1) Overall Changes 2) Chapter-by-Chapter Changes 1) Overall Changes PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYSOCLAB MySocLab now features documentary film clips to engage students with current issues and events. Quantitative research in each chapter is tied to a 'living data' activity in MySocLab. The activity allows students to practice quantitative literacy and explore data on a deeper level. IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING Learning Objectives & Questions on each page reinforce key concepts and build critical thinking skills. ENGAGE STUDENTS New design places a premium on large photos and new art to capture students' attention. MySocLab now features documentary film clips to engage students with current issues and events. Quantitative research in each chapter is tied to a 'living data' activity in MySocLab. The activity allows students to practice quantitative literacy and explore data on a deeper level. SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS Integrated Test Bank - The new Test Bank is fully integrated with the new learning architecture in the book and MySocLab program. Each question is tagged to Bloom’s Taxonomy and to the Chapter-Specific Learning Objectives. A new set of questions relating to MySocLab activities is now available for every chapter. The Test Bank is available in MySocLab; Pearson’s MyTest and TestGen platforms; and a variety of Learning Management Systems including Blackboard and WebCT. The new Instructor’s eText gives instructors easy access to videos, readings, and more within their eText. Found within MySocLab, it is the one location to find all available instructor resources. 2) Chapter-by-Chapter Changes Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective The use of Facebook to document the race-ethnicity of friendships of college students How applied sociology relates to Dora the Explorer Chapter 2: Culture Cultural Diversity Around the World Box: Dancing with the Dead Down-to-Earth Sociology Box: 2-D: A New Subculture and a Different Kind of Love Genetics-informed sociology Chapter 3: Socialization Advertising as a source of gender messages in the mass media Movies as a source of gender messages in the mass media Research on babies indicates an inborn morality How the effects of day care follow children (NICHD research; latest testing at age 15) How the facial expressions of people blind since birth, upon learning they had won or lost at the Paralympics, were the same as those of sighted people The average number of commercials Americans are exposed to has jumped to 200,000 a year The lack of an abstract, universal morality, is unexpected from Kohlberg’s theory Chapter 4: Social Structure and Social Interaction The U.S. army is trying to apply body language to alert soldiers to danger when interacting with civilians in a military zone How snap-together BioBricks to produce your own life forms could be coming soon Sociology and the New Technology Box: “So, You Want to Be Yourself?” Cloning and the Future of Society Through the Author’s Lens: Social Structure and Social Interaction in the City Chapter 5: Social Groups and Formal Organizations Through the Author’s Lens: Helping a Stranger (which shows limitations to Darley and Latane’s laboratory research on the diffusion of responsibility) Cu