A fast-track, full-color crash course in sociology for curious minds who want a degree's worth of insight without the expense.

A Degree in a Book: Sociology gives an introduction interested in how humans make and create our social world. Featuring vibrant full-color graphics, helpful diagrams and summary sections, this book helps to bring clarity to complex ideas. Readers will soon be able to understand who created the subject area, how a sociologist thinks and studies and learn how we relate to social organisations from the family, to schools, corporations, religions, and governments as well as other forms of social organisation. They'll learn about sociological ways of thinking, identities and society, poverty, class and inequality, 'race' and ethnicity, gender and sexualities, the body and society, digital cultures, globalization, culture and society, the sociology of violence, the environment, human-animal relations and future trends.

ABOUT THE SERIES: Get the knowledge of a degree for the price of a book in Arcturus Publishing's A Degree in a Book series. Featuring flow charts, infographics, handy timelines, feature spreads and margin annotations, these illustrated books are perfect for anyone wishing to master seemingly complex subject with ease and enjoyment.