A unique collection of readings rich in data that address significant sociological issues and demonstrate the interplay between sociological insight and empirical observations. Empirical Approaches to Sociology is the only introductory level reader to offer a selection of major articles that are rich in data, yet may be easily understood without advanced math skills. Using original sources, the book gives students a chance to see how research findings are interpreted and incorporated into sociological theory.

Preface

xi

Introduction

1

(6)

PART 1 THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL ORDER

7

(42)

Classic

Social Order and Control Via Close Social Ties: The Example of Suicide

9

(6)

Emile Durkheim

Social Order and Control Via Force: The Example of the Expropriation of the English Agricultural Population from the Land

15

(6)

Karl Marx

Contemporary

Suicide in America: A Test of Durkheim's Theory of Religious and Family Integration

21

(9)

K. D. Breault

Changing Patterns of Racial Discrimination? The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places

30

(19)

Joe R. Feagin

PART 2 ISSUES IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

49

(32)

Classic

Attitudes Vs. Actions and the Pitfalls of Quantitative ``Survey'' Research

51

(7)

Richard T. LaPiere

Contemporary

The Mental Hospital From the Patient's Point of View: The Pitfalls of Participant-Observation Research

58

(16)

Raymond M. Weinstein

The Idea of Contextual Effects

74

(7)

Gregg Lee Carter

PART 3 CULTURAL EXPLANATIONS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

81

(12)

Classic

Ethnocentrism

83

(3)

William Graham Sumner

Contemporary India's Sacred Cow

86

(7)

Marvin Harris

PART 4 SOCIETY

93

(26)

Classic

The Small-World Problem: The Myth of Mass Society

95

(8)

Stanley Milgram

Contemporary

The Interdependence of Social Justice and Civil Society

103

(16)

Caroline Hodges Persell

PART 5 SOCIALIZATION

119

(28)

Classic

Social Class and Parental Values

123

(13)

Melvin L. Kohn

Contemporary

Family Socialization and Eating Disorders in College-Age Women

136

(11)

Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Gregg Lee Carter

PART 6 GROUPS

147

(36)

Classic

The Effects of Group Pressure on the Modification and Distortion of Judgments

149

(9)

Solomon E. Asch

Contemporary

Social Groups and Psychological Distress

158

(11)

John Mirowsky

Catherine E. Ross

Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress

169

(14)

Sidney Cobb

PART 7 INTERACTION

183

(56)

Classic

Obedience to Authority

187

(11)

Stanley Milgram

Contemporary

Internet Paradox: A Social Technology that Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?

198

(19)

Robert Kraut

Michael Patterson

Vicki Lundmark

Sara Kiesler

Tridas Mukopadhyay

William Scherlis

Interaction: The Work Women Do

217

(10)

Pamela M. Fishman

Physical Attractiveness in Social Interaction

227

(12)

Harry T. Reis

John Nezlek

Ladd Wheeler

PART 8 CRIME, DEVIANCE, AND SOCIAL CONTROL

239

(44)

Classic

Control Theory and Juvenile Delinquency

243

(17)

Travis Hirschi

Contemporary

Trajectories of Change in Criminal Offending: Good Marriages and the Desistance Process

260

(8)

John H. Laub

Daniel S. Nagin

Robert J. Sampson

On Being Sane in Insane Places

268

(15)

D. L. Rosenhan

PART 9 INEQUALITY

283

(54)

Classic

Up and Down Opportunity's Ladder

289

(10)

James Davis

Contemporary

Cognitive Skill and Economic Inequality: Findings from the National Adult Literacy Survey

299

(12)

Stephen W. Radenbush

Rafa M. Kasim

Social Class and Life Changes: Chartering and Bartering: Elite Education and Social Reproduction

311

(15)

Caroline Hodges Persell

Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

Social Class and Political Participation

326

(11)

Leonard Beeghley

PART 10 RACE AND ETHNICITY

337

(42)

Classic

Occupational Benefits to Whites from the Subordination of African Americans

343

(4)

Norval D. Glenn

Contemporary

The Continuing Significance of Race Revisited: A Study of Race, Class, and Quality of Life in America, 1972 to 1996

347

(8)

Michael Hughes

Melvin E. Thomas

Race, Cultural Capital, and Schooling: An Analysis of Trends in the United States

355

(8)

Matthijs Kalmijn

Gerbert Kraaykamp

Black Ghettoization and Social Mobility

363

(13)

Norman Fainstein

Racial Progress

376

(3)

Abigail

Stephan Thernstrom

PART 11 GENDER

379

(50)

Classic

Socialization, Genetics, and Gender Roles

383

(8)

John Money

Anke A. Ehrhardt

Contemporary

Men as Success Objects and Women as Sex Objects: A Study of Personal Advertisements

391

(6)

Simon Davis

The Relationship Between Weight and Career Payoffs Among Women

397

(12)

Katherine M. Haskins

H. Edward Ransford

Gender Inequality and Socialization: The Influences of Family, School, Peers, and the Media

409

(20)

Gregg Lee Carter

Sharlene Hesse-Biber

PART 12 SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL CONFLICT

429

(49)

Classic

The Success of the Unruly

421

(27)

William A. Gamson

Contemporary

A Cross-Cultural Theory of Political Conflict and Violence

448

(12)

Marc Howard Ross

The Great Disruption: Human Nature and Reconstitution of Social Order

460

(18)

Francis Fukuyama

Instrumentalism and the Social Consequences of Technological Choice

478

William Graves III

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