Society: The Basics

Key differences between 14th and 13th editions

• Period between current and previous publications: 2 years (2016 vs 2014).
• Macionis' Society: The Basics textbook was originally published in 1991.
• Major additions in the 14th Edition are summarized below:
• Chapter 1:
• Recent research on how college attendance relates to social class, ethnicity, and age.
• Gay marriage in the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court.
• Chapter 2:
• New global map demonstrating the rate of foreign-born population around the world.
• New Global Snapshot shows the use of most widely spoken language in the world as first and second languages.
• Chapter 3: Osagie Obasogie?s study on how blind people understand race.
• Chapter 6:
• Epigenetic theory of homosexuality.
• Alarmingly high rate of suicide among transgender people.
• Chapter 7:
• Analysis of arrest patterns for person crimes (robberies, rape, assaults, domestic violence) and property crimes (burglary, robbery, larceny) by age, gender, racial/ethnic group.
• Statistically based investigation of the death penalty application.
• Chapter 8:
• The latest trends in Wall Street CEOs pay.
• Up-to-date information about racial disparities in home-ownership, the rates of four-year college degree completion for students from various social classes
• Current data on rate of homelessness and socio-economic mobility.
• Chapter 10: Discussion about Mo'ne Davis, a first girl in Little League World Series history to pitch a winning game.
• Chapter 11:
• Research demonstrating a long-term increased tolerance to alcohol among college students.
• Discussion of police acts of violence against African Americans, including the 2014 shooting by police of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.
• Chapter 12: Discussion about income inequality as key problem in the 2016 presidential election.
• Chapter 14: Discussion about gender differences in prevalence of eating disorders, controversy of euthanasia, the relationship between poverty and lack of medical care.
• Chapter 15: Discussions about the declining size of the Earth's tropical rain-forests, worldwide urbanization in low-income areas, and changes in water use.