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Table of Contents

Each chapter concludes with “Summary and Review.”

1. The Sociological Perspective.

The Sociological Perspective.

Sociology and the Other Sciences.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: An Updated Version of the Old Elephant Story.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Enjoying a Sociology Quiz: Sociological Findings Versus Common Sense.

Origins of Sociology.

The Role of Values in Social Research.

Verstehen and Social Facts.

Sexism in Early Sociology.

Sociology in North America.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Early North American Sociology: Du Bois and Race Relations.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Careers in Sociology: What Applied Sociologists Do.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Sociology or Social Work? Taking Back Children from the Night.

Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology.

Trends Shaping the Future of Sociology.

2. Culture.

What Is Culture?

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Do You Feel Sorry? Hire an Apology Specialist.

Components of Symbolic Culture.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Emoticons: “Written Gestures” for Expressing Yourself Online.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Race and Language: Searching for Self Labels.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Miami: Language in a Changing City.

Many Cultural Worlds: Subcultures and Countercultures.

Values in U.S. Society.

Mass Media in Social Life: Why Do Native Americans Like Westerns?

Cultural Universals.

Thinking Critically: Are We Prisoners of Our Genes? Sociobiology and Human Behavior.

Technology in the Global Village.

3. Socialization.

What Is Human Nature?

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Heredity or Environment? The Case of Oskar and Jack, Identical Twins.

Socialization into the Self, Mind, and Emotions.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Signs of the Times: Are We Becoming IK?

Socialization into Gender.

Mass Media in Social Life: From Xena, Warrior Princess, to Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: Changing Images of Women in the Mass Media.

Agents of Socialization.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Caught Between Two Worlds.

Sociology and the New Technology: Would Bionic Men and Women Be Fair in Sports? The Question of Genetic Engineering.

Resocialization.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Boot Camp as a Total Institution.

Socialization Through the Life Course.

Are We Prisoners of Socialization?

4. Social Structure and Social Interaction.

Levels of Sociological Analysis.

The Macrosociological Perspective: Social Structure.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: College Football as Social Structure.

Social Institutions.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: The Amish-Gemeinschaft Community in a Gesellschaft Society.

The Microsociological Perspective: Social Interaction in Everyday Life.

Mass Media in Social Life: You Can't Be Thin Enough: Body Images and the Mass Media.

The Need for Both Macrosociology and Microsociology.

5. How Sociologists Do Research.

What Is a Valid Sociological Topic?

Common Sense and the Need for Sociological Research.

A Research Model.

Research Methods.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Loading the Dice: How Not to Do Research.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: The Hawthorne Experiments.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Applied Sociology: Marketing Research as a Blend of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods.

Thinking Critically: Doing Controversial Research: Counting the Homeless.

Gender in Sociological Research.

Ethics in Sociological Research.

How Research and Theory Work Together.

Thinking Critically: Are Rapists Sick? A Close-Up View of Research.

6. Societies to Social Networks.

Social Groups and Societies.

The Transformation of Societies.

Sociology and the New Technology: “So, You Want to Be Yourself?” Cloning in the Coming Bioeconomy.

Groups Within Society.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: How Our Social Networks Perpetuate Social Inequality.

Sociology and the New Technology: Electronic Communities: Cybercommunications and Our Changing Culture.

Group Dynamics.

Thinking Critically: If Hitler Asked You to Execute a Stranger, Would You? The Milgram Experiment.

7. Bureaucracy and Formal Organizations.

The Rationalization of Society.

Formal Organizations and Bureaucracy.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: The McDonaldization of Society.

Voluntary Associations.

Working for the Corporation.

Thinking Critically: Managing Diversity in the Workplace.

Humanizing the Corporate Culture.

Sociology & the New Technology: Cyberslackers and Cybersleuths: Surfing at Work

U.S. and Japanese Corporations.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Japanese and U.S. Corporations in an Age of Greed.

8. Deviance and Social Control.

What Is Deviance?

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective.

Thinking Critically: Is It Rape, or Is It Marriage? A Study in Culture Clash.

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective.

Mass Media in Social Life: Pornography on the Internet: Freedom Versus Censorship.

The Functionalist Perspective.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Islands in the Street: Urban Gangs in the United States.

The Conflict Perspective.

Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System.

Reactions to Deviance.

Thinking Critically: “Three Strikes and You're Out!” Unintended Consequences of Well-Intended Laws.

Thinking Critically: Changing Views: Making Hate a Crime.

The Trouble with Official Statistics.

9. Global Stratification.

Systems of Social Stratification.

