Annual Editions: Sociology 09/10
ISBN: 9780078127724 | 0078127726
Edition: 38thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Pub. Date: 3/5/2009
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Annual Editions is a series of over 65 volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make t... MORE
| AE Sociology, 09/10 | |
| Preface | |
| Correlation Guide | |
| Topic Guide | |
| Internet References | |
| Culture Unit Overview | |
| American Culture and Cultural Change | |
| Understanding American Worldview | |
| Ingram Life in the USA,2000 | |
| Ingram created this article to explain toimmigrantsthe peculiar worldview they are adopting of the coun... MORE | |
| It is contrasted with other worldviews and explains some importantcultural differencesbetween societies | |
| The Denial of Virtue | |
| Society,2008 Many economists and social commentators deny that people act virtuously | |
| The infinite episodes ofvirtuous behaviorare interpreted as rational, self interested behavior, or due to genetical wiring | |
| Amitai Etzioni argues thatmoral valuesdo affect human behavior, so life involves more than self interest, and that sociology is a valid social science | |
| The Atrophy of Social Life | |
| Society,September/October 2004 Social interaction“is the building block of intimate relationships, small groups, formal organizations, communities, and societies | |
| ” Therefore, Stanley Eitzen is concerned about the numerous social trends, which he reports “that hinder or even eliminate social interaction, and that indicate a growing isolation as individuals become increasingly separated from their neighbors, their co-workers, and even their family members.” | |
| The Myth of the “Culture of Poverty” | |
| Educational Leadership,April 2008 Theculture of poverty mythaccuses the poor of having beliefs, values, and behaviors that prevent them from achieving. Thus, their failure is their fault | |
| This myth must be challenged | |
| Most poor people do have the work ethic, value education, and other characteristics that contradict the culture of poverty myth | |
| The availability of opportunities plays a big role in poverty | |
| Value Issues | |
| Diversity within Unity: A New Approach to Immigrants and Minorities | |
| The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials | |
| Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild, Rowan & Littlefield, 2004 | |
| This statement signed by many communitarians seeks to assuage the increasing fear of the impacts of immigration | |
| It favorsdiversityof cultures with unity based on shared core values | |
| The Dubious Value of Value-Neutrality | |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education,June 16, 2006 Stephen Balch questions whether we should bevalue-neutral | |
| Since education serves many purposes besides imparting information, it can not be and should not be value-neutral | |
| Universities should be open to all points of view, promote critical thinking, and favor views that are best supported by data and logical arguments | |
| Socialization and Social Control Unit Overview | |
| Influences on Personality and Behavior | |
| The Social Construction of Gender | |
| Thinking about Women,8/e (Allyn & Bacon, 2009) Socializationby parents, teachers, peers, public figures, and many others contribute greatly to what we are | |
| The authors focus on the role of socialization in the formation ofgender identity,which helps explain why men and women are different | |
| Worth Every Penny: Can Cash Incentives Create Model Citizens? | |
| New Scientist Magazine,November 24, 2007 Jim Giles proposes a very sensible idea, which many consider radical | |
| He proposes that people berewarded for doing what is beneficial to society. He would pay people for doing good | |
| Believe it or not, this is a revolutionary idea | |
| The New Sex Scorecard,Hara Estroff Marano | |
| As everyone knows,men and women are different | |
| Recent research has greatly -increased our understanding of these differences, and Hara Estroff Marano reviews these differences that include mental, sexual, health, emotional, and psychological factors | |
| Crime, Law Enforcement, and Social Control | |
| Fighting Crime: An Economist’s View | |
| Milken Institute Review,First Quarter, 2005 It is amazing what conclusions we would come to aboutcrime and punishmentif we used economic logic as John J. Donohue shows in this article | |
| We would stop building prisons, abolish the death penalty, expand the police force, adopt sensible gun controls, and legalize drugs among other things | |
| The Prison Boom and the Decline of American Citizenship | |
| Society,August/September 2007 Why did theimprisonment rateincrease fivefold in the past three decades? | |
| Bruce Western argues that the rise of the punitive purpose and the decline of the rehabilitative purpose plays a major role | |
| Unfortunately, the high incarceration rate of blacks has several unintended consequences, which are likely to increase criminal activity among blacks | |
| The Aggregate Burden of Crime | |
| Journal of Law and Economics,October 1999 | |
| makes a valiant effort to compute the annualcosts of major types of crimeand the net annual total costs of all crimes, which he claims exceeds $1 trillion or over $4000 per capita | |
| Fraud and cheating on taxes costs Americans over 20 times the costs of theft, burglary, and robbery | |
| Groups and Roles in Transition Unit Overview | |
| Marriage and the Family | |
| Can Marriage Be Saved? | |
| Dissent,Summer 2005 Frank Furstenberg assures his readers that the institution ofmarriageis not on the rocks | |
| There are family issues to be concerned about, especially the welfare of children, but the focus should be on resources | |
| The often cited unhealthy marriage and family trends occur only among the most socially disadvantaged | |
| The Opt-Out Myth | |
| Columbia Journalism Review,March/April 2007 E. J. Graff explains why the media reports that a number ofupper class womenare opting out of thelabor marketto raise children is a myth | |
| The proportion of women, even mothers, in the labor force is increasing, not decreasing | |
| The consequences and policy implications of this fact are immense | |
| Peer Marriage | |
| The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials | |
| Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild, Rowan & Littlefield, 2004 Pepper Schwartz celebrates the concept ofpeer marriagesin which -spouses regard each other as full social equals, both have careers, share family decision making and child rearing responsibilities | |
| He argues that peer marriages generally result in stronger families and greater satisfaction | |
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