Amazon.com description: Product Description: This mainstream text is noted for its especially strong coverage of current social issues with the integration of race, class and gender perspectives. This includes diverse theoretical viewpoints, including feminist theory. Each chapter incorporates the recent research of new scholars (especially women and people of color). A social issue or application opens each chapter providing topics for boxes and many examples which are carried throughout the chapter. The author has the most vivid personal writing style in the market, using compelling everyday examples which make sociology particularly relevant for diverse students.