist, examine and perceive advanced social phenomena.

This textual content presents a full sociological toolkit, guiding college students within the artwork of asking good sociological questions, devising a complicated idea and creating methodologies to observe social phenomena. The chapters of this e-book construct cumulatively to equip college students with the instruments to shortly perceive any new sociological matter or up to date social drawback.

The textbook additionally applies the sociological toolkit to chosen key sociological points, displaying how particular sociological subjects will be simply investigated and understood utilizing this strategy. Taking a world and comparative perspective, the e-book covers a wealthy variety of sociological subjects and social issues, akin to crime, immigration, race and ethnicity, media, training, household, organizations, gender, poverty, modernization and faith.

The e-book presents a variety of useful pedagogical options all through, akin to:

• Chapter overview and studying objectives summaries in the beginning of each chapter;

• Considering like a sociologist containers, encouraging college students to replicate critically on studying factors;

• Precept containers, summarizing key sociological ideas;

• Principle schema containers, presenting sociological theories in a transparent, comprehensible method;

• Stylized information highlighting key empirical findings and patterns;

• Key ideas and abstract sections on the finish of each chapter; and

• Companion web site offering further materials for each chapter for each instructors and college students, together with PowerPoint lecture notes, dialogue questions and solutions, multiple-choice questions, additional studying and a full glossary of phrases.

This clear and accessible textual content is important studying for college kids taking introductory programs in sociology. It’s going to even be helpful for undergraduate and graduate programs in different social science disciplines, akin to psychology, economics, human geography, demography, communication research, training sciences, political science and criminology.