Introduction to Sociology Interactive eBook

Ritzer, George

ISBN 10: 150639888X ISBN 13: 9781506398884

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2017

Synopsis

This Fourth Edition of George Ritzer’s Introduction to Sociology shows students the relevance of sociology to their lives. While providing a rock-solid foundation, Ritzer illuminates traditional sociological concepts and theories, as well as some of the most compelling contemporary social phenomena: globalization, consumer culture, the digital world, and the "McDonaldization" of society. With examples on every page from current events and contemporary research, and stories about "public" sociologists who are engaging with the critical issues of today, the text demonstrates the power of sociology to explain the world, and the diversity of questions that sociologists seek to answer.

The Interactive eBook* for Introduction to Sociology, Fourth Edition includes access to a broad array of multimedia tools and resources!

• SAGE PREMIUM VIDEO: Boost learning and bolster analysis with AP News videos and Sociology Core Concepts videos. Each video activity is paired with chapter learning objectives and tied to assessment via SAGE coursepacks.
• INTERACTIVE DATA MAPS: allow students to explore thematic maps of the U.S. and the world.
• AUDIO: Listen to engaging podcasts and audio resources that supplement and enrich key points within the text.
• REFERENCE AND JOURNAL ARTICLES: Access articles from SAGE’s influential journals, handbooks, and encyclopedias that offer important background and exposure to seminal work in your field of study.
• OFFLINE READING: Using the VitalSource Bookshelf® platform, download your book to a personal computer and read it offline.
• SOCIAL SHARING AND FOLLOWING: Share notes and highlights with instructors and classmates who are using the same eBook, and "follow" friends and instructors as they make their own notes and highlights.
• ONLINE CONTENT: Access more online content via links to important data, relevant background, and profiles that enrich key concepts in the text.

*Note: the access code for this interactive eBook will be shipped to the address you indicate when you place your order.

About this title

About the Author:

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association, an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University in Australia, and the Robin Williams Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. His best-known work, The McDonaldization of Society (8th ed.), has been read by hundreds of thousands of students over two decades and translated into over a dozen languages. Ritzer is also the editor of McDonaldization: The Reader; and author of other works of critical sociology related to the McDonaldization thesis, including Enchanting a Disenchanted World, The Globalization of Nothing, Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society, as well as a series best-selling social theory textbooks and Globalization: A Basic Text. He is the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2 vols.), the Encyclopedia of Sociology (11 vols.; 2nd edition forthcoming), the Encyclopedia of Globalization (5 vols.), and is Founding Editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. In 2016 he will publish the second edition of Essentials of Sociology with SAGE.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 150639888X
• ISBN 13: 9781506398884
• Binding: Printed Access Code
• Edition number: 4