About the Book
This engaging collection of classic and contemporary readings is designed to complement introductory sociology texts by offering students a lively variety of examples of the practice of sociological inquiry.The editors bring together selections of seminal sociological thought, current North American formulations of the sociological imagination, as well as applications of sociology to contemporary topics and issues with a Canadian focus.The aim of the reader is to provide selections that are compelling, relatively accessible, and reflect the diversity of theoretical approaches and methodologies that constitute sociological inquiry. It provides rich supplementary resource material for the main topics usually taken up in introductory courses: the sociological perspective, culture, action and interaction, socialization, work and the economy, social inequality, gender relations, family, deviance and social control, and social change. In addition, the reader is an excellent resource for courses with fieldwork assignments.Conflict, Order & Action opens the door for both student and teacher to begin to explore their own interconnectedness in the web of social relations and meanings we call modern society.
Table of Contents:
I THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 1 V. Boggs and W. Kornblum, "Social Interaction in Times Square" 2 C. Wright Mills, "The Promise" 3 Max Weber, "Science and the Disenchantment of the World" 4 Emile Durkheim, "Author's Preface to the Second Edition of The Rules of Sociological Method" 5 Karl Marx, "Alienated Labour" 6 Germaine Greer, "Sex and Destiny" 7 B. Singh Bolaria, "Social Issues and Social Policy" II CULTURE 8 Horace Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" 9 Seymour Martin Lipset, "The Canadian Identity" 10 Rinaldo Walcott, "'Voyage through the Multiverse': Contested Canadian Identities" 11 Joshua Meyrowitz, "Television: The Shared Arena" III ACTION AND INTERACTION 12 Herbert Blumer, "The Nature of Symbolic Interactionism" 13 Saul Geiser, "Rituals of Interaction" 14 B. Glaser and A. Strauss, "The Ritual Drama of Mutual Pretence" 15 Jean Paul Sartre, "Anti-Semite and Jew" IV SOCIALIZATION 16 Stanley Milgram, "Behavioural Study of Obedience" 17 Stephen Richer, "Equality to Benefit from Schooling: The Issue of Educational Opportunity" 18 Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "The Professionalization of Medical Students: Developing Competence and a Cloak of Competence" V WORK AND THE ECONOMY 19 James Turk, "The Educational Implications of Our Technological Society" 20 Ester Reiter, "Life in a Fast-Food Factory" 21 Ann Duffy, Daniel Glenday, and Norene Pupo, "Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs" 22 David P. O'Brien et al., "This Is Your Captains Speaking" 23 Ed Finn, "The New Old World Order" VI SOCIAL INEQUALITY 24 National Council of Welfare, "Poverty in Canada" 25 Robert Heilbroner, "The Drive for Capital" 26 William C. Levin, "Ideology" VII GENDER 27 Deborah Tannen, "Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?" 28 Carol Gilligan, "Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle" 29 Simon Davis, "Men as Success Objects and Women as Sex Objects" 30 M. Rochlin, "The Language of Sex: The Heterosexual Questionnaire" VIII FAMILY 31 Leslie J. Miller, "Family Problems and Problem Families" 32 Lillian B. Rubin, "People Don't Know Right from Wrong Anymore" 33 Claude Levi-Strauss, "The Family" IX DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL 34 1999 Canada Year Book, "The Canadian Legal System" 35 D.L. Rosenhan, "On Being Sane in Insane Places" 36 William E. Thompson and Jackie L. Harred, "Topless Dancers: Managing Stigma in a Deviant Occupation" 37 Michel Foucault, "The Body of the Condemned" X SOCIAL CHANGE 38 Hubert Guindon, "Quebec and the Canadian Question" 39 Yasmeen Abu-Laban, "For Export: Multiculturalism in an Era of Globalization" 40 Benjamin R. Barber, "Jihad vs. McWorld" 41 Kenneth Gergen, "The Dissolution of the Self" APPENDIX: FIELD PROJECTS 1 Jacquline Aaron and Marcia Wiseman, "Observation" 2 Jacquline Aaron and Marcia Wiseman, "Participant Observation" 3 Jacquline Aaron and Marcia Wiseman, "The Depth Interview" 4 Jacquline Aaron and Marcia Wiseman, "Role Analysis" 5 Jacquline Aaron and Marcia Wiseman, "Content Analysis"
About the Author :
Edward Ksenych teaches at George Brown College in Toronto. Winner of two Teaching Excellence awards, Professor Ksenych is particularly gifted in pedagogy and curricula. He is co-editor (with David Liu) of Conflict, Order, and Action: Readings in Sociology, Third Edition (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2001). David Liu has degrees from Dickinson College and York University. His present research interests include cultural studies and mass media. He teaches sociology at Harrisburg Area Community College.
