Sociology (reader)

Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings
9. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4129-8760-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 254 mm

This carefully edited companion anthology focuses on everyday experiences, important sociological issues, and hallmark historical events. Providing provocative, eye-opening examples that illuminate the relationship between the individual and society, this Ninth Edition includes a mix of short articles, chapters, and excerpts. In addition to new readings and more coverage of global issues and world religions, the Ninth Edition focuses on sociological theory, methodologies and history to help students learn how to analyze what they read, as well as understand how research is done and how today's theories have developed over time. - includes new readings that show how race, social class, gender, and sexual orientation intersect to influence everyday experiences - presents updated and expanded coverage of global issues and world religions - explores topical issues such as environment, climate change, macro-structure, and post-9/11 conditions - provides an expansive discussion on sociological theory and methodologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, David M.

O'Brien, Jodi A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
About the Editors
PART I. THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY
Chapter 1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World
Reading 1.1. The Sociological Imagination - C. Wright Mills
Reading 1.2. Invitation to Sociology - Peter Berger
Reading 1.3. The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience - Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton
Chapter 2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically
Reading 2.1. The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel
Reading 2.2. Gift and Exchange - Zygmunt Bauman
Reading 2.3. Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner
PART II. THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY
Chapter 3. Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge
Reading 3.1. Concepts, Indicators, and Reality - Earl Babbie
Reading 3.2. Missing Numbers - Joel Best
Chapter 4. Building Order: Culture and History
Reading 4.1. Body Ritual among the Nacirema - Horace Miner
Reading 4.2. The Melting Pot - Anne Fadiman
Reading 4.3. McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change, and the Rise of a Children's Culture - James L. Watson
Chapter 5. Building Identity: Socialization
Reading 5.1. Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender - Mary Romero
Reading 5.2. The Making of Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity Among Asian American Youth - Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee
Reading 5.3. Working 'the Code': On Girls, Gender, and Inner-City Violence - Nikki Jones
Chapter 6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self
Reading 6.1. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections - Erving Goffman
Reading 6.2. Public Identities: Managing Race in Public Spaces - Karyn Lacy
Reading 6.3. The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as a Collective Activity - David Grazian
Chapter 7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family
Reading 7.1. The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love - Stephanie Coontz
Reading 7.2. Gay Parenthood and the End of Paternity as We Knew It - Judith Stacey
Reading 7.3. Covenant Marriage: Reflexivity and Retrenchment in the Politics of Intimacy - Dwight Fee
Chapter 8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance
Reading 8.1. Watching the Canary - Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
Reading 8.2. Healing Disorderly Desire: Medical-Therapeutic Regulation of Sexuality - P. J. McGann
Reading 8.3. Patients, "Potheads," and Dying to Get High - Wendy Chapkis
PART III. SOCIAL STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS, AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Chapter 9. The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions
Reading 9.1. These Dark Satanic Mills - William Greider
Reading 9.2. The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland - John Van Maanen
Reading 9.3. Creating Consumers: Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids - Murray Milner
Chapter 10. The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality
Reading 10.1. Making Class Invisible - Gregory Mantsios
Reading 10.2. The Compassion Gap in American Poverty Policy - Fred Block, Anna C. Korteweg, and Kerry Woodward, with Zach Schiller and Imrul Mazid
Reading 10.3. Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America - Vivyan Adair
Chapter 11. The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity
Reading 11.1. Racial and Ethnic Formation - Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Reading 11.2. Optional Ethnicities: For Whiltes Only? - Mary C. Waters
Reading 11.3. Silent Racism: Passivity in Well-Meaning White People - Barbara Trepagnier
Chapter 12. The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender
Reading 12.1. Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood - Bart Landry
Reading 12.2. Still a Man's World: Men Who Do "Women's Work" - Christine L. Williams
Reading 12.3. New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New Gender - Eve Shapiro
Chapter 13. Global Dynamics and Population Demographic Trends
Reading 13.1. Age-Segregation in Later Life: An Examination of Personal Networks - Peter Uhlenberg and Jenny de Jong Gierveld
Reading 13.2.

Über Autor(innen)

Newman, David M.
David M. Newman earned his B.A. from San Diego State University in 1981 and his graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle (M.A. 1984, PhD 1988). After a year at the University of Connecticut, David went to DePauw University in 1989 and has been there ever since. David teaches courses in Contemporary Society, Deviance, Mental Illness, Family, Social Psychology, and Research Methods. He has published numerous articles on teaching and has presented research papers on the intersection of gender and power in intimate relationships. Recently most of his scholarly activity has been devoted to writing and revising several books, including Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life (SAGE, 2014); Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill, 2012); and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 2009). He is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines the cultural meaning, institutional importance, and social limitations of “second chance” narratives in everyday life.

O'Brien, Jodi A.
Jodi O'Brien (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Professor of Sociology at Seattle University. She teaches courses in social psychology, sexuality, inequality, and classical and contemporary theory. She writes and lectures on the cultural politics of transgressive identities and communities. Her other books include Everyday Inequalities (Basil Blackwell), Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (Pine Forge Press), Social Prisms: Reflections on Everyday Myths and Paradoxes (Pine Forge Press), and The Production of Reality: Essays and Readings on Social Interaction, Fifth Edition (Pine Forge Press).

Jodi O'Brien (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Professor of Sociology at Seattle University. She teaches courses in social psychology, sexuality, inequality, and classical and contemporary theory. She writes and lectures on the cultural politics of transgressive identities and communities. Her other books include Everyday Inequalities (Basil Blackwell), Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (Pine Forge Press), Social Prisms: Reflections on Everyday Myths and Paradoxes (Pine Forge Press), and The Production of Reality: Essays and Readings on Social Interaction, Fifth Edition (Pine Forge Press).

David Newman earned his bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University in 1981 and his graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle (M.A. 1984, PhD 1988). After a year at the University of Connecticut, David came to DePauw in the fall of 1989 and has been here ever since. David teaches courses in Deviance, Mental Illness, Family, Social Psychology, and Research Methods. He has published numerous articles on teaching and has presented several research papers on the intersection of gender and power in intimate relationships. Recently most of his scholarly activity has been devoted to writing and revising several books, including Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life (SAGE ©2010); Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill ©2006); and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill ©2009). He is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines the cultural meaning, institutional importance, and everyday experience of “second chances.”