Welcome to the Companion Website

Welcome to the SAGE edge site for Our Social World: Condensed, Fifth Edition.

The SAGE edge site for Our Social World: Condensed by Jeanne H. Ballantine, Keith A. Roberts, and Kathleen Odell Korgen offers a robust online environment you can access anytime, anywhere, and features an impressive array of free tools and resources to keep you on the cutting edge of your learning experience.

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Our Social World: Condensed, inspires students to develop their sociological imaginations, to see the world and personal events from a new perspective, and to confront sociological issues on a day-to-day basis. The award-winning author team organizes the text around the "Social World Model,” a conceptual framework that demonstrates the relationships among individuals (the micro level); organizations, institutions, and subcultures (the meso level); and societies and global structures (the macro level). The application of this model across chapters helps students practice using the three levels of analysis and view sociology as an integrated whole rather than a set of discrete subjects.

The Fifth Edition of the Condensed version is adapted from Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology and is one-third shorter by streamlining boxes and the main narrative, and combining four chapters into two (Family/Education, and Politics/Economics).

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge Jeanne H. Ballantine, Keith A. Roberts, and Kathleen Odell Korgen for writing an excellent text. Special thanks are also due to Amy Donley of the University of Central Florida, Orit Hirsh of Kingsborough Community College, Ashleigh McKinzie of the University of Georgia, Andrea Miller of Webster University, Nancy Reeves, Regina Smardon of Methodist University, and Susan Wortmann of Nebraska Wesleyan for developing the digital resources on this site.