This course aims to provide a concise introduction to sociology for non-major students and enables them to obtain a better understanding of human society. This course concentrates upon the key aradigms and knowledge in sociology, the importance of culture and socialization, the dynamics of social interacions in everyday life, and various essential instituions of modern society. Special attention is paid to family, marriage, education, economy, work, religion, power and politics, deviance and social control, social stratification and inequality, race and ethnicity, population, urbanization and modernization process.