IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
Chapter 2: Culture
Chapter 3: Socialization
Chapter 4: Social Structure and Social Interaction
Chapter 5: Societies to Social Networks
Chapter 6: Deviance and Social Control
Chapter 7: Social Stratification
Chapter 8: Sex and Gender
Chapter 9: Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 10: Marriage and Family
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
The Sociological Perspective
The Origins of Sociology
Sexism in Early Sociology
Sociology in North America
Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology
Doing Sociological Research
Research Methods
Ethics in Sociological Research
Chapter 2: Culture
What Is Culture?
Components of Symbolic Culture
Many Cultural Worlds: Subcultures and Countercultures
Values in U.S. Society
Cultural Universals
Technology in the Global Village
Chapter 3: Socialization
What Is Human Nature?
Socialization into the Self and Mind
Learning Personality, Morality, and Emotions
Socialization into Gender
Agents of Socialization
Resocialization
Socialization Through the Life Course
Are We Prisoners of Socialization?
Chapter 4: Social Structure and Social Interaction
Levels of Sociological Analysis
The Macrosociological Perspective: Social Structure
Social Institutions
The Microsociological Perspective: Social Interaction in Everyday Life
The Need for Both Macrosociology and Microsociology
Chapter 5: Societies to Social Networks
Social Groups and Societies
The Transformation of Societies
Groups Within Society
Group Dynamics
Chapter 6: Deviance and Social Control
What Is Deviance?
The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
The Functionalist Perspective
The Conflict Perspective
Reactions to Deviance
Chapter 7: Social Stratification
Systems of Social Stratification
What Determines Social Class?
Why Is Social Stratification Universal?
Global Stratification: Three Worlds
Sociological Models of Social Class
Consequences of Social Class
Social Mobility
Intergenerational Social Mobility
Poverty
Chapter 8: Sex and Gender
Issues of Sex and Gender
Gender Inequality in Global Perspective
How Females Became a Minority Group
Gender Inequality in the United States
Gender Inequality in Health Care
Gender Inequality in the Workplace
Gender and Violence
The Changing Face of Politics
Glimpsing the Future–With Hope
Chapter 9: Race and Ethnicity
Laying the Sociological Foundation
Theories of Prejudice
Global Patterns of Intergroup Relations
Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States
Looking Toward the Future
Chapter 10: Marriage and Family
Marriage and Family in Global Perspective
Marriage and Family in Theoretical Perspective
The Family Life Cycle
Diversity in U.S. Families
Trends in U.S. Families
Divorce and Remarriage
Two Sides of Family Life
The Future of Marriage and Family
Found in this section:
1. Overview of changes
2. Chapter-by-chapter changes
1. Overview of Changes
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- The new MySocLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
- MySocLab now features documentary film clips to engage students with current issues and events.
- The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want—including listening online or downloading to iPad.
- A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking—like remembering and understanding—to more complex critical thinking—like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
- Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.
- An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
- Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.
IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING
ENGAGE STUDENTS
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New design places a premium on large photos and new art to capture students' attention.
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MySocLab now features documentary film clips to engage students with current issues and events.
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Quantitative research in each chapter is tied to a 'living data' activity in MySocLab. The activity allows students to practice quantitative literacy and explore data on a deeper level.
SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS
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Integrated Test Bank - The new Test Bank is fully integrated with the new learning architecture in the book and MySocLab program. Each question is tagged to Bloom’s Taxonomy and to the Chapter-Specific Learning Objectives. A new set of questions relating to MySocLab activities is now available for every chapter. The Test Bank is available in MySocLab; Pearson’s MyTest and TestGen platforms; and a variety of Learning Management Systems including Blackboard and WebCT.
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MySocLab Instructor’s Manual - The MySocLab instructor’s manual provides advice for utilizing MySocLab in a variety of ways. From introducing short video clips during lecture to fully integrating MySocLab into your course, the MySocLab Instructor’s Manual provides everything you need to know to use MySocLab effectively. The manual also includes a complete table of contents for the readings in MySocLibrary as well as a complete listing of the media assets available in the lab.
