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A down-to-earth approach to sociology
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1 The Sociological Perspective 1(33)
The Sociological Perspective
3(2)
Seeing The Broader Social Context
3(1)
The Global Context-and The Local
4(1)
Sociology And The Other Sciences
5(3)
The Natural Sciences
5(1)
The Social Sciences
5(2)
Anthropology
6(1)
Economics
6(1)
Political Science
6(1)
Psychology
6(1)
Sociology
6(1)
The Goals Of Science
7(1)
The Risks Of Being A Sociologist
8(1)
Origins Of Sociology
8(5)
Tradition Versus Science
8(1)
Auguste Comte And Positivism
9(1)
Herbert Spencer And Social Darwinism
9(1)
Karl Marx And Class Conflict
10(1)
Emile Durkheim And Social Integration
11(2)
Applying Durkheim
12(1)
Max Weber And The Protestant Ethic
13(1)
Religion And The Origin Of Capitalism
13(1)
Values In Sociological Research
13(10)
Verstehen And Social Facts
14(2)
Weber And Verstehen
14(1)
Durkheim And Social Facts
15(1)
How Social Facts And Verstehen Fit Together
15(1)
Sociology In North America
16(7)
Sexism At The Time: Women In Early Sociology
16(2)
Racism At The Time: W.E.B. Du Bois
18(2)
Jane Addams: Sociologist And Social Reformer
20(4)
Talcott Parsons And C. Wright Mills: Theory Versus Reform
20(1)
The Continuing Tension: Basic, Applied, And Public Sociology
21(1)
Basic Sociology
21(1)
Applied Sociology
21(1)
Public Sociology
21(1)
Social Reform Is Risky
22(1)
Theoretical Perspectives In Sociology
23(7)
Symbolic Interactionism
24(2)
Symbols In Everyday Life
24(1)
Applying Symbolic Interactionism
24(2)
Functional Analysis
26(2)
Robert Merton And Functionalism
26(1)
Applying Functional Analysis
26(2)
Conflict Theory
28(1)
Karl Marx And Conflict Theory
28(1)
Conflict Theory Today
28(1)
Feminists And Conflict Theory
28(1)
Applying Conflict Theory
29(1)
Putting The Theoretical Perspectives Together
29(1)
Levels Of Analysis: Macro And Micro
29(1)
Trends Shaping The Future Of Sociology
30(1)
Sociology's Tension: Research Versus Reform
30(1)
Three Stages In Sociology
30(1)
Diversity Of Orientations
30(1)
Globalization
31(5)
Application Of Globalization To This Text
31(1)
Summary And Review
31(2)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 1
33(1)
2 Culture 34(29)
What Is Culture?
36(6)
Culture And Taken-For-Granted Orientations To Life
36(2)
Practicing Cultural Relativism
38(4)
Attack On Cultural Relativism
42(1)
Components Of Symbolic Culture
42(7)
Gestures
42(1)
Misunderstanding And Offense
42(1)
Universal Gestures?
43(1)
Language
43(3)
Language Allows Human Experience To Be Cumulative
44(1)
Language Provides A Social Or Shared Past
44(1)
Language Provides A Social Or Shared Future
44(1)
Language Allows Shared Perspectives
44(1)
Language Allows Shared, Goal-Directed Behavior
45(1)
Language And Perception: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
46(1)
Values, Norms, And Sanctions
46(2)
Folkways, Mores, And Taboos
48(1)
Many Cultural Worlds
49(3)
Subcultures
49(3)
Countercultures
52(1)
Values In U.S. Society
52(4)
An Overview Of U.S. Values
52(1)
Value Clusters
53(1)
Value Contradictions
53(1)
An Emerging Value Cluster
54(1)
When Values Clash
55(1)
Values As Distorting Lenses
55(1)
"Ideal" Versus "Real" Culture
55(1)
Cultural Universals
56(1)
Sociobiology And Human Behavior
57(1)
Technology In The Global Village
58(3)
The New Technology
58(1)
Cultural Lag And Cultural Change
58(2)
Technology And Cultural Leveling
60(1)
Summary And Review
61(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 2
62(1)
3 Socialization 63(33)
Society Makes Us Human
65(5)
Feral Children
65(1)
Isolated Children
66(1)
Institutionalized Children
67(2)
The Orphanage Experiment In The United States
67(1)
The Orphanage Experiment In Romania
68(1)
Timing And Human Development
68(1)
Deprived Animals
69(1)
Socialization Into The Self And Mind
70(3)
Cooley And The Looking-Glass Self
70(1)
