The Real World

Resources that get students doing sociology—in the real world

The following digital resources are included with all new copies of the text or can be purchased stand-alone. Accessibility is at the core of all the products we create, with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the most widely accepted voluntary international standard for accessibility, ensuring that all students will succeed in your course.

InQuizitive

InQuizitive—Norton’s award-winning adaptive learning tool—encourages students to read, builds their confidence with concepts such as theory and methods, and helps them apply what they are learning in an engaging game-like environment.

The Eighth Edition now features more theory-based and applied questions.
Answer-specific feedback encourages students to go back into the reading and builds their confidence in the material.
A robust activity report makes it easy to identify challenging concepts and allows for just-in-time intervention when students are struggling.
The convenience of LMS integration saves you time by allowing InQuizitive scores to report directly to your LMS gradebook.

Online Data Workshops

Online Data Workshops have students go out into the real world to get hands-on experience with the methods of sociological research, whether it’s participant observation research, content analysis, survey research, or an interview study.

A “What Do You Know?” section at the beginning and an “Apply” section at the end of each online Data Workshop help students connect the workshop to chapter concepts.
NEW online exclusive workshops have students consider the way the pandemic inspired the creation of new social norms, explore the sociological lessons of Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb,” and analyze a work of Afrofuturism.
Each workshop includes a mix of InQuizitive-style and short-answer prompts and are graded 100% for completion.

Everyday Sociology Blog quizzes

Everyday Sociology Blog quizzes on current events show students how understanding sociological theory and methods can enhance their understanding of the world around them. These chapter-based short quizzes give instructors an easy way to bring current events into the classroom and provide students with a low-stakes opportunity to apply sociological concepts to everyday life.

Quizzes are tied to posts from the popular Everyday Sociology Blog
Discussion questions and activity suggestions in the instructor resource area and on the Norton Teaching Tools site support both traditional and online classes.
Current events lecture PowerPoint slides, updated every August and December, offer more ways to bring current events into online or in-person courses.

What Students and Instructors are Saying

“I don’t like reading quizzes at the intro level, nor do I like pop quizzes (in any class). But having an interactive assignment (InQuizitive) that they complete on their own outside of class—and one that doesn’t always “feel” like homework, encourages them to stay on track with reading. I used a real-time survey platform for a class activity we were completing in class this semester. I snuck in a question on a specific concept from the week’s chapter. And I was surprised—as was the class—that every student with the exception of one chose the right answer! This has never happened before. We cheered as a class. I know they are reading. This is proof.”

—Michael Ramirez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

“Like many, I have struggled in the past to get my students to complete the assigned readings from the textbook, but because InQuizitive asks questions from every section of each chapter, I am finding that my students are now reading the chapters and returning to review sections they struggled with in InQuizitive. Additionally, the ability for the student to continue answering questions until they achieve their desired score (typically a 100%) encourages the students to practice with the material until they master it.”

—Bethaney Ferguson, Cape Fear Community College

Learn how our tools can be used before, during, and after your online or in-person class

1. Course Design

For Students

Accessibility is a central fixture of Norton’s products. To meet the greatest range of requirements, we follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and strive for WCAG 2.1 AA across all products.

For Instructors

On-demand support from a dedicated customer success manager who will consult on course design integrate our tools into your LMS, and provide ongoing support.

In a recent survey, 91 percent of instructors felt supported or very supported using Norton learning tools.

2. Before Class

For Students

Read the interactive ebook using highlighting, notetaking, and audio-reader features that support learning.

Inquizitive, Norton’s award-winning adaptive learning tool, builds student confidence and promotes a growth mindset through scaffolded learning and answer-specific feedback, now with more theory-based and applied questions.

For Instructors

Instructors tell us that assigning InQuizitive for 10-15% of the course points ensures students complete the reading and understand important concepts before coming to class. Integration ensures that grades flow into your LMS gradebook.

The Class Activity Report identifies topics/learning objectives your students struggled with to inform what you might want to review during class. It also identifies individual students who might be struggling early in the term to allow for just-in-time intervention.

3. During Online, Hybrid, or In-person Class

For Students

A selection of Data Workshops and NEW digital-only workshops guide students through the process of completing a small-scale research project and can be completed as an in-class activity or assigned as a low-stakes assignment after class.

Sociology in Practice film clips offer more than ten hours of footage from documentary films and are ideal for initiating classroom discussions, written assignments, or projects.

For Instructors

Interactive Lecture PowerPoints are customizable and include “concept check” and discussion questions.

Current Events Lecture PowerPoints include recent news stories and real-world applications.

Norton Teaching Tools provide suggested group activities, discussion questions, and short essay prompts for use in class to emphasize applications and critical thinking.

4. After Class

For Students

Everyday Sociology Blog quizzes—one per chapter—give instructors an easy but structured way to assess students’ ability to apply key concepts to real-world events.

Writing for Sociology tutorials help to strengthen student writing skills before turning in a graded writing assignment or project.

For Instructors

A NEW resource for instructors offers discussion questions, short essay prompts, group activities, and other ideas for assigning the online Data Workshops within learning management systems and for turning them into in-class activities.

Norton Testmaker offers high quality assessment to build quizzes and tests easily, with questions tagged to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Norton Testmaker makes it easy to customize questions online and deliver them through your learning management system or as an in-class assessment.