Exploring Sociology: A Canadian Perspective, 5th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (4 January 2021) © 2022

  • Bruce Ravelli University of Victoria
  • Michelle Webber Brock University

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Through its distinctive approach to the field, its readability, and its relevance to students' lives, Exploring Sociology: A Canadian Perspective, Fifth Edition, helps professors develop the sociological imagination in their students by encouraging them to see sociology through multiple lenses. Topics are presented in ways that allow students to engage with the material and to exercise their sociological imaginations.

Table of contents

1 Understanding the Sociological Imagination

2 Classical Social Theories

3 Contemporary Social Theories

4 Research, Methodology, and Ethics

5 Culture

6 Socialization and Social Interaction

7 Social Inequality

8 Gender

9 Sexualities

10 Race and Racialization

11 Families

12 Education

13 Religion

14 Crime, Law, and Regulation

15 Health, Aging, and Disabilities

16 Work and the Political Economy

17 Mass Media

18 Social Change, Collective Behaviour, and Social Movements

19 Globalization

20 Challenges to the Global Environment

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