Mass Media in Social Life: What Price Freedom? Slavery Today.

What Determines Social Class?

Why Is Social Stratification Universal?

How Do Elites Maintain Stratification?

Comparative Social Stratification.

Global Stratification: Three Worlds.

Thinking Critically: Open Season: Children as Prey.

How the World's Nations Became Stratified.

Thinking Critically: When Globalization Comes Home: Maquiladoras South of the Border.

Maintaining Global Stratification.

A Concluding Note.

10. Social Class in the United States.

What Is Social Class?

Down-to-Earth Sociology: How the Super-Rich Live.

Sociological Models of Social Class.

Consequences of Social Class.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Can Money Buy Happiness?

Sociology and the New Technology: Closing the Digital Divide: The Technology Gap.

Social Mobility.

Poverty.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Exploring Myths about the Poor.

Thinking Critically: The Nations Shame: Children in Poverty.

Thinking Critically: The Welfare Debate: The Deserving and the Undeserving Poor.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Poverty: A Personal Journey.

11. Sex and Gender.

Issues of Sex and Gender.

Thinking Critically: Biology Versus Culture-Culture Is the Answer.

Gender Inequality in Global Perspective.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Female Circumcision.

How Females Became a Minority Group.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: “Pssst. You Wanna Buy a Bride?” China in Transition.

Gender Inequality in the United States.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Making the Invisible Visible: The Deadly Effects of Sexism.

Gender Inequality in the Workplace.

Thinking Critically: Sexual Harassment of Women in the Military.

Gender and Violence.

Mass Media in Social Life: Beauty and Pain: How Much Is an Ad Worth?

The Changing Face of Politics.

Glimpsing the Future with Hope.

12. Race and Ethnicity.

Laying the Sociological Foundation.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Tiger Woods and the Emerging Multiracial Identify: Mapping New Ethnic Terrain.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Common Sense and Sociology: What Is Race?

Thinking Critically: Self-Segregation: Help or Hindrance for Race Relations on Campus?

Theories of Prejudice.

Mass Media in Social Life: Preaching Hatred: Crime or Inalienable Right?

Down-to-Earth Sociology: The Racist Mind.

Global Patterns of Intergroup Relations.

Cultural Diversity in the United States and Around the World: “You Can Work for Us, But You Can't Live Near Us.”

Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: What You Reveal by Your Voice: Racism in the Rental Market.

Thinking Critically: Reparations for Slavery: Justice or Foolishness?

Looking Toward the Future.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: Glimpsing the Future: The Shifting U.S. Racial-Ethnic Mix.

13. The Elderly.

Aging in Global Perspective.

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: China: Changing Sentiment about the Elderly.

The Functionalist Perspective.

Mass Media in Social Life: Shaping Our Perceptions of the Elderly.

The Conflict Perspective.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Changing Sentiment About the U.S. Elderly.

Thinking Critically: Exploding the Myth of U.S. Budget Surpluses: Can We Pay the Elderly's Social Security out of Thin Air?

Problems of Dependency.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Alzheimer Disease: Lessons from Sweden.

The Sociology of Death and Dying.

Looking Toward the Future.

Thinking Critically: How Long Do You Want to Live? Pushing Past the Limits of Biology.

14. The Economy.

The Transformation of Economic Systems.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: “Your Name Is What? You Live Where? But You Sound Like You're Right Next Door.”

The Transformation of the Medium of Exchange.

World Economic Systems.

Mass Media in Social Life: Greed Is Good: Selling the American Dream.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: No Cash? No Problem! Barter in the Former Soviet Union.

The Functionalist View of the Globalization of Capitalism.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Doing Business in the Global Village.

The Conflict View of the Globalization of Capitalism.

Work in U.S. Society.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Women in Business: Maneuvering the Male Culture.

Facing the Future: Implications of Global Capitalism.

Thinking Critically: What Type of New Society? New Technology and the Restructuring of Work.

15. Politics.

Micropolitics and Macropolitics.

Power, Authority, and Violence.

Types of Government.

Mass Media in Social Life: Politics and Democracy in a Technological Society.

The U.S. Political System.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: The Politics of Immigrants: Power, Ethnicity, and Social Class.

Who Rules the United States?

War and Terrorism: A Means to Implement Political Objectives.

Sociology and the New Technology: Technology and Terrorism.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Biological Terrorism.

A New World Order?

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Roadblocks in the Path to the New World Order: The Globalization of Capitalism Versus the Resurgence of Nationalism.

16. The Family.

Marriage and Family in Global Perspective.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Family Life in Sweden.

Marriage and Family in Theoretical Perspective.

