Very clear with consideration paid to explaining and counterpoising different arguments in social theory. The last chapter is a very good treatment of the globalization debate and offers three distinct perspectives (hybrid, hetero, homo) that are rarely explained more lucidly in other texts.
The chapter on high, popular and low culture also does a really good job of synthesizing and explaining theoretical perspectives. The lucidity in particular in explaining the Frankfurt school is good.
The success of this text is in the way it sutures public and private issues (the real task of the sociologist). It therefore is a brilliant primer. It begins from the everyday, to the cultural to the global. As a text, it is something that I will recommend my students to read as a primer on grasping some of the main arguments in sociology.