2. Chapter-by-Chapter Changes
Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
- How applied sociology applies to Dora the Explorer
Chapter 2: Culture
Chapter 3: Socialization
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Research on babies indicates an inborn morality
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The lack of an abstract, universal morality, unexpected from Kohlberg’s theory
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The effects of day care follow children (NICHD research; latest testing at age 15)
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Facial expressions of people blind since birth, upon learning they had won or lost at the Paralympics, were the same as those of sighted people
Chapter 4: Social Structure and Social Interaction
Chapter 5: Societies to Social Networks
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To receive prizes on a fake game show, 80 percent of contestants gave victims what they thought were near lethal 450 volt shocks
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Perhaps coming soon: Snap-together BioBricks to produce your own life forms
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Cultural Diversity box: How Your Social Networks Perpetuate Social Inequality?
Chapter 6: Deviance and Social Control
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How genetic explanations are being used to explain crime
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Down-to-Earth Sociology box: “The Naked Pumpkin Runners and the Naked Bike Riders”: Deviance or Freedom of Self-Expression?
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A corporate decision leads to the deaths of 600 miners in West Virginia
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Courts fine Northrop Grumman $325 million for a white collar crime–and the federal government then awards the company $325 million
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Cultural Diversity around the World box, “‘Dogging’ in England”
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Anthony Sowell of Cleveland added to the list of serial killers
Chapter 7: Social Stratification
- Table 7.3 Views of Stratification: The Distribution of Society’s Resources
- The suburbanization of poverty: With the collapse of the housing market, most of the nations poor now live in the suburbs
- Over a four-year period, one-third (32 percent) of Americans experience poverty for at least two months.
- Upper middle-class parents pay $1,000 to train their four-year olds in test-taking skills so they can get into public kindergartens for gifted students
Chapter 8: Sex and Gender
Chapter 9: Race and Ethnicity
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Rivalry and violence between Latino and African American prisoners
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Arizona proof of citizenship or immigrant status law
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Construction of the fence along the Mexican border cancelled
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Arabs added to Figure 12.5, U.S. Racial-Ethnic Groups
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Michael Kimmel’s research on Neo-Nazi skinheads in Sweden
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Susana Martinez elected as the first Latina governor (New Mexico)
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Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Living in the Dorm: Contact Theory
Chapter 10: Marriage and Family
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New opening vignette
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Adoption by gay and lesbian couples
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Date Check, an iPhone app that offers a “sleaze detector” to investigate potential dates
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Feelings of romantic love light up the same area of the brain as does craving for cocaine
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Marital happiness decreases with the birth of a child, increases when the child starts school, and decreases again when the child reaches adolescence
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Table 16.4 Fathers’ Contact with Their Children After Divorce
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Sociology and the New Technology box: Online Dating: Risks and Rewards
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Sociology and the New Technology box: What Color Eyes? How Tall? Designer Babies on the Way
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Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Un-Divorce: The Paths to Perpetual Separation
A DOWN-TO-EARTH APPROACH
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The author’s trademark “down-to-earth” approach is reflected in the many vignettes, boxes, and examples based on personal experience and field research. These first-person accounts provide a rich and compelling “insider’s” perspective on social life.
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"Down-to-Earth Sociology” boxes highlight the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to students today.
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"Through the Author's Lens" photo essays, from Jim Henslin's travels, enable students to look over the author's shoulder as he experiences other cultures or explores aspects of culture in the United States.
PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYSOCLAB
- The new MySocLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
- Quantitative research in each chapter is tied to a 'living data' activity in MySocLab. The activity allows students to practice quantitative literacy and explore data on a deeper level.
- MySocLab now features documentary film clips to engage students with current issues and events.