Thinking Critically: The Second Shift-Strains and Strategies.

The Family Life Cycle.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: East Is East and West Is West…Love and Arranged Marriage in India.

Diversity in U.S. Families.

Sociology and the New Technology: The Brave New World of High-Tech Reproduction: Where Technology Outpaces Law and Sometimes Common Sense.

Trends in U.S. Families.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: “What Do You Mean You Want Us to Live Together?”

Divorce and Remarriage.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: You Be the Sociologist: Curious Divorce Patterns.

Two Sides of Family Life.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Why Doesn't She Just Leave? The Dilemma of Abused Women.

The Future of Marriage and Family.

17. Education.

The Development of Modern Education.

Education in Global Perspective.

The Functionalist Perspective: Providing Social Benefits.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Home Schooling: The Search for Quality and Values.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: How to Get a Lot out of College and Still Enjoy It.

The Conflict Perspective: Reproducing the Social Class Structure.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Kindergarten as Boot Camp.

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Fulfilling Teacher Expectations .

Sociology and the New Technology: Internet University: No Walls, No Ivy, No Keg Parties.

Problems in U.S. Education and Their Solutions.

Mass Media in Social Life: School Shootings: When Myth Gives Way to Panic.

Thinking Critically: Breaking Through the Barriers: Restructuring the Classroom.

18. Religion.

What Is Religion?

The Functionalist Perspective.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: News Flash! Prayer Works!

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective.

The Conflict Perspective.

Religion and the Spirit of Capitalism.

The World's Major Religions.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: The New Neighbor: Islam in the United States.

Types of Religious Groups.

Thinking Critically: How to Destroy a Cult: The U.S. Government versus the Branch Davidians.

Religion in the United States.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Bikers and Bibles.

The Future of Religion.

Mass Media in Social Life: God on the Net: The Online Marketing of Religion.

19. Medicine.

Sociology and the Study of Medicine.

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective.

Cultural Diversity: Mexican Immigrants and Health Care.

The Functionalist Perspective.

The Conflict Perspective.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: To Establish a Monopoly, Eliminate Your Competition: How Physicians Defeated Midwives.

Historical Patterns of Health.

Issues in Health Care.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: The Doctor-Nurse Game.

Thinking Critically: Should Doctors Be Allowed to Kill Patients?

Sociology and the New Technology: Who Should Live, and Who Should Die? Technology and the Dilemma of Medical Rationing.

Threats to Health.

The Search for Alternatives.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Health Care in Sweden, Russia, and China.

The Future of Medicine.

Sociology and the New Technology: Genetic Privacy: The Practice of Medicine in the Coming Bioeconomy.

20. Population and Urbanization.

Population in Global Perspective.

A Planet with No Space for Enjoying Life?

Population Growth.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Killing Little Girls: An Ancient and Thriving Practice.

Urbanization.

The Development of Cities.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Reclaiming Harlem: “It Feeds My Soul.”

Models of Urban Growth.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: Why City Slums Are Better Than the Country: Urbanization in the Least Industrialized Nations.

City Life: Alienation and Community.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Urban Fear and the Gated Fortress.

Urban Problems and Social Policy.

21. Collective Behavior and Social Movements.

Collective Behavior.

Early Explanations: The Transformation of the Individual.

The Contemporary View: The Rationality of the Crowd.

Forms of Collective Behavior.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Mass Hysteria.

Social Movements.

Cultural Diversity in the United States: The Million-Man March: Another Step in an Unfinished Social Movement.

Types and Tactics of Social Movements.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: “Tricks of the Trade”—The Fine Art of Propaganda.

Why People Join Social Movements.

On the Success and Failure of Social Movements.

Thinking Critically: Which Side of the Barricades? Pro Choice and Pro Life as a Social Movement.

22. Social Change and the Environment.

How Social Change Transforms Social Life.

Theories and Processes of Social Change.

Sociology and the New Technology: From the Luddites to the Unabomber: Opposition to Technology.

How Technology Changes Society.

The Growth Machine Versus the Earth.

Down-to-Earth Sociology: Corporations and Big Welfare Bucks: How to Get Paid to Pollute.

Cultural Diversity Around the World: The Rain Forests: Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge.

Thinking Critically: Ecosabotage.

ONLINE CHAPTER: The Sociology of Human Sexuality.

Opening Vignette.

What Does Sociology Have to Do with Sex?

The Social Construction of Sexual Identity.

The Incest Taboo: Social Control of Human Sexuality.

Homosexuality: Gay and Lesbian Sexual Behavior.

Heterosexuality.

A Concluding Note.

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