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Essentials of Sociology : A Down-to-Earth Approach

by: Henslin, James M.

Essentials of Sociology : A Down-to-Earth Approach

by: Henslin, James M.

ISBN 13:
9780205444441
ISBN 10:
020544444X
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2006
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Henslin's best-selling brief paperback text shares the excitement of sociology its acclaimed "down-to-earth" approach and personal writing style highlight the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to readers' lives. The author has a unique ability to engage readers. With wit, personal reflection, and illuminating examples, Henslin shares with readers a passion for sociology unmatched by any other introductory text.

To the Student from the Author

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To the Instructor from the Author

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PART I The Sociological Perspective

The Sociological Perspective

(28)

The Sociological Perspective

(1)

Seeing the Broader Social Context

(1)

The Origins of Sociology

(4)

Tradition Versus Science

(1)

Auguste Comte and Positivism

(1)

Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism

(1)

Karl Marx and Class Conflict

(1)

Emile Durkheim and Social Integration

(1)

Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic

(1)

Sexism in Early Sociology

(1)

Attitudes of the Time

(1)

Harriet Martineau and Early Social Research

(1)

Sociology in North America

(4)

Early History: The Tension Between Social Reform and Sociological Analysis

(1)

Jane Addams and Social Reform

(1)

W. E. B. Du Bois and Race Relations

(1)

Talcott Parsons and C. Wright Mills: Theory Versus Reform

(1)

The Continuing Tension and the Rise of Applied Sociology

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Early North American Sociology: Du Bois and Race Relations

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Careers in Sociology: What Applied Sociologists Do

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Capturing Saddam Hussein: An Example of Applied Sociology

(1)

Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology

(6)

Symbolic Interactionism

(2)

Functional Analysis

(2)

Conflict Theory

(1)

Levels of Analysis: Macro and Micro

(1)

Putting the Theoretical Perspectives Together

(1)

How Theory and Research Work Together

(1)

Doing Sociological Research

(4)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Enjoying a Sociology Quiz---Sociological Findings Versus Common Sense

(1)

A Research Model

(4)

Research Methods

(4)

Surveys

(2)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Loading the Dice: How Not to Do Research

(1)

Participant Observation (Fieldwork)

(1)

Secondary Analysis

(1)

Documents

(1)

Experiments

(1)

Unobtrusive Measures

(1)

Ethics in Sociological Research

(3)

Protecting the Subjects: The Brajuha Research

(1)

Misleading the Subjects: The Humphreys Research

(1)

Values in Sociological Research

(1)

Summary and Review

(2)

Culture

(24)

What Is Culture?

(4)

Culture and Taken-for-Granted Orientations to Life

(1)

Practicing Cultural Relativism

(1)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: You Are What You Eat?: An Exploration in Cultural Relativity

(1)

Components of Symbolic Culture

(7)

Gestures

(1)

Language

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Emoticons: ``Written Gestures'' for Expressing Yourself Online

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Miami--Language in a Changing City

(1)

Language and Perception: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Race and Language: Searching for Self-Labels

(1)

Values, Norms, and Sanctions

(1)

Folkways and Mores

(1)

Many Cultural Worlds

(3)

Subcultures

(1)

Countercultures

(3)

Values in U.S. Society

(4)

An Overview of U.S. Values

(1)

Value Clusters

(1)

Mass Media in Social Life: Why Do Native Americans Like Westerns?

(1)

Value Contradictions and Social Change

(1)

Emerging Values

(1)

Culture Wars: When Values Clash

(1)

Values as Blinders

(1)

``Ideal'' Versus ``Real'' Culture

(1)

Technology in the Global Village

(2)

The New Technology

(1)

Cultural Lag and Cultural Change

(1)

Technology and Cultural Leveling

(1)

Summary and Review

(2)

Socialization

(24)

What Is Human Nature?

