Living Sociologically: Concepts and Connections

About this book

Students are drawn to topics of urgent sociological concern--race class gender family popular culture health and crime--by a need to both understand the forces that shape their world and their desire to make the world better. It can be challenging however for students to link sociological concepts with real-world applications. Living Sociologically: Concepts and Connections helps students make those connections. Encouraging students to observe explore and think critically about the social world Living Sociologically offers a new class-tested framework for teaching introduction to sociology. The "paired concepts" approach demonstrates the interdependent ways in which social forces work and encourages students to engage with complexity and contradiction. It also connects students to a broader set of questions and provides them with critical analytical tools for their post-college lives. In addition each chapter includes an opening vignette examples of contemporary research box features that exemplify the five paired concepts career boxes methods and interpretation boxes case studies review sections and practical activities.