Imagining Sociology introduces students to the concept of the sociological imagination and provides them with the foundational concepts and theories that will help them use this lens to understand the social world. Organized around the themes of social inequality, social institutions, and social change, the text introduces the key ideas of sociology in a student-friendly, easy-to-understand way. Each chapter contains two primary-source readings, by either classical theorists or contemporary researchers, carefully integrated into the text, and critical reading questions encourage students to make connections between the readings and the key ideas in the chapter. Activity boxes in each chapter provide ideas for thought-provoking class activities that will capture students' interest (all class-tested by the author), while highlight boxes offer deeper analysis of important contemporary social issues, such as gender and racial inequality or the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Catherine Corrigall-Brown is an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on social movements, political sociology, and social psychology (particularly the study of identity). Her first book, Patterns of Protest, was published by Stanford University Press in 2012, and she is currently working on a research monograph titled Keeping the March Alive, which is under contract with New York University Press. She has also published in a variety of academic journals, has edited two special issues of the American Behavioral Scientist, and is a deputy editor of the social movements journal Mobilization. She teaches the introductory course SOCI 102: Inequality and Social Change as well as upper-level courses on social movements and political sociology. She received the inaugural Early Investigator Award from the Canadian Sociological Association in 2013 and the Killam Faculty Teaching Prize for outstanding teaching in 2017.