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Understanding Society An Introductory Reader (with InfoTrac)

by: Andersen, Margaret L.; Logio, Kim A.; Taylor, Howard F.

Understanding Society An Introductory Reader (with InfoTrac)

by: Andersen, Margaret L.; Logio, Kim A.; Taylor, Howard F.

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9780534566661
ISBN 10:
0534566669
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/23/2000
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY presents a balance of classic and contemporary readings that you'll both understand and find intriguing. Like the Andersen/Taylor introductory sociology textbooks, this reader has a strong focus on diversity. Five themes run throughout book: classical sociological theory, contemporary research, diversity, globalization, and the application of the sociological perspective.

Preface

xiii

About the Editors

PART I The Sociological Perspective

(25)

The Sociological Imagination

(5)

C. Wright Mills

The Forest and the Trees

(7)

Allan G. Johnson

Learning from the Outsider Within

(7)

Patricia Hill Collins

Fighting Child Poverty in America: How Research Can Help

(6)

Arloc Sherman

Jodi Sandfort

PART II Doing Sociological Research

(22)

Science as a Vocation

(3)

Max Weber

The Practice of Social Research

(10)

Earl Babbie

Not Our Kind of Girl

(9)

Elaine Bell Kaplan

PART III Culture

(22)

Barbie Doll Culture and the American Waistland

(4)

Kamy Cunningham

The Shameless World of Phil, Sally, and Oprah: Television Talk Shows and the Deconstructing of Society

(7)

Vicki Abt

Mel Seesholtz

Family Rituals and the Construction of Reality

(7)

Scott Coltrane

Geisha

(4)

Lisa Crihfield Dalby

PART IV Socialization

(40)

The Self

(7)

George Herbert Mead

Navajo Women and the Politics of Identity

(13)

Amy J. Schulz

Catching Sense: Learning from Our Mothers to Be Black and Female

(11)

Suzanne C. Carothers

Alternative Masculinity and Its Effects on Gender Relations in the Subculture of Skateboarding

101

(9)

Becky Beal

PART V Society and Social Interaction

110

(16)

The Problem of Sociology

110

(2)

Georg Simmel

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

112

(4)

Erving Goffman

Code of the Street

116

(6)

Elijah Anderson

Identity in the Age of the Internet

122

(4)

Sherry Turkle

PART VI Groups and Organizations

126

(12)

Primary Groups

126

(3)

Charles Horton Cooley

Bureaucracy

129

(3)

Max Weber

Enchanting a Disenchanted World

132

(6)

George Ritzer

PART VII Sexuality and Intimate Relationships

138

(23)

The Gender of Sexuality

138

(9)

Pepper Schwartz

Virginia Rutter

Masculinity as Homophobia

147

(5)

Michael S. Kimmel

The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy

152

(5)

Lillian B. Rubin

Pills and Power Tools

157

(4)

Susan Bordo

PART VIII Deviance

161

(26)

The Functions of Crime

161

(3)

Emile Durkheim

The Medicalization of Deviance

164

(6)

Peter Conrad

Joseph W. Schneider

Construction of Deafness

170

(6)

Harlan Lane

Children, Prostitution, and Identity: A Case Study from a Tourist Resort in Thailand

176

(6)

Heather Montgomery

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

182

(5)

Jeffrey H. Reiman

PART IX Class Stratification

187

(23)

The Communist Manifesto

187

(4)

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

Great Divides

191

(7)

Thomas M. Shapiro

Wealth Matters

198

(5)

Dalton M. Conley

The Shredded Net: The End of Welfare as We Knew It

203

(7)

Valerie Polakow

PART X Global Stratification

210

(25)

The Garment Industry in the Restructuring Global Economy

210

(7)

Edna Bonacich

Lucie Cheng

Norma Chinchilla

Nora Hamilton

Paul Ong

The American Belief System Concerning Poverty and Welfare

217

(6)

William Julius Wilson

The Lexus and the Olive Tree

223

(3)

Thomas L. Friedman

The Nanny Chain

226

(9)

Arlie Russell Hochschild

PART XI Race and Ethnicity

235

(25)

The Souls of Black Folk

235

(2)

