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You May Ask Yourself
The “untextbook” that teaches students to think like a sociologist. You May Ask Yourself gives instructors an alternative to the typical textbook by emphasizing the big ideas of the discipline and encouraging students to ask meaningful questions. This “non-textbook” strategy explains complex concepts through personal examples and storytelling, integrates coverage of social inequality throughout the textbook, and offers the largest collection of instructor resources for a book in its price range.
Readings for Sociology provides students with engaging selections that reveal the complexities of our social world and offer insights into sociological analysis. Garth Massey includes selections from popular and academic journals as well as lively book excerpts that will help students reach a new level of sociological understanding. While comprehensive in scope, offering a wide range of selections on the standard topics taught in introductory courses, this book particularly focuses on social inequality and race, class, and gender.
Readings for Sociology provides students with engaging selections that reveal the complexities of our social world and offer insights into sociological analysis. Garth Massey includes selections from popular and academic journals as well as lively book excerpts that will help students reach a new level of sociological understanding. While comprehensive in scope, offering a wide range of selections on the standard topics taught in introductory courses, this book particularly focuses on social inequality and race, class, and gender.
840 pages, Paperback
Published June 9, 2016
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October 25, 2025
You May Ask Yourself is a refreshing and intelligent departure from the standard sociology textbook. Dalton Conley brings the subject to life through an engaging, conversational tone that inspires students to think critically about the world around them. Rather than simply defining sociological terms, he guides readers to question assumptions, challenge perspectives, and connect theory to personal experience.
The book’s emphasis on social inequality particularly in the context of race, class, and gender gives it both academic depth and contemporary relevance. Each chapter encourages reflection, showing how sociological thinking applies to everyday life and current global issues. This approach makes learning sociology not only accessible but deeply meaningful.
Conley’s “untextbook” successfully reimagines what a learning tool can be lively, thought-provoking, and empowering. It’s an essential resource for anyone who values education that goes beyond memorization to inspire genuine understanding.
The book’s emphasis on social inequality particularly in the context of race, class, and gender gives it both academic depth and contemporary relevance. Each chapter encourages reflection, showing how sociological thinking applies to everyday life and current global issues. This approach makes learning sociology not only accessible but deeply meaningful.
Conley’s “untextbook” successfully reimagines what a learning tool can be lively, thought-provoking, and empowering. It’s an essential resource for anyone who values education that goes beyond memorization to inspire genuine understanding.
December 6, 2019
Great textbook for an intro to sociology.
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