(3)

Feral Children

(1)

Isolated Children

(1)

Institutionalized Children

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Heredity or Environment? The Case of Oskar and Jack, Identical Twins

(1)

Deprived Animals

(1)

Socialization into the Self, Mind, and Emotions

(6)

Cooley and the Looking-Glass Self

(1)

Mead and Role-Taking

(1)

Piaget and the Development of Reasoning

(1)

Global Aspects of the Self and Reasoning

(1)

Freud and the Development of Personality

(1)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Do You See What I See?: Eastern and Western Ways of Perceiving and Thinking

(1)

Socialization and Emotions

(1)

Society Within Us: The Self and Emotions as Social Control

(1)

Socialization into Gender

(3)

Gender Messages in the Family

(1)

Gender Messages From Peers

(1)

Gender Messages in the Mass Media

(1)

Mass Media in Social Life: From Xena, Warrior Princess, to Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: Changing Images of Women in the Mass Media

(1)

Agents of Socialization

(3)

The Family

(1)

The Neighborhood

(1)

Religion

(1)

Day Care

(1)

The School and Peer Groups

(1)

The Workplace

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Caught Between Two Worlds

(1)

Resocialization

(1)

Total Institutions

(1)

Socialization Through the Life Course

(4)

Childhood (From Birth to About Age 12)

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Boot Camp as a Total Institution

(1)

Adolescence (Ages 13--17)

(1)

Young Adulthood (Ages 18--29)

(1)

The Middle Years (Ages 30--65)

(1)

The Older Years (About 65 on)

(1)

Are We Prisoners of Socialization?

(1)

Summary and Review

(3)

Social Structure and Social Interaction

(28)

Levels of Sociological Analysis

(1)

Macrosociology and Microsociology

(1)

The Macrosociological Perspective: Social Structure

(11)

Culture

(1)

Social Class

(1)

Social Status

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: College Football as Social Structure

(1)

Roles

(1)

Groups

(1)

Social Institutions

(1)

Societies---and Their Transformations

(4)

Bioeconomic Society: Is a New Type of Society Emerging?

(1)

Sociology and the New Technology: ``So, You Want to Be Yourself?'': Cloning in the Coming Bioeconomy

(1)

What Holds Society Together?

(2)

The Microsociological Perspective: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

(9)

Stereotypes in Everyday Life

(1)

Personal Space

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: The Amish--Gemeinschaft Community in a Gesellschaft Society

(1)

Down to Earth Sociology: Beauty May Be Only Skin Deep, But Its Effects Go On Forever: Stereotypes in Everyday Life

(1)

Dramaturgy: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

(2)

Ethnomethodology: Uncovering Background Assumptions

(1)

The Social Construction of Reality

(1)

Mass Media in Social Life: You Can't Be Thin Enough: Body Images and the Mass Media

(2)

Social Interaction on the Internet

100

(1)

Sociology and the New Technology: When Worlds Collide: Virtual Reality and the Real World

101

(1)

The Need for Both Macrosociology and Microsociology

101

(3)

When a Tornado Strikes: Social Organization Following a Natural Disaster

102

(2)

Summary and Review

104

(2)

PART II Social Groups and Social Control

Social Groups and Formal Organizations

106

(26)

Social Groups

108

(7)

Primary Groups

109

(1)

Secondary Groups

110

(1)

In-Groups and Out-Groups

111

(1)

Reference Groups

112

(1)

Social Networks

113

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: How Our Own Social Networks Perpetuate Social Inequality

114

(1)

A New Group: Electronic Communities

115

(1)

Bureaucracies

115

(3)

The Characteristics of Bureaucracies

115

(1)

The Perpetuation of Bureaucracies

116

(1)

The Rationalization of Society

117

(1)

Coping with Bureaucracies

117

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: The McDonaldization of Society

118

(1)

Working for the Corporation

118

(3)

Stereotypes and the ``Hidden'' Corporate Culture

119

(1)

U.S. and Japanese Corporations

120

(1)

Group Dynamics

121

(8)

Effects of Group Size on Stability and Intimacy

121

(1)

Sociology and the New Technology: Cyberslackers and Cybersleuths: Surfing at Work

122

(1)

Effects of Group Size on Attitudes and Behavior

123

(1)

Leadership

124

(1)

The Power of Peer Pressure: The Asch Experiment

125

(1)

The Power of Authority: The Milgram Experiment

126

(2)

Global Consequences of Group Dynamics: Groupthink

128

(1)

Summary and Review

129

(3)

Deviance and Social Control

132

(26)

What Is Deviance?

