Essentials of Sociology 7th Ed

The Seventh Edition of Essentials of Sociology is based on the Eleventh Edition of our best-selling text Introduction to Sociology. We created the Essentials Edition for instructors and students who are looking for a briefer book that can fit into a compressed academic schedule. We have reduced the length of the book by roughly one-third, and we reduced the number of chapters from twenty to sixteen. We cut selected topics to focus the chapters on the core ideas of sociology, while still retaining the themes that have made the text a successful teaching tool.