Understanding Society An Introductory Reader (with InfoTrac)

by Andersen, Margaret L.; Logio, Kim A.; Taylor, Howard F.

• ISBN13: 9780534566661
• ISBN10: 0534566669
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-23
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY presents a balance of classic and contemporary readings that you'll both understand and find intriguing. Like the Andersen/Taylor introductory sociology textbooks, this reader has a strong focus on diversity. Five themes run throughout book: classical sociological theory, contemporary research, diversity, globalization, and the application of the sociological perspective.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
About the Editors	xv
PART I The Sociological Perspective	1	(25)
The Sociological Imagination	1	(5)
C. Wright Mills
The Forest and the Trees	6	(7)
Allan G. Johnson
Learning from the Outsider Within	13	(7)
Patricia Hill Collins
Fighting Child Poverty in America: How Research Can Help	20	(6)
Arloc Sherman
Jodi Sandfort
PART II Doing Sociological Research	26	(22)
Science as a Vocation	26	(3)
Max Weber
The Practice of Social Research	29	(10)
Earl Babbie
Not Our Kind of Girl	39	(9)
Elaine Bell Kaplan
PART III Culture	48	(22)
Barbie Doll Culture and the American Waistland	48	(4)
Kamy Cunningham
The Shameless World of Phil, Sally, and Oprah: Television Talk Shows and the Deconstructing of Society	52	(7)
Vicki Abt
Mel Seesholtz
Family Rituals and the Construction of Reality	59	(7)
Scott Coltrane
Geisha	66	(4)
Lisa Crihfield Dalby
PART IV Socialization	70	(40)
The Self	70	(7)
George Herbert Mead
Navajo Women and the Politics of Identity	77	(13)
Amy J. Schulz
Catching Sense: Learning from Our Mothers to Be Black and Female	90	(11)
Suzanne C. Carothers
Alternative Masculinity and Its Effects on Gender Relations in the Subculture of Skateboarding	101	(9)
Becky Beal
PART V Society and Social Interaction	110	(16)
The Problem of Sociology	110	(2)
Georg Simmel
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life	112	(4)
Erving Goffman
Code of the Street	116	(6)
Elijah Anderson
Identity in the Age of the Internet	122	(4)
Sherry Turkle
PART VI Groups and Organizations	126	(12)
Primary Groups	126	(3)
Charles Horton Cooley
Bureaucracy	129	(3)
Max Weber
Enchanting a Disenchanted World	132	(6)
George Ritzer
PART VII Sexuality and Intimate Relationships	138	(23)
The Gender of Sexuality	138	(9)
Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
Masculinity as Homophobia	147	(5)
Michael S. Kimmel
The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy	152	(5)
Lillian B. Rubin
Pills and Power Tools	157	(4)
Susan Bordo
PART VIII Deviance	161	(26)
The Functions of Crime	161	(3)
Emile Durkheim
The Medicalization of Deviance	164	(6)
Peter Conrad
Joseph W. Schneider
Construction of Deafness	170	(6)
Harlan Lane
Children, Prostitution, and Identity: A Case Study from a Tourist Resort in Thailand	176	(6)
Heather Montgomery
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison	182	(5)
Jeffrey H. Reiman
PART IX Class Stratification	187	(23)
The Communist Manifesto	187	(4)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Great Divides	191	(7)
Thomas M. Shapiro
Wealth Matters	198	(5)
Dalton M. Conley
The Shredded Net: The End of Welfare as We Knew It	203	(7)
Valerie Polakow
PART X Global Stratification	210	(25)
The Garment Industry in the Restructuring Global Economy	210	(7)
Edna Bonacich
Lucie Cheng
Norma Chinchilla
Nora Hamilton
Paul Ong
The American Belief System Concerning Poverty and Welfare	217	(6)
William Julius Wilson
The Lexus and the Olive Tree	223	(3)
Thomas L. Friedman
The Nanny Chain	226	(9)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
PART XI Race and Ethnicity	235	(25)
