Sociology Windows on Society: An Anthology

by Lauer, Robert H.; Lauer, Jeanette C.

• ISBN13: 9781891487880
• ISBN10: 1891487884
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	xii
Use of Selections	xiv
Contributors	xv
Unit I: The Sociological Enterprise	1	(1)
Part One: The Sociological Perspective	2	(7)
The Sociological Imagination	3	(6)
C. Wright Mills
Part Two: Studying Social Phenomena	9	(17)
Getting It Done: Notes on Student Fritters	10	(7)
Stan Bernstein
Egoistic Suicide	17	(6)
Emile Durkheim
`It's Awful! It's Terrible! It's...Never Mind'	23	(3)
Steven A. Holmes
Part Three: Biology, Psychology, or Sociology?	26	(19)
Intelligence and Giftedness	27	(9)
Miles D. Storfer
Drinking During Adolescence	36	(9)
Laurie Chassin
Christian DeLucia
Unit II: Culture, Socialization, and Social Interaction	45	(2)
Part One: Culture	47	(21)
India's Sacred Cow	48	(7)
Marvin Harris
Cosmetic Surgery: Beauty as Commodity	55	(13)
Debra Gimlin
Part Two: Becoming a Social Creature	68	(28)
As the Twig Is Bent: Children Reared in Feminist Households	69	(12)
Barbara J. Risman
Kristen Myers
How Television Shapes Children's Gender Roles	81	(5)
Susan D. Witt
The Meaning of Success: The Athletic Experience and the Development of Male Identity	86	(10)
Michael Messner
Part Three: Social Interaction	96	(25)
`You Just Don't Understand': The Role of Gender in Conversational Interruptions	97	(13)
Deborah Tannen
Sexual Betrayal: Perspectives of Betrayers and the Betrayed	110	(11)
S. Shirley Feldman
Elizabeth Cauffman
Unit III: Inequality	121	(1)
Part One: The Nature of Inequality	122	(20)
The Communist Manifesto	123	(7)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Between the Executive Office and the Storeroom: How Much Inequality Is Acceptable?	130	(5)
Beth Shulman
Holly Sklar
America's Shame: Women and Children in Shelter	135	(7)
Barbara A. Arrighi
Part Two: Racial/Ethnic Inequality	142	(21)
The Job Ghetto	143	(3)
Katherine Newman
Chauncy Lennon
Politics of Prejudice	146	(6)
Gregory Squires
Cowboys and Indians: Perceptions of Western Films Among American Indians and Anglos	152	(11)
JoEllen Shively
Part Three: Gender Inequality	163	(18)
How Unhappy Are Women Doctors?	164	(8)
Robert Lowes
How Women Experience Battering: The Process of Victimization	172	(9)
Kathleen J. Ferraro
John M. Johnson
Part Four: Age Inequality	181	(7)
But This Is My Mother! The Plight of Elders in American Nursing Homes	182	(6)
Cynthia Loucks
Part Five: International Inequality	188	(7)
Sweatshop Barbie: Exploitation of Third World Labor	189	(6)
Anton Foek
Unit IV: Social Institutions	195	(1)
Part One: The Family	196	(27)
Home Work Time	197	(5)
Marilyn Snell
The Transformation of Family Life	202	(11)
Lillian B. Rubin
`We Always Stood on Our Own Two Feet': Self-Reliance and the American Family	213	(10)
Stephanie Coontz
Part Two: Government and Politics	223	(17)
Women's Movements and Nonviolence	224	(7)
Anne N. Costain
Latinos and American Politics	231	(9)
Rodney Hero
F. Chris Garcia
John Garcia
Harry Pachon
Part Three: The Economy	240	(20)
Alienation in Work	241	(4)
Karl Marx
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	245	(6)
Max Weber
Approaches to the Iron Cage: Reconstructing the Bars of Weber's Metaphor	251	(9)
Jay Klagge
Part Four: Education	260	(14)
Savage Inequalities	261	(9)
Jonathan Kozol
At School, a Cruel Culture	270	(4)
Darcia Harris Bowman
Part Five: Religion	274	(12)
A Forgotten People in Our Midst	275	(11)
Donald W. Huffman
Part Six: Health Care	286	(21)
Unhealthy Partnership: How Managed Care Wrecks Mental Health for Kids	287	(8)
Joshua Sharfstein
Preserving a Vital and Valued Self in the Face of AIDS	295	(12)
Kent L. Sandstrom
Unit V: Social Processes	307	(1)
Part One: Deviance	308	(31)
Crime and the Media	309	(5)
Jay Livingston
Islands in the Street: Urban Gangs as Economic Organizations	314	(14)
Martin Sanchez Jankowski
Crack Cocaine Sentencing: A Racist Policy?	328	(3)
The Sentencing Project
The Razor Blade in the Apple: The Social Construction of Urban Legends	331	(8)
Joel Best
Gerald T. Horiuchi
Part Two: Social Change	339	(1)
Life in Big Red: Struggles and Accommodations in a Chicago Polyethnic Tenement	340	(12)
Dwight Conquergood
Plain Living: Deciding to Move Down	352	(6)
Trudy Bush
Credit Cards, Fast-Food Restaurants, and Rationalization	358	(9)
George Ritzer
The Impact of Mobile Communications	367
James E. Katz
Philip Aspden