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Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century

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Product Description: Deviant Behavior challenges students’ own biases and preconceptions.   This best-selling text offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of deviance and is noted for its blend of style and substance.  Deviant Behavior covers a wide spectrum of theories of deviance, and analyzes numerous specific deviant behaviors...read more

This concise text is praised for its scholarship, breadth, depth, lively writing, and cross-cultural coverage. Reflecting a unique blend of style and scholarship, this student-friendly text is designed to help readers understand the relevance of sociology to their own lives. Clear, fast-paced, and lively writing help make even complex concepts readable and interesting, while the presentation of social myths and realities in every chapter promotes truly critical thinking.

With its vibrant narrative, engaging pedagogy, currency and theoretical scholarship, this text uses a wealth of multicultural and global examples to provide students with substantive coverage of sociological concepts. It integrates global analyses throughout, so that students learn to think critically about sociology as a discipline. New material on social diversity discusses differences among four cultural groups - Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans - on various topics, such as socialization, aging, education, economics, religion, and politics.

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