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The 2nd Canadian edition of Sociology will build on the 1st edition's reputation of being the most balanced, comprehensive text on the market. Edith Smith brings expertise in the feminist perspective, covering the perspective in 18 of the 22 chapters. With the addition of a dynamic author in Jana Grekul, who has breathed new life into the pedagogical program, and with a new streamlined design, Schaefer/Smith/Grekul is a means to help students see sociology as an experience. Features including Social Policy Sections, Photo Essays, and the new Sociology Matters boxes will enable students to relate to, and contextualize themselves in the material.
PART 1: The Sociological Perspective
1 Understanding Sociology
2 Sociological Research
PART 2: Organizing Social Life
3 Culture
4 Socialization
5 Social Interaction and Social Structure
6 Groups and Organizations
7 The Mass Media (new chapter)
8 Conformity, Deviance and Crime
PART 3: Social Inequality
9 Stratification and Social Mobility in Canada
10 Global Inequality
11 Racial and Ethnic Inequality
12 Stratification by Gender
13 Stratification by Age and the Elderly
PART 4: Social Institutions
14 Families and Intimate Relationships
15 Religion
16 Education
17 Government and Politics
18 Economies and Work
19 Health and Medicine
PART 5: Changing Society
20 Communities and Urbanization
21 Population and the Environment
22 Collective Behaviour, Social Movements and Social Change
New to this Edition
Streamlined into a more compact, 22-chapter layout: The format benefits students, and also provides optimal flexibility to instructors as they can assign whole chapters or customize assignments for their students by asking them to read only those modules which fit their course outline and in the sequence that matches their syllabus.
New chapter devoted to Mass Media: While all intro books cover mass media in boxes throughout certain chapters, a new trend in the discipline is to analyze the media's affect on society using all four sociological perspectives. Simply put, media is such a big part of daily life; it needs its own chapter.
Currency: Currency, and specifically the most up to date Canadian statistics, is also extremely important to sociology professors, allowing them to further relate material to student’s lives. The most recent Canadian census occurred in 2006, with the findings released in the Spring of 2008. As such, Schaefer Sociology stands to be the most up to date text on the market.
Streamlined into a more compact, 22-chapter layout: The format benefits students, and also provides optimal flexibility to instructors as they can assign whole chapters or customize assignments for their students by asking them to read only those modules which fit their course outline and in the sequence that matches their syllabus.
New chapter devoted to Mass Media: While all intro books cover mass media in boxes throughout certain chapters, a new trend in the discipline is to analyze the media's affect on society using all four sociological perspectives. Simply put, media is such a big part of daily life; it needs its own chapter.
Currency: Currency, and specifically the most up to date Canadian statistics, is also extremely important to sociology professors, allowing them to further relate material to student’s lives. The most recent Canadian census occurred in 2006, with the findings released in the Spring of 2008. As such, Schaefer Sociology stands to be the most up to date text on the market.
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