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Paperback, Cengage TAGS: GSOC110
Sociology in Our Times empowers students to connect sociological concepts to their everyday lives, making the subject matter both relevant and engaging in today’s fast-changing world. Through real-world examples and relatable insights, the text helps students understand human behavior, societal challenges, and the enduring influence of institutions like family, education, religion, government, and media.
Introductory sociology courses often face two key hurdles:
Students struggle to grasp abstract theoretical perspectives.
Instructors need tools to drive engagement and monitor comprehension.
SIOT addresses these challenges head-on. Each chapter is structured around five foundational theoretical perspectives, guiding students to explore key issues through multiple lenses. This consistent approach builds confidence and critical thinking, helping students move from confusion to clarity with questions like: “How would a functionalist view deviance?” or “What might a symbolic interactionist say about health?”
The 8th edition introduces MindTap, a robust digital learning platform designed to elevate the classroom experience. Instructors gain real-time insights into student progress and performance, while students benefit from interactive tools that support diverse learning styles. Alongside multiple-choice assessments, MindTap includes engaging video content and Bongo activities that spark discussion and help students develop their sociological imagination.
Sociology in Our Times isn’t just a textbook—it’s a teaching solution that brings sociology to life.
What's New
- Content is streamlined by reducing the number of chapters from 23 to 17 and combining material from related print and online chapters, such as socialization and social interaction, gender and sexuality, population, urbanization and environment, and politics and social movements.
- Four New Chapters: This edition features four new chapters. These are Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective, Chapter 6: Media and Communications Technology, Chapter 10: Race, Ethnicity, and Racialization, and Chapter 15: Health, Mental Health, and Aging.
- Chapter Opening Vignettes: Most chapters now begin with engaging new vignettes which are authentic first-person accounts. These vignettes create interest and give concrete meaning to the topics being discussed and provide opportunities to consider social life beyond their own experiences from diverse perspectives. Lived experiences include those related to poverty, unemployment and food insecurity, racism, mental illness, the changing meaning of the family, environmental activism, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, the changing nature of work, disability, and homelessness.
- Up-to-Date Data & Research: All statistics and figures have been refreshed, and the latest research developments are integrated throughout.
Features
- Chapter Focus Question: Each chapter begins with an open-ended question that provides a starting point for students to think about the material covered in the chapter.
- Learning Objectives list the key themes at the beginning of each chapter to give students an overview of major topics and a convenient aid for review.
- Critical Thinking Questions: After the opening experience in each chapter, a series of introductory questions invites students to think about the major topics discussed.
- Sociology and Everyday Life: Each chapter has a brief Sociology and Everyday Life quiz that relates the sociological perspective to the pressing social issues presented in the chapter. These topic questions will pique the interest of students. Answers to the quiz are provided at the end of each chapter.
- Point/Counterpoint boxes encourage students to use their sociological knowledge to grapple with some of today’s most hotly contested issues, such as the media’s roles and responsibilities; how bureaucratic rigidity contributed to terrorist attacks; ethics and offshore production; race, ethnicity, and genetics; whether tougher prison sentences reduce crime; and current debates over school curriculum. The topics covered can be used as springboards for in-class debate or online discussion forums.
- Census Profiles provide information that highlights key changes in Canadian society based on census data. Each unique box uses recent statistics, ensuring students are up to-date and informed about topics discussed.
- Global Perspective boxes interconnect topics of the world, extending the sociological imagination beyond national borders. The global implications of topics are examined throughout each chapter. Topics include cybervictimization and technology-facilitated gender-based violence, the myth of meritocracy and settler privilege, commercial surrogacy in India and North America, and how modern slavery intersects with students’ day-to-day live.
- Concept Snapshots provide a brief summary of all major perspectives covered in the chapter and the key people connected to those theories.
- Time to Review Questions help students to review and retain key information from the preceding sections of the text.
- MindTap is an online learning platform that gives professors complete control to craft a personalized, engaging learning experience that challenges students. MindTap delivers access to an ebook, study tools, a variety of activities and auto-graded assessment options, and student performance reporting.
- Teaching resources available, including Instructor Guide, PowerPoints, and a MindTap Educator’s Guide.
- MindTap’s What Do Sociologists Know? Activity: Through true/false questions, students explore common misconceptions that people bring to the study of Intro Sociology topic.
- MindTap’s What Would You Do? Activity: Scenario-based questions provides students with the opportunity to exercise their sociological imagination by engaging in decision making from a novel perspective.
- MindTap’s Critical Thinking Activity (BONGO): Questions and/or scenarios have students record their videos based on their reflection. Students receive instant, tailored AI coaching based on course content, motivating them to practice, refine, rerecord, and pe