Everyday Sociology Reader Pa

by Sternheimer,Karen

• ISBN13: 9780393934298
• ISBN10: 0393934292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-25
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Everyday Sociology Reader seeks to meet students where they are, offering observations on popular culture, family life, news events, and other aspects of everyday life.

Author Biography

Karen Sternheimer teaches in the sociology department at the University of Southern California, where she is also a faculty fellow at the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching. Her books include Connecting Popular Culture and Social Problems and Kids These Days.

Table of Contents

About The Everyday Sociology Reader	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Thinking Sociologically and Doing Sociology	p. 1
The Sociological Perspective
The Promise	p. 3
Sociological Theory
Fractals, Theories, and Patterns	p. 7
Research Questions
Matching Research Methods to Research Questions	p. 10
Conducting Research
Where to Sit: Doing Qualitative Research	p. 13
Statistics
Scary Numbers	p. 15
Culture, Consumption, and Media	p. 25
Consumption
Conspicuous Consumption	p. 27
Lifestyle
The Visible Lifestyle: American Symbols of Status	p. 31
Television
Reality Life	p. 38
Magazines
Beauty Myths and Magazines	p. 40
Email
Marketing Ideas and Fears through Email: Pass Along Hoaxes and Urban Legends	p. 43
Self and Interaction	p. 47
The Public Self
[Impression Management]	p. 49
Breaching Norms
Grocery Shopping, Ordering Whoppers, and Borat	p. 57
Managing Stigma
Stand By Our Man	p. 59
Identity
Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students	p. 62
Identity and Value
Romantic Exchanges	p. 77
Community, Organizations, and Social Groups	p. 82
Organizations
Bureaucracy	p. 84
Organizational Failure
Bureaucracy: Resistance to Change and Adaptation	p. 87
Declining Civic Engagement
Civic Participation	p. 89
Increasing Civic Engagement
Beyond Bowling Alone	p. 99
Barriers to Involvement
Social Movements and Your Attention Span	p. 101
Crime and Deviance	p. 105
Understanding Crime Statistics
Murder and Statistics	p. 107
A Theory of Crime
Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety	p. 110
Challenging a Theory of Crime
Beyond Broken Windows	p. 116
Understanding Deviance
[The Relationship Between Celebrity and Deviant Behavior]	p. 119
Navigating the Deviant Label
Rehab, Labeling, and Deviance	p. 128
Stratification	p. 133
American Class Structure
Class in America	p. 135
The Intersection of Race and Class
Class and Race	p. 149
Class in Everyday Life
Class Consciousness	p. 154
Media Representations of Class
Class Action in the Media	p. 157
Shifting Perceptions of Homelessness
The Disaster of Homelessness	p. 168
Gender and Sexuality	p. 173
Gender as a Performance
Doing Gender	p. 175
Performing Masculinity
The Well-coiffed Man: Class, Race, and Heterosexual Masculinity in the Hair Salon	p. 183
Gender and Power
Language, Gender, and Power	p. 197
Gender and Sex
Back Stage Out in Front: Impressions of Teen Pregnancy	p. 199
Sexual Orientation
Does Finger Size Reveal Sexual Orientation?	p. 202
Race and Ethnicity	p. 209
Constructing Race
Racial Formation	p. 211
Racial Identity
Black and White or Rainbow Colors: Tiger Woods and the "One-Drop Rule"	p. 225
Race Relations
Racial Tensions and Living in a Color-blind Society	p. 227
Constructing Ethnicity
The Costs of a Costless Community	p. 229
Ethnic Identity
Celebrating St. Patrick's Day: Symbolic Ethnicity	p. 239
Social Institutions	p. 243
Families and Work
The Overextended Family	p. 246
Child Care
Who Cares for America's Babies?	p. 254
Work and the Economy
White-collar Downward Mobility	p. 257
Work and Social Networks
Getting a Job: Weak Social Ties and Online Connections	p. 260
Education and Inequality
Hitting Them Hardest When They're Small	p. 262
Education and Globalization
Globalization and Higher Education	p. 274
Religion and Spirituality
Bridging the Gap: The Split between Society and Spirituality	p. 276
Religion and Deviance
What Is a Cult?	p. 92
Government and Power
The Sociology of Conspiracy	p. 294
Social Change	p. 299
Generational Change
Generations X, Y, and Z: Are They Changing America?	p. 301
Immigration Trends
Black Ethnicity: The Foreign-born in America	p. 310
Immigration and Social Change
Rethinking Crime and Immigration	p. 313
Fear of Immigration and Change
Statistics and Myths about Immigrants	p. 323
Social Movements and Social Change
Social Movements and the Environment	p. 325
Credits	p. 329
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