Seventh Edition / 
/ 2010-08-25
Product was delivered quickly and in advertised condition.
Please note that this is the SEVENTH edition, which my college hasn't been using for at least 4 semesters now. My prof told me today that using it would leave me at a serious disadvantage since it's out of date. I didn't read the fine print closely enough and now my purchase is a waste of money.
Good Study / / 2009-08-11
This is a great book for those who are interested in
knowing the study of sociology. It is set up well in
its instruction.
I love the fact that you have the chapter and at the
end some questions (with the answers upside down), so
you can evalute if you learn what was intended. And if
you are in a hurry, after that section is an overview
of what the chapter is to teach with brief summaries and
word definitions.
The only down side that I have found is this book is
biase towards the Conflict theory and Liberal types.
Overall though, it does a fairly good job of being
balanced.
Sociology textbook / / 2009-08-05
Book came complete w/cd set as described and arrived on tine for me to start my class on time
Satisfied Customer / 
/ 2009-06-24
I was very pleased with the product I received, as well as, the prompt time it was shipped. The product was in the condition stated. I will use this service provider again. Thanks for very good service.
Marxist propaganda / 
/ 2008-05-24
Can anyone still be preaching Karl Marx in the 21st Century? Richard T. Schaefer can. Thanks to Mr. Schaefer, I now know that as a white male I must get up every morning and ask myself, "whom can I oppress and exploit today? Let's see, how about some poor female or someone of an ethnic minority?" I found it offensive all the way through and told my professor that I was offended that she chose this textbook. Mr. Schaefer pretends that he's writing a sociology textbook, but the book is basically Marxist propaganda. Schaefer presents the three basic approaches to sociology, but he cannot hide his Marxist bias, which colors everything in the entire book. (I would also like to add that the readers on the audio CD are incredibly pretentious and have some strange ideas about the pronunciation of the English language, i.e., the word "united" is accented on the first syllable.) The only thing useful that I got out of this book was that an idea I thought was my own had actually been hatched by Erving Goffman fifty years ago. (I plan to read something by Goffman now.) I would strongly advise educators against using this textbook. There are surely others that are not propaganda.
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