Nurhamdiah Sipahutar Nurlaila Afni Lubis The title of this book is variations and Functional Varieties of Language written by Prof. Amrin Saragih , Phd, MA, DTEFL. This book can be used for the study of functional language varieties or studies with the specific purpose of analyzing the content and context of the discourse. As for the topic we are discussing is an element of social context and its realization. Social Context Language and Society are closely related, there is no language without society and there is no society without language. So, language is forms in the society. Elements of Social Context In the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the social context is constituted by three elements they are; Ideology ; is considered as the abstract factor, the nearest element to language which is directly related to language - Situation ; is considered as the concrete factor and the element which is in between the two factors- Culture; is considered as the moderate factor of social context. Strength The Objectives of this book are to provide students with knowledge of variations and varieties of language in their context and to apply the knowledge in analyzing text or discourses in their social context. The expected outcome is to develop the students’ skills in analyzing text by which they can well interpret and understand the text or language use. The book explained about social context is very clear and detail that suitable with our daily life. Weakness The weakness of this book Based on our RPS there are five elements of Social context and the references in RPS have match with the book that we have reviewed, but we couldn’t find the five elements itself, we just found three elements of social context in this book, namely: Ideology, Culture and situation. As we know the creator of RPS and this book that we have reviewed is the same, but in fact the content in RPS and this book is different, in RPS said the elements of social context is five but in the book just three elements. So It’s need to improve the book more complete and clearly.