Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology

Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology by Ballantine, Jeanne H.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781483368603.

In the new Fifth Edition of Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology, three award-winning authors and teachers of sociology set out to inspire students to develop their sociological imaginations. Readers are encouraged to see the impact of larger social structures and global trends on their personal lives and to actively engage with sociological issues. In each chapter, authors Jeanne H. Ballantine, Keith A. Roberts, and new co-author Kathleen Odell Korgen, relate everything back to the social world model to promote "deep learning" of a fundamental sociological concept: the micro-to-macro organization of society. Above all else, adopters of this unique, easy to read, and innovative text use it because it helps students to learn about sociology and to use sociological tools throughout the course and beyond. At the end of the term, students are able to articulate a coherent thesis about what sociology is and how sociology helps them to make sense of the multi-layered social world in which they live. Can you identify any other introductory text which has a coherent thesis that runs throughout the text?