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First year undergraduate students of sociology
Contents
Part IChapter 1: Taking a New Look at a Familiar WorldSociology and the IndividualThe Insights of SociologyThe Sociological ImaginationChapter 2: Seeing and Thinking SociologicallyHow Individuals Structure SocietySocial Influence: The Impact of Other People in Our Everyday LivesSocietal Influence: The Effect of Social Structure on Our Everyday LivesValuesNormsThree Perspectives on Social OrderPart II: The Construction of Self and SocietyChapter 3: Building Reality: The Social Construction of KnowledgeUnderstanding the Social Construction of RealityLaying the Foundation: The Bases of RealityBuilding the Walls: Conflict, Power, and Social InstitutionsAppreciating the Contributions of Sociological ResearchExperimentsField ResearchSurveysUnobtrusive ResearchSamplesIndicatorsValues, Interests, and Ethics in Sociological ResearchChapter 4: Building Order: Culture and HistoryDimensions of CultureCultural Expectations and Social OrderCultural Variation and Everyday ExperienceChapter 5: Building Identity: SocializationGenes, Social Structure, and the Construction of Human BeingsSocialization: Becoming Who We AreThe Differentiation of SelfLanguage Acquisition and the Looking-Glass SelfThe Development of Role TakingSocialization and Stratification: Growing Up With InequalityInstitutions and SocializationChapter 6: Supporting Identity: The Presentation of SelfForming Impressions of OthersManaging ImpressionsFront Stage and Back StagePropsRace and EthnicitySocial StatusMismanaging Impressions: Spoiled IdentitiesChapter 7: Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and FamiliesLife With OthersSocial Diversity and Intimate ChoicesReligious EndogamyRacial and Ethnic EndogamySocial Class EndogamyFamily LifeTrends in Family StructureTrends in Household SizeTrends in Household SizeFamily and Social StructureThe Influence of Law and PoliticsThe Influence of ReligionThe Influence of EconomicsFamily ChallengesThe Normalization of DivorceChildren, Divorce, and Single ParentingIntimate-Partner ViolenceChild AbuseIntimate Violence in a Cultural ContextPersonal and Institutional Responses to Intimate ViolenceChapter 8: Constructing Difference: Social DevianceDefining DevianceExplaining Deviant BehaviorLinking Power, Deviance, and Social ControlThe Social Reality of CrimeCorporate and White Collar CrimeThe Menace of "Illegal" DrugsIndividualizing Complex Social IssuesDepoliticizing DeviancePart III: Social Structure, Institutions, and Everyday LifeChapter 9: The Structure of Society: Organizations, Social Institutions, and GlobalizationSocial Structure and Everyday LifeSocial Dilemmas: Individual Interests and Structural NeedsThe Structure of Formal OrganizationsOrganizations and InstitutionsGlobalization and Social InstitutionsChapter 10: The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and InequalityStratification SystemsSociological Perspectives on StratificationThe Marxian Class ModelNeo-Marxist Models of StratificationWeber's Model of StratificationClass Inequality in the United StatesThe Upper ClassThe Middle ClassThe Working ClassThe PoorThe Poverty LineThe Near-PoorThe Poverty RatePoverty and HealthPoverty and EducationOut on the StreetsEnduring Disparities in Income and WealthThe Social "Benefits" of PovertyThe Ideology of Competitive IndividualismGlobal Development and InequalityChapter 11: The Architecture of Inequality: Race and EthnicityRace and Ethnicity: More Than Just BiologyHistories of Oppression and InequalityRacial and Ethnic RelationsStereotypesPrejudice and DiscriminationThe Privilege of Having No ColorClass, Race, and DiscriminationQuiet RacismRacism in LanguageThe Myth of Innate Racial InferiorityInstitutional Racism: Injustice Built Into the SystemChapter 12: The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and GenderSexism at the Personal LevelRape as a Means of Social ControlVictim BlamingThe Ideology of Sexism: Biology as DestinyInstitutions and Gender InequalitySegregation in the WorkplaceThe Wage GapThe Global Devaluation of WomenChapter 13: Demographic Dynamics: Population TrendsThe Influence of Birth CohortsDemographic DynamicsPopulation GrowthGeographic DistributionPopulation Trends in the United StatesChapter 14: Architects of Change: Reconstructing SocietySocial ChangeEnvironmental and Population PressuresCultural and Technological InnovationDiffusion of Technologies and Cultural PracticesSocial MovementsIdeologyRising ExpectationsResource MobilizationBureaucratizationPolitical Opportunity StructureThe Sociological Imagination Revisited
