Discover Sociology: Core Concepts

• The new edition is available as a digital option through SAGE Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including video—all designed to enable students to better prepare for class. Learn more.
• New data analysis activities (available on the SAGE Vantage platform, linked through SAGE Coursepacks) in each chapter, using interactive data visualization tools from SAGE Stats, help students build essential data literacy skills.
• A new Discover Intersections feature illustrates a key sociological insight: how race, class, gender, and other statuses often combine to shape our life chances and the organization of power in society.
• New openers drawn from contemporary issues and events speak to the real-life experiences or concerns of today’s students.
• Every chapter in the book integrates the latest empirical research from sociology, highlighting the point that sociology is about the scientific understanding of the social world—rigorous research can illuminate the sociological roots of diverse phenomena and institutions, ranging from poverty and deviance to capitalism and the nuclear family.
• Expanded coverage of issues such as intersectionality, popular culture, and changes in the contemporary population of college students in the U.S. give students a deeper understanding of key sociological concepts. 
  
• The What can I do with a sociology degree? feature has been revised to reflect greater gender, geographic, age, and career diversity.

KEY FEATURES:

• Comprehensive coverage of 12 key topics that are most often assigned in introductory courses is provided.
• A unique chapter, “Education and the Economy”, explores the connections among our educational system, occupational opportunity, the economy, and the types of work we do.
• The “Discover and Debate” feature offers students both interesting issues and points for debate, and models evidence-based arguments and a respectful exchange of ideas.
• “What Can I Do with a Sociology Degree?” demonstrates how studying sociology develops specific and marketable career skills.
• Social Life/Social Media essay boxes provide a sociological perspective on pervasive social media.
• “Behind the Numbers” help guide students to become critical consumers of information on topics such as how stats on poverty and unemployment figures are calculated.
• SAGE Coursepacks enables instructors to import high-quality content, such as exceptional teaching resources from A.S.A.’s TRAILS (Teaching Resources and Innovation Library for Sociology), into their school’s learning management system (LMS) with no access codes.
• SAGE Edge provides students helpful tools, including an MCAT Guide for students that maps chapter content to sociology standards on the MCAT test and connects students with free online MCAT study-and-review websites.