Publisher's Synopsis
"If you, like us, have found yourself searching for activities to bring into your classroom and engage your sociology students, you know why we wrote this book and the others in the Sociology in Action series. We knew we couldn't be alone in our quest to get students to do more than read the text-we want them to do sociology, to understand and apply the terms and concepts they read about and realize them in the real world. Over the course of writing and refining the manuscript, as well as reading the reviews of instructors excited to see activities many of us have been cobbling together over the years now residing within a textbook, we became even more convinced that our approach is one that offers instructors material for how they want to teach and offers students the foundational content they need in sociology, as well as engaging activities that will help them do sociology. The overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to Sociology in Act