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Understanding society : An introductory reader  Cover Image Book Book

Understanding society : An introductory reader

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  • ISBN: 9781305093706
  • Physical Description: print
    xviii, 521 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: 5th ed.
  • Publisher: Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, 2015.

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Formatted Contents Note: 1. Sociological Imagination -- 2. Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective / C. Wright Mills -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Peter Berger -- 3. Human Inquiry and Science / Peter Berger -- 4. Promoting Bad Statistics / Earl Babbie -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Joel Best -- 5. Body Ritual among the Nacirema / Joel Best -- 6. Garners, Hackers, and Facebook-Computer Cultures, Virtual Community, and Postmodern Identity / Horace Miner -- 7. Global Culture: Sameness or Difference? / Ross Haenfler -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Manfred B. Steger -- 8. Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender / Manfred B. Steger -- 9. Klaus Barbie, and Other Dolls I'd Like to See / Michael A. Messner -- 10. Leaving Home for College: Expectations for Selective Reconstruction of Self / Susan Jane Gilman -- 11. Anybody's Son Will Do / Lynda Lytle Holmstrom / Paul S. Gray / David Karp -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Gwynne Dyer -- 12. Presentation of Self in Everyday Life / Gwynne Dyer -- 13. Impact of Internet Communications on Social Interaction / Erving Goffman -- 14. Code of the Street / Thomas Van Valey / Thomas Wells Brignall III -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Elijah Anderson -- 15. McDonaldization of Society / Elijah Anderson -- 16. Racism in Toyland / George Ritzer -- 17. Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape / Christine L. Williams -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Laura Hamilton / Brian Sweeney / Elizabeth A. Armstrong -- 18. Functions of Crime / Brian Sweeney / Elizabeth A. Armstrong / Laura Hamilton -- 19. Medicalization of Deviance / Emile Durkheim -- 20. Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison / Peter Conrad / Joseph W. Schneider -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Jeffrey H. Reiman -- 21. Communist Manifesto / Jeffrey H. Reiman -- 22. Aspects of Class in the United States: An Introduction / Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels -- 23. America Without a Middle Class / John Bellamy Foster -- 24. State of Poverty in America / Elizabeth Warren -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Peter Edelman -- 25. Globalization: An Introduction / Peter Edelman -- 26. Global Strategies for Workers: How Class Analysis Clarifies Us and Them and What We Need To Do / D. Stanley Eitzen / Maxine Baca Zinn -- 27. Rise of Food Democracy / Katie Quan -- 28. Why Migration Matters / Brian Halweil -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Khalid Koser -- 29. Souls of Black Folk / Khalid Koser -- 30. Toward a Framework for Understanding Forces That Contribute to or Reinforce Racial Inequality / W.E.B. Dubois -- 31. Racial Formation / William Julius Wilson -- 32. Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America / Howard Winant / Michael Omi -- 33. Subordinating Myth: Latino/a Immigration, Crime, and Exclusion / Charles A. Gallagher -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Jamie Longazel -- 34. Social Construction of Gender / Jamie Longazel -- 35. What It Means to Be Gendered Me: Lift on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous System / Margaret L. Andersen -- 36. Examining Media Contestation of Masculinity and Head Trauma in the National Football League / Betsy Lucal -- 37. Many Faces of Gender Inequality / Eric Anderson / Edward M. Kian -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Amartya Sen -- 38. "Dude, You're a Fag": Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse / Amartya Sen -- 39. Strategic Ambiguity: Protecting Emphasized Femininity and Hegemonic Masculinity in the Hookup Culture / C.J. Pascoe -- 40. Sex, Love, and Autonomy in the Teenage Sleepover / Danielle M. Currier -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Amy Schalet -- 41. Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds / Amy Schalet -- 42. "Why Can't I Have What I Want": Timing, Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood / Vern L. Bengston -- 43. Gay Marriage: Why Now? Why At All? / Rosanna Hertz -- 44. Myth of the Missing Black Father / Reese Kelly -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Roberta L. Coles / Charles Green -- 45. Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Charles Green / Roberta L. Coles -- 46. Muslims in America / Max Weber -- 47. All Creatures Great and Small: Megachurches in Context / Jen'nan Ghazal Read -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Mark Chaves -- 48. School in a Garden / Mark Chaves -- 49. From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools / Mitchell Stevens -- 50. Education: Inclusive Disability Studies / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Dan Goodley -- 51. Children of the Great Recession: A Tour of the Generational Landscape, from Struggles to Successes, Coast to Coast / Dan Goodley -- 52. Harder Times: Undocumented Workers and the U.S. Informal Economy / Ronald Brownstein -- 53. Working on People / Richard D. Vogel -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Robin Leidner -- 54. Power Elite / Robin Leidner -- 55. Rise of the New Global Elite / C. Wright Mills -- 56. Cultures of the Tea Party / Chrystia Freeland -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Steven J. Tepper / Andrew J. Pen-in / Sally Morris / Neal Caren -- 57. Social Meanings of Illness / Sally Morris / Andrew J. Pen-in / Steven J. Tepper / Neal Caren -- 58. Beyond the Affordable Care Act: Achieving Real Improvements in Americans' Health / Rose Weitz -- 59. Beyond Caring: The Routinization of Disaster / David R. Williams / Mark B. McClellan / Alice M. Rivlin -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Daniel F. Chambliss -- 60. Poisoning the Planet: The Struggle for Environmental Justice / Daniel F. Chambliss -- 61. Zooming In on Diversity / David Naguib Pellow / Robert J. Brulle -- 62. Climate Denial and the Construction of Innocence: Reproducing Transnational Environmental Privilege in the Face of Climate Change / William H. Frey -- Applying Sociological Knowledge: An Exercise for Students / Karl Marie Norgaard.
Subject: Sociology
Social interaction
Crime

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