The Practical Skeptic

by McIntyre, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780073404431
• ISBN10: 0073404438
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-08
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology includes classic sociological research writings as well as recent pieces on fascinating topics of interest to students. It is the ideal companion to McIntyre's text, The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology, or other sociology texts.

Readings in this edition challenge students to re-evaluate familiar social arenas: the college classroom, televised sports shows, restaurants, doctors' offices and even public restrooms. The readings focus around the essential message that there is much that goes on in the social world that escapes the sociologically untrained eye.

Table of Contents

The Social Imagination

The Promise

How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families

Hernando Washington

The Research Craft

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

Miscounting Race: Explaining Whites' Misperceptions of Racial Group Size

Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research

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

Culture

Queer Customs

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Act Your Age

The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"

The Code of the Streets

Danger in Contemporary Legends

Social Structure

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

The Not-So-Lonely Crowd: Friendship Groups in Collective Behavior

The Pathology of Imprisonment

"Getting" and "Making" a Tip

Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood

The Rest Room and Equal Opportunity

Social Institutions and Socialization

"Tuck in That Shirt!" Race, Class, Gender, and Discipline in an Urban School

Emotional Capital and Professional Socialization: The Case of Mortuary Science Students (and Me)

Anybody's Son Will Do

Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison

How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role

Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of Patients

Deviance and Social Control

The Normality of Crime

The Saints and the Roughnecks

On Being Sane in Insane Places

Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape

Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating

Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime

Inequality

The Land of Opportunity

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

The Job Ghetto

Racism

"Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College Classroom

Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head

The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash

Tales Out of Medical School

The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders

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