Sociological Footprints Introductory Readings in Sociology

by Cargan, Leonard; Ballantine, Jeanne H.

• ISBN13: 9780495008118
• ISBN10: 0495008117
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-06
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Part 1: THE DISCIPLINE OF SOCIOLOGY. 1. The Sociological Perspective: Is It Just Common Sense? An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Earl Babbie. What is a Social Fact?, Emile Durkheim. The Tools For Scientific Investigation, Leonard Cargan. The Practice of Social Research, Earl Babbie. The Promise, C. Wright Mills. Part 2: BECOMING A MEMBER OF SOCIETY. 2. Culture: Our Way of Life. The Study of Culture, Clyde Kluckholm. An Indian Father''s Plea, Robert Lake. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, Horace Miner. India''s Sacred Cow, Marvin Harris. Rethinking the Good Life, Gary Gardner & Erik Assadourian. 3. Socialization: A Lifelong Learning Process. . Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation, Kingsley Davis. Key Facts on TV Violence, The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation. Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myth of Boyhood, William Pollack. The Role of Gender Socialization in Anorosia Nervosa and Bulima Nervosa, Diane.E. Taub and Penelope A .McLong. Anybody''s Son Will Do, Gwynne Dyer. 4. Social Interaction, Groups and Bureaucracy: Life Is With People. The Exchange of Social Rewards, Peter Blau. The Sounds of Silence, Edward & Mildred Reed Hall. You Can''t Be A Sweet Cucumber In A Vinegar Barrel, Peter Zimbardo. Backboards and Blackboard: College Athletes and Role Engulfment, Patricia A.& Peter Adler. Characteristics of Bureaucracy, Max Weber. Part 3: INEQUALITIES BETWEEN GROUPS. 5. Stratification: Some Are More Equal Than Others. Money and the World We Want, Andrew Hacker . Upper Class Power, Harold R. Kerbo. Keeping Up With the Trumps, Juliet B. Schor. Class, Not Race, Richard Kahlenberg. No, Poverty Has Not Disappeared, Herbert J. Gans. 6. Minorities: The Problems of Inequality Race, Class, and Gender. White Privilege and Male Privilege, Peggy McIntosh. Racial Formation, Michael Omi & Howard Winant. In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate, Joan Moore & Raquel. Pinderhughes. Varieties of Asian Americans, Min Zhou. "This is White Country": The Racial Ideology of the Western Nations of the World-System, Eduardo Bonilla- Silva & Mary Hovsepian. Because She Looks Like a Child, Kevin Bales. 7. Deviance: Violating the Norm of Society. The Normalcy of Crime, Randal Collins. The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, Barry Glassner. Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure, Jeffrey Reiman. White Collar Crime, Richard A. Ball. On Being Sane in Insane Places, D.L. Rosenhan. Part 4: MAJOR INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIETY. 8. Marriage and Families: Diversity and Change. Flying Solo, Tamala M. Edwards. The Family in Transition, Arlene and Jerome Skolnick. Understanding the Effects of the Internet on Family Life, Robert Hughes, Jr. & Jason D. Hans. Anatomy of a Violent Relationship, Neil S. Jacobson and John M. Gottman. An Agenda for Family Policy in the United States, George T. Martin, Jr. 9. Education: An Institution in a Cross-Fire. Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp, Harry L. Gracey. Savage Inequalities: Children in America''s Schools, Jonathan Kozol . Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools, Gary Orfield, Mark D Bachmeier, David R. James, & Tamela Eitle. A Wider Lens On the Black-White Achievement Gap, Richard Rothstein. Fraternity Hazing: Insights from the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective, Stephen Sweet. 10. Religion: The Supernatural and Society. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Emile Durkheim. Secularism in Retreat, Peter L. Berger. Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States, James Aho. Motivation and Ideology: What Drives the Anti-Abortion Movement, Dallas A. Blanchard. The Decline of the American Civil Religion, Gordon Clanton & Shoon Lio. 11. Economics: The Necessities for Survival. Why Deregulation Has Gone Too Far, Robert Worth. The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin. Welfare Reform in America: A Clash of Politics and Research, Diana M. Zucherman. The Credit Card, George Ritzer . Corporate Interests: How the Media Portray the Economy, Christopher L.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
To the Student	xiii
Introduction: Why Study Sociology?	xvi
How Will You Spend the 21st Century? Peter Dreier	xxii
PART I THE DISCIPLINE OF SOCIOLOGY	1	(34)
The Sociological Perspective: Is It Just Common Sense?	3	(32)
An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Earl Babbie	7	(5)
What Is a Social Fact? Emile Durkheim	12	(5)
Doing Social Research, Leonard Cargan	17	(5)
The Practice of Social Research, Earl Babbie	22	(7)
The Promise, C. Wright Mills	29	(6)
PART II BECOMING A MEMBER OF SOCIETY	35	(94)
Culture: Our Way of Life	37	(25)
The Study of Culture, Clyde Kluckholm	41	(3)
An Indian Father's Plea, Robert Lake (Medicine Grizzlybear)	44	(1)
Body Ritual among the Nacirema, Horace Miner	45	(4)
India's Sacred Cow, Marvin Harris	49	(6)
Rethinking the Good Life, Gary Gardner and Erik Assadourian	55	(7)
Socialization and Gender: A Lifelong Learning Process	62	(37)
Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation, Kingsley Davis	65	(6)
Key Facts on TV Violence, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation	71	(5)
Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, William Pollack	76	(5)
Influences of Gender Socialization and Athletic Involvement on the Occurrence of Eating Disorders, Diane E. Taub and Penelope A. McLorg	81	(10)
Anybody's Son Will Do, Gwynne Dyer	91	(8)
Social Interaction, Groups, and Bureaucracy: Life Is with People	99	(30)
The Exchange of Social Rewards, Peter M. Blau	103	(3)
The Sounds of Silence, Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall	106	(7)
Backboards & Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment, Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler	113	(9)
You Can't Be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel, Philip Zimbardo	122	(4)
Characteristics of Bureaucracy, Max Weber	126	(3)
PART III INEQUALITIES BETWEEN GROUPS	129	(128)
Stratification: Some Are More Equal than Others	131	(34)
Money and the World We Want, Andrew Hacker	133	(7)
Upper-Class Power, Harold R. Kerbo	140	(9)
Keeping Up with the Trumps, Juliet B. Schor	149	(4)
Class, Not Race, Richard Kathlenberg	153	(6)
No, Poverty Has Not Disappeared, Herbert J. Gans	159	(6)
Race, Class, and Gender: The Problems of Inequality	165	(44)
Racial Formations, Michael Omi and Howard Winant	169	(5)
In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate, Joan Moore and Raquel Pinderhughes	174	(10)
Varieties of Asian Americans, Min Zhou	184	(5)
``This Is a White Country'': The Racial Ideology of the Western Nations of the World-System, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Mary Hovsepian	189	(5)
Because She Looks like a Child, Kevin Bales	194	(15)
Deviance: Violating the Norms of Society	209	(48)
The Normalcy of Crime, Randall Collins	213	(10)
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Fear the Wrong Things, Barry Glassner	223	(8)
Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds like Failure, Jeffrey Reiman	231	(10)
Top 10 Corporate Criminals of the Decade, Russell Mokhiber	241	(3)
On Being Sane in Insane Places, D. L. Rosenhan	244	(13)
PART IV MAJOR INSTITUTIONS IN SOCIETY	257	(216)
Marriage and Family: Diversity and Change	259	(39)
Being Single on Noah's Ark, Leonard Cargan	263	(5)
Family in Transition, Arlene S. Skolnick and Jerome H. Skolnick	268	(9)
Understanding the Effects of the Internet on Family Life, Robert Hughes, Jr. and Jason D. Hans	277	(9)
An Overview of the Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Abusive Family Relationships, Robert E. Emery and Lisa Laumann-Billings	286	(5)
An Agenda for Family Policy in the United States, George T. Martin, Jr.	291	(7)
Education: Institution in the Crossfire	298	(44)
Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp, Harry L. Gracey	301	(10)
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, Jonathan Kozol	311	(5)
Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools, Gary Orfield, Mark D. Bachmeier, David R. James, and Tamela Eitle	316	(10)
A Wider Lens on the Black-White Achievement Gap, Richard Rothstein	326	(8)
Fraternity Hazing: Insights from the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective, Stephen Sweet	334	(8)
Religion: The Supernatural and Society	342	(41)
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Emile Durkheim	345	(4)
Secularism in Retreat, Peter L. Berger	349	(8)
Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States, James Aho	357	(11)
Motivation and Ideology: What Drives the Anti-Abortion Movement, Dallas A. Blanchard	368	(7)
The Decline of the American Civil Religion? Gordon Clanton and Shoon Lio	375	(8)
Economics: Necessities for Survival	383	(45)
Why Deregulation Has Gone Too Far, Robert Worth	387	(6)
The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin	393	(7)
Welfare Reform in America: A Clash of Politics and Research, Diana M. Zuckerman	400	(7)
The Credit Card: Private Troubles and Public Issues, George Ritzer	407	(9)
Corporate Interests: How the News Media Portray the Economy, Christopher J. Kollmeyer	416	(12)
Politics: Power and Its Implications	428	(45)
The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited, Seymour Martin Lipset	431	(11)
Money Changes Everything, Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, and Denise Scott	442	(11)
The New Terrorism: Securing the Nation against a Messianic Foe, Steven Simon	453	(7)
The End of War, Gregg Easterbrook	460	(5)
If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably, Philip Meyer	465	(8)
PART V SOME PROCESSES OF SOCIAL LIFE	473	(95)
Aging and Health	475	(35)
A World Growing Old, Jeremy Seabrook	479	(6)
Fourteen Forecasts for an Aging Society, Sam L. Ervin	485	(7)
Boomers After All Is Said and Done, Michael Rybarski	492	(3)
Blood Sport: Do-or-Die Time, Jim Taylor and Florence Comite	495	(7)
Some Sociological Aspects of HIV Disease, Edward L. Kain	502	(8)
Spaceship Earth: Population, Urbanization, and the Human Environment	510	(36)
A Planet under Stress: Rising to the Challenge, Lester R. Brown	513	(7)
Zooming In on Diversity, William H. Frey	520	(6)
Urbanism as a Way of Life, Louis Wirth	526	(5)
Uniting Divided Cities, Molly O'Meara Sheehan	531	(10)
State of the World: A Year in Review, Lori Brown	541	(5)
Social Movements and Global Change: Society in Flux	546	(22)
Globalization and the Mobilization of Gay and Lesbian Communities, Barry D. Adam	549	(5)
Modernization's Challenge to Traditional Values: Who's Afraid of Ronald McDonald? Ronald Inglehart and Wayne E. Baker	554	(5)
The New Age of Terrorism: Futurists Respond, Michael Marien et al.	559	(5)
Play Ball! Robin Gunston	564	(4)
Five Meta-Trends Changing the World, David Pearce Snyder	568