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Summary Table of Contents

This brief and economical reader, edited by Jim Henslin, is specifically designed to be used as a companion to Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, Eighth Edition. There is one reading per text chapter, including a selection to accompany the online chapter, The Sociology of Human Sexuality. Readings New To This Edition The Hmong Meet the Melting Pot / Anne Fadiman Diary of a Homeless Man / John R. Coleman Fraternities and Rape Culture / A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All / Herbert J. Gans How the Jews Becam... MORE

Preface

vii

PART I THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

(62)

1 The Sociological Perspective

Invitation to Sociology

... MORE

Peter L. Berger

(8)

2 Culture

The Fierce People

Napolon Chagnon

(15)

3 Socialization

Anybody's Son Will Do

Gwynne Dyer

(11)

4 Social Structure and Social Interaction

Diary of a Homeless Man

John R. Coleman

(13)

5 How Sociologists Do Research

Inside Organized Racism

Kathleen M. Blee

(13)

PART II SOCIAL GROUPS AND SOCIAL CONTROL

(34)

6 Societies to Social Networks

Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line

William E. Thompson

(10)

7 Bureaucracies and Formal Organizations

Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead

William E. Thompson

(13)

8 Deviance and Social Control

Fraternities and Rape Culture

A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade

(9)

PART III SOCIAL INEQUALITY

(50)

9 Global Stratification

Life on the Global Assembly Line

Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes

(9)

10 Social Class in the United States

The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All

Herbert J. Gans

108

(7)

11 Inequalities of Gender

Girls and Boys Together...But Mostly Apart

Barrie Thorne

115

(13)

12 Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity

How the Jews Became White Folks

Karen Brodkin

128

(11)

13 Inequalities of Age

"But This Is My Mother!" The Plight of Elders in Nursing Homes

Cynthia Loucks

139

(8)

PART IV SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

147

(62)

14 The Economy

The McDonaldization of Society

George Ritzer

149

(12)

15 Politics

The Power Elite

C. Wright Mills

161

(8)

16 Marriage and Family

When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

Arlie Russell Hochschild

169

(10)

17 Education

College Athletes and Role Conflict

Peter Adler and Patricia A. Adler

179

(11)

18 Religion

India's Sacred Cow

Marvin Harris

190

(8)

19 Medicine

Just Another Routine Emergency

Daniel F. Chambliss

198

(11)

PART V SOCIAL. CHANGE

209

(44)

20 Population and Urbanization

Border Blues: The Dilemma of Illegal Immigration

Farai Chideya

211

(14)

21 Collective Behavior and Social Movements

The Animal Rights Crusade

James M. Jasper and Dorothy Nelkin

225

(8)

22 Social Change and the Environment

Jihad vs. McWorld

Benjamin R. Barber

233

(11)

23 Human Sexuality

How Many Sexual Partners Do Americans Have?

Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata

244

(9)

Name Index

253

(2)

Subject Index

255

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