Society

SEEING SOCIOLOGY IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE

• Photo essays and your Everyday Life activity:
  o Photo essays: Chapter ending two-page photo essays examine a key topic through the lens of pop culture (ex. p. 58-59)
  o "Seeing Sociology in YOUR Everyday Life" Activity - This new activity empowers students to analyze how chapter themes apply to their lives. With the accompanying new MySocLab writing activities, students create their own interpretation (ex. p. 219).
• "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" boxes apply ideas and concepts on a more personal level (ex. p 198).
• New maps and figures - Newly re-designed maps and figures come alive with new MySocLab media assignments written by author John Macionis. The media assignments get students practicing quantitative literacy (ex pg 10).

PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYSOCLAB

• The new MySocLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• New "Sociology Focus" boxes connect recent research to current events and issues happening in our social world. Linked also to our new blog www.sociologyfocus.com.
• MySocLab now features documentary film clips to engage students with current issues and events.
• Newly re-designed "Seeing Ourselves" National Maps illuminate the social diversity in the United States. One map per chapter is accompanied with a new MySocLab media assignment, written by John Macionis.
• New MySocLab Media assignments written by John Macionis, a robust Bloom's Taxonomy architecture, and a gradebook help instructors.
• The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want–including listening online or downloading to iPad.
• A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking–like remembering and understanding–to more complex critical thinking–like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
• Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early–and find the best resources with which to help students.
• An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
• ClassPrep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.

IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING

• New Learning Objectives in each chapter help students build their critical thinking skills while learning the material.
  o Six learning objectives open every chapter (ex. p. 34).
  o Learning Objective Icons appear in the text where the learning objective is addressed (ex p. 39, 45, 47, 54, 55).
  o Making the Grade visual summary revisits the learning objectives (ex. pg 60-61).
• Critical Thinking questions complete all boxes (ex. p. 81).
• Newly Re-designed Making the Grade concludes each chapter with a graphic review of key concepts (ex. pg 32-33)

ENGAGE STUDENTS

• Designed for a new generation of learners - Society: The Basics 12/e has been designed for the most visually-oriented generation to ever attend college, and helps them see sociology come alive (ex. p. 247-248, 253, 368-369).
• New "Sociology Focus" boxes connect recent research to current events and issues happening in our social world. Linked also to our new blog www.sociologyfocus.com (ex. p. 38, 228).

EXPLORE THEORY

• Three theoretical perspectives are discussed in every chapter (ex. p. 159).
• Applying Theory tables examine how the various theories approach the topic at hand (ex. p. 164).
• Summing up tables summarize each chapter’s concepts in an easy to read format (ex. p. 176).

UNDERSTAND DIVERSITY

• New Contemporary Research - A panel of expert reviewers help make this edition the most current textbook on the market (ex. p. 230).
• "Thinking about Diversity: Race, Class, and Gender" boxes focus on a wide range of multicultural and gender experiences (ex. p. 90).
• Newly re-designed "Seeing Ourselves" National Maps illuminate the social diversity in the United States. One map per chapter is accompanied with a new MySocLab media assignment, written by John Macionis (ex. p. 133).
• "Thinking Globally" boxes encourage readers to think about their own lives and the diversity that characterizes our world (ex. p. 189).
• Newly re-designed "Window on the World" Global Maps offer a comparative look at issues from around the world (ex. p. 136).

SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS

• Author Written Test Item File - Written by John Macionis, the new Test Bank is fully integrated with the new learning architecture in the book and MySocLab program. Each question is tagged to Bloom’s Taxonomy and to the Chapter-Specific Learning Objectives. The Test Bank is available in MySocLab; Pearson’s MyTest and TestGen platforms; and a variety of Learning Management Systems including Blackboard and WebCT.
• New MySocLab Media assignments written by John Macionis, a robust Bloom's Taxonomy architecture, and a gradebook help instructors.

• The new Annotated Instructor’s eText gives instructors easy access to videos, readings, and more within their eText. Found within MySocLab, it is the one location to find all available instructor resources.

• MyClassPrep makes lecture preparation simpler and less time consuming. It collects the very best class presentation resources–art and figures from our leading texts, videos, lecture activities, classroom activities, demonstrations, and much more–in one convenient online destination. You may search through MyClassPrep’s extensive database of tools by content topic (arranged by standard topics within the sociology curriculum) or by content type (video, audio, simulation, Word documents, etc.). You can select resources appropriate for your lecture, many of which can be downloaded directly, or you may build your own folder of resources and present from within MyClassPrep.
• Create a Custom Text - For enrollments of at least 25, create your own textbook by combining chapters from best-selling Pearson textbooks and/or reading selections in the sequence you want. To begin building your custom text, visit www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. You may also work with a dedicated Pearson Custom editor to create your ideal text—publishing your own original content or mixing and matching Pearson content. Contact your Pearson Publisher’s Representative to get started.