Everyday Sociology Reader Pa
ISBN: 9780393934298 | 0393934292
Edition: 00Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 1/17/2010
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Everyday Sociology Reader seeks to meet students where they are, offering observations on popular culture, family life, news events, and other aspects of everyday life.
A lively mix of traditional readings, blog posts, and activities to help students connect sociology to their own lives.
A lively mix of traditional readings, blog posts, and activities to help students connect sociology to their own lives.
| About The Everyday Sociology Reader | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Thinking Sociologically and Doing Sociology | p. 1 |
| The Sociological Perspective | |
| The Promise | p. 3 |
| Sociological Theory | |
| Fractals, Theories, and Patterns | p. 7 |
| Research Questions | |
| Matching Research Methods to Research Questions | p. 10 |
| Conducting Rese... MORE | |
| Where to Sit: Doing Qualitative Research | p. 13 |
| Statistics | |
| Scary Numbers | p. 15 |
| Culture, Consumption, and Media | p. 25 |
| Consumption | |
| Conspicuous Consumption | p. 27 |
| Lifestyle | |
| The Visible Lifestyle: American Symbols of Status | p. 31 |
| Television | |
| Reality Life | p. 38 |
| Magazines | |
| Beauty Myths and Magazines | p. 40 |
| Marketing Ideas and Fears through Email: Pass Along Hoaxes and Urban Legends | p. 43 |
| Self and Interaction | p. 47 |
| The Public Self | |
| [Impression Management] | p. 49 |
| Breaching Norms | |
| Grocery Shopping, Ordering Whoppers, and Borat | p. 57 |
| Managing Stigma | |
| Stand By Our Man | p. 59 |
| Identity | |
| Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students | p. 62 |
| Identity and Value | |
| Romantic Exchanges | p. 77 |
| Community, Organizations, and Social Groups | p. 82 |
| Organizations | |
| Bureaucracy | p. 84 |
| Organizational Failure | |
| Bureaucracy: Resistance to Change and Adaptation | p. 87 |
| Declining Civic Engagement | |
| Civic Participation | p. 89 |
| Increasing Civic Engagement | |
| Beyond Bowling Alone | p. 99 |
| Barriers to Involvement | |
| Social Movements and Your Attention Span | p. 101 |
| Crime and Deviance | p. 105 |
| Understanding Crime Statistics | |
| Murder and Statistics | p. 107 |
| A Theory of Crime | |
| Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety | p. 110 |
| Challenging a Theory of Crime | |
| Beyond Broken Windows | p. 116 |
| Understanding Deviance | |
| [The Relationship Between Celebrity and Deviant Behavior] | p. 119 |
| Navigating the Deviant Label | |
| Rehab, Labeling, and Deviance | p. 128 |
| Stratification | p. 133 |
| American Class Structure | |
| Class in America | p. 135 |
| The Intersection of Race and Class | |
| Class and Race | p. 149 |
| Class in Everyday Life | |
| Class Consciousness | p. 154 |
| Media Representations of Class | |
| Class Action in the Media | p. 157 |
| Shifting Perceptions of Homelessness | |
| The Disaster of Homelessness | p. 168 |
| Gender and Sexuality | p. 173 |
| Gender as a Performance | |
| Doing Gender | p. 175 |
| Performing Masculinity | |
| The Well-coiffed Man: Class, Race, and Heterosexual Masculinity in the Hair Salon | p. 183 |
| Gender and Power | |
| Language, Gender, and Power | p. 197 |
| Gender and Sex | |
| Back Stage Out in Front: Impressions of Teen Pregnancy | p. 199 |
| Sexual Orientation | |
| Does Finger Size Reveal Sexual Orientation? | p. 202 |
| Race and Ethnicity | p. 209 |
| Constructing Race | |
| Racial Formation | p. 211 |
| Racial Identity | |
| Black and White or Rainbow Colors: Tiger Woods and the "One-Drop Rule" | p. 225 |
| Race Relations | |
| Racial Tensions and Living in a Color-blind Society | p. 227 |
| Constructing Ethnicity | |
| The Costs of a Costless Community | p. 229 |
| Ethnic Identity | |
| Celebrating St. Patrick's Day: Symbolic Ethnicity | p. 239 |
| Social Institutions | p. 243 |
| Families and Work | |
| The Overextended Family | p. 246 |
| Child Care | |
| Who Cares for America's Babies? | p. 254 |
| Work and the Economy | |
| White-collar Downward Mobility | p. 257 |
| Work and Social Networks | |
| Getting a Job: Weak Social Ties and Online Connections | p. 260 |
| Education and Inequality | |
| Hitting Them Hardest When They're Small | p. 262 |
| Education and Globalization | |
| Globalization and Higher Education | p. 274 |
| Religion and Spirituality | |
| Bridging the Gap: The Split between Society and Spirituality | p. 276 |
| Religion and Deviance | |
| What Is a Cult? | p. 92 |
| Government and Power | |
| The Sociology of Conspiracy | p. 294 |
| Social Change | p. 299 |
| Generational Change | |
| Generations X, Y, and Z: Are They Changing America? | p. 301 |
| Immigration Trends | |
| Black Ethnicity: The Foreign-born in America | p. 310 |
| Immigration and Social Change | |
| Rethinking Crime and Immigration | p. 313 |
| Fear of Immigration and Change | |
| Statistics and Myths about Immigrants | p. 323 |
| Social Movements and Social Change | |
| Social Movements and the Environment | p. 325 |
| Credits | p. 329 |
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Karen Sternheimer teaches in the sociology department at the University of Southern California, where she is also a faculty fellow at the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching. Her books include Connecting Popular Culture and Social Problems and Kids These Days.
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