Welcome to the StudySpace

The structure of this site uses contemporary pedagogical techniques to help you strengthen your study habits.  The site is organized into 3 parts: Organize, Learn and Connect.

1. Organize:

These study aides will help you prepare to learn the chapter material so that you can begin making sociological connections between everyday life and global change.

• Chapter Study Plans highlight the learning tools the site offers.  To keep track of your progress, print the study plan.
• Chapter Outlines provide an overview of the major ideas introduced in each chapter. Review the outline before you read the chapter.
• Chapter Learning Objectives answer the question: “what will you learn from this  chapter?”  Keep these broad objectives in mind as you read.

2. Learn:

Because people learn in different ways, there are a variety of activities to help you review your knowledge and apply what you have learned.

• Read the assigned chapter in your textbook or ebook. Then you might want to reread the Chapter Outlines as a review of those important concepts you should have grasped.
• Flashcards help you review key terms in each chapter.
• Diagnostic Quizzes for each chapter will help you identify which parts of the text you need to review more and will give you instant feedback on right and wrong answers.
• Short answer Review Exercises provide another way to think about and assimilate what you’ve learned.
• Annotated Graphs from the text with short answer exercises help you learn to analyze data and think critically about what it means.

3. Connect:

These resources help you to connect what you’ve learned to your own experiences and to the world around you.

• DVD Exercises are short quizzes about clips from documentary films that explore sociological concepts from various perspectives (select chapters only).
• Behind the Headlines exercises teach you how to scrutinize news reports from a sociological perspective.
• Everydaysociologyblog.com short answer exercises allow you to respond to some of the interesting and topical posts on the everydaysociology.com blog. 
• Sociology in the News keeps you up-to-date—from a sociological perspective—about what’s happening in the world.
• The Norton Slideshow Maker with Visual Sociology Exercises allows you to use your own photographs and captions to respond to questions that will spark your sociological imagination (select chapters only).

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