Sources: Notable Selections in Sociology - Brossura

Finsterbusch, Kurt

Brossura

ISBN 10: 069739140X ISBN 13: 9780697391407

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 1999

Riassunto

46 selections of enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped the study of sociology and our contemporary understanding of it. Included are carefully edited selections from the works of the most distinguished sociological observers, past and present, from Karl Marx and George Herbert Mead to Deborah Tannen, Jonathan Kozol, and Stephanie Coontz.

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Contenuti:

Part 1. Introduction to Sociology

CHAPTER 1. The Sociological Perspective

1.1. Peter L. Berger, from Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective

1.2. C. Wright Mills, from The Sociological Imagination

Part 2. The Individual and Society

CHAPTER 2. Culture

2.1. Clyde Kluckhohn, from Mirror for Man: The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life

2.2. Horace Miner, from "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema," American Anthropologist

2.3. Colin M. Turnbull, from The Mountain People

2.4. Elijah Anderson, from "The Code of the Streets," The Atlantic Monthly

2.5. Deborah Tannen, from You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

CHAPTER 3. Socialization, Personality Development, and the Social Construction of Society

3.1. George Herbert Mead, from Mind, Self and Society

3.2. Margaret L. Andersen, from Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 4th ed.

3.3. Herbert Blumer, from "Society as Symbolic Interaction," in Arnold M. Rose, ed., Human Behavior and Social Processes

CHAPTER 4. Social Roles and the Presentation of Self

4.1. Peter L. Berger, from Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective

4.2. Erving Goffman, from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

CHAPTER 5. Deviance, Crime, and Social Control

5.1. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, from "Defining Deviancy Down," The American Scholar

5.2. Stanley Milgram, from "Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority," Human Relations

5.3. Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton, from Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility

5.4. James Q. Wilson, from "What to Do About Crime," Commentary

CHAPTER 6. Social Organization: Groups, Associations, Communities, and Rational Organizations

6.1. Charles Horton Cooley, from Social Organization

6.2. Robert D. Putnam, from "The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life," The American Prospect

6.3. Louis Wirth, from "Urbanism as a Way of Life," American Journal of Sociology

6.4. Max Weber, from "Bureaucracy," in H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds. and trans., From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

Part 3. Stratification

CHAPTER 7. Social Inequality

7.1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from The Communist Manifesto

7.2. Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, from "Some Principles of Stratification," American Sociological Review

7.3. Barry Bluestone, from "The Inequality Express," in Robert Kuttner, ed., Ticking Time Bombs

7.4. Daniel D. Huff, from "Upside-Down Welfare," Public Welfare

CHAPTER 8. Views of the Top and the Bottom

8.1. Michael Useem, from The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K.

8.2. Jonathan Kozol, from "Poverty's Children: Growing Up in the South Bronx," The Progressive

CHAPTER 9. Racial and Sexual Inequality

9.1. Andrew Hacker, from Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal

9.2. William Julius Wilson, from The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

9.3. Judith Lorber, from Paradoxes of Gender

9.4. Toni Nelson, from "Violence Against Women," World Watch

Part 4. Social Institutions

CHAPTER 10. The Political System

10.1. G. William Domhoff, from Who Rules America? Power and Politics in the Year 2000, 3rd ed.

10.2. Marvin J. Cetron and Owen Davies, from "The Future Face of Terrorism," The Futurist

CHAPTER 11. The Corporate World

11.1. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Barry A. Stein, and Todd D. Jick, from The Challenge of Organizational Change: How Companies Experience It and Leaders Guide It

11.2. Mark Dowie, from "Pinto Madness," Mother Jones

11.3. George Ritzer, from The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life, rev. ed.

CHAPTER 12. The Family

12.1. Stephanie Coontz, from The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families

12.2. Kathleen Gerson, from "Coping With Commitment: Dilemmas and Conflicts of Family Life," in Alan Wolfe, ed., America at Century's End

12.3. Peter L. Berger and Hansfried Kellner, from "Marriage and the Construction of Reality," Diogenes

CHAPTER 13. Other Institutions: Religion and Health Care

13.1. Robert Wuthnow, from "How Small Groups Are Transforming Our Lives," Christianity Today

13.2. D. L. Rosenhan, from "On Being Sane in Insane Places," Science

Part 5. Social Change and the Future

CHAPTER 14. Population, Environment, and the Future

14.1. Robert D. Kaplan, from "The Coming Anarchy," The Atlantic Monthly

14.2. Bill McKibben, from "A Special Moment in History," The Atlantic Monthly

CHAPTER 15. Social Movements and Collective Behavior

15.1. Mancur Olson, Jr., from The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups

15.2. Anthony Oberschall, from Social Movements: Ideologies, Interests, and Identities

CHAPTER 16. Global Social Change

16.1. Daniel Chirot, from How Societies Change

16.2. Samuel P. Huntington, from "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 069739140X
• ISBN 13: 9780697391407
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 400