This study guide has been written to enhance the foundation of sociological ideas and issues that are presented in the text, Society: The Basics 10/e, by John Macionis. This study guide: provides a chapter outline allowing students to organize segments of information from each chapter in the text, identifies the basic knowledge, explanations, comparisons, and understandings students should have after reading and reflecting on each chapter, has the important concepts the chapter defined, provides study questions, including true-false, multiple-choice, matching, fill-in, and discussion questions and the answers to the study questions, includes a list of the page numbers where the answers to these questions can be found, along with the correct answers, gives students an opportunity to answer questions relating to some of the more important concepts, ideas, and issues presented in each chapter, provides students with the chance to reflect on the various boxes found in each chapter, and allows students to investigate various websites and scholarly journals to deepen their sociological perspective as they complete various assignments.