Down to Earth Sociology : Introductory Readings

by James M. Henslin

• ISBN13: 9780684855486
• ISBN10: 0684855488
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: SS

Summary

For over twenty years, and through nine editions, James Henslin's Down to Earth Sociology has opened new windows onto the complex social realities that shape our world. Now in its Tenth Anniversary Edition, the most popular anthology in all of sociology has been revised to include exciting new articles, as well as classic, must-read essays. Focusing on social interaction in everyday life, the forty-seven selections bring students face-to-face with the twin projects of contemporary sociology: understanding the individual's experience of society and analyzing social structure.

Table of Contents

Credits and Acknowledgments	iii
Preface to the Tenth Edition	xv
About the Contributors	xix
I. THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE	1	(26)
Exploring the social world
Invitation to Sociology	3	(5)
Peter L. Berger
What is sociology?
Sociology and the Social Sciences	8	(11)
James M. Henslin
The sociological imagination
The Promise	19	(8)
C. Wright Mills
II. DOING SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH	27	(44)
An overview of sociological methods
How Sociologists Do Research	33	(12)
James M. Henslin
Interviewing in a difficult situation
``Riding the Bull at Gilley's'': Convicted Rapists Describe the Rewards of Rape	45	(16)
Diana Scully
Joseph Marolla
Learning the ropes: Fieldwork in an urban setting
Street Corner Society	61	(10)
William Foote Whyte
III. THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF SOCIAL LIFE	71	(58)
Ritual and magic in health care
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema	75	(5)
Horace Miner
Life among violent people
Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo	80	(15)
Napoleon A. Chagnon
Subtle conformance to internalized culture
The Sounds of Silence	95	(9)
Edward T. Hall
Mildred R. Hall
The surprising impact of values
Cowboys and Indians	104	(13)
JoEllen Shively
Impression management
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life	117	(12)
Erving Goffman
IV. SOCIALIZATION AND GENDER	129	(42)
Learning to be human
Extreme Isolation	133	(9)
Kingsley Davis
Learning the male role
On Becoming Male: Reflections of a Sociologist on Childhood and Early Socialization	142	(11)
James M. Henslin
Putting boundaries around the sexes
Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds	153	(12)
Barrie Thorne
Zella Luria
Verbal and nonverbal communication
But What Do You Mean? Women and Men in Conversation	165	(6)
Deborah Tannen
V. SOCIAL GROUPS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE	171	(76)
The myth of mass society
It's a Small World	175	(11)
Stanley Milgram
The power of groups
If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably	186	(7)
Philip Meyer
Uneasy coexistence
Streetwise	193	(10)
Elijah Anderson
Isolation in the city
Diary of a Homeless Man	203	(13)
John R. Coleman
A day late and a dollar short
Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line	216	(10)
William E. Thompson
Desexualizing social interaction
Behavior in Public Places: The Sociology of the Vaginal Examination	226	(12)
James M. Henslin
Mae A. Biggs
When social structure breaks down
Fire in Hamlet: A Case Study of State-Corporate Crime	238	(9)
Judy Root Aulette
Raymond Michalowski
VI. DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL	247	(76)
Doing the unthinkable
The Survivors of the F-227	251	(9)
James M. Henslin
Effects of labels
The Saints and the Roughnecks	260	(15)
William J. Chambliss
On scams and pitchmen
The Boiler Room	275	(13)
Robert J. Stevenson
Culture and the response to crime
Crime and Conformity in Japan and the United States	288	(16)
David H. Bayley
The deviance of social control
The Pathology of Imprisonment	304	(6)
Philip G. Zimbardo
What is normal?
On Being Sane in Insane Places	310	(13)
David L. Rosenhan
VII. SOCIAL INEQUALITY	323	(82)
Physical appearance
The Importance of Being Beautiful	329	(7)
Sidney Katz
Poverty and powerlessness
The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All	336	(7)
Herbert J. Gans
Poverty, education, and race
Savage Inequalities	343	(9)
Jonathan Kozol
Poverty, occupation, and race
Invisible Man	352	(19)
Lawrence Otis Graham
Gender oppression
Fraternities and Rape on Campus	371	(10)
Patricia Yancey Martin
Robert A. Hummer
The anguish of upward social mobility
Making It by Faking It	381	(10)
Robert Granfield
Wealth and power
The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats	391	(14)
G. William Domhoff
VIII. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS	405	(100)
Economics and politics
Life on the Global Assembly Line	409	(9)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Annette Fuentes
Education
Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp	418	(13)
Harry L. Gracey
Marriage and family
Men Who Share ``The Second Shift''	431	(15)
Arlie Hochschild
Anne Machung
Religion
India's Sacred Cow	446	(8)
Marvin Harris
Sports
The Great American Football Ritual	454	(14)
Douglas E. Foley
Medicine
The World of the Hospital	468	(12)
Daniel F. Chambliss
Law
Police Accounts of Normal Force	480	(11)
Jennifer Hunt
Military
The My Lai Massacre	491	(14)
Herbert Kelman
V. Lee Hamilton
IX. SOCIAL CHANGE	505	(52)
Resisting social change
Social Change Among the Amish	507	(9)
Jerry Savells
Social movements
Women in the Military	516	(16)
Laura L. Miller
Collective behavior
After Hurricane Andrew	532	(11)
Kenneth J. Smith
Linda Liske Belgrave
The rationalization of everyday life
The McDonaldization of Society	543	(14)
George Ritzer
Glossary	557	(14)
Appendix: Correlation Chart	571	(10)
Name Index	581	(4)
Subject Index	585