Sociological Odyssey Contemporary Readings in Sociology (with InfoTrac)

by Adler, Patricia A.; Adler, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780534570538
• ISBN10: 0534570534
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-26
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This reader speaks to the common issues of the introductory courses. It includes articles that are based on new research, contemporary and demonstrate the new sociological issues in the world today; as well as articles that are near to students' experiences, highly readable, and based on the everyday concerns that influence their lives.

Table of Contents

Part I: THE SOCIOLOGICAL VISION

1. What is Sociology? Randall Collins, The Sociological Eye

C

Wright Mills, The Promise of Sociology

2. How Do Sociologists Think? Joel Charon, Should We Generalize about People? 3

Theories

Paul Colomy, Three Sociological Perspectives

4. Experimental Design

Emily Stier Adler and Paula J

Foster, Anatomy of an Experiment: Values Through Literature

5. Survey Research

Edward O

Laumann, John H

Gagnon, Robert T

Michael, and Stuart Michaels, Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans

6. Field Research

Patricia A

Adler, Researching Dealers and Smugglers

Part II: SOCIOLOGICAL BLUEPRINTS

7. Mainstream Culture

Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

8. Subculture

Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Street

9. Counterculture

Kevin Young and Laura Craig, Canadian Male Street Skinheads

10. Gender Socialization

Spencer E

Cahill, Fashioning Gender Identity

11. Identity Transformation

David Karp, Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, and Paul S

Gray, Leaving Home for College: Expectations for Selective Reconstruction of Self

12. Impacts on Identity

Melissa Milkie, The Impact of Pervasive Beauty Images on Black and White Girls' Self-Concepts

13. Private Presentations

Spencer E

Cahill, et al

Meanwhile Backstage: Behavior in Public Bathrooms

14. Public Presentations

Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi and Robert Zussman, High School Reunions and the Management of Identity

15. Interactional Dynamics

Patricia A

Adler and Peter Adler, Inclusion and Exclusion in Preadolescent Cliques

16. Structural Opportunity

Dean A

Dabney and Richard C

Hollinger, Pharmacists and Illicit Prescription Drug Use

17. Fostering Deviance

A

Ayres Boswell and Joan Z

Spade, Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture

18. Managing Deviance

Adina Nack, Identity and Stigma of Women with STDs

Part III: SOCIAL INEQUALITY

19. G

William Domhoff, Who Rules America?: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class

20. Middle Class

Alan Wolfe, The Duality of the Middle Class

21. Underclass

Mark Rank, Welfare Recipients Living on the Edge

22. Defining

Joel Perlmann, Multiracials, Intermarriage, Ethnicity

23. New Immigrants

Cecilia Garza, Mexican American Domestic Workers

Ilsoo Kim, Koreans in Small Entrepreneurial Businesses

24. The Declione of Ethnicity

Edward S

Shapiro, The Decline of Jewish Identity

25. At School

Patricia A

Adler and Peter Adler, Girls' and Boys' Popularity

26. At Home

Deborah Tannen, Men and Women in Conversation

27. At Work

Barbara Reskin and Irene Padavic, Sex Differences in Moving Up and Taking Charge

Part IV: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

28. Current Issues

Stephen Nock, The Problem with Marriage

29. Husbands and Wives

Barbara Risman, Playing Fair

30. Child-Rearing

Sharon Hays, Responsibilities of Intensive Mothering

31. Family and Race

William B

Brown, African-American Mothers and Gang Daughters

32. Contemporary Trends

N

Demerath III, American Religion: The State, the Congregation, and the People

33. Intersection of Institutions

Andrew Billingsley and Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, The Church, The Family, and the School in the African American Community

34. The Replacement of Religion

Michael Novak, Sport as Religion

35. Structural Differences

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities

36. Educational Process

David Karp and William Yoels, Student Participation in the College Classroom

37. Racial Conflict

Ruth Sidel, Conflict within the Ivory Tower

38. Health Care Availability

Debra M

McPhee, The Structure of the U

Health Care System

39. Doctor-Patient Relations

Howard Waitzkin, Patient-Doctor Relations in the Era of Managed Care

40. Globalized Medicine

Ken Silverstein, Millions for Viagara, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor

Part V: SOCIAL CHANGE

41. The Bureaucratization of Society

George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society

42. The Theming of Society

Alan Bryman, The Disneyization of Society

43. The Erosion of Traditional Forms

Robert D

Putnam, Bowling Alone

44. The Creation of New Forms

Andrew Shapiro, The Net that Binds

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