SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, Tenth Edition, uses the theme of debunking myths to look behind the facades of everyday life, challenge common assumptions, and help students develop critical thinking skills as well as better understand how society is constructed and sustained. This thorough yet streamlined text employs a reader-friendly presentation and manageable structure, while maintaining a strong focus on sociology concepts, methods, and research. Updated throughout with coverage of the latest findings, trends, and themes, the text provides exceptional coverage of diversity, including social factors such as age, religion, sexual orientation, and region of residence in addition to race, ethnicity, class, and gender.

PART 1. Introducing the Sociological Imagination.
1. Sociological Perspective.

PART 2. Studying Society and Social Structure.
2. Culture.
3. Doing Sociological Research.
4. Socialization and the Life Course.
5. Social Structure and Social Interaction.
6. Groups and Organization.
7. Deviance and Crime.

PART 3. Social Inequalities.
8. Social Class and Social Stratification.
9. Global Stratification.
10. Race and Ethnicity.
11. Gender.
12. Sexuality.

PART 4. Social Institutions.
13. Families and Religion.
14. Education and Health Care.
15. Economy and Politics.

PART 5. Social Change.
16. Environment, Population and Social Change.

AUTHOR
Margaret L. Andersen
(University of Delaware)

Howard F. Taylor
(Princeton University)

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