The Souls of Black Folk	235	(2)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Being More Than Black & White: Latinos, Racism and the Cultural Divides	237	(6)
Elizabeth Martinez
Racial Formation	243	(7)
Michael Omi
Howard Winant
Immigrant America: Who They Are and Why They Come	250	(5)
Alejandro Portes
Ruben Rumbaut
What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar about Identity	255	(5)
Abby L. Ferber
PART XII Gender	260	(23)
The Social Construction of Gender	260	(5)
Margaret L. Andersen
The Politics of Masculinities	265	(6)
Michael A. Messner
Lipstick Politics in Iran	271	(2)
Farzaneh Milani
Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images	273	(10)
Yen Le Espiritu
PART XIII Aging	283	(19)
Cultural Images of Old Age	283	(8)
Eleanor Palo Stoller
Rose C. Gibson
From Stepping Stones to Building Blocks	291	(4)
Kathleen Slevin
C. Roy Wingrove
Social Security and the Myth of the Entitlement `Crisis'	295	(7)
Jill Quadagno
PART XIV Families	302	(40)
In the Name of the Family	302	(7)
Judith Stacey
Divorce and Remarriage	309	(11)
Terry Arendell
Doing Parenting: Mothers, Care Work, and Policy	320	(14)
Demie Kurz
`Mail-Order' Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence and Immigration Law	334	(8)
Uma Narayan
PART XV Education	342	(24)
Clique Dynamics	342	(7)
Patricia Adler
Peter Adler
Ghetto Schooling	349	(6)
Jean Anyon
Intelligence	355	(6)
Howard F. Taylor
School Girls	361	(5)
Peggy Orenstein
PART XVI Religion	366	(29)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	366	(5)
Max Weber
Growing Up Religious	371	(7)
Robert Wuthnow
Growing Up American: The Complexity of Ethnic Involvement	378	(6)
Min Zhou
Insane Therapy	384	(11)
Marybeth F. Ayella
PART XVII Work and the Economy	395	(33)
The Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work	395	(8)
Cameron Lynne MacDonald
Carmen Sirianni
Toward a 24-Hour Economy	403	(5)
Harriet B. Presser
The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland	408	(9)
John Van Maanen
Delicate Transactions: Gender, Home, and Employment among Hispanic Women	417	(11)
M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly
PART XVIII Power and Politics	428	(24)
The Power Elite	428	(5)
C. Wright Mills
Diversity in the Power Elite	433	(6)
Richard Zweigenhaft
G. William Domhoff
Power and Class in the United States	439	(5)
G. William Domhoff
The First Americans: American Indians	444	(8)
C. Matthew Snipp
PART XIX Health Care	452	(17)
Medical Students' Contacts with the Living and the Dead	452	(7)
Allen C. Smith III
Sherryl Kleinman
Do Doctors Eat Brains?	459	(3)
Ann Fadiman
Corporatization and the Social Transformation of Doctoring	462	(7)
John B. McKinlay
John D. Stoeckle
PART XX Population, Urbanism, and the Environment	469	(21)
Urbanism as a Way of Life	469	(7)
Louis Wirth
American Apartheid	476	(8)
Douglas S. Massey
Nancy A. Denton
Black, Brown, Red, and Poisoned	484	(6)
Regina Austin
Michael Schill
PART XXI Collective Behavior/Social Movements	490	(31)
The New Feminist Movement	490	(9)
Verta Taylor
Nancy Whittier
The Evolution of the U. S. Environmental Movement from 1970 to 1990: An Overview	499	(8)
Riley E. Dunlap
Angela G. Mertig
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities	507	(8)
John D'Emilio
The Genius of the Civil Rights Movement: Can It Happen Again?	515	(6)
Aldon Morris
PART XXII Social Change	521	(20)
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft	521	(3)
Ferdinand Tonnies
Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change.	524	(5)
Erla Zwingle
Technological Diffusion or Cultural Imperialism? Measuring the Information Revolution	529	(6)
R. Alan Hedley
The Biotech Century: Human Life as Intellectual Property	535	(6)
Jeremy Rifkin
Glossary	541	(16)
Name/Subject Index	557