Readings for Sociology
ISBN: 9780393932447 | 0393932443
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 10/17/2008
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With over 20% of the selections new to the book, Readings for Sociology includes work from popular and academic journals as well as lively book excerpts. While Readings for Sociology is comprehensive in its scope, offering a wide range of selections on the standard topics in the introductory course, the new edition features several essays on the sociology of food and the environment. The book also continues to emphasize coverage globalization; social inequality; and race, class, and gender.
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| Preface | p. xiii |
| To the Instructor | p. xvii |
| The Study of Sociology | |
| Sociology as an Individual Pastime (from Invitation to Sociology) | p. 3 |
| From The Sociological Imagination | p. 13 |
| What Makes Sociology Different? (from The Rules of Sociological Method) | p. 19 |
| Public Sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities | p. 27 |
| The My Lai Massacre: A Crime of Obe... MORE | p. 34 |
| Telling the Truth about Damned Lies and Statistics | p. 53 |
| Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | p. 60 |
| Culture and Society | |
| From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh | p. 75 |
| McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change, and the Rise of a Children's Culture (from Golden Arches East) | p. 85 |
| A Look Behind the Veil | p. 97 |
| The Code of the Street | p. 104 |
| Deviance and Liminality (from Something Old, Something Bold: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties) | p. 117 |
| Social Interaction and Identity | |
| On Face-Work | p. 127 |
| Civility and Order: Adult Social Control of Children in Public Places (from Alone Together) | p. 138 |
| The Body and Bathing: Help with Personal Care at Home | p. 151 |
| Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities | p. 167 |
| Women Without Class: Chicas, Cholas, Trash, and the Presence/Absence of Class Identity | p. 184 |
| My Secret Life as a Black Man | p. 198 |
| Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye | p. 204 |
| Go North, Young Man | p. 210 |
| Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only? | p. 217 |
| Social Inequality and Labor | |
| Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America | p. 229 |
| Manifesto of the Communist Party | p. 249 |
| Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line | p. 259 |
| "Getting" and "Making" a Tip (from Dishing It Out: Power and Resistance among Waitresses in a New Jersey Restaurant) | p. 269 |
| Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth (from Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life) | p. 278 |
| Upward Mobility Through Sport? | p. 288 |
| From Maid in the USA | p. 296 |
| The Saints and the Roughnecks | p. 312 |
| From When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor | p. 326 |
| Uses of the Underclass in America | p. 332 |
| Social Control and Organizational Power | |
| From the Panopticon to Disney World | p. 347 |
| From Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison | p. 353 |
| Police Accounts of Normal Force | p. 366 |
| The Rise and Fall of Mass Rail Transit (from Building American Cities: The Urban Real Estate Game) | p. 382 |
| America's National Eating Disorder (from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) | p. 389 |
| 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) | p. 393 |
| The Foundations of Third World Poverty (from Promises Not Kept: The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World) | p. 401 |
| Social Institutions | |
| From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | p. 411 |
| Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure | p. 419 |
| Shared Paternity | p. 430 |
| Domestic Networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community) | p. 435 |
| Marriage, Culture and Law (from Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law) | p. 440 |
| The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life (from The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work) | p. 452 |
| The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society) | p. 466 |
| Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) | p. 473 |
| From Amish Society | p. 482 |
| Social Change | |
| Job on the Line | p. 491 |
| Grassroots Activism: Mothers of East Los Angeles | p. 503 |
| House Bound: Women's Agency in White Separatist Movements | p. 513 |
| The Cuban Diet | p. 531 |
| Credits | p. 543 |
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