Understanding Society: An Introductory Reader (with Infotrac(r))

UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY presents a balance of classic and contemporary readings that you'll both understand and find intriguing. Like the Andersen/Taylor introductory sociology textbooks, this reader has a strong focus on diversity. Five themes run throughout book: classical sociological theory, contemporary research, diversity, globalization, and the application of the sociological perspective.

Howard F. Taylor was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hiram College and has a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. He has taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and Princeton University, where he is presently Professor of Sociology and former director of the African American Studies program. He has published over forty articles in sociology, education, social psychology, and race relations. His books include THE IQ GAME (Rutgers University Press), a critique of hereditarian accounts of intelligence; BALANCE IN SMALL GROUPS (Van Nostrand Reinhold); and the forthcoming RACE, CLASS, AND THE BELL CURVE IN AMERICA. He has also written SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, Fifth Edition (Wadsworth 2007, co-authored with Margaret L. Andersen), and UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTORY READER, Second Edition. (Wadsworth, 2004, co-edited with Margaret L. Andersen and Kim Logio). He has appeared widely before college, radio, and TV audiences, including ABC s Nightline. He is past president of the Eastern Sociological Society; a member of the American Sociological Association and the Sociological Research Association, an honorary society for distinguished research. He is a winner of the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award, given by the American Sociological Association for distinguished research in race and ethnic relations, and the President s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He lives in Pennington, New Jersey, with his wife, a corporate lawyer.