Readings for sociology
By: edited by Garth Massey.
Contributors: Massey, Garth.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780393932447
Subjects: Sociology
Other titles: Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The study of sociology; title: Sociology as an individual pastime (from invitation to sociology) / Peter L. Berger; title: From the sociological imagination / C. Wright Mills; title: What makes sociology different? (from the Rules of Sociological Method.) / Emile Durkheim; title: Public sociologies: contradictions, dilemmas, and possibilities / Michael Burawoy; title: 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; title: Telling the truth about damned lies and statistics / Joel Best; title: Racism and research: the case of the Tuskegee syphilis study / Allan M.brandt; title: Culture and society; title: From Nike culture: the sign of the swoosh / Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson; title: McDonald's in Hong King: consumerism, dietary change and the rise of a children's culture (from Golden Arches East) / James L. Watson; title: A look behind the veil / Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea; title: Code of the street / Elijah Anderson; title: Deviance and liminality (from Something Old, Something Bold: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties) / Beth Montemurro; title: Social interaction and identity; title: On face-work / Erving Goffman; title: Civility and order: adult social control of children in public places / Christine Horne, Mary Kris Mcilwaine, and Kristie A. Taylor; title: The body and bathing: help with personal care at home / Julia Twigg; title: Boyhood, organized sports and the construction of masculinities / Michael Messner; title: Women without class: chicas, cholas, trash, and the presence/absence of class identity / Julie Bettie; title: My secret life as a black man / Anthony Walton; title: Love and race caught in the public eye / Heidi Ardizzone and Earl Lewis; title: Go north, young man / Richard Rodriguez.; title: Optional ethnicities (for Whites Only?) / Mary C. Waters; title: Social inequality and labor; title: Nickel-and-dimed: on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich; title: Manifesto of the communist party / Karl Marx and Frederich Engels; title: Hanging tongues: a sociological encounter with the assembly line / William E. Thompson; title: Getting and "making" a tip (from Dishing It Out: Power and Resistance / Greta Foff Paules; title: From Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life / Annette Lareau; title: Upward mobility through sport? / D. Stanley Eitzen; title: From maid in the USA / Mary Romero; title: The saints and the roughnecks / William J. Chambliss; title: From When Work Disappears: the World of the New Urban Poor / William Julius Wilson; title: Uses of the underclass in America / Herbert J. Gans; title: Social control and organizational power; title: From the Panopticon to Disney World / Clifford D. Shearing and Phillip C. Stenning; title: From total confinement: madness and reason in the maximum security prison / Lorna A. Rhodes; title: Police accounts of normal force / Jennifer Hunt; title: The rise and fall of mass rail transit (from Building American Cities: the Urban Real Estate Game) / Joe R. Feagin and Robert Parker; title: America's national eating disorder (from the Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals) / Michael Pollan; title: 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; title: The foundations of Third World poverty (from Promises Not Kept: the Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World) / John Isbister; title: Social institutions; title: From the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber; title: Love, arranged marriage, and the Indian social structure / Giri Raj Gupta; title: Shared paternity / Kim A. Mcdonald; title: Domestic networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies of Survival in a Black Community) / Carol B. Stack; title: From same-sex marriage: the cultural politics of love and law / Kathleen E. Hull; title: The emotional geography of work and family life (from the Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work) / Arlie Hochschild; title: The McDonald's system (from the McDonaldization of Society) / George Ritzer; title: 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; title: From Amish society / John A. Hostetler; title: Social change; title: Job on the line / William M. Adler; title: Grassroots activism: mothers of East Los Angeles / Mary Pardo; title: House bound: women's agency in white separatist movements / Jennifer Fluri and Lorraine Dowler; title: The Cuban diet / Bill McKibbin; title: Jihad vs. Macworld / Benjamin R. Barber.