Product Description: Thinking About Sociology: A Critical Introduction is intended for introductory sociology courses for first-year university students. The book helps students start to think like sociologists, to question their taken-for-granted assumptions about their place in society, and to evaluate critically how they interact with other individuals and social institutions...read more

Product Description: This unique program is based on six years of research conducted at the University of Massachusetts Boston showing that students experienceincreased stress during the transition into middle school, not only in academics, but in their relationships with peers and teachers...read more

Product Description: In this highly original volume of social history, Karen Anderson makes a provocative claim: the subjugation of women in seventeenth-century New France was linked with the brutal colonization of native Indian populations. Before colonization, the Huron and Montagnais tribes lived in gender-egalitarian societies...read more