Sociology: exploring the architecture of everyday life : readings

This carefully edited companion anthology provides provocative, eye-opening examples of the practice of sociology in a well-edited, well-designed and affordable format. It includes short articles, chapters and excerpts that examine common everyday experiences, important social issues, or distinct historical events that illustrate the relationship between the individual and society. The new edition provides more detail regarding the theory and/or history related to each issue presented, and also includes more coverage of global issues and world religions. INDICE: PART I - THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY 1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World The Sociological Imagination - C. Wright Mills The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers - Daniel F. Chambliss 2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner Researching Dealers and Smugglers - Patricia A. Adler PART II - THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY 3. Building Reality: The Social Construction ofKnowledge Concepts, Indicators, and Reality - Earl Babbie Sense and Nonsense About Surveys - Howard Schumann 4. Building Order: Culture and History Body Ritual Among the Nacirema - Horace Miner The Melting Pot - Anne Fadiman English-Only Triumphs, But the Costs Are High - Alejandro Portes 5. Building Identity:Socialization Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender - Mary Romero Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities - Michael A. Messner The Code of the Streets - Elijah Anderson 6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self Becominga Certain Body - Sharlene Hesse-Biber The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections - Erving Goffman Wheelchair Users' Interpersonal Management of Emotions - Spencer E. Cahill and Robyn Eggleston 7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family No Place Like Home - Christopher Carrington The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love - Stephanie Coontz Coping With Commitment: Dilemmas and Conflicts in Family Life - Kathleen Gerson 8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance Watching the Canary - Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Smoking Ban - Justin L. Tuggle and Malcolm D. Holmes Medicine as an Institution of Social Control - Peter Conrad and Joseph W.Schneider PART III - SOCIAL STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS, AND EVERYDAY LIFE 9. TheStructure of Society: Organizations, Social Institutions, and Globalization The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland - John Van Maanen Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Curricula in America's Elite Boarding Schools - Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience - Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton 10. The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality Making Class Invisible - Gregory Mantsios Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America - Vivyan Adair Sick Out of Luck: The Uninsured in America - Susan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle 11. The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity Racialand Ethnic Formation - Michael Omi and Howard Winant Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only? - Mary C. Waters Fences and Neighbors: Segregation in the 21st Century - John E. Farley and Gregory D. Squires 12. The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood - Bart Landry Still a Man's World: Men Who Do "Women's Work" - Christine L. Williams Cheerleading and the Gendered Politics of Sport - Laura Grindstaff and Emily West 13. Demographic Dynamics: Population Trends To Die a Little: Migration and Coffee in Mexico and Central America - Luis Hernandez Navarro Love and Gold - Arlie Russell Hochschild These Dark Satanic Mills - William Greider 14. The Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society Apocalypse 9/11 - John R. Hall The Challenge of Rap Music: From Cultural Movement to Political Power - Bikari Kitwana Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politiciization of White, Working-Class Women - Celene Krauss

• ISBN: 978-1-4129-6150-9
• Editorial: Sage Publications
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 440
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés