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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:
* indicates reading new to this edition. Part I. The Social Imagination 1. C. Wright Mills, The Promise2. Stephanie Coontz, How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families3. 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. Charles A. Gallagher, Miscounting Race: Explaining Whites' Misperceptions of Racial Group Size6. Lisa J. McIntyre, Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research7. Philip Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably Part III. Culture8. Clyde Kluckhohn, Queer Customs9. Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema10. Cheryl Laz, Act Your Age*11. Beth A. Quinn, The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"12. Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets *13. Elissa R. Henken, Danger in Contemporary Legends Part IV. Social Structure 14. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life15. Adrian F. Aventi, The Not-So-Lonely Crowd: Friendship Groups in Collective Behavior16. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment17. Greta Feoff Paules, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip18. Natalie Adams and Pamela Bettis, Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood19. Harvey Molotch, The Rest Room and Equal Opportunity Part V. Social Institutions and Socialization *20. Edward W. Morris, "Tuck in That Shirt!" Race, Class, Gender, and Discipline in an Urban School*21. Spencer E. Cahill, Emotional Capital and Professional Socialization: The Case of Mortuary Science Students (and Me)22. Gwynne Dyer, Anybody's Son Will Do23. Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison24. Lynn Zimmer, How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role25. 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 Crime27. William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks28. D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places*29. Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton and Brian Sweeney, Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape 30. Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating31. Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime Part VII. Inequality32. James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity33. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America34. Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto35. Joe R. Feagn, Racism36. Roxanna Harlow, "Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College Classroom37. Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head38. Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash39. Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School40. Randall Collins, The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders

About the Author :
Lisa J. McIntyre is associate professor in sociology at Washington State University. She received the PhD in sociology from The University of Chicago. She is the author of three books including The Public Defender: The Practice of Law in the Shadows of Repute; Law in the Sociological Enterprise and The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology and the editor of The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology. With Marvin Sussman, McIntyre edited Families and Law. An enthusiastic teacher and popular lecturer, McIntyre is a winner of Washington State Universitys William F. Mullen Teaching Medal and numerous departmental teaching awards. Her central research focus is on how law and social behavior interact.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780073404431
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Professional
  • Height: 231 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 617 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0073404438
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jul 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 191 mm


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