1. A focus on sociology 2. Individuals in the social setting 3. Society and culture organizations and groups 4. Sociology and social change 5. Socialization a lifelong experience 6. Sex roles and socialization 7. Deviance and social control 8. Population births deaths and migration 9. Stratification living with social inequality 10. Urbanization and city life 11. Bureaucratization and organizational life 12. Majority-minority relations and the ethnic experience 13. The black American experience 14. Family and married life 15. Working in a changing society 16. Religion the changing nature of the sacred experience 17. Science from little science to big science 18. Sport and the social world 19. Politics the quest for power