The Practical Skeptic: Readings In Sociology - Brossura

Mcintyre, Lisa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0767420780 ISBN 13: 9780767420785

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2001

Riassunto

Using a conceptual framework, THE PRACTICAL SKEPTIC: READINGS IN SOCIOLOGY, 2nd Edition includes classic sociological research writings as well as recent pieces on fascinating topics of interest to students. It is the ideal companion to McIntyre’s text, THE PRACTICAL SKEPTIC: CORE CONCEPTS IN SOCIOLOGY, 2nd Edition or other sociology texts.

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Contenuti

PART I. THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION / C. Wright Mills, The Promise / Stephanie Coontz, How History and Sociology Can Help Today’s Families / Lisa J. McIntyre, Hernando Washington

PART II. THE RESEARCH CRAFT / Simon Davis, Men as Success Objects and Women as Sex Objects: A Study of Personal Advertisements / Randy Blazak, Hate in the Suburbs: The Rise of Skinhead Counterculture / *Lisa J. McIntyre, Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research / Philip Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably

PART III. CULTURE / Clyde Kluckhohn, Queer Customs / Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema / *Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, The Young, the Rich, and the Famous: Individualism as an American Cultural Value / Theodore Caplow, Rule Enforcement without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown / Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets / *Candace Clark, The Rules of Sympathy

PART IV. SOCIAL STRUCTURE / Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life / Philip G. Zimbardo, Pathology of Imprisonment / Deborah Tannen, Marked: Women in the Workplace / Greta Foff Paule, “Getting” and “Making” a Tip / William E. Thompson, Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead: Morticians and Funeral Directors

PART V. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIALIZATION / Myra and David Sadker, Hidden Lessons / *Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell, Preparing for Power: America’s Elite Boarding Schools / *Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Bible Believers-The Nature and Admonition of the Lord: Raising Children / *Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan, New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers / *Sarah Ryan, Management by Stress: The Reorganization of Work Hits Home in the 1990s. / Gwynne Dyer, Anybody’s Son Will Do / Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison

PART VI. DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL / Émile Durkheim, The Normality of Crime / William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks / D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places / A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade, Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? / *Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating / *Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime PART VII. INEQUALITY / James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity / Melvin M. Tumin, Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis / Herbert J. Gans, The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All / Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto / Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head / Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash / Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School *Indicates readings new to this edition

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0767420780
• ISBN 13: 9780767420785
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 352