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Life in Society : Readings to Accompany Sociology, a down-to-Earth Approach

by: Henslin, James M.

Life in Society : Readings to Accompany Sociology, a down-to-Earth Approach

by: Henslin, James M.

ISBN 13:
9780205407507
ISBN 10:
0205407501
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2005
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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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, Seventh Edition.

Preface

PART I THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

(58)

The Sociological Perspective

1 Invitation to Sociology

Peter L. Berger

(9)

Culture

2 The Fierce People

Napoleon Chagnon

(14)

Socialization

3 Anybody's Son Will Do

Gwynne Dyer

(11)

Social Structure and Social Interaction

4 Street Corner Society

William Foote Whyte

(9)

How Sociologists Do Research

5 Inside Organized Racism

Kathleen M. Blee

(13)

PART II SOCIAL GROUPS AND SOCIAL CONTROL

(32)

Societies to Social Networks

6 Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line

William E. Thompson

(9)

Bureaucracies and Formal Organizations

7 Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead

William E. Thompson

(13)

Deviance and Social Control

8 Unintended Consequences of Undercover Work

Gary T. Marx

(8)

PART III SOCIAL INEQUALITY

(52)

Global Stratification

9 Life on the Global Assembly Line

Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes

(9)

Social Class in the United States

10 Making It by Faking It

Robert Granfield

102

(10)

Inequalities of Gender

11 Girls and Boys Together...But Mostly Apart

Barrie Thorne

112

(13)

Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity

12 Good People and Dirty Work

Everett C. Hughes

125

(10)

Inequalities of Age

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

Cynthia Loucks

135

(8)

PART IV SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

143

(62)

The Economy

14 The McDonaldization of Society

George Ritzer

145

(12)

Politics

15 The Power Elite

C. Wright Mills

157

(8)

Marriage and Family

16 When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

Arlie Russell Hochschild

165

(10)

Education

17 Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Elite Boarding Schools

Peter W. Cookson, Jr., and Caroline Hodges Persell

175

(11)

Religion

18 India's Sacred Cow

Marvin Harris

186

(9)

Medicine

19 Just Another Routine Emergency

Daniel F. Chambliss

195

(10)

PART V SOCIAL CHANGE

205

(39)

Population and Urbanization

20 In the Barrios

Joan Moore and Raquel Pinderhughes

207

(9)

Collective Behavior and Social Movements

21 The Animal Rights Crusade

James M. Jasper and Dorothy Nelkin

216

(8)

Social Change and the Environment

22 Jihad vs. McWorld

Benjamin R. Barber

224

(11)

Human Sexuality (Online Chapter)

23 How Many Sexual Partners Do Americans Have?

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

235

(9)

Name Index

244

(2)

Subject Index

246

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Life in Society : Readings to Accompany Sociology, a down-to-Earth Approach

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0205407501

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