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Chapter 15 Conclusion: Understanding and Changing the Social World
We have come to the end of this introduction to sociology. I sincerely hope you enjoyed reading the book and benefited from Flat World Knowledge’s innovative model of providing high-quality, affordable college textbooks. I welcome your comments on what you have read here and also on the Flat World Knowledge model; please e-mail me at barkan@maine.edu. Thank you in advance!
There has been a lot to digest in the reading you have done. Accordingly, this brief concluding chapter sums up what you have learned, assuming the text has succeeded in introducing you to sociology. As part of this summary, the chapter draws upon the earlier chapters to review the relevance of sociology for “changing the social world.”