Author Description

With a visually compelling design and an engaging, relevant narrative, Sociology: Your Compass for a New World, Fifth Canadian Edition will inspire the development of your students' sociological imaginations. The renowned author team shows students how thinking sociologically can help them draw connections between themselves and the social world. Sociological concepts are clearly connected to students' interests and experiences by taking universal and popular elements of contemporary culture and rendering them sociologically relevant. This text devotes more space to drawing connections between objectivity and subjectivity in research, presenting a more realistic, and therefore intrinsically exciting, account of how sociologists practice their craft, and making the discipline more appealing to students. Tables and graphs are not simply referred to, they are analyzed. Where evidence warrants, some theories are rejected and others endorsed. The author team, using their own personal, diverse backgrounds and global research and experiences, also brings great depth to issues of diversity and globalization. They show how global processes affect local issues and how local issues conversely affect global processes. Sociology: Your Compass for a New World speaks directly to today's students about important sociological ideas in terms that they understand, making the connection between self and society clear.