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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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  • Cengage Learning
    UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTORY READER, Fifth Edition, contains a collection of classic and contemporary sociological readings selected for their timeliness, diversity, and interest, and accessibility. The book includes the most up-to-date selection available-38 of the 68 articles are new in this edition. The intriguing new articles were selected to engage readers' interest, to reflect the richness of sociological thought, and to address issues that have emerged in recent years (such as football concussion injuries, climate change, the Tea Party movement, same-sex marriage, and the criminalization of undocumented immigrants, to name a few). As always, the editors have included the top names in the field. Five themes run throughout the book: classical sociological theory, contemporary research, diversity, globalization, and the application of the sociological perspective.
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