Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life

Second Edition

Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life

Second Edition

This accompanying Instructor and Student Resource website provides free digital materials designed to enhance student engagement with the book and support instructors in preparing teaching materials.

Students

About the Book

This concise and highly visual textbook offers a refreshingly new way forward to reach students, using one of the most powerful tools in a sociologist’s teaching arsenal—the familiar stuff in students’ everyday lives throughout the world: the jeans they wear to class, the coffee they drink each morning, or the phones their professors tell them to put away during lectures.

By focusing on consumer culture, seeing the strange in the familiar, and engaging students through their stuff, this book moves beyond teaching about sociology to helping instructors teach the practice of sociological thinking.

Resources include:

For students:

  • Learning Objectives, further reading and discussion questions  
  • Video Concept Lessons
  • Quizzes
  • Flashcards
  • Active Learning – Further Online Resources  
  • Glossary & Acronyms

For instructors:  

  • Instructor’s Manual with additional resources for each chapter (also on this site)
  • PowerPoint lecture slides with discussion prompts
  • Test bank with multiple choice, true-false, gapfill, and essay questions

About the Authors

Josée Johnston is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is co-author of Happy Meat: The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea  and Food and Femininity.

Kate Cairns teaches in Childhood and Youth Studies at Carleton University. She is co-author of Food and Femininity.

Shyon Baumann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He is co-author of Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape, second edition and Happy Meat: The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea.