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Spirit of Sociology, The: A Reader (Penguin Academics Series)

ISBN: 9780205404469 | 0205404464
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
This eclectic reader introduces students to sociology's diversity as a science and profession. The book includes three readings for each of the 15 major topic areas: qualitative, quantitative or theoretical, and how sociology is applied and practiced in the real world. Anyone wanting a collection of readings that introduce sociology as a science and as a career.
Introductionxvii
Part One The Sociological Perspective
1(58)
Introduction to the Discipline
3(27)
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Invitation to Sociology
5(6)
Peter Berger
The Sociological Imagination
11(10)
C. Wright Mills
Careers in Sociology
21(9)
W. Richard Stephens, Jr.
Sociology as a Science
30(29)
Three Sociological Perspectives
32(11)
Paul Colomy
Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
43(8)
Elliot Liebow
Theory, Practice, and Sociology
51(8)
Howard Rebach
John G. Bruhn
Part Two The Organization of Society
59(166)
Culture
61(22)
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Fear the Wrong Things
63(10)
Barry Glassner
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
73(6)
Horace Miner
We Talk About Our Culture
79(4)
Mitch Albom
Socialization
83(36)
Black Adolescents' Racial Socialization Experiences
85(9)
Madonna G. Constantine
Sha'kema M. Blackmon
Extreme Isolation
94(10)
Kingsley Davis
Contradictions in the Childhood Socialization of Sociologists from the Working Class
104(15)
Joan M. Morris
Michael D. Grimes
Social Structure and Social Interaction
119(35)
What Is a Social Fact?
121(9)
Emile Durkheim
The Saints and the Roughnecks
130(15)
William J. Chambliss
The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy
145(9)
Lillian B. Rubin
Social Groups
154(34)
Angels, Bandidos, Outlaws, and Pagans: The Evolution of Organized Crime among the Big Four 1% Motorcycle Clubs
156(11)
James F. Quinn
The Amish
167(7)
Donald B. Kraybill
Killing the Messenger: The Social Problems of Sociology
174(14)
Joel Best
Deviance and Social Control
188(37)
Buckle Bunnies: Groupies of the Rodeo Circuit
190(9)
DeAnn K. Gauthier
Craig J. Forsyth
Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture
199(11)
A. Ayres Boswell
Joan Z. Spade
On Being Sane in Insane Places
210(15)
D. L. Rosenhan
Part Three Social Inequality
225(102)
Social Class
227(31)
The Positive Functions of Poverty
229(10)
Herbert J. Gans
The American Upper Class
239(12)
G. William Domhoff
Blue-Collar Journal: A College President's Sabbatical
251(7)
John R. Coleman
Race and Ethnicity
258(32)
Race Matters
260(6)
Cornel West
Ambiguous Loss: Risk and Resilience in Latino Immigrant Families
266(15)
Celia Jaes Falicov
Undoing Racism in America: Help from a Black Church
281(9)
Erika Vora
Jay M. Vora
Gender
290(37)
``Night to His Day'': The Social Construction of Gender
292(14)
Judith Lorber
Men as Success Objects and Women as Sex Objects: A Study of Personal Advertisements
306(9)
Simon Davis
Sexual Harassment and Masculinity: The Power and Meaning of ``Girl Watching''
315(12)
Beth A. Quinn
Part Four Social Institutions
327(106)
Family
329(36)
Relationship Quality Dynamics of Cohabiting Unions
331(11)
Susan L. Brown
Peer Marriage: How Love between Equals Really Works
342(11)
Pepper Schwartz
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail
353(12)
John Gottman
Nan Silver
Education and Religion
365(33)
The Meaning of Meanness: Popularity, Competition, and Conflict among Junior High School Girls
367(11)
Don E. Merten
Civilize them with a Stick
378(10)
Mary Crow Dog
Richard Erdoes
When the Clergy Goes Astray: Pedophilia in the Catholic Church
388(10)
Theresa Krebs
Politics and the Economy
398(35)
The Power Elite
400(9)
C. Wright Mills
Corporate Restructuring, Downsizing, and the Middle Class: The Process and Meaning of Worker Displacement in the ``New'' Economy
409(12)
Charles Koeber
Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism
421(12)
Michael Burawoy
Part Five Social Change in a Modern World
433(90)
Population and Ecology
435(42)
Planetary Overload
437(14)
Anthony J. McMichael
The Social Ecology of Skid Row
451(12)
John W. Bardo
Jeffrey W. Riemer
Ronald R. Matson
Robert K. Knapp
Silent Spill
463(14)
Thomas D. Beamish
Technology and Globalization
477(46)
The McDonaldization of Society
479(16)
George Ritzer
``Log on to Sex'': Some Notes on the Carnal Computer and Erotic Cyberspace
495(13)
Keith F. Durkin
Clifton D. Bryant
The Super-Rich
508(15)
Stephen Haseler
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