134

(4)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective

135

(1)

How Norms Make Social Life Possible

135

(1)

Sanctions

136

(1)

Competing Explanations of Deviance: Sociobiology, Psychology, and Sociology

137

(1)

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

138

(1)

Differential Association Theory

138

(4)

Control Theory

139

(1)

Labeling Theory

140

(2)

The Functionalist Perspective

142

(5)

Can Deviance Really Be Functional for Society?

142

(1)

Strain Theory: How Social Values Produce Deviance

142

(1)

Mass Media in Social Life: Pornography on the Internet: Freedom Versus Censorship

143

(1)

Illegitimate Opportunity Structures: Social Class and Crime

144

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Islands in the Street: Urban Gangs in the United States

145

(2)

The Conflict Perspective

147

(2)

Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System

147

(1)

Power and Inequality

147

(1)

The Law as an Instrument of Oppression

148

(1)

Reactions to Deviance

149

(7)

Street Crime and Prisons

149

(2)

The Decline in Crime

151

(1)

Recidivism

151

(2)

The Death Penalty and Bias

153

(1)

Legal Change

153

(1)

The Medicalization of Deviance: Mental Illness

154

(1)

The Homeless Mentally III

155

(1)

The Need for a More Humane Approach

156

(1)

Summary and Review

156

(2)

PART III Social Inequality

Global Stratification

158

(26)

An Overview of Social Stratification

160

(5)

Slavery

160

(2)

Caste

162

(1)

Mass Media in Social Life: What Price Freedom? Slavery Today

163

(1)

Class

164

(1)

Global Stratification and the Status of Females

165

(1)

What Determines Social Class?

165

(2)

Karl Marx: The Means of Production

165

(1)

Max Weber: Property, Prestige, and Power

166

(1)

Why Is Social Stratification Universal?

167

(2)

The Functionalist Perspective: Motivating Qualified People

167

(1)

The Conflict Perspective: Class Conflict and Scarce Resources

168

(1)

Lenski's Synthesis

169

(1)

How Do Elites Maintain Stratification?

169

(2)

Ideology Versus Force

169

(2)

Comparative Social Stratification

171

(1)

Social Stratification in Great Britain

171

(1)

Social Stratification in the Former Soviet Union

171

(1)

Global Stratification: Three Worlds

172

(4)

The Most Industrialized Nations

172

(1)

The Industrializing Nations

172

(1)

The Least Industrialized Nations

173

(3)

How Did the World's Nations Become Stratified?

176

(4)

Colonialism

176

(1)

World System Theory

176

(1)

Culture of Poverty

177

(1)

Evaluating the Theories

177

(1)

The Dump People: Working and Living and Playing in the City Dump of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

178

(2)

Maintaining Global Stratification

180

(1)

Neocolonialism

180

(1)

Multinational Corporations

180

(1)

Technology and Global Domination

181

(1)

A Concluding Note

181

(1)

Summary and Review

181

(3)

Social Class in the United States

184

(26)

What Is Social Class?

186

(6)

Wealth

186

(3)

Power

189

(1)

Prestige

189

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: How the Super-Rich Live

190

(2)

Status Inconsistency

192

(1)

Sociological Models of Social Class

192

(5)

Updating Marx

192

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: The Big Win: Life After the Lottery

193

(2)

Updating Weber

195

(2)

Social Class in the Automobile Industry

197

(1)

Consequences of Social Class

197

(3)

Family Life

197

(1)

Education

198

(1)

Religion

198

(1)

Politics

198

(1)

Physical Health

198

(1)

Mental Health

199

(1)

Social Mobility

200

(1)

Three Types of Social Mobility

200

(1)

Women in Studies of Social Mobility

200

(1)

The New Technology and Fears of the Future

201

(1)

Poverty

201

(7)

Drawing the Poverty Line

201

(1)

Down-to Earth Sociology: Exploring Myths About the Poor

202

(1)

Who Are the Poor?

203

(2)

Children of Poverty

205

(1)

The Dynamics of Poverty

205

(1)

Welfare Reform

206

(1)

Why Are People Poor?

206

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Poverty: A Personal Journey

207

(1)

Where Is Horatio Alger? The Social Functions of a Myth

207

(1)

Summary and Review

208

(2)

Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity

210

(34)

Laying the Sociological Foundation

212

(7)

Race: Myth and Reality

212

(1)

Ethnic Groups

213

(1)

Minority and Dominant Groups

213

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Tiger Woods and the Emerging Multiracial Identity: Mapping New Ethnic Terrain

214

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Can a Plane Ride Change Your Race?

