Introduction to sociology / Anthony Giddens ... [et al.]. - 7th ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009. - xvii, 684, A78 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Rev. ed. of: Introduction to sociology / Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum. 6th ed. c2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: The study of sociology -- 2.Asking and answering sociological questions --Part two: The individual and society -- 3.Culture and society -- 4.Socialization and the life cycle -- 5.Social interaction and everyday life in the age of the Internet -- 6.Groups, networks, and organizations -- 7.Conformity, deviance, and crime -- Part thress: Structures of power -- 8.Stratification, class, and inequality -- 9.Global inequalith -- 10.Gender inequality -- 11.Ethnicity and race -- 12.Aging -- 13.Government, political power, and social movements -- Part four: Social institutions -- 15.Families and intimate relationships -- 16.Education and the mass media -- 17.Religion in modern society -- Part five: Social change in the modern world -- 18.The sociology of the body: health and illness and sexuality --19.Urbanization, population, and the environment -- 20.Globalization in a changing world.

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