Students are drawn to topics of urgent sociological concern--race, class, gender, family, popular culture, health, and crime--by a need to both understand the forces that shape their world, and their desire to make the world better. It can be challenging, however, for students to linkbrsociological concepts with real-world applications.em Living Sociologically Concepts and Connectionsem helps students make those connections. pEncouraging students to observe, explore, and think critically about the social world, emLiving Sociologicallyem offers a new, class-tested framework for teaching introduction to sociology. The paired concepts approach demonstrates the interdependent ways in which social forces work, and encouragesbrstudents to engage with complexity and contradiction. It also connects students to a broader set of questions and provides them with critical, analytical tools for their post-college lives. pIn addition, each chapter includes an opening vignette, examples of contempora