Author Description

Personal, current and compelling, Sociology: Your Compass for a New World is an introductory text that guides students toward sociological understanding. These experienced authors show students how sociology can help them know themselves and see what they can become in this particular social and historical construct. This text illustrates key points by drawing on recent movie hits, popular music, professional sports, the Internet, and other elements of popular culture that resonate deeply with students' own experiences.With a colourful new design, and new chapters, including Chapter 6: Networks, Groups, and Organizations; Chapter 9: Globalization, Development, and Inequality; and Chapter 12: The Sociology of the Body, the second Canadian edition promises to engage students by traveling to their world and explaining concepts in a language that resonates with them.