This carefully edited companion anthology focuses on everyday experiences, important sociological issues, and hallmark historical events. Providing provocative, eye-opening examples that illuminate the relationship between the individual and society, this Ninth Edition includes a mix of short articles, chapters, and excerpts. In addition to new readings and more coverage of global issues and world religions, the Ninth Edition focuses on sociological theory, methodologies and history to help students learn how to analyze what they read, as well as understand how research is done and how today's theories have developed over time. - includes new readings that show how race, social class, gender, and sexual orientation intersect to influence everyday experiences - presents updated and expanded coverage of global issues and world religions - explores topical issues such as environment, climate change, macro-structure, and post-9/11 conditions - provides an expansive discussion on sociological theory and methodologies. INDICE: PrefaceAbout the EditorsPART I. THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETYChapter 1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World Reading 1.1. The Sociological Imagination - C. Wright Mills Reading 1.2. Invitation to Sociology - Peter Berger Reading 1.3. The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience - Herbert Kelman and V. Lee HamiltonChapter 2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically Reading 2.1. The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel Reading 2.2. Gift and Exchange - Zygmunt Bauman Reading 2.3. Culture of Fear - Barry GlassnerPART II. THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND SOCIETYChapter 3. Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge Reading 3.1. Concepts, Indicators, and Reality - Earl Babbie Reading 3.2. Missing Numbers - Joel BestChapter 4. Building Order: Culture and History Reading 4.1. Body Ritual among the Nacirema - Horace Miner Reading 4.2. The Melting Pot - Anne Fadiman Reading 4.3. McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change, and the Rise of a Children's Culture - James L. WatsonChapter 5. Building Identity: Socialization Reading 5.1. Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender - Mary Romero Reading 5.2. The Making of Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity Among Asian American Youth - Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee Reading 5.3. Working 'the Code': On Girls, Gender, and Inner-City Violence - Nikki JonesChapter 6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self Reading 6.1. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections - Erving Goffman Reading 6.2. Public Identities: Managing Race in Public Spaces - Karyn Lacy Reading 6.3. The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as a Collective Activity - David GrazianChapter 7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family Reading 7.1. The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love - Stephanie Coontz Reading 7.2. Gay Parenthood and the End of Paternity as We Knew It - Judith Stacey Reading 7.3. Covenant Marriage: Reflexivity and Retrenchment in the Politics of Intimacy - Dwight FeeChapter 8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance Reading 8.1. Watching the Canary - Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Reading 8.2. Healing Disorderly Desire: Medical-Therapeutic Regulation of Sexuality - P. J. McGann Reading 8.3. Patients, Potheads, and Dying to Get High - Wendy ChapkisPART III. SOCIAL STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS, AND EVERYDAY LIFEChapter 9. The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions Reading 9.1. These Dark Satanic Mills - William Greider Reading 9.2. The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland - John Van Maanen Reading 9.3. Creating Consumers: Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids - Murray MilnerChapter 10. The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality Reading 10.1. Making Class Invisible - Gregory Mantsios Reading 10.2. The Compassion Gap in American Poverty Policy - Fred Block, Anna C. Korteweg, and Kerry Woodward, with Zach Schiller and Imrul Mazid Reading 10.3. Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America - Vivyan AdairChapter 11. The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity Reading 11.1. Racial and Ethnic Formation - Michael Omi and Howard Winant Reading 11.2. Optional Ethnicities: For Whiltes Only? - Mary C. Waters Reading 11.3. Silent Racism: Passivity in Well-Meaning White People - Barbara TrepagnierChapter 12. The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender Reading 12.1. Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood - Bart Landry Reading 12.2. Still a Man's World: Men Who Do Women's Work - Christine L. Williams Reading 12.3. New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New Gender - Eve ShapiroChapter 13. Global Dynamics and Population Demographic Trends Reading 13.1. Age-Segregation in Later Life: An Examination of Personal Networks - Peter Uhlenberg and Jenny de Jong Gierveld Reading 13.2. Love and Gold - Arlie Russell Hochschild Reading 13.3. Cyberbrides and Global Imaginaries: Mexican Women's Turn from the National to the Foreign - Felicity Schaeffer-GrabielChapter 14. The Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society Reading 14.1. Muslim American Immigrants After 9/11: The Struggle for Civil Rights - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Reading 14.2. The Seattle Solidarity Network: A New Approach to Working Class Social Movements - Walter Winslow Reading 14.3. Aqui estamos y no nos vamos! Global Capital and Immigrant Rights - William I. RobinsonCredits
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-8760-8
- Editorial: SAGE Publications, Inc
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha Publicación: 05/03/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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