An edition of Readings for sociology
(2009)
Readings for sociology
6th ed.
by Garth Massey
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Table of Contents
Preface
The study of sociology
Sociology as an individual pastime (from invitation to sociology) / Peter L. Berger
From the sociological imagination / C. Wright Mills
What makes sociology different? (from the Rules of Sociological Method.) / Emile Durkheim
Public sociologies: contradictions, dilemmas, and possibilities / Michael Burawoy
The My Lai massacre: a crime of obedience? (from Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility) / Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton
Telling the truth about damned lies and statistics / Joel Best
Racism and research: the case of the Tuskegee syphilis study / Allan M.brandt
Culture and society
From Nike culture: the sign of the swoosh / Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson
McDonald's in Hong King: consumerism, dietary change and the rise of a children's culture (from Golden Arches East) / James L. Watson
A look behind the veil / Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea
Code of the street / Elijah Anderson
Deviance and liminality (from Something Old, Something Bold: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties) / Beth Montemurro
Social interaction and identity
On face-work / Erving Goffman
Civility and order: adult social control of children in public places / Christine Horne, Mary Kris Mcilwaine, and Kristie A. Taylor
The body and bathing: help with personal care at home / Julia Twigg
Boyhood, organized sports and the construction of masculinities / Michael Messner
Women without class: chicas, cholas, trash, and the presence/absence of class identity / Julie Bettie
My secret life as a black man / Anthony Walton
Love and race caught in the public eye / Heidi Ardizzone and Earl Lewis
Go north, young man / Richard Rodriguez.
Optional ethnicities (for Whites Only?) / Mary C. Waters
Social inequality and labor
Nickel-and-dimed: on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich
Manifesto of the communist party / Karl Marx and Frederich Engels
Hanging tongues: a sociological encounter with the assembly line / William E. Thompson
Getting and "making" a tip (from Dishing It Out: Power and Resistance / Greta Foff Paules
From Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life / Annette Lareau
Upward mobility through sport? / D. Stanley Eitzen
From maid in the USA / Mary Romero
The saints and the roughnecks / William J. Chambliss
From When Work Disappears: the World of the New Urban Poor / William Julius Wilson
Uses of the underclass in America / Herbert J. Gans
Social control and organizational power
From the Panopticon to Disney World / Clifford D. Shearing and Phillip C. Stenning
From total confinement: madness and reason in the maximum security prison / Lorna A. Rhodes
Police accounts of normal force / Jennifer Hunt
The rise and fall of mass rail transit (from Building American Cities: the Urban Real Estate Game) / Joe R. Feagin and Robert Parker
America's national eating disorder (from the Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals) / Michael Pollan
Size does count, at least for French fries: Minnesota' s straight river (from Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters) / Robert Glennon
The foundations of Third World poverty (from Promises Not Kept: the Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World) / John Isbister
Social institutions
From the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber
Love, arranged marriage, and the Indian social structure / Giri Raj Gupta
Shared paternity / Kim A. Mcdonald
Domestic networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies of Survival in a Black Community) / Carol B. Stack
From same-sex marriage: the cultural politics of love and law / Kathleen E. Hull
The emotional geography of work and family life (from the Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work) / Arlie Hochschild
The McDonald's system (from the McDonaldization of Society) / George Ritzer
Religious community and American individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) / Robert N. Bellah, Ricard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton
From Amish society / John A. Hostetler
Social change
Job on the line / William M. Adler
Grassroots activism: mothers of East Los Angeles / Mary Pardo
House bound: women's agency in white separatist movements / Jennifer Fluri and Lorraine Dowler
The Cuban diet / Bill McKibbin
Jihad vs. Macworld / Benjamin R. Barber.
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