About the Book
'I suspect that beginning students assigned to read sociology feel much like the theatergoer who stumbles into a foreign film without subtitles. [So] I tried to keep the needs of the introductory student in mind. I tried to bridge the gap between the sociologists who wrote these articles and the students who will read them. My goal is to replace boredom with intellectual challenge, to make sociology not 'easy,' but accessible' - Lisa McIntyre. Using a conceptual framework, "The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology" 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" or other sociology texts. Readings in this edition challenge students to re-evaluate familiar social arenas: the college classroom, televised sports shows, restaurants, doctors' offices and even public restrooms. The essential lesson of the readings is this: there is much that goes on in the social world that escapes the sociologically untrained eye. 'I would certainly adopt this reader again.
It is a wonderful, enriching complement to McIntyre's textbook and introduces students to the richness and depth that characterizes the sociological literature' - Susan Humpers-Ginther, Minnesota State University, Moorhead.
Table of Contents:
PART I. THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION 1. C. Wright Mills, The Promise 2. Stephanie Coontz, How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families 3. Lisa J. McIntyre, Hernando Washington PART II. THE RESEARCH CRAFT 4. Simon Davis, Men as Success Objects and Women as Sex Objects: A Study of Personal Advertisements *5. A. Karp and William C. Yoels, Student Participation in the College Classroom 6. Lisa J. McIntyre, Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research 7. Philip Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably PART III. CULTURE 8. Clyde Kluckhohn, Queer Customs 9. Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema 10. Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, The Young, the Rich, and the Famous: Individualism as an American Cultural Value 11.Theodore Caplow, Rule Enforcement without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown 12. Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets *13. Michael A. Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Kerry Jensen, Separating the Men from the Girls: The Gendered Language of Televised Sports PART IV. SOCIAL STRUCTURE 14. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 15. Philip G. Zimbardo, Pathology of Imprisonment 16. Deborah Tannen, Marked: Women in the Workplace / Greta Foff Paule, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip *17. Greta Feoff Paules, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip 18. William E. Thompson, Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead: Morticians and Funeral Directors *19. Harvey Molotch, The Rest Room and Equal Opportunity PART V. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIALIZATION 20. Myra and David Sadker, Hidden Lessons 21. Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell, Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools 22. Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Bible Believers-The Nature and Admonition of the Lord: Raising Children 23. Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan, New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers 24. Gwynne Dyer, Anybody's Son Will Do 25. Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison *26. Patti A. Giuffre and Christine L. Williams, Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of Patients PART VI. DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL 27. Aemile Durkheim, The Normality of Crime 28. William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks 29. D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places 30. A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade, Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? 31. Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating 32. Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime PART VII. INEQUALITY 33. James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity 34. Melvin M. Tumin, Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis *35. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 36. Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto *37. Joe R. Feagin, Racism 38. Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head 39. Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash 40. Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School
