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In the past few years, sociologists in the teaching movement have developed a framework for teaching key topics and competencies in introductory sociology courses (Ferguson and Carbonaro, 2015). The individual ideas are not new, but together they lay out a comprehensive framework for teaching our discipline, and they provide a guide for what students should understand and be able to do when they complete the introductory course. Broad enough to include the topics we typically teach in the introductory course, the framework places loose parameters around the field and organizes content into a comprehensive and comprehendible format. Our Social World uses the key ideas and concepts in the framework for a systematic presentation aimed at undergraduate students and an up-to-date presentation of sociology’s core content.

The framework represents what “students of sociology should understand” after completing an introductory sociology course, as determined by several working groups of teacher-scholars and sociologist task forces.* “To Our Students” includes a box outlining the six essential competencies.

* For further information, see Ferguson and Carbonara, 2016.