215

(1)

How People Construct Their Racial-Ethnic Identity

216

(1)

Learning Prejudice

216

(2)

Individual and Institutional Discrimination

218

(1)

Theories of Prejudice

219

(2)

Psychological Perspectives

219

(1)

Sociological Perspectives

220

(1)

Global Patterns of Intergroup Relations

221

(2)

Genocide

221

(1)

Population Transfer

222

(1)

Internal Colonialism

223

(1)

Segregation

223

(1)

Assimilation

223

(1)

Multiculturalism (Pluralism)

223

(1)

Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States

223

(15)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: ``You Can Work for Us, But You Can't Live Near Us''

224

(1)

European Americans

225

(1)

Latinos

226

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack: Exploring Cultural Privilege

227

(2)

African Americans

229

(4)

Asian Americans

233

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Stealth Racism in the Rental Market: What You Reveal by Your Voice

234

(2)

Native Americans

236

(2)

Looking Toward the Future

238

(3)

The Immigration Debate

238

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Glimpsing the Future: The Shifting U.S. Racial-Ethnic Mix

239

(1)

Affirmative Action

240

(1)

Toward a True Multicultural Society

241

(1)

Summary and Review

241

(3)

Inequalities of Gender and Age

244

(38)

Inequalities of Gender

246

(1)

Issues of Sex and Gender

246

(6)

Gender Differences in Behavior: Biology or Culture?

246

(2)

Opening the Door to Biology

248

(2)

Work and Gender: Women at Work in India

250

(2)

How Females Became a Minority Group

252

(2)

The Origins of Patriarchy

252

(1)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: ``Psst. You Wanna Buy a Bride?'' China in Transition

253

(1)

Gender Inequality in the United States

254

(12)

Fighting Back: The Rise of Feminism

254

(2)

Gender Inequality in Education

256

(1)

Gender Inequality in Health Care

257

(1)

Gender Inequality in the Workplace

258

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Cold-Hearted Surgeons and Their Women Victims

259

(4)

Sexual Harassment---And Worse

263

(1)

Gender and Violence

263

(2)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Female Circumcision

265

(1)

Mass Media in Social Life: Beauty and Pain: How Much Is an Ad Worth?

266

(1)

The Changing Face of Politics

266

(1)

Glimpsing the Future---with Hope

267

(1)

Inequalities of Aging

267

(1)

Aging in Global Perspective

268

(4)

The Social Construction of Aging

268

(1)

Effects of Industrialization

269

(1)

The Graying of America

270

(2)

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

272

(1)

Ageism: The Concept

272

(1)

Shifting Meanings of Growing Old

272

(1)

Influence of the Mass Media

273

(1)

The Functionalist Perspective

273

(3)

Disengagement Theory

273

(1)

Mass Media in Social Life: Shaping Our Perceptions of the Elderly

274

(1)

Activity Theory

274

(1)

Continuity Theory

275

(1)

The Conflict Perspective

276

(2)

Social Security Legislation

276

(1)

Intergenerational Conflict

276

(2)

Looking Toward the Future

278

(1)

Summary and Review

279

(3)

PART IV Social Institutions

Politics and the Economy

282

(28)

Politics: Establishing Leadership

284

(1)

Power, Authority, and Violence

284

(3)

Authority and Legitimate Violence

284

(1)

Traditional Authority

285

(1)

Rational-Legal Authority

285

(1)

Charismatic Authority

285

(1)

The Transfer of Authority

286

(1)

Types of Government

287

(2)

Monarchies: The Rise of the State

287

(1)

Democracies: Citizenship as a Revolutionary Idea

287

(1)

Mass Media in Social Life: Politics and Democracy in a Technological Society

288

(1)

Dictatorships and Oligarchies: The Seizure of Power

289

(1)

The U.S. Political System

289

(4)

Political Parties and Elections

289

(1)

Voting Patterns

290

(2)

Lobbyists and Special-Interest Groups

292

(1)

Who Rules the United States?

293

(1)

The Functionalist Perspective: Pluralism

293

(1)

The Conflict Perspective: The Power Elite

293

(1)

Which View Is Right?

