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This comprehensive audio textbook has 17 chapters covering the beginnings of sociology as an academic research discipline, culture and media, sociological research, socialization across the life course, social structure and social interaction, groups and organizations, deviance and crime, and social class and social stratification, global stratification, race and ethnicity, gender and sex, sexuality, family, religion, education and healthcare, politics, the economy, and population and society.

The goal of Foundations of Social Understanding: A Theory and Institutions Based Introduction to Sociology is to convey the essential aspects of sociology, keeping the focus on the theoretical ideas that form the backbone of the discipline. This book fills a niche for instructors and students who wish to have a rigorously presented, yet low-cost text that covers essential aspects of the field.

Sociology: Exploring Human Society is a college level introductory textbook for Sociology. Part 1 materials cover the beginnings of sociology as an academic research discipline, culture and media, sociological research, socialization across the life course, social structure and social interaction, groups and organizations, deviance and crime, and social class and social stratification. Each chapter begins with an introduction that serves to guide the student in the reading and ends with a summary of the most important points.

Una Unión Más Perfecta es un libro de texto introductorio para cursos de Gobierno Norteamericano, Ciencias Políticas e Historia a nivel universitario. El contenido cubre la historia y la filosofía de gobierno y sus influencias sobre los Fundadores. Sigue el desarrollo del sistema Democrático Republicano Norteamericano desde la época colonial hasta el día de hoy, y explica los componentes del gobierno federal.

A More Perfect Union is a college level introductory audio textbook for American Government, Political Science, and American History courses. Materials cover the history and philosophy of government and their influence on the Founding Fathers. It traces the development of the American Republican Democratic system of government from colonial times to today, and explains the components of the federal government.

Sociology: Exploring Human Society is a college level introductory textbook for Sociology. Part 2 materials cover global stratification, race and ethnicity, gender and sex, sexuality, family, religion, education and healthcare, politics and the economy, and population and society. Each chapter begins with an introduction that serves to guide the student in the reading and ends with a summary of the most important points. Study questions and answer guide, keywords, a glossary, and bibliography are also included. Hyperlinks are provided to the glossary, and the bibliography.

Part 1 covers the New World before 1492, European discovery and contact with Native Americans, the first colonies of Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Britain, British colonial history including the Puritan colonies and the Chesapeake Bay colonies, the French and Indian War, the rise of slavery, the growing tension between the colonies and the British government, the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation, American Constitutional government, the early Republic, the rise of political parties, Jeffersonian Republicanism, and the War of 1812.