THINK Sociology

by John D. Carl

With an engaging visual design, 15 page chapters, and readings from popular trade titles, THINK Sociology is the introductory Sociology text your students will read. THINK Sociology is informed with the latest research and the most contemporary examples, allowing you to bring current events directly into your classroom with little additional work. An engaging visual design developed with the benefit of extensive student feedback will appeal to your students and deliver the core concepts of Sociology in a way that they can actually understand. The groundbreaking instructor supplements package will help you bring the core concepts of Sociology to life, without burdening your students with heavy, too dense and too expensive learning solutions. Thinkspot, the text’s open access website, provides students with a large resource of tools to help them achieve a better grade.

Genres: Sociology, Nonfiction, School, Textbooks

368 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2008

Reviews

[Kristi · Rating 1 out of 5]

I stopped reading this book for class because it was more or less unnecessary and didn't add anything to lecture material. The book seems to have decent content, but this is overshadowed by the horrendous layout. You open this book, designed to look like a magazine, and the layout is bound to throw you into an epileptic seizure. Seriously now, it looks like a printer just vomited text boxes and colors all over the pages. It's enough to give one a headache and be too distracting to even know where to begin reading.

[Abdelrahman Elkady · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked the study card at the end, very useful

[Luciano Palma · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good companion for an introductory socioloy course.
The content is too much based in North American culture and on the author's personal experience, which makes it less global.
However, it talks through many sociology concepts, being a good source for starters.
The audiobook is hard to listen - monotonic, with no modulation on the reading. It's hard to understand if it's a person reading or a machine.
The final questions (at the end of each chapter) are almost impossible to follow, turning the activity almost unusable.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not your traditional text book. I really enjoyed reading it, it kept my attention well. I learned a lot that I hadn't known before. One of the only school books I've read all the way through.