Introductory sociology

The Social Sciences are generally held to include political science, economics, sociology, social psychology, and cultural
anthropology. The general subject for all of them is human social life. Each special social science has within this broad field a
roughly delimited garden plot of its own to cultivate. Sociology is one of the younger of the social science disciplines. During
its brief history of about one hundred years, it has gardened intensixely in several different patches.
This is a major revision of Introductory Sociology-both in content and in conceptual orientation. The authors have taken
the time and the thought for a thorough- going revision which incorporates the latest developments and most recent research ill
the field of sociology.
How much an individual student derives from an introductory sociology course depends, of course, upon his own curiosity,
alertness and effort. The authors have kept firmly in mind that student interest is a major factor in student "learning and
that a major criterion for judging an introductory book is its capacity to arouse and maintain student interest.