Updated throughout, this new edition includes expanded coverage of Black Lives Matter, sexual harassment, the social construction of immigration, and other topics.

The new seventh edition continues to provide the most balanced and up-to-date coverage in an accessible, engaging style.

Significantly streamlined and reorganized, this tenth edition presents the most current research, data, and statistics on drug use and discusses the latest trends involving drugs, from the decriminalization and mainstreaming of marijuana to ...

Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.

The park has an extremely low crime rate. Sociologist, and local resident, Erich Goode wants to know why.

Using postwar and contemporary Hollywood cinema as case studies, this book demonstrates the complex and evolving nature of modern America's social, economic, and political values.

This compelling, well-documented work presents a much-needed sociological examination of the role paranormal beliefs play in our society.

But there are important differences, as Arthur Asa Berger makes clear in this important new work.