Full Description
First year undergraduate students of sociology.
Contents
Part IChapter 1: Taking a New Look at a Familiar World"The Sociological Imagination" by C. Wright Mills"Invitation to Sociology" by Peter Berger"The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience" by Herbert Kelman and V. Lee HamiltonChapter 2: Seeing and Thinking Sociologically"The Metropolis and Mental Life" by Georg Simmel"Culture of Fear" by Barry Glassner"The (Mis)Education of Monica and Karen" by Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. ArmstrongPart II: The Construction of Self and SocietyChapter 3: Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge"Concepts, Indicators, and Reality" by Earl Babbie"Measuring Same-Sex Relationships" by Nancy Bates and Theresa J. DeMaioChapter 4: Building Order: Culture and History"Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner"The Melting Pot" by Anne Fadiman"McDonald's in Hong Kong" by James L. WatsonChapter 5: Building Identity: Socialization"Life as the Maid's Daughter" by Mary Romero"Tiger Girls on the Soccer Field" by Hilary Levey Friedman"Working the 'Code'" by Nikki JonesChapter 6: Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self"The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections" by Erving Goffman"Blue Chip Blacks: Managing Race in Public Spaces" by Karyn R. Lacy"The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity" by David GrazianChapter 7: Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family"The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love" by Stephanie Coontz"Gay Parenthood and the End of Paternity as We Knew It" by Judith Stacey"Covenant Marriage: Reflexivity and Retrenchment in the Politics of Intimacy" by Dwight FeeChapter 8: Constructing Difference: Social Deviance"Watching the Canary" by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres"Healing (Disorderly) Desire: Medical-Therapeutic Regulation of Sexuality" by P.J. McGann"Patients, `Potheads,' and Dying to Get High" by Wendy ChapkisPart III: Social Structure, Institutions, and Everyday LifeChapter 9: The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions"These Dark Satanic Mills" by William Greider"The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland" by John Van Maanen"Cool Stores, Bad Jobs" by Yasemin Besen-CassinoChapter 10: The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class Inequality"Making Class Invisible" by Gregory Mantsios"Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America" by Vivyan Adair"The People of Wal-Mart" by Nicholas Copeland and Christine LabuskiChapter 11: The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity"Racial and Ethnic Formation" by Michael Omi and Howard Winant"Optional Ethnicities" by Mary C. Waters"Jeremy Lin's Model Minority Problem" by Maxwell LeungChapter 12: The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender"Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood" by Bart Landry"Still a Man's World: Men Who Do 'Women's Work'" by Christine L. Williams"New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New Gender"" by Eve ShapiroChapter 13: Global Dynamics and Population Demographic Trends"India's Reproductive Assembly Line" by Sharmila Rudrappa"Love and Gold" by Arlie Russell Hochschild"Age-Segregation in Later Life: An Examination of Personal Networks" by Peter Uhlenberg and Jenny de Jong GierveldChapter 14: The Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society"'Aqui Estamos y No Vamos!' Global Capital and Immigrant Rights" by William I. Robinson"The Seattle Solidarity Network: A New Approach to Working Class Social Movements" by Walter Winslow"Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politicization of White, Working-Class Women" by Celene Krauss