294

(1)

War and Terrorism: A Means to Implement Political Objectives

294

(2)

War

295

(1)

Terrorism

296

(1)

The Economy: Work in the Global Village

296

(2)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Is Big Brother Knocking on the Door? Civil Liberties and Homeland Security

297

(1)

The Transformation of Economic Systems

298

(7)

Preindustrial Societies: The Birth of Inequality

298

(1)

Industrial Societies: The Birth of the Machine

298

(1)

Postindustrial Societies: The Birth of the Information Age

299

(1)

Bioeconomic Societies: The Merger of Biology and Economics

299

(1)

Implications for Your Life

299

(1)

Ominous Trends in the United States

300

(1)

World Economic Systems

301

(1)

Capitalism

302

(1)

Socialism

303

(1)

Ideologies of Capitalism and Socialism

304

(1)

Criticisms of Capitalism and Socialism

304

(1)

The Convergence of Capitalism and Socialism

304

(1)

Capitalism in a Global Economy

305

(3)

Corporate Capitalism

305

(1)

Multinational Corporations

305

(1)

A New World Order?

305

(2)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Doing Business in the Global Village

307

(1)

Summary and Review

308

(2)

Marriage and Family

310

(30)

Marriage and Family in Global Perspective

312

(2)

What Is a Family?

312

(1)

Common Cultural Themes

313

(1)

Marriage and Family in Theoretical Perspective

314

(3)

The Functionalist Perspective: Functions and Dysfunctions

314

(1)

The Conflict Perspective: Gender and Power

315

(2)

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Gender and Housework

317

(1)

The Family Life Cycle

317

(5)

Love and Courtship in Global Perspective

317

(1)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: East Is East and West Is West: Love and Arranged Marriage in India

318

(1)

Marriage

319

(1)

Childbirth and Child Rearing

320

(2)

The Family in Later Life

322

(1)

Diversity in U.S. Families

322

(5)

African American Families

322

(1)

Latino Families

323

(1)

Asian American Families

324

(1)

Native American Families

324

(1)

One-Parent Families

325

(1)

Families Without Children

325

(1)

Blended Families

326

(1)

Gay and Lesbian Families

326

(1)

Trends in U.S. Families

327

(4)

Postponing Marriage and Childbirth

327

(1)

Cohabitation

327

(1)

Unmarried Mothers

328

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: ``You Want Us to Live Together? What Do You Mean By That?''

329

(1)

Grandparents as Parents

330

(1)

The Sandwich Generation and Elder Care

330

(1)

Divorce and Remarriage

331

(4)

Problems in Measuring Divorce

331

(1)

Children of Divorce

332

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: You Be the Sociologist: Curious Divorce Patterns

332

(2)

The Absent Father and Serial Fatherhood

334

(1)

The Ex-Spouses

334

(1)

Remarriage

334

(1)

Two Sides of Family Life

335

(2)

The Dark Side of Family Life: Battering, Child Abuse, and Incest

335

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: ``Why Doesn't She Just Leave?'' The Dilemma of Abused Women

336

(1)

The Bright Side of Family Life: Successful Marriages

336

(1)

The Future of Marriage and Family

337

(1)

Summary and Review

338

(2)

Education and Religion

340

(32)

Education: Transferring Knowledge and Skills

342

(1)

Education in Global Perspective

342

(4)

Education and Industrialization

342

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Community Colleges: Challenges Old and New

343

(1)

Education in the Most Industrialized Nations: Japan

343

(1)

Education in the Industrializing Nations: Russia

344

(1)

Education in the Least Industrialized Nations: Egypt

345

(1)

The Functionalist Perspective: Providing Social Benefits

346

(2)

Teaching Knowledge and Skills

346

(1)

Cultural Transmission of Values

346

(1)

Social Integration

346

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Home Schooling: The Search for Quality and Values

347

(1)

Gatekeeping

348

(1)

The Conflict Perspective: Perpetuating Social Inequality

348

(2)

The Hidden Curriculum

349

(1)

Tilting the Tests: Discrimination by IQ

349

(1)

Stacking the Deck: Unequal Funding

350

(1)

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Fulfilling Teacher Expectations

350

(1)

The Rist Research

350

(1)

How Do Teacher Expectations Work?

351

(1)

Problems in U.S. Education---And Their Solutions

351

(3)

Problems: Mediocrity and Violence

351

(2)

Solutions: Safety and Standards

353

(1)

Religion: Establishing Meaning

354

(1)

What Is Religion?

