Sociology A Global Perspective

SOCIOLOGY: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, 7/E will introduce you to the discipline, and show you how sociology gives you powerful tools for thinking about and understanding what is going on in the world as well as the United States.

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3). ISRD is a major international research collaboration that now covers some 35 countries. It surveys young people aged 12 to 16 in their schools, asking about their experience of crime – both as offenders and as victims – and about their attitudes to crime and justice and about their home and school life.

The Second Edition of this popular textbook has been conceptually reworked to take account of the instabilities underlying the project of global development.