- The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want—including listening online or downloading to iPad.
- A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking—like remembering and understanding—to more complex critical thinking—like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
- Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.
- An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
- Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.
IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING
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New Learning Objectives & Questions on each page reinforce key concepts and build critical thinking skills.
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"Thinking Critically" sections engage students by asking them to examine controversial social issues.
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MySocLab encourages students to build critical thinking skills and master essential chapter content through a new Study Plan based on Bloom’s taxonomy.
ENGAGE STUDENTS
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Personal narrative with an international field researcher’s perspective invites students on a sociological journey.
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New design places a premium on large photos and new art to capture students' attention.
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MySocLab now features documentary film clips to engage students with current issues and events.
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Quantitative research in each chapter is tied to a 'living data' activity in MySocLab. The activity allows students to practice quantitative literacy and explore data on a deeper level.
EXPLORE THEORY
UNDERSTAND DIVERSITY
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Social change over time, an important theme of the text, examines what society was previously like, how it has changed, and what the implications are for the present and future. Newly designed graphs and tables illustrate social change over time.
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“Cultural Diversity” boxes help students gain an understanding of other cultures, both in U.S. society and around the world.
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"Mass Media and Social Life" provides the most current coverage of the media and its impact on society.
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"Sociology and the New Technology" boxes investigate how technology is changing our society and influencing our lives.
SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS
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Integrated Test Bank - The new Test Bank is fully integrated with the new learning architecture in the book and MySocLab program. Each question is tagged to Bloom’s Taxonomy and to the Chapter-Specific Learning Objectives. A new set of questions relating to MySocLab activities is now available for every chapter. The Test Bank is available in MySocLab; Pearson’s MyTest and TestGen platforms; and a variety of Learning Management Systems including Blackboard and WebCT.
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MySocLab Instructor’s Manual - The MySocLab instructor’s manual provides advice for utilizing MySocLab in a variety of ways. From introducing short video clips during lecture to fully integrating MySocLab into your course, the MySocLab Instructor’s Manual provides everything you need to know to use MySocLab effectively. The manual also includes a complete table of contents for the readings in MySocLibrary as well as a complete listing of the media assets available in the lab.
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MyClassPrep - MyClassPrep makes lecture preparation simpler and less time consuming. It collects the very best class presentation resources—art and figures from our leading texts, videos, lecture activities, classroom activities, demonstrations, and much more—in one convenient online destination. You may search through MyClassPrep’s extensive database of tools by content topic (arranged by standard topics within the sociology curriculum) or by content type (video, audio, simulation, Word documents, etc.). You can select resources appropriate for your lecture, many of which can be downloaded directly. Or you may build your own folder of resources and present from within MyClassPrep.
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New activities and assessment in MySocLab engage students and help them succeed.
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The outstanding supplements package supports a wide range of instructional settings including small discussion groups, large lecture halls, and online or Web-based courses.
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James M. Henslin, who was born in Minnesota, graduated from high school and junior college in California and from college in Indiana. Awarded scholarships, he earned his Master’s and doctorate degrees in sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After this, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health, and spent a year studying how people adjust to the suicide of a family member. His primary interests in sociology are the sociology of everyday life, deviance, and international relations. Among his numerous books is Down-to-Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings (Free Press), now in its twelfth edition. This book of readings reflects some of these sociological interests. He has also published widely in sociology journals, including Social Problems and American Journal of Sociology.
While a graduate student, Jim Henslin taught at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. After completing his doctorate, he joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology. He says, “I’ve always found the introductory course enjoyable to teach. I love to see students’ faces light up when they first glimpse the sociological perspective and begin to see how society has become an essential part of how they view the world.”
Henslin enjoys reading and fishing. His two favorite activities are writing and traveling. He especially enjoys visiting and living in other cultures, for this brings him face to face with behaviors and ways of thinking that he cannot take for granted, experiences that “make sociological principles come alive.”