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Review “It is very colourful, and I personally love colour. It will clearly have excellent visual appeal, and it might well attract some students to spend more time than they currently do reading their texts." -Brenda Bennett, School of Practical Nursing, George Brown College "I like the modular format. It makes the chapter more inviting since it is broken up into chunks.” J. Cottingham, Confederation College “I believe the material is up to date and will spark some great discussion. Interesting case examples...very current!” -Melanie Marchand, Police Studies, Georgian College “Yes, I think that you have achieved a good balance of the basic concepts, theory and data with some application.” -Brenda Bennett, School of Practical Nursing, George Brown College “The 'Think About' questions are good because they serve as a pre-reading alert and also focus students' attention and get them to start thinking." M Belanger, Vanier College “I have not seen the use of concept maps very often in other texts, but I like the way they have been used here.” -M. Belanger, Vanier College About the Author Bruce Ravelli received his Ph.D. from the University of Victoria in 1997. He has taught introductory sociology for over 20 years, and receives strong teaching evaluations from his students because of his passion for sociology, his dedication to teaching, and his commitment to high academic standards. Bruce has published articles and book chapters on Canadian culture and cross-national value differences as well as students’ evaluation of teaching. He is co-author Exploring Sociology: A Canadian Perspective with Michelle Webber. He has also co-edited Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, Third Canadian Edition, with John J. Macionis, Nijole V. Benokraitis and Peter Urmetzer, and edited Exploring Canadian Sociology: A Reader as well as co-authored the