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Featured Titles
The Real World
Tenth Edition
The #1 book makes sociology relevant for students
You May Ask Yourself
Full and Core Editions
Available
Ninth Editions
Make the familiar strange.
Terrible Magnificent Sociology
Second Edition
Reinventing the introductory sociology textbook
Introduction to Sociology
Thirteenth Seagull Edition
The most trusted textbooks in introduction to sociology.
Essentials of Sociology
Ninth Edition
Give students the sociological skills to understand the world today—and prepare for tomorrow.
Race in America
Third Edition
The most intersectional book equips students to engage with the most urgent issues of our time.
Social Problems
Fifth Edition
An engaging, unconventional guide for how to think about social problems.
The Family
Fourth Edition
Learn the story—and the sociology—behind the data about today’s families.
Families as They
Really Are
Third Edition
Original essays that explore how families operate in everyday life.
Gender
Third Edition
The new gold standard for sociology of gender courses.
The Art and Science of Social Research
Second Edition
Show your students how social research really unfolds.
American Society and How It Really Works
Third Edition
The definitive critical introduction to American society.
Companion Titles
The Social Genome
The New Science of Nature and Nurture
by Dalton Conley
Churn
The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It
by Claude M Steele
What's Real about Race?
Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
by Rina Bliss
Superbloom
How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
by Nicholas Carr
Offshore
Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
by Brooke Harrington
The Trafficker Next Door
How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers
by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Imagination
A Manifesto
by Ruha Benjamin
Against Technoableism
Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
by Ashley Shew
Uneasy Peace
The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
by Patrick Sharkey
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