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In this major revision we have updated all data, added many new studies, and added new emphases in sociology, such as environmental sociology. The following list provides a summary of key changes:

Thoroughly revised Chapter 15, bringing Urban Sociology and Population under the umbrella of Environmental Sociology and adding a new section on climate change.

 Included new Sociologists in Action features, such as Richard M. Carpiano’s “Connecting Personal Health to Community Life” (Chapter 14).

 Revised the Engaging Sociology features, with opportunities for data analysis by students.

 Updated the Contributing to Our Social World: What Can We Do? features to provide new recommendations for how students can get involved.

 Added new and updated figures and maps.

 Added many new topics, including the influence of robots and artificial intelligence on workers, race relations in the Trump era, issues related to transgender identity and gender fluidity, sexual harassment in the workplace, declining marriage rates, the impact of tracking for students at all academic achievement levels, smoking as an example of health and inequality in the United States, gun violence and the student movement to control access to guns, and Facebook’s handling of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The core elements of the book—with the unifying theme and the social world model at the beginning of every chapter—have not changed.

Finally, although we had been told that the writing was extraordinarily readable, we have tried to simplify sentence structure in places. In short, we have tried to respond to what we heard from all of you—both students and instructors (and yes, we do hear from students)—to keep this book engaging and accessible.