Table of Contents

Ch.1 AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY IN THE GLOBAL AGE
Ch.2 THINKING ABOUT AND RESEARCHING THE SOCIAL WORLD
Ch.3 CULTURE
Ch.4 SOCIALIZATION AND INTERACTION
Ch.5 ORGANIZATIONS, SOCIETIES AND THE GLOBAL
Ch.6 DEVIANCE AND CRIME
Ch.7 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Ch.8 RACE AND ETHNICITY
Ch.9 GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Ch.10 THE FAMILY
Ch.11 RELIGION AND EDUCATION
Ch.12 POLITICS AND THE ECONOMY
Ch.13 THE BODY, MEDICINE, HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Ch.14 POPULATION, URBANIZATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Ch.15 SOCIAL CHANGE, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION

About the Author

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association, an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University in Australia, and the Robin Williams Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. His best-known work, The McDonaldization of Society (8th ed.), has been read by hundreds of thousands of students over two decades and translated into over a dozen languages. Ritzer is also the editor of McDonaldization: The Reader; and author of other works of critical sociology related to the McDonaldization thesis, including Enchanting a Disenchanted World, The Globalization of Nothing, Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society, as well as a series best-selling social theory textbooks and Globalization: A Basic Text. He is the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2 vols.), the Encyclopedia of Sociology (11 vols.; 2nd edition forthcoming), the Encyclopedia of Globalization (5 vols.), and is Founding Editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. In 2016 he will publish the second edition of Essentials of Sociology with SAGE.