Meaning of Sociology, The: A Reader

by Charon, Joel M.

• ISBN13: 9780131850804
• ISBN10: 0131850806
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This classic reader captures the excitement inherent in the field of sociology with 65 carefully chosen classic and contemporary selections from a wide variety of authors and sources. The reader is better organized around basic sociological concepts and makes a concerted effort to interrelate those concepts. Its broad selection of readings provides a balance between old and new, classic and recent articles, professional sociologists and non-sociologists, books and journals, micro and macro. Interesting, readable and timely discussions of key topics feature the works of sociologists such as Robert Bellah and Arlie Russel Hochschild and non-sociologists such Susan Faludi and Bernard Lewis. For individuals interested in an introduction to sociology.

Table of Contents

(NOTE: * Denotes readings new to this edition.)

The Discipline of Sociology

Sociology as a Passion to Understand

The Sociological ImaginationC

Max Weber, Social Science, and Sociology

Critical Thinking about Statistics

Generalizing, Stereotyping, and Social Science

Religious Fundamentalism: A Sociology Study

The Perspective of Sociology: Humans as Social Beings

Human Nature

Socialization: The Internalization of Society

Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Social Identity

The Importance of Primary Groups

Collective Trauma at Buffalo Creek

Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple

Society, Social Control, and the Individual

Social Structure

Pathology of ImprisonmentPhillip EPhillip, E

If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably

The Mai Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience

Four Modes of Inequality

Social Structure: Class

The New American Class Structure

The Children of Affluence

The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All

Blue Collar Blues

The Polarization of Class in the World

Social Structure: Race and Ethnicity

Occupational Opportunities and Race

Race and Middle Class Identity in America

Latino Lives in a Changing America

Yellow Face: Asian Americans in Popular Culture

Social Structure: Gender

The Meaning of Gender

Gender as Structure

The Working Wife as an Urbanized Peasant, Arlie Russel Hochschild with

The Betrayal of the American Man

Culture

Culture: A Sociological View

The Code of the Street

American Culture: Individualism and Community

Culture and Moral Freedom

The Culture Dimension of Globalization

Social Institutions: Economic and Political

The Meaning and Origin of Social Institutions

The Institution of Capitalism

The Rise of Big Business in the United States

Jobs and Joblessness in a Technological America

The Dominance of the Corporation

The Politics of the Contented

Liberal Democracy and Democratic Culture

Social Institutions: Familial, Religious, Educational

Family in Transition

Families and Class Placement

Sawhill

Religious Fundamentalism and the Family

The Meaning of Religion

The Third Disestablishment of Religion in the United States

American Education: Savage Inequalities

The Hidden Curriculum in Undergraduate Business Education

Social Change

Class, Social Conflict and Social Change

Society and Change

Social Movements and Social Change: The Case of the Militia Movement

Islamic Fundamentalism and Social Change

Globalization

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