W. E. B. Du Bois

Being More Than Black & White: Latinos, Racism and the Cultural Divides

237

(6)

Elizabeth Martinez

Racial Formation

243

(7)

Michael Omi

Howard Winant

Immigrant America: Who They Are and Why They Come

250

(5)

Alejandro Portes

Ruben Rumbaut

What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar about Identity

255

(5)

Abby L. Ferber

PART XII Gender

260

(23)

The Social Construction of Gender

260

(5)

Margaret L. Andersen

The Politics of Masculinities

265

(6)

Michael A. Messner

Lipstick Politics in Iran

271

(2)

Farzaneh Milani

Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images

273

(10)

Yen Le Espiritu

PART XIII Aging

283

(19)

Cultural Images of Old Age

283

(8)

Eleanor Palo Stoller

Rose C. Gibson

From Stepping Stones to Building Blocks

291

(4)

Kathleen Slevin

C. Roy Wingrove

Social Security and the Myth of the Entitlement `Crisis'

295

(7)

Jill Quadagno

PART XIV Families

302

(40)

In the Name of the Family

302

(7)

Judith Stacey

Divorce and Remarriage

309

(11)

Terry Arendell

Doing Parenting: Mothers, Care Work, and Policy

320

(14)

Demie Kurz

`Mail-Order' Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence and Immigration Law

334

(8)

Uma Narayan

PART XV Education

342

(24)

Clique Dynamics

342

(7)

Patricia Adler

Peter Adler

Ghetto Schooling

349

(6)

Jean Anyon

Intelligence

355

(6)

Howard F. Taylor

School Girls

361

(5)

Peggy Orenstein

PART XVI Religion

366

(29)

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

366

(5)

Max Weber

Growing Up Religious

371

(7)

Robert Wuthnow

Growing Up American: The Complexity of Ethnic Involvement

378

(6)

Min Zhou

Insane Therapy

384

(11)

Marybeth F. Ayella

PART XVII Work and the Economy

395

(33)

The Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work

395

(8)

Cameron Lynne MacDonald

Carmen Sirianni

Toward a 24-Hour Economy

403

(5)

Harriet B. Presser

The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland

408

(9)

John Van Maanen

Delicate Transactions: Gender, Home, and Employment among Hispanic Women

417

(11)

M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly

PART XVIII Power and Politics

428

(24)

The Power Elite

428

(5)

C. Wright Mills

Diversity in the Power Elite

433

(6)

Richard Zweigenhaft

G. William Domhoff

Power and Class in the United States

439

(5)

G. William Domhoff

The First Americans: American Indians

444

(8)

C. Matthew Snipp

PART XIX Health Care

452

(17)

Medical Students' Contacts with the Living and the Dead

452

(7)

Allen C. Smith III

Sherryl Kleinman

Do Doctors Eat Brains?

459

(3)

Ann Fadiman

Corporatization and the Social Transformation of Doctoring

462

(7)

John B. McKinlay

John D. Stoeckle

PART XX Population, Urbanism, and the Environment

469

(21)

Urbanism as a Way of Life

469

(7)

Louis Wirth

American Apartheid

476

(8)

Douglas S. Massey

Nancy A. Denton

Black, Brown, Red, and Poisoned

484

(6)

Regina Austin

Michael Schill

PART XXI Collective Behavior/Social Movements

490

(31)

The New Feminist Movement

490

(9)

Verta Taylor

Nancy Whittier

The Evolution of the U. S. Environmental Movement from 1970 to 1990: An Overview

499

(8)

Riley E. Dunlap

Angela G. Mertig

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities

507

(8)

John D'Emilio

The Genius of the Civil Rights Movement: Can It Happen Again?

515

(6)

Aldon Morris

PART XXII Social Change

521

(20)

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

521

(3)

Ferdinand Tonnies

Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change.

524

(5)

Erla Zwingle

Technological Diffusion or Cultural Imperialism? Measuring the Information Revolution

529

(6)

R. Alan Hedley

The Biotech Century: Human Life as Intellectual Property

535

(6)

Jeremy Rifkin

Glossary

541

(16)

Name/Subject Index

557

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