Sociological Footprints Introductory Readings in Sociology

by Cargan, Leonard; Ballantine, Jeanne H.

• ISBN13: 9780534588427
• ISBN10: 0534588425
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Explore some of today's most important social issues, such as violence, welfare reform, technology globalization, and terrorism, with the 76 sociology readings in SOCIOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS. You'll find classical, contemporary, popular and multicultural articles in each chapter that demonstrate a wide range of perspectives. Each article is proceeded by a short introductory essay, a series of guideline questions and a list of glossary terms.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
To the Student	x
Introduction: Why Study Sociology?	xii
Part I The Discipline of Sociology	1	(34)
The Sociological Perspective: Is It Just Common Sense	3	(32)
What Is a Social Fact?	6	(5)
Emile Durkheim
The Promise	11	(6)
C. Wright Mills
Some Sociological Aspects of HIV Disease	17	(7)
Edward L. Kain
The Practice of Social Research	24	(7)
Earl Babbie
An Invitation to Sociology	31	(4)
Peter L. Berger
Part II Becoming a Member of Society	35	(122)
Socialization and Gender: A Lifelong Learning Process	37	(28)
Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation	40	(6)
Kingsley Davis
The National Television Violence Study: Key Findings and Recommendations	46	(3)
Beauty and the Beast of Advertising	49	(2)
Jean Kilbourne
Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood	51	(5)
William Pollack
The Role of Gender Socialization in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa	56	(9)
Diane E. Taub
Penelope A. McLorg
Culture: Why We Do Things the Way We Do	65	(30)
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema	67	(4)
Horace Miner
India's Sacred Cow	71	(6)
Marvin Harris
A Half Century of Mate Preferences: The Cultural Evolution of Values	77	(4)
David M. Buss
Todd K. Shackelford
Lee A. Kirkpatrick
Randy J. Larsen
Domestic Violence Against Women: A Contemporary Issue in International Health	81	(14)
Ruth L. Fishbach
Elizabeth Donnelly
Social Interaction and Social Structure: Life Is with People	95	(31)
The Sounds of Silence	97	(7)
Edward T. Hall
Mildred Reed Hall
The Differences Between Women's and Men's Friendships	104	(4)
Julia T. Wood
Backboards & Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment	108	(10)
Patricia A. Adler
Peter Adler
An Introduction to McDonaldization	118	(8)
George Ritzer
Stratification: Some Are More Equal than Others	126	(31)
Money and the World We Want	128	(7)
Andrew Hacker
Upper-Class Power	135	(9)
Harold R. Kerbo
Class, Not Race	144	(6)
Richard Kahlenberg
No, Poverty Has Not Disappeared	150	(7)
Herbert J. Gans
Part III Major Patterns of Society	157	(178)
Families: Diversity and Change	159	(33)
Family in Transition	161	(7)
Arlene S. Skolnick
Jerome H. Skolnick
Social Structure, Families, and Children	168	(12)
Leonard Beeghley
An Overview of the Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Abusive Family Relationships	180	(4)
Robert E. Emery
Lisa Laumann-Billings
An Agenda for Family Policy in the United States	184	(8)
George T. Martin, Jr.
Education: Institution in the Crossfire	192	(40)
Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp	194	(10)
Harry L. Gracey
Sandbox Society: Summary Analysis	204	(7)
Sally Lubeck
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools	211	(4)
Jonathan Kozol
Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools	215	(10)
Gary Orfield
Mark D. Bachmeier
David R. James
Tamela Eitle
School House Hype: School Shootings and the Real Risks Kids Face in America	225	(7)
Elizabeth Donohue
Vincent Schiraldi
Jason Ziedenberg
Religion: The Supernatural and Society	232	(29)
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life	234	(4)
Emile Durkheim
Motivation and Ideology: What Drives the Anti-Abortion Movement...	238	(8)
Dallas A. Blanchard
Insane Therapy	246	(7)
Marybeth F. Ayella
Religion in Post-Protestant America	253	(8)
Peter L. Berger
Economics: Necessities for Survival	261	(31)
The Jobless Future?	263	(11)
Stanley Aranowitz
William DiFazio
A Broader Vision: Social Policy Options in Cross-National Perspective	274	(3)
William Julius Wilson
Welfare Reform in America: A Clash of Politics and Research	277	(6)
Diana M. Zuckerman
The Credit Card: Private Troubles and Public Issues	283	(9)
George Ritzer
Politics: Power and Its Implications	292	(43)
The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address	294	(11)
Seymour Martin Lipset
If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably	305	(7)
Philip Meyer
Money Changes Everything	312	(11)
Dan Clawson
Alan Newstadt
Denise Scott
The Vicissitudes and Variety of the American Right	323	(5)
Jerome L. Himmelstein
Why Do They Hate Us?	328	(7)
Fareed Zakaria
Part IV Some Processes of Social Life	335	(121)
Minorities: The Problems of Inequality	337	(29)
The Stereotype	340	(2)
Joel M. Charon
Discrimination and the American Creed	342	(5)
Robert K. Merton
``This Is a White Country'': The Racial Ideology of the Western Nations of the World-System	347	(4)
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Mary Hovsepian
In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate	351	(10)
Joan Moore
Raquel Pinderhughes
Code of the Street: Decent and Street Families	361	(5)
Elijah Anderson
Deviance: Violating the Norms of Society	366	(41)
Social Structure and Anomie	368	(7)
Robert K. Merton
White Collar Crime	375	(6)
Richard A. Ball
Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure	381	(10)
Jeffrey Reiman
Killer Kids: Trend Making and Misdirection	391	(3)
Barry Glassner
On Being Sane in Insane Places	394	(13)
D. L. Rosenhan
The Human Environment: Population and Urbanization	407	(27)
Rich Planet, Poor Planet	409	(6)
Christopher Flavin
Next Doubling	415	(9)
Jennifer D. Mitchell
America's Cities: Centers of Culture, Commerce and Community-or Collapsing Hope?	424	(4)
Raymond L. Flynn
Why We Have Homelessness	428	(6)
Peter H. Rossi
Social Movements and Global Change: Society in Flux	434	(22)
Globalization and the Mobilization of Gay and Lesbian Communities	436	(5)
Barry D. Adam
The Postindustrial Society	441	(3)
Daniel Bell
Fourteen Forecasts for an Aging Society	444	(6)
Sam L. Ervin
Modernization's Challenge to Traditional Values: Who's Afraid of Ronald McDonald?	450	(6)
Ronald Inglehart
Wayne E. Baker
The New Age of Terrorism: Futurists Respond	456
Michael Marien