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Readings for Sociology 5e

Contents

Selections in bold are new to the Fifth Edition

  • The Study of Sociology
  • PETER L. BERGER, The Craft of Sociology (from Invitation to Sociology)
  • C. WRIGHT MILLS, The Sociological Imagination
  • EMILE DURKHEIM, What Makes Sociology Different? (from Rules of the Sociological Method)
  • MICHAEL BURAWOY, Public Sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities
  • HERBERT C. KELMAN AND V. LEE HAMILTON, The My Lai Massacre: A Crime of Obedience? (from Crimes of Obedience)
  • JOEL BEST, Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics
  • ALLAN M. BRANDT, Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
  • The Individual, Culture, and Society
  • CLYDE KLUCKHOLM , Queer Customs (from Patterns of Culture)
  • E. RICHARD SORENSON, Growing Up As A Fore Is To Be "In Touch" and Free
  • MICHAEL MESSNER, Boyhood, Organized Sports and the Construction of Masculinities
  • ERVING GOFFMAN, On Face-Work (from Interaction Ritual)
  • ROBIN ROGERS-DILLON, The Dynamics of Welfare Stigma
  • ANTHONY WALTON, My Secret Life as a Black Man
  • MARY C. WATERS, Optional Ethnicities (For Whites Only?)
  • HEIDI ARDIZZONE AND EARL LEWIS, Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye
  • JAMES L. WATSON, Golden Arches East
  • ELIZABETH W. FERNEA AND ROBERT A. FERNEA, A Look Behind the Veil
  • ELIJAH ANDERSON, Code of the Streets
  • RICHARD RODRIGUES, Go North, Young Man
  • Structures of Power
  • GRETA FOFF PAULES, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip
  • D. STANLEY EITZEN, Upward Mobility Through Sport?
  • ROBERT B. REICH, What Happened to the American Social Compact?
  • KARL MARX AND FREDERICH ENGELS, Manifesto of the Communist Party
  • BARBARA EHRENREICH, Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
  • HERBERT J. GANS, Uses of the Underclass in America
  • WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON, When Work Disappears
  • MARY ROMERO, Maid in the USA
  • ROBERT GLENNON, Size Does Count, at Least for French Fries
  • JOE R. FEAGIN AND ROBERT PARKER, The Rise and Fall of Mass Rail Transit
  • CLIFFORD D. SHEARING AND PHILLIP C. STENNING, From the Panopticon to Disney World
  • WILLIAM J. CHAMBLISS, The Saints and the Roughnecks
  • LESLIE MARMON SILKO, The Border Patrol State
  • JENNIFER HUNT, Police Accounts of Normal Force
  • JOHN ISBISTER, The Foundations of Third World Poverty
  • Social Institutions
  • MAX WEBER, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
  • GIRI RAJ GUPTA, Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure
  • KIM A. MCDONALD, Shared Paternity
  • NANCY STACK, Domestic Networks
  • ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD, The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life
  • WILLIAM E. THOMPSON, Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line
  • GEORGE RITZER, The McDonald’s System (from The McDonaldization of Society)
  • WILLIAM M. ADLER, Job on the Line
  • ROBERT N. BELLAH, RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON, Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Religion in American Life)
  • RUSSELL SHORTO, Faith at Work
  • JOHN A. HOSTETLER, Amish Society
  • Social Change in the Modern World
  • BENJAMIN R. BARBER, Jihad vs. MacWorld
  • RONALD INGLEHART AND WAYNE E. BAKER, Modernization’s Challenge to Traditional Values: Who’s Afraid of Ronald McDonald?
  • MARY PARDO, Grassroots Activism: Mothers of East Los Angeles
  • PAUL WAPNER, Greenpeace and Political Globalism
  • BETTY FRIEDAN, Aging as a Time of New Opportunities
  • BILL McKIBBEN, An Alternative to Globalization