Readings for sociology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2012]
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: The study of sociology. Sociology as an individual pastime (from Invitation to sociology) / Peter L. Berger ; Personal experiences and public issues (from The sociological imagination) / C. Wright Mills ; What makes sociology different? (from The rules of sociological method) / Émile Durkheim ; The stranger / Georg Simmel ; The My Lai massacre : a crime of obedience? (from Crimes of obedience : toward a social psychology of authority and responsibility) / Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton ; Telling the truth about damned lies and statistics / Joel Best ; Public sociologies : contradictions, dilemmas, and possibilities / Michael Burawoy ; Racism and research : the case of the Tuskegee syphilis study / Allan M. Brandt
- Part 2: Culture and society. To veil or not to veil? A case study of identity negotiation among Muslim women in Austin, Texas / Jen'nan Ghazal Read and John P. Bartkowski ; McDonald's in Hong Kong : consumerism, dietary change and the rise of a children's culture (from Golden arches east) / James L. Watson ; The code of the street / Elijah Anderson ; America's national eating disorder (from The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals) / Michael Pollan ; From Nike culture : the sign of the swoosh / Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson
- Part 3: Growing up social. Boyhood, organized sports and the construction of masculinities / Michael A. Messner ; Concerted cultivation and the accomplishment of natural growth (from Unequal childhoods : class, race and family life) / Annette lareau ; Care and belonging in the market (from Longing and belonging: parents, children, and consumer culture) / Allison J. Pugh ; Deviance and liminality (from Something old, something bold : bridal showers and bachelorette parties) / Beth Montemurro
- Part 4: Social interaction and identity. On face-work / Erving Goffman ; The body and bathing : help with personal care at home / Julia Twigg ; Women without class : chicas, cholas, trash, and the presence/absence of class identity / Julie Bettie ; Love and race caught in the public eye / Heidi Ardizzone and Earl Lewis ; Optional ethnicities : for whites only? / Mary C. Waters.
- Part 5: Social inequality and labor. Nickel-and-dimed : on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich ; Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Frederich Engels ; Hanging tongues : a sociological encounter with the assembly line / William E. Thompson ; From Borderline Americans : racial divisions and labor war in the Arizona borderlands / Katherine Benton-Cohen ; "Getting" and "making" a tip (from Dishing it out : power and resistance among waitresses in a New Jersey restaurant) / Greta Foff Paules ; Upward mobility through sport? / D. Stanley Eitzen ; The saints and the roughnecks / William J. Chambliss ; The economic plight of inner-city Black males (from More than just race : being Black and poor in the inner city) / William Julius Wilson ; Uses of the underclass in America / Herbert J. Gans
- Part 6: Social control and organizational power. From the panopticon to Disney world / Clifford D. Shearing and Phillip C. Stenning ; From Total confinement : madness and reason in the maximum security prison / Lorna A. Rhodes ; The rise and fall of mass rail transit (from Building American cities : the urban real estate game) / Joe R. Feagin and Robert Parker ; Size does count, at least for french fries : Minnesota's straight river (from Water follies : groundwater pumping and the fate of America's fresh waters) / Robert Glennon
- Part 7: Social institutions. Police accounts of normal force / Jennifer Hunt ; Love, arranged marriage, and the Indian social structure / Giri Raj Gupta ; The radical idea of marrying for love (from Marriage, a history) / Stephanie Coontz ; Domestic networks (from All our kin : strategies of survival in a Black community) / Carol Stack ; From The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber ; The emotional geography of work and family life (from The time bind : when work becomes home and home becomes work) / Arlie Russell Hochschild ; The McDonald's system (from The McDonaldization of society) / George Ritzer ; Religious community and American individualism (from Habits of the heart : individualism and commitment in American life) / Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton ; From Amish society / John A. Hostetler
- Part 8: Social change. A more perfect union / Barack Obama ; Job on the line / William M. Adler ; Grassroots activism : mothers of East Los Angeles / Mary Pardo ; Industry-driven activism / Edward Walker ; The Cuban diet / Bill McKibbin.