Sociology - Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life: Readings

Provides examples of the practice of sociology. This book includes short articles, chapters, and excerpts that examine common everyday experiences, important social issues, or distinct historical events that illustrate the relationship between the individual and society.

List of contents

PART I - THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY
1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World
The Sociological Imagination - C. Wright Mills
The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers - Daniel F. Chambliss
2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically
Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner
Researching Dealers and Smugglers - Patricia A. Adler
PART II - THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY
3. Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge
Concepts, Indicators, and Reality - Earl Babbie
Sense and Nonsense About Surveys - Howard Schumann
4. Building Order: Culture and History
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema - Horace Miner
The Melting Pot - Anne Fadiman
English-Only Triumphs, But the Costs Are High - Alejandro Portes
5. Building Identity: Socialization
Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender - Mary Romero
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities - Michael A. Messner
The Code of the Streets - Elijah Anderson
6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self
Becoming a Certain Body - Sharlene Hesse-Biber
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections - Erving Goffman
Wheelchair Users' Interpersonal Management of Emotions - Spencer E. Cahill and Robyn Eggleston
7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family
No Place Like Home - Christopher Carrington
The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love - Stephanie Coontz
Coping With Commitment: Dilemmas and Conflicts in Family Life - Kathleen Gerson
8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance
Watching the Canary - Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Smoking Ban - Justin L. Tuggle and Malcolm D. Holmes
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control - Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider
PART III - SOCIAL STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS, AND EVERYDAY LIFE
9. The Structure of Society: Organizations, Social Institutions, and Globalization
The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland - John Van Maanen
Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Curricula in America's Elite Boarding Schools - Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell
The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience - Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton
10. The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality
Making Class Invisible - Gregory Mantsios
Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America - Vivyan Adair
Sick Out of Luck: The Uninsured in America - Susan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle
11. The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity
Racial and Ethnic Formation - Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only? - Mary C. Waters
Fences and Neighbors: Segregation in the 21st Century - John E. Farley and Gregory D. Squires
12. The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender
Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood - Bart Landry
Still a Man's World: Men Who Do "Women's Work" - Christine L. Williams
Cheerleading and the Gendered Politics of Sport - Laura Grindstaff and Emily West
13. Demographic Dynamics: Population Trends
To Die a Little: Migration and Coffee in Mexico and Central America - Luis Hernandez Navarro
Love and Gold - Arlie Russell Hochschild
These Dark Satanic Mills - William Greider
14. The Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society
Apocalypse 9/11 - John R. Hall
The Challenge of Rap Music: From Cultural Movement to Political Power - Bikari Kitwana
Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politiciization of White, Working-Class Women - Celene Krauss

Product details

• Assisted by: David M. Newman (Editor), David M. M. Newman (Editor), Jodi O'Brien (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2008
• EAN: 9781412961509
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-6150-9
• No. of pages: 408