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"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 readings focus around the essential message that there is much that goes on in the social world that escapes the sociologically untrained eye.

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. Gart Wyatt, Skipping Class: An Analysis of Absenteeism Among First-Year College Students 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. Cheryl Laz, Act Your Age 11. Laurie Scheuble and David R. Johnson, Marital Name Change: Plans and Attitudes of College Students 12. Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets 13. William T. Bielby, Rock in a Hard Place: Grassroots Cultural Production in the Post-Elvis Era PART IV. SOCIAL STRUCTURE 14. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 15. Adrian F. Aventi, The Not-So-Lonely Crowd: Friendship Groups in Collective Behavior 16. Philip G. Zimbardo, Pathology of Imprisonment 17. Greta Feoff Paules, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip 18. Natalie Adams and Pamela Bettis, Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood 19. Harvey Molotch, The Rest Room and Equal Opportunity PART V. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIALIZATION 20. Steven Brint, Mary F. Cntrereas, and Michael T. Matthews, Socialization Messages in Primary School: An Organizational Analysis 21. Blake E. Ashford and Glen E. Kreiner, "How Can You Do It?" Dirty Work and the Challenge of Constructing a Positive Identity 22. Gwynne Dyer, Anybody's Son Will Do 23. Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison 24. Lynn Zimmer, How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role 25. Patti A. Giuffre and Christine L. Williams, Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of Patients PART VI. DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL 26. Emile Durkheim, The Normality of Crime 27. William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks 28. D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places 29. A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade, Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? 30. Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating 31. Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime PART VII. INEQUALITY 32. James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity 33. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 34. Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto 35. Joe R. Feagn, Racism 36. Roxanna Harlow, "Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College Classroom 37. Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head 38. Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash 39. Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School 40. Randall Collins, The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780073380032
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw Hill Higher Education
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 589 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0073380032
  • Publisher Date: 26 Sep 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Readings in Sociology
  • Width: 185 mm


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