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Sociological Odyssey Contemporary Readings in Sociology (with InfoTrac)

by: Adler, Patricia A.; Adler, Peter

Sociological Odyssey Contemporary Readings in Sociology (with InfoTrac)

by: Adler, Patricia A.; Adler, Peter

ISBN 13:
9780534570538
ISBN 10:
0534570534
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/26/2000
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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This reader speaks to the common issues of the introductory courses. It includes articles that are based on new research, contemporary and demonstrate the new sociological issues in the world today; as well as articles that are near to students' experiences, highly readable, and based on the everyday concerns that influence their lives.

Part I: THE SOCIOLOGICAL VISION
1. What is Sociology? Randall Collins, The Sociological Eye
C
Wright Mills, The Promise of Sociology
2. How Do Sociologists Think? Joel Charon, Should We Generalize about People? 3
Theories
Paul Colomy, Three Sociological Perspectives
4. Experimental Design
Emily Stier Adler and Paula J
Foster, Anatomy of an Experiment: Values Through Literature
5. Survey Research
Edward O
Laumann, John H
Gagnon, Robert T
Michael, and Stuart Michaels, Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans
6. Field Research
Patricia A
Adler, Researching Dealers and Smugglers
Part II: SOCIOLOGICAL BLUEPRINTS
7. Mainstream Culture
Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
8. Subculture
Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Street
9. Counterculture
Kevin Young and Laura Craig, Canadian Male Street Skinheads
10. Gender Socialization
Spencer E
Cahill, Fashioning Gender Identity
11. Identity Transformation
David Karp, Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, and Paul S
Gray, Leaving Home for College: Expectations for Selective Reconstruction of Self
12. Impacts on Identity
Melissa Milkie, The Impact of Pervasive Beauty Images on Black and White Girls' Self-Concepts
13. Private Presentations
Spencer E
Cahill, et al
Meanwhile Backstage: Behavior in Public Bathrooms
14. Public Presentations
Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi and Robert Zussman, High School Reunions and the Management of Identity
15. Interactional Dynamics
Patricia A
Adler and Peter Adler, Inclusion and Exclusion in Preadolescent Cliques
16. Structural Opportunity
Dean A
Dabney and Richard C
Hollinger, Pharmacists and Illicit Prescription Drug Use
17. Fostering Deviance
A
Ayres Boswell and Joan Z
Spade, Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture
18. Managing Deviance
Adina Nack, Identity and Stigma of Women with STDs
Part III: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
19. G
William Domhoff, Who Rules America?: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class
20. Middle Class
Alan Wolfe, The Duality of the Middle Class
21. Underclass
Mark Rank, Welfare Recipients Living on the Edge
22. Defining
Joel Perlmann, Multiracials, Intermarriage, Ethnicity
23. New Immigrants
Cecilia Garza, Mexican American Domestic Workers
Ilsoo Kim, Koreans in Small Entrepreneurial Businesses
24. The Declione of Ethnicity
Edward S
Shapiro, The Decline of Jewish Identity
25. At School
Patricia A
Adler and Peter Adler, Girls' and Boys' Popularity
26. At Home
Deborah Tannen, Men and Women in Conversation
27. At Work
Barbara Reskin and Irene Padavic, Sex Differences in Moving Up and Taking Charge
Part IV: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
28. Current Issues
Stephen Nock, The Problem with Marriage
29. Husbands and Wives
Barbara Risman, Playing Fair
30. Child-Rearing
Sharon Hays, Responsibilities of Intensive Mothering
31. Family and Race
William B
Brown, African-American Mothers and Gang Daughters
32. Contemporary Trends
N

Demerath III, American Religion: The State, the Congregation, and the People
33. Intersection of Institutions
Andrew Billingsley and Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, The Church, The Family, and the School in the African American Community
34. The Replacement of Religion
Michael Novak, Sport as Religion
35. Structural Differences
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities
36. Educational Process
David Karp and William Yoels, Student Participation in the College Classroom
37. Racial Conflict
Ruth Sidel, Conflict within the Ivory Tower
38. Health Care Availability
Debra M
McPhee, The Structure of the U

Health Care System
39. Doctor-Patient Relations
Howard Waitzkin, Patient-Doctor Relations in the Era of Managed Care
40. Globalized Medicine
Ken Silverstein, Millions for Viagara, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor
Part V: SOCIAL CHANGE
41. The Bureaucratization of Society
George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society
42. The Theming of Society
Alan Bryman, The Disneyization of Society
43. The Erosion of Traditional Forms
Robert D
Putnam, Bowling Alone
44. The Creation of New Forms
Andrew Shapiro, The Net that Binds
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