Readings for Sociology

by Massey, Garth

• ISBN13: 9780393932447
• ISBN10: 0393932443
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-08
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

With over 20% of the selections new to the book, Readings for Sociology includes work from popular and academic journals as well as lively book excerpts. While Readings for Sociology is comprehensive in its scope, offering a wide range of selections on the standard topics in the introductory course, the new edition features several essays on the sociology of food and the environment. The book also continues to emphasize coverage globalization; social inequality; and race, class, and gender.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
To the Instructor	p. xvii
The Study of Sociology
Sociology as an Individual Pastime (from Invitation to Sociology)	p. 3
From The Sociological Imagination	p. 13
What Makes Sociology Different? (from The Rules of Sociological Method)	p. 19
Public Sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities	p. 27
The My Lai Massacre: A Crime of Obedience? (from Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility)	p. 34
Telling the Truth about Damned Lies and Statistics	p. 53
Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study	p. 60
Culture and Society
From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh	p. 75
McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change, and the Rise of a Children's Culture (from Golden Arches East)	p. 85
A Look Behind the Veil	p. 97
The Code of the Street	p. 104
Deviance and Liminality (from Something Old, Something Bold: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties)	p. 117
Social Interaction and Identity
On Face-Work	p. 127
Civility and Order: Adult Social Control of Children in Public Places (from Alone Together)	p. 138
The Body and Bathing: Help with Personal Care at Home	p. 151
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities	p. 167
Women Without Class: Chicas, Cholas, Trash, and the Presence/Absence of Class Identity	p. 184
My Secret Life as a Black Man	p. 198
Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye	p. 204
Go North, Young Man	p. 210
Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?	p. 217
Social Inequality and Labor
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America	p. 229
Manifesto of the Communist Party	p. 249
Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line	p. 259
"Getting" and "Making" a Tip (from Dishing It Out: Power and Resistance among Waitresses in a New Jersey Restaurant)	p. 269
Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth (from Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life)	p. 278
Upward Mobility Through Sport?	p. 288
From Maid in the USA	p. 296
The Saints and the Roughnecks	p. 312
From When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor	p. 326
Uses of the Underclass in America	p. 332
Social Control and Organizational Power
From the Panopticon to Disney World	p. 347
From Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison	p. 353
Police Accounts of Normal Force	p. 366
The Rise and Fall of Mass Rail Transit (from Building American Cities: The Urban Real Estate Game)	p. 382
America's National Eating Disorder (from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals)	p. 389
Size Does Count, at Least for French Fries: Minnesota's Straight River (from Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters)	p. 393
The Foundations of Third World Poverty (from Promises Not Kept: The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World)	p. 401
Social Institutions
From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	p. 411
Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure	p. 419
Shared Paternity	p. 430
Domestic Networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community)	p. 435
Marriage, Culture and Law (from Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law)	p. 440
The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life (from The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work)	p. 452
The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society)	p. 466
Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life)	p. 473
From Amish Society	p. 482
Social Change
Job on the Line	p. 491
Grassroots Activism: Mothers of East Los Angeles	p. 503
House Bound: Women's Agency in White Separatist Movements	p. 513
The Cuban Diet	p. 531
Credits	p. 543
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