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PART I. THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION / C. Wright Mills, The Promise / Stephanie Coontz, How History and Sociology Can Help Today’s Families / Lisa J. McIntyre, Hernando Washington

PART II. THE RESEARCH CRAFT / Simon Davis, Men as Success Objects and Women as Sex Objects: A Study of Personal Advertisements / Randy Blazak, Hate in the Suburbs: The Rise of Skinhead Counterculture / *Lisa J. McIntyre, Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research / Philip Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably

PART III. CULTURE / Clyde Kluckhohn, Queer Customs / Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema / Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, The Young, the Rich, and the Famous: Individualism as an American Cultural Value / Theodore Caplow, Rule Enforcement without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown / Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets / Candace Clark, The Rules of Sympathy

PART IV. SOCIAL STRUCTURE / Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life / Philip G. Zimbardo, Pathology of Imprisonment / Deborah Tannen, Marked: Women in the Workplace / Greta Foff Paule, “Getting” and “Making” a Tip / William E. Thompson, Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead: Morticians and Funeral Directors

PART V. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIALIZATION / Myra and David Sadker, Hidden Lessons / Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell, Preparing for Power: America’s Elite Boarding Schools / Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Bible Believers-The Nature and Admonition of the Lord: Raising Children / Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan, New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers / Sarah Ryan, Management by Stress: The Reorganization of Work Hits Home in the 1990s. / Gwynne Dyer, Anybody’s Son Will Do / Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison

PART VI. DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL / Émile Durkheim, The Normality of Crime / William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks / D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places / A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade, Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? / Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating / Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar CrimePART VII. INEQUALITY / James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity / Melvin M. Tumin, Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis / Herbert J. Gans, The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All / Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto / Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head / Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash / Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School*Indicates readings new to this edition

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