"This textbook's tone invites the student reader in to explore with the author each new chapter of uncovered ground ... Allan also encourages students to think beyond the theory on the page to its implications for global society by providing what he calls 'theory you can use' ... a fresh, new and bold approach to the theory textbook."--Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University, Teaching Sociology, 36, pp. 161-184 (April, 2008).