Introduction to Sociology (11th Edition) – Seagull Edition – eBook

Author(s)

Anthony Giddens

Professor Anthony Giddens, former director of the London School of Economics and a current member of the House of Lords, is a world-renowned social theorist who has written over 40 books. He has written on just about every major topic in sociology but is best known for his work on modernization theory and globalization.

Deborah Carr

Dr. Deborah Carr is a demographer and an active teacher at Rutgers University, where she regularly teaches the introduction to sociology and psychology courses. Her work focuses on the sociology of the life course, gender, social psychology, and aging. Carr's latest book, Worried Sick: How Stress Hurts Us and How to Bounce Back, looks at how stress makes us sick, gets under our skin, and how and why people cope with stress differently.

Mitchell Duneier

Dr. Mitchell Duneier is an award-winning urban ethnographer at the City University of  New York Graduate Center and Princeton University. He is most famous for his ebook Sidewalk, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Duneier's research focuses on the urban poor and other groups in the margins of society.

Richard P. Appelbaum

Dr. Richard P. Appelbaum, the author and the MacArthur chair of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has won several awards for his teaching and excellent works mainly on globalization and labor issues. Appelbaum is the author/coauthor of Behind the Label, Essentials of Sociology [6th edition], and Introduction to Sociology (11th ed.) among others.