Discover Sociology: Core Concepts - Vantage Learning Platform

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• SAGE Sociology News Clips connect core sociological concepts to brief, 2-4 minute news clips of current events, such as   
  
  • New Federal Health Guidelines for Americans
  • Encouraging Women in Tech
  • Child Sex Trafficking
  • Child Hunger in War-Ravaged Yemen
  • Beer and Faith
  • Retail Workers See Shift Amid Changing Landscape
  • Opioid Crisis Strains Families and the Foster System
  • State Elections See Infusion of Women Candidates
  • U.S. March for Our Lives
    
    
• A new Discover Intersections boxed feature illustrates a key sociological insight: how race, class, gender, and other statuses often combine to shape our life chances and the organization of power in society.
  
  
• New openers drawn from contemporary issues and events speak to the real-life experiences or concerns of today’s students.
  
  
• Every chapter in the book integrates the latest empirical research from sociology, highlighting the point that sociology is about the scientific understanding of the social world—rigorous research can illuminate the sociological roots of diverse phenomena and institutions, ranging from poverty and deviance to capitalism and the nuclear family.
  
  
• Expanded coverage of issues such as intersectionality, popular culture, and changes in the contemporary population of college students in the U.S. give students a deeper understanding of key sociological concepts. 
  The What can I do with a sociology degree? feature has been revised to reflect greater gender, geographic, age, and career diversity.

• The What can I do with a sociology degree? feature has been revised to reflect greater gender, geographic, age, and career diversity.