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How to reach students at their ability and interest levels and provide sociological principles they can grasp and use underlies the content and features of this book. Based on current pedagogical theory and recommendations for the beginning sociology course, the following discussion provides a curriculum map for the chapters and an introduction to the use of the sociological literacy framework.

Special features woven throughout each chapter support the themes of the book. These will help students comprehend and apply the material and make it more understandable and interesting. These features are also designed to facilitate deep learning, to help students move beyond rote memorization, and to increase their ability to analyze and evaluate information.

For students to understand both the comparative global theme and sociology as an integrated whole rather than as a set of separate chapters in a book, we have organized this book around the social world model that demonstrates the relationships among individuals (micro level); organizations, institutions, and subcultures (meso level); and societies and global structures (macro levels of analysis) (see following discussion). At the beginning of each chapter, a visual diagram of the model illustrates this idea as it relates to the topic of the chapter, including how issues related to the topic have implications at various levels of analysis in the social world.