Sociology : Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings

by Newman, David; O'Brien, Jodi

• ISBN13: 9780761988274
• ISBN10: 0761988270
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Pine Forge Press

Summary

"The Fifth Edition of Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings continues to provide students with vivid, provocative, and eye-opening examples of the practice of sociology. The readings represent a variety of styles and include articles written by psychologists, anthropologists, social commentators, and journalists, in addition to sociologists. Many of the readings are drawn from carefully conducted social research, while others are personal narratives that put human faces on matters of sociological relevance."

Table of Contents

PART I - SEEING AND THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY

Chapter 1 Sociological Perspectives

Becoming A Marijuana User - HOWARD BECKER

Chapter 2 Seeing and Thinking Sociologically

The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience - HERBERT KELMAN AND V. LEE HAMILTON

Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection and the

Meaning of Illness

- DAVID A. KARP

Chapter 3 Building Reality:The Social Construction

of Knowledge

The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in the Crack Scare - CRAIG REINARMAN AND HARRY G. LEVINE

Researching Dealers and Smugglers - PATRICIA ADLER

PART II - THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY

Chapter 4 Building Order: Culture and History

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema - HORACE MINER

The Melting Pot - ANNE FADIMAN

Chapter 5 Building Identity: Socialization

Life as the Maid's Daughter - MARY ROMERO

Sisyphus in a Wheelchair: Physical Disabilities and Masculinity - THOMAS J. GERSCHICK

Chapter 6 Building Image:The Presentation of Self

Frederick the Great or Frederick's of Hollywood? The Accomplishment

of Gender Among Women in the Military

- MELISSA S. HERBERT

Suspended Identity: Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison - THOMAS J. SCHMID AND RICHARD S. JONES

Webcam Women: Life on your Screen - DONALD SNYDER

Chapter 7 Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family

No Place Like Home - CHRISTOPHER CARRINGTON

Chasing the Blood Tie: Surrogate Mothers, Adoptive

Mothers and Fathers

- HELENA RAGONÉ

Chapter 8 Constructing Difference: Social Deviance

Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America - VIVYAN ADAIR

Medicine as an Institution of Social Control - PETER CONRAD AND JOSEPH W. SCHNEIDER

PART III - SOCIAL STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS AND

EVERYDAY LIFE

Chapter 9 Organization and Social Institutions

The Overworked American - JULIET SCHOR

The Smile Factory - JOHN VAN MAANEN

Chapter 10 The Architecture of Stratification: Social

Class and Inequality

Software Entrepreneurship Among the Urban Poor: Could Bill Gates have

Succeeded If He Were Black? . . . Or Impoverished?

- ALICE H. AMSDEN AND JON COLLINS CLARK

Savage Inequalities in America’s Schools Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois - JONATHAN KOZOL

Chapter 11 The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity

How the Jews Became White Folks - KAREN BRODKIN

On Whiteness

The Blacker the Berry: Gender, Skin Tone, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy - MAXINE S. THOMPSON AND VERNA M. KEITH

Counting Native Americans - JOHN ANNER

Chapter 12 The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender

Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood - BART LANDRY

What is Wanting? Gender, Equality and Desire - JUDITH LEVINE

Still a Man's World: Men Who Do "Women's Work" - CHRISTINE WILLIAMS

Chapter 13 Global Dynamics

From Sweatshop to Hip-Hop - RYAN PINTADO-VERTNER

Border Blues: Mexican Immigration and Mexican-American

Identity

- FARAI CHIDEYA

These Dark Satanic Mills - WILLIAM GREIDER

Chapter 14 Architects of Demographic Trends: Reconstructing Society

Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States - JAMES AHO

Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politicization of White,

Working-Class Women

- CELENE KRAUSS

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