Preface xiii
To the Instructor xvii
Part 1 The Study of Sociology
1 Sociology as an Individual Pastime (from Invitation to Sociology) Peter L. Berger 3
2 From The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills 13
3 What Makes Sociology Different? (from The Rules of Sociological Method) Emile Durkheim 19
4 Public Sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities Michael Burawoy 27
5 The My Lai Massacre: A Crime of Obedience? (from Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility) Herbert C. Kelman V. Lee Hamilton 34
6 Telling the Truth about Damned Lies and Statistics Joel Best 53
7 Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Allan M. Brandt 60
Part 2 Culture and Society
8 From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh Robert Goldman Stephen Parson 75
9 McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change, and the Rise of a Children's Culture (from Golden Arches East) James L. Watson 85
10 A Look Behind the Veil Elizabeth W. Fernea Robert A. Fernea 97
11 The Code of the Street Elijah Anderson 104
12 Deviance and Liminality (from Something Old, Something Bold: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties) Beth Montemurro 117
Part 3 Social Interaction and Identity
13 On Face-Work Erving Goffman 127
14 Civility and Order: Adult Social Control of Children in Public Places (from Alone Together) Christine Horne Mary Kris McIlwaine Kristie A. Taylor 138
15 The Body and Bathing: Help with Personal Care at Home Julia Twigg 151
16 Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities Michael A. Messner 167
17 Women Without Class: Chicas, Cholas, Trash, and thePresence/Absence of Class Identity Julie Bettie 184
18 My Secret Life as a Black Man Anthony Walton 198
19 Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye Heidi Ardizzone Earl Lewis 204
20 Go North, Young Man Richard Rodriguez 210
21 Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only? Mary C. Waters 217
Part 4 Social Inequality and Labor
22 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich 229
23 Manifesto of the Communist Party Karl Marx Friedrich Engels 249
24 Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line William E. Thompson 259
25 "Getting" and "Making" a Tip (from Dishing It Out: Power and Resistance among Waitresses in a New Jersey Restaurant) Greta Foff Paules 269
26 Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth (from Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life) Annette Lareau 278
27 Upward Mobility Through Sport? D. Stanley Eitzen 288
28 From Maid in the USA Mary Romero 296
29 The Saints and the Roughnecks William J. Chambliss 312
30 From When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor William Julius Wilson 326
31 Uses of the Underclass in America Herbert J. Gans 332
Part 5 Social Control and Organizational Power
32 From the Panopticon to Disney World Clifford D. Shearing Phillip C. Stenning 347
33 From Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison Lorna A. Rhodes 353
34 Police Accounts of Normal Force Jennifer Hunt 366
35 The Rise and Fall of Mass Rail Transit (from Building American Cities: The Urban Real Estate Game) Joe R. Feagin Robert Parker 382
36 America's National Eating Disorder (from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) Michael Pollan 389
37 Size Does Count, at Least for French Fries: Minnesota's Straight River (from Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters) Robert Glennon 393
38 The Foundations of Third World Poverty (from Promises Not Kept: The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World) John Isbister 401
Part 6 Social Institutions
39 From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber 411
40 Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure Giri Raj Gupta 419
41 Shared Paternity Kim A. McDonald 430
42 Domestic Networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community) Carol B. Stack 435
43 Marriage, Culture and Law (from Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law) Kathleen E. Hull 440
44 The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life (from The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work) Arlie Russell Hochschild 452
45 The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society) George Ritzer 466
46 Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) Robert N. Bellah Richard Madsen William M. Sullivan Ann Swidler Steven M. Tipton 473
47 From Amish Society John A. Hostetler 482
Part 7 Social Change
48 Job on the Line William M. Adler 491
49 Grassroots Activism: Mothers of East Los Angeles Mary Pardo 503
50 House Bound: Women's Agency in White Separatist Movements Jennifer Fluri Lorraine Dowler 513
51 The Cuban Diet Bill McKibbin 531
Credits 543
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