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While the social world has been changing dramatically over the last two centuries or so and sociology has adapted to those changes, sociology has continued to focus on many of its traditional concerns. We have already mentioned industry, production, and work as long-term sociological interests; others include deviance and crime (see Chapter 6), the family (see Chapter 10), and the city (see Chapter 14). Of particular concern to many sociologists has been, and continues to be, the issue of inequality as it affects the poor, particularly racial and ethnic groups, women, and gays and lesbians (see Chapters 8 and 9). The bulk of this book is devoted to these basic sociological topics and concerns, but the discussion also encompasses the nontraditional and very contemporary issues of globalization, consumption, and the digital world.