| Description |
xvi, 440 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1 Taking a new look at a familiar world -- The sociological imagination / C. Wright Mills -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- 2 Seeing and thinking sociologically -- The My Lai massacre : a military crime of obedience / Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton -- The mundanity of excellence : an ethnographic report on stratification and olympic swimmers / Daniel F. Chambliss -- 3 Building reality : the social construction of knowledge -- The crack attack : politics and media in the crack scare / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Concepts, indicators, and reality / Earl Babbie -- 4 Building order : culture and history -- The geography of time / Robert Levine -- The melting pot / Anne Fadiman -- 5 Building identity : socialization -- Life as the Maid's daughter : an exploration of the everyday boundaries of race, class, and gender / Mary Romero -- Boyhood, organized sports, and the construction of masculinities / Michael A. Messner -- The gospel hour : liminality, identity, and religion in a gay bar / Edward R. Gray and Scott Thumma -- 6 Supporting identity : the presentation of self -- Becoming a certain body / Sharlene Hesse-Biber -- Frederick the Great or Frederick's of Hollywood : the accomplishment of gender among women in the military / Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert -- Sisyphus in a wheelchair : physical disabilities and masculinity / Thomas J. Gerschick -- 7 Building social relationships : intimacy and family -- No place like home / Christopher Carrington -- Coping with commitment : dilemmas and conflicts of family life / Kathleen Gerson -- Love and gold / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- 8 Constructing difference : social deviance -- Watching the canary / Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres -- Blowing smoke : status politics and the smoking ban / Justin L. Tuggle and Malcolm D. Holmes -- Becoming a marihuana user / Howard S. Becker -- 9 The structure of society : organizations and social institutions -- The smile factory : work at Disneyland / John Van Maanen -- The routinization of disaster / Daniel F. Chambliss -- 10 The architecture of stratification : social class inequality -- Making class invisible / Gregory Mantsios -- Branded with infamy : inscriptions of poverty and class in America / Vivyan Adair -- Savage inequalities in American schools : life on the Mississippi : East St. Louis / Jonathan Kozol -- 11 The architecture of inequality : race and ethnicity -- Are Asian Americans becoming "white"? / Min Zhou -- Blinded by whiteness : the development of white college students' racial awareness / Mark A. Chesler, Melissa Peet and Todd Sevig -- The blacker the berry : gender, skin tone, self-esteem, and self-efficacy / Maxine S. Thompson and Verna M. Keith -- 12 The architecture of inequality : sex and gender -- Dilemmas of desire : teenage girls talk about sexuality / Deborah L. Tolman -- Black women and a new definition of womanhood / Bart Landry -- Still a man's world : men who do "women's work" / Christine L. Williams -- 13 The global dynamics of population : demographic trends -- "The Xers" versus "the boomers" : a contrived war / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- To die a little : migration and coffee in Mexico and Central America / Luis Hernandez Navarro -- These dark Satanic mills / William Greider -- 14 Architects of change : 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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| Author |
Newman, David M., 1958-
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O'Brien, Jodi.
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| LC no. |
2005028067 |
| ISBN |
1412928133 |
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9781412928137 |
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