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Klappentext This carefully edited companion anthology focuses on everyday experiences, important sociological issues, and hallmark historical events. Providing provocative, eye-opening examples that illuminate the relationship between the individual and society, this Tenth Edition includes a mix of short articles, chapters, and excerpts. In addition to new readings and more coverage of global issues and world religions, the Tenth Edition focuses on sociological theory, methodologies and history to help students learn how to analyze what they read, as well as understand how research is done and how today's theories have developed over time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The Individual and SocietyChapter 1: Taking a New Look at a Familiar World "The Sociological Imagination" by C. Wright Mills "Invitation to Sociology" by Peter Berger "The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience" by Herbert Kelman and V. Lee HamiltonChapter 2: Seeing and Thinking Sociologically "The Metropolis and Mental Life" by Georg Simmel "Culture of Fear" by Barry Glassner "The (Mis)Education of Monica and Karen" by Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. ArmstrongPart II: The Construction of Self and SocietyChapter 3: Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge "Concepts, Indicators, and Reality" by Earl Babbie "Measuring Same-Sex Relationships" by Nancy Bates and Theresa J. DeMaioChapter 4: Building Order: Culture and History "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner "The Melting Pot" by Anne Fadiman "McDonald's in Hong Kong" by James L. WatsonChapter 5: Building Identity: Socialization "Life as the Maid's Daughter" by Mary Romero "Tiger Girls on the Soccer Field" by Hilary Levey Friedman "Working the 'Code'" by Nikki JonesChapter 6: Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections" by Erving Goffman "Blue Chip Blacks: Managing Race in Public Spaces" by Karyn R. Lacy "The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity" by David GrazianChapter 7: Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family "The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love" by Stephanie Coontz "Gay Parenthood and the End of Paternity as We Knew It" by Judith Stacey "Covenant Marriage: Reflexivity and Retrenchment in the Politics of Intimacy" by Dwight FeeChapter 8: Constructing Difference: Social Deviance "Watching the Canary" by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres "Healing (Disorderly) Desire: Medical-Therapeutic Regulation of Sexuality" by P.J. McGann "Patients, 'Potheads,' and Dying to Get High" by Wendy ChapkisPart III: Social Structure, Institutions, and Everyday LifeChapter 9: The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions "These Dark Satanic Mills" by William Greider "The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland" by John Van Maanen "Cool Stores, Bad Jobs" by Yasemin Besen-CassinoChapter 10: The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class Inequality "Making Class Invisible" by Gregory Mantsios "Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America" by Vivyan Adair "The People of Wal-Mart" by Nicholas Copeland and Christine LabuskiChapter 11: The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity "Racial and Ethnic Formation" by Michael Omi and Howard Winant "Optional Ethnicities" by Mary C. Waters "Jeremy Lin's Model Minority Problem" by Maxwell LeungChapter 12: The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender "Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood" by Bart Landry "Still a Man's World: Men Who Do 'Women's Work'" by Christine L. Williams "New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New Gender"" by Eve ShapiroChapter 13: Global Dynamics and Population Demographic Trends "India's Reproductive Assembly Line" by Sharmila Rudrappa "Love and Gold" by Arl...
