| Description |
xvi, 500 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Promise of Sociology / C. Wright Mills -- 2. Invitation to Sociology / Peter L. Berger -- 3. 'I Buy It for the Articles': Playboy Magazine and Pornography / Gail Dines -- 4. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- 5. The Case for Value-Free Sociology / Max Weber -- 6. Our Attitudes About Survey Research / Harry W. O'Neill -- 7. Sensitivity in Field Research: A Study of Policing in Northern Ireland / John D. Brewer -- 8. Symbol: The Basic Element of Culture / Leslie A. White -- 9. Manifest and Latent Functions / Robert A. Merton -- 10. The Rape Culture / Dianne F. Herman -- 11. India's Sacred Cow / Marvin Harris -- 12. Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- 13. Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft / Ferdinand Tonnies -- 14. Welcome to Cyber-Society! / John J. Macionis -- 15. The Amish: A Small Society / John A. Hostetler -- 16. The Self / George Herbert Mead -- 17. Socialization and Television Violence / George Gerbner -- 18. Parents' Socialization of Children in Global Perspective / D. Terri Heath -- 19. The Dyad and the Triad / Georg Simmel -- 20. The Presentation of Self / Erving Goffman -- 21. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation / Deborah Tannen -- 22. The DOs and TABOOs of Body Language Around the World / Roger E. Axtell -- 23. Primary Groups / Charles Horton Cooley -- 24. The Characteristics of Bureaucracy / Max Weber -- 25. The Managed Heart / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- 26. Japanese Etiquette and Ethics in Business / Boye De Mente -- 27. The Functions of Crime / Emile Durkheim -- 28. On Being Sane in Insane Places / David L. Rosenhan -- 29. Crime in World Perspective / Elliott Currie -- 30. Some Principles of Stratification, with a response by Melvin Tumin / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore -- 31. The Bell Curve Thesis, with a response by Claude S. Fischer et al / Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray -- 32. Women's Poverty in Africa / Daphne Topouzis -- 33. The Souls of Black Folk / W. E. B. Du Bois -- 34. Controlling Images and Black Women's Oppression / Patricia Hill Collins -- 35. The Rise of Hispanic Affluence / William O'Hare -- 36. The Transculturation of Native American College Students / Terry Huffman -- 37. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies / Margaret Mead -- 38. How Subtle Sex Discrimination Works / Nijole V. Benokraitis -- 39. Homosexual Behavior in Cross-Cultural Perspective / J. M. Carrier -- 40. The Tragedy of Old Age in America / Robert N. Butler -- 41. My Quest for the Fountain of Age / Betty Friedan -- 42. Widowhood in Israel / Helena Znaniecka Lopata -- 43. Alienated Labor / Karl Marx -- 44. When Work Disappears / William Julius Wilson -- 45. Maid in the U.S.A. / Mary Romero -- 46. The Power Elite / C. Wright Mills -- 47. Pornography: Morality or Politics? / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- 48. Arms Control and the New World Order / Jack Mendelsohn -- 49. 'His' and 'Her' Marriage / Jessie Bernard -- 50. The Decline of Marriage and Fatherhood / David Popenoe -- 51. Mate Selection and Marriage Around the World / Bron B. Ingoldsby -- 52. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber -- 53. Culture Wars / James Davison Hunter -- 54. Women and Islam / Jane I. Smith -- 55. Education and Inequality / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- 56. Why Don't College Students Participate? / David A. Karp and William C. Yoels -- 57. Academic Achievement in Southeast Asian Refugee Families / Nathan Caplan, Marcella H. Choy and John K. Whitmore -- 58. The Social Structure of Medicine / Talcott Parsons -- 59. The Health of Latino Families / Ruth E. Zambrana, Claudia Dorrington and David Hayes-Bautista -- 60. Female Genital Mutilation / Efua Dorkenoo and Scilla Elworthy -- 61. The Metropolis and Mental Life / Georg Simmel -- 62. Urbanism As a Way of Life / Louis Wirth -- 63. The Urban Real Estate Game: Traditional and Critical Perspectives / Joe R. Feagin and Robert Parker -- 64. The Global Population Crisis / David Berreby -- 65. Why Humanity Faces Ultimate Catastrophe / Thomas Robert Malthus -- 66. The State of the World's Natural Environment / Lester R. Brown -- 67. Supporting Indigenous Peoples / Alan Thein Durning -- 68. On the Origin of Social Movements / Jo Freeman -- 69. Reconstructing Everyday Life After Hurricane Andrew / Kenneth J. Smith and Linda Liska Belgrave -- 70. Tiananmen Square: A Personal Chronicle from China / Brian C. Russo -- 71. Anomy and Modern Life / Emile Durkheim -- 72. The Disenchantment of Modern Life / Max Weber -- 73. The Search for Meaning in Modern America / Robert N. Bellah et al -- 74. The Price of Modernization: The Case of Brazil's Kaiapo Indians / Marlise Simons |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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| Author |
Benokraitis, Nijole V. (Nijole Vaicaitis)
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Macionis, John J.
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| LC no. |
97014965 |
| ISBN |
0136106846 |
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