Sociology for the Twenty-first Century

This text introduces students to sociology using an eclectic approach that is tied together by systematically highlighting two aspects of social change - 1) the change or contrast between social life organized around personal, communal relations and social life organized around impersonal, associational relations; and 2) the ongoing social processes and the implications they have for life in the twenty-first century. While focusing on critical thinking, this text encourages students to think about tomorrow and the next century from a sociological viewpoint.*Features What Do You Think? boxes.*Adds two new margin features: Society Today and World Today.*Provides Sociology Online boxes keyed to the Prentice Hall Website for the text.