354

(1)

The Functionalist Perspective

355

(1)

Functions of Religion

355

(1)

Dysfunctions of Religion

356

(1)

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

356

(3)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Terrorism and the Mind of God

357

(1)

Religious Symbols

358

(1)

Rituals and Beliefs

358

(1)

Religious Experience

359

(1)

The Conflict Perspective

359

(1)

Opium of the People

359

(1)

A Legitimation of Social Inequalities

359

(1)

Religion and the Spirit of Capitalism

360

(1)

Types of Religious Groups

361

(1)

Cult

361

(1)

Sect

362

(1)

Church

362

(1)

Ecclesia

362

(1)

Variations in Patterns

362

(1)

Religion in the United States

362

(5)

Characteristics of Members

363

(1)

Characteristics of Religious Groups

364

(2)

Secularization and the Splintering of U.S. Churches

366

(1)

The Future of Religion

367

(2)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Does Prayer Work? An Intriguing Experiment

368

(1)

Summary and Review

369

(3)

PART V Social Change

Population and Urbanization

372

(32)

Population in Global Perspective

374

(1)

A Planet with No Space to Enjoy Life?

374

(4)

The New Malthusians

374

(1)

The Anti-Malthusians

375

(1)

Who Is Correct?

376

(1)

Why Are People Starving?

377

(1)

Population Growth

378

(7)

Why Do the Least Industrialized Nations Have So Many Children?

379

(1)

Implications of Different Rates of Growth

380

(1)

The Three Demographic Variables

381

(2)

Problems in Forecasting Population Growth

383

(1)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Killing Little Girls: An Ancient and Thriving Practice

384

(1)

Urbanization

385

(1)

The Development of Cities

386

(8)

The Process of Urbanization

387

(1)

U.S. Urban Patterns

387

(1)

A Walk Through El Tiro in Medellin, Colombia

388

(3)

Models of Urban Growth

391

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Reclaiming Harlem: ``It Feeds My Soul''

392

(2)

City Life

394

(4)

Alienation and Community

394

(1)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Why City Slums Are Better than the Country: Urbanization in the Least Industrialized Nations

395

(1)

Who Lives in the City?

396

(1)

Urban Sentiment: Finding a Familiar World

397

(1)

The Norm of Noninvolvement and the Diffusion of Responsibility

397

(1)

The Rural Rebound

397

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Urban Fear and the Gated Fortress

398

(1)

Urban Problems and Social Policy

398

(3)

Suburbanization

399

(1)

Disinvestment and Deindustrialization

400

(1)

The Potential of Urban Revitalization

400

(1)

Summary and Review

401

(3)

Social Change: Technology, Social Movements, and the Environment

404

How Social Change Transforms Social Life

406

(3)

The Four Social Revolutions

406

(1)

From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft

406

(1)

Capitalism, Modernization, and Industrialization

407

(1)

Conflict, Power, and Global Politics

408

(1)

Theories and Processes of Social Change

409

(2)

Cultural Evolution

409

(1)

Natural Cycles

409

(1)

Conflict over Power

409

(1)

Ogburn's Theory

410

(1)

How Technology Changes Society

411

(4)

The Cutting Edge of Change: The Computer

411

(3)

Cyberspace and Social Inequality

414

(1)

Social Movements as a Source of Social Change

415

(7)

Types of Social Movements

415

(1)

Cultural Diversity in the United States: The Million-Man March: Another Step in an Unfinished Social Movement

416

(1)

Propaganda and the Mass Media

417

(1)

Social Movements and Propaganda: The Execution of Timothy McVeigh

418

(2)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: ``Tricks of the Trade''---The Fine Art of Propaganda

420

(1)

The Stages of Social Movements

420

(2)

The Growth Machine Versus the Earth

422

(6)

Environmental Problems in the Most Industrialized Nations

422

(1)

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Corporations and Big Welfare Bucks: How to Get Paid to Pollute

423

(1)

Environmental Problems in the Industrializing and Least Industrializing Nations

424

(1)

Cultural Diversity Around the World: The Rain Forests: Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge

425

(1)

The Environmental Movement

426

(1)

Environmental Sociology

426

(2)

Summary and Review

428

Glossary

(1)

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