Exploring social life
Subtitle: readings to accompany Essentials of sociology: a down-to-earth approach, 8e
By: [edited by] James M. Henslin.
Contributors: Henslin, James M.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780205633067
Subjects: Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sociological perspective; title: Invitation to sociology / Peter L. Berger; title: Culture; title: The fierce people / Napoleon Chagnon; title: Socialization; title: Anybody's son will do / Gwynne Dyer; title: Social structure and social interaction; title: Hooking up on the Internet / Helen M. Lawson and Kira Leck; title: Social groups and social control; title: Social groups and formal organizations; title: Just another routine emergency / Daniel F. Chambliss; title: Deviance and social control; title: Becoming a hit man / Ken Levi; title: Social inequality; title: Social stratification in global perspective; title: Job on the line / William M. Adler; title: Social class in the United States; title: The uses of poverty: the poor pay all / Herbert J. Gans; title: Inequalities of race and ethnicity; title: Invisible man / Lawrence Otis Graham; title: Inequalities of gender and age; title: Sick societies / Robert B. Edgerton; title: Social institutions; title: Politics and the economy; title: The power elite / C. Wright Mills; title: Marriage and family; title: Social class and child rearing / Annette Lareau; title: Education and religion; title: Still separate, still unequal / Jonathan Kozol; title: Social change; title: Population and urbanization; title: Border blues: the dilemma of illegal immigration / Farai Chideya; title: Social change: technology, social movements, and the environment; title: The McDonaldization of society / George Ritzer; title: Human sexuality; title: How many sexual partners do Americans have? / Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata; title: Name index; title: Subject index.