Sociological Footprints : Introductory Readings in Sociology
ISBN: 9780495601289 | 0495601284
Edition: 11thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 3/6/2009
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This anthology of sociological studies provides a link between theoretical sociology and everyday life. SOCIOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS: INTRODUCTORY READINGS IN SOCIOLOGY, 11E, offers classical, contemporary, popular and multicultural articles in each chapter to show readers a wide range of perspectives. Articles address today's most important and relevant issues, such as violence, welfare reform, technology globalization, and terrorism. Each article is preceded by a short introductory essay, a series of guideline questions, and a list of glossary ter... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| To The Student | p. xiv |
| Introduction: Why Study Sociology? | p. xvii |
| How Will You Spend the 21st Century? | p. xxiii |
| The Discipline of Sociology | p. 1 |
| The Sociological Perspective: Is It Just Common Sense? | p. 3 |
| An Idea Whose Time Has Come | p. 6 |
| The Practice of Social Research | p. 11 |
| What Should Students Understand After Taking I... MORE | p. 18 |
| The Promise | p. 25 |
| Becoming a Member of Society | p. 31 |
| Socialization: A Lifelong Learning Process | p. 33 |
| Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation | p. 36 |
| Key Facts on TV Violence, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation | p. 43 |
| Becoming "Boys," "Men," "Guys," and "Dudes" | p. 48 |
| "Doing It": The Social Construction of S-E-X | p. 56 |
| Gender: The Social Meaning of the Sexual Division | p. 65 |
| The Prism of Gender | p. 67 |
| Influences of Gender Socialization and Athletic Involvement on the Occurrence of Eating Disorders | p. 73 |
| Unraveling the Gender Knot | p. 83 |
| A Degendered Society? | p. 91 |
| Culture: Our Way of Life | p. 96 |
| Culture Matters: Diversity in the United States and Its Implications | p. 98 |
| Body Ritual among the Nacirema | p. 106 |
| India's Sacred Cow | p. 110 |
| Development as Poison: Rethinking the Western Model of Modernity | p. 117 |
| Social Interaction, Groups, and Bureaucracy: Life is with People | p. 123 |
| The Sounds of Silence | p. 126 |
| Backboards & Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment | p. 133 |
| You Can't Be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel | p. 142 |
| Characteristics of Bureaucracy | p. 146 |
| Major Institutions in Society | p. 149 |
| Marriage and Family: Change and Diversity | p. 151 |
| Family in Transition | p. 154 |
| Being Single on Noah's Ark | p. 163 |
| An Overview of the Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Abusive Family Relationships | p. 168 |
| Historical Trends in Divorce in the United States | p. 173 |
| Education/Religion: Institutions in the Crossfire | p. 184 |
| Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp | p. 187 |
| Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools | p. 197 |
| Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools | p. 202 |
| The Elementary Forms of Religious Life | p. 212 |
| Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States | p. 217 |
| Motivation and Ideology: What Drives the Anti-Abortion Movement | p. 228 |
| Economics and Politics: Implications for Survival | p. 235 |
| The End of Work | p. 239 |
| Welfare Reform in America: A Clash of Politics and Research | p. 246 |
| The Credit Card: Private Troubles and Public Issues | p. 253 |
| Inequalities of Political Voice, Kay Lehman Schlozman | p. 262 |
| If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably | p. 269 |
| The Social Requisities of Democracy Revisited | p. 277 |
| Inequalities Between Groups | p. 289 |
| Stratification: Some Are More Equal Than Others | p. 293 |
| Money and the World We Want | p. 295 |
| Keeping Up with the Trumps | p. 302 |
| A Note on the "Trickle Effect" | p. 306 |
| No, Poverty Has Not Disappeared | p. 312 |
| Race and Ethnicity: The Problem of Inequality | p. 317 |
| Racial Formations | p. 320 |
| Because She Looks like a Child | p. 326 |
| In the Barrios: Lations and the Underclass Debate | p. 341 |
| The Problem of Racial/Ethnic Inequality | p. 351 |
| Some Processes of Social Life | p. 359 |
| Deviance: Violating the Norms of Society | p. 361 |
| The Normally of Crime | p. 364 |
| On Being Sane in Insance Places | p. 374 |
| The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Fear the Wrong Things | p. 387 |
| How Can We Solve the Problem of Crime? | p. 395 |
| Health and Aging: The Problems of Growing Old | p. 400 |
| The Crisis in American Health Care | p. 403 |
| Some Sociological Aspects of HIV Disease | p. 411 |
| A World Growing Old | p. 420 |
| Fourteen Forecasts for an Aging Society | p. 426 |
| The Human Environment: Population and Urbanization | p. 433 |
| Boom, Busts, and Echoes | p. 436 |
| The Third Technological Revolution and Its Possible Socioeconomic Consequences | p. 444 |
| Urbanism as a Way of Life | p. 454 |
| A Planet Under Stress: Rising to the Challenge | p. 459 |
| Social Issues and Global Change: Society in Flux | p. 466 |
| The 17 Great Challenges of the Twenty-First Century | p. 469 |
| Dislocations and the Global Economy: Time for a Global Welfare System? | p. 475 |
| Educating Girls, Unlocking Development | p. 481 |
| Scanning the Global situation and Prospects for the Future | p. 488 |
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