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| David M. Newman | DePauw University |
| Jodi O'Brien | Seattle University |
| © 2013 | 432 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc |
| Instructors | ||||
| Complimentary Review Copy | ||||
| Individual Purchasers | ||||
| Paperback | ISBN: | 9781412987608 | $56.00 | |
| Preface | |
| About the Editors | |
| PART I. THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY | |
| Chapter 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 Hamilton |
| Chapter 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 Glassner |
| PART II. THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY | |
| Chapter 3. Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge | |
| Reading 3.1. Concepts, Indicators, and Reality | Earl Babbie |
| Reading 3.2. Missing Numbers | Joel Best |
| Chapter 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. Watson |
| Chapter 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 Jones |
| Chapter 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 Grazian |
| Chapter 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 Fee |
| Chapter 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 Chapkis |
| PART III. SOCIAL STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS, AND EVERYDAY LIFE | |
| Chapter 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 Milner |
| Chapter 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 Adair |
| Chapter 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 Trepagnier |
| Chapter 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 Shapiro |
| Chapter 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-Grabiel |
| Chapter 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. Robinson |
| Credits |
