title: Sociology: The Essentials, 8th Edition
author: Margaret L. Andersen
description: Margaret L. Andersen (B.A., Georgia State University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware, where she has also served in several senior administrative positions, including most recently as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity. She holds secondary appointments in Black American Studies and Women and Gender Studies. She is the author of several books, including (among others) THINKING ABOUT WOMEN, recently published in its tenth edition; the best-selling anthology, RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER (co-edited with Patricia Hill Collins, now in its ninth edition); LIVING ART: THE LIFE OF PAUL R. JONES, AFRICAN AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR; and ON LAND AND ON SEA: A CENTURY OF WOMEN IN THE ROSENFELD COLLECTION. She is a member of the National Advisory Board for Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Past Vice President of the American Sociological Association, and Past President of the Eastern Sociological Society, from which she received the ESS Merit Award. She has also received two teaching awards from the University of Delaware and the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award.
zlib_text: Gender
  IDEAS, INTERACTIONS, INSTITUTIONS
  Second edition
  
  Sociology TiTleS
  from 
  W. W. NorToN
  The Contexts Reader, THIRD EDITIon, edited 
  by Syed Ali and Philip N. Cohen
  Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson
  The Cosmopolitan Canopy by Elijah Anderson
  Social Problems, THIRD EDITIon, by Joel Best
  The Art and Science of Social Research by 
  Deborah Carr, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, 
  Benjamin Cornwell, Shelley Correll, Robert 
  Crosnoe, Jeremy Freese, and Mary C. Waters
  The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social 
  Change, sEconD EDITIon, by Philip N. Cohen
  You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to 
  Thinking like a Sociologist, fIfTH EDITIon, 
  by Dalton Conley
  Race in America by Matthew Desmond and 
  Mustafa Emirbayer
  The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology, 
  sIxTH EDITIon, by Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein
  Essentials of Sociology, sEvEnTH EDITIon, 
  by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, 
  Richard P. Appelbaum, and Deborah Carr
  Introduction to Sociology, ElEvEnTH EDITIon, 
  by Anthony Giddens, Mitch