Mead And Role Taking
70(2)
Piaget And The Development Of Reasoning
72(1)
Global Aspects Of The Self And Reasoning
73(1)
Learning Personality, Morality, And Emotions
73(4)
Freud And The Development Of Personality
73(1)
Sociological Evaluation
74(1)
Kohlberg And The Development Of Morality
74(1)
Kohlberg's Theory
74(1)
Criticisms Of Kohlberg
75(1)
Research With Babies
75(1)
The Cultural Relativity Of Morality
75(1)
Socialization Into Emotions
75(2)
Global Emotions
75(1)
Expressing Emotions: "Gender Rules"
75(1)
The Extent Of "Feeling Rules"
76(1)
What We Feel
76(1)
Research Needed
76(1)
Society Within Us: The Self And Emotions As Social Control
77(1)
Socialization Into Gender
77(6)
Learning The Gender Map
77(1)
Gender Messages In The Family
77(3)
Parents
77(1)
Toys And Play
78(2)
Same-Sex Parents
80(1)
Gender Messages From Peers
80(1)
Gender Messages In The Mass Media
80(3)
Television, Movies, And Cartoons
81(1)
Video Games
81(1)
Advertising
81(2)
Agents Of Socialization
83(5)
The Family
83(1)
Social Class And Type Of Work
83(1)
Social Class And Play
83(1)
The Neighborhood
84(1)
Religion
84(1)
Day Care
84(1)
The School
85(1)
Peer Groups
85(3)
The Workplace
88(1)
Resocialization
88(2)
Total Institutions
88(2)
Socialization Through The Life Course
90(3)
Childhood (From Birth To About Age 12)
90(1)
Adolescence (Ages 13-17)
91(1)
Transitional Adulthood (Ages 18-29)
91(1)
"Bring Your Parents To Work Day"
92(1)
The Middle Years (Ages 30-65)
92(1)
The Early Middle Years (Ages 30-49)
92(1)
The Later Middle Years (Ages 50-65)
92(1)
The Older Years (About Age 65 On)
92(1)
The Transitional Older Years (Ages 65-74)
92(1)
The Later Older Years (Age 75 Or So On)
93(1)
Applying The Sociological Perspective To The Life Course
93(1)
Are We Prisoners Of Socialization?
93(1)
Summary And Review
94(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 3
95(1)
4 Social Structure And Social Interaction 96(31)
Levels Of Sociological Analysis
98(1)
Macrosociology And Microsociology
98(1)
The Macrosociological Perspective: Social Structure
99(10)
The Sociological Significance Of Social Structure
99(2)
Culture
101(1)
Social Class
101(1)
Social Status
101(2)
Status Sets
101(1)
Ascribed And Achieved Statuses
101(1)
Status Symbols
102(1)
Master Statuses
102(1)
Status Inconsistency
102(1)
Roles
103(1)
Groups
103(1)
Social Institutions
104(1)
Comparing Functionalist And Conflict Perspectives
105(1)
The Functionalist Perspective
105(1)
The Conflict Perspective
106(1)
Changes In Social Structure
106(1)
What Holds Society Together?
106(3)
Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
106(1)
Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft
107(1)
How Relevant Are These Concepts Today?
107(2)
The Microsociological Perspective: Social Interaction In Everyday Life
109(13)
Symbolic Interaction
109(5)
Stereotypes In Everyday Life
109(4)
Personal Space
113(1)
Eye Contact
114(1)
Smiling
114(1)
Body Language
114(1)
Applied Body Language
114(1)
Dramaturgy: The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life
114(5)
Stages
115(1)
Role Performance, Conflict, And Strain
115(1)
Sign-Vehicles
115(1)
Teamwork
116(2)
Becoming The Roles We Play
118(1)
Applying Impression Management
118(1)
Ethnomethodology: Uncovering Background Assumptions
119(1)
The Social Construction Of Reality
120(9)
Gynecological Examinations
120(2)
The Need For Both Macrosociology And Microsociology
122(3)
Summary And Review
125(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 4
126(1)
5 How Sociologists Do Research 127(21)
What Is A Valid Sociological Topic?
129(1)
Common Sense And The Need For Sociological Research
129(1)
A Research Model
129(2)
1 Selecting A Topic
130(1)
2 Defining The Problem
130(1)
3 Reviewing The Literature
130(1)
4 Formulating A Hypothesis
130(1)
5 Choosing A Research Method
130(1)
6 Collecting The Data
130(1)
7 Analyzing The Results
131(1)
8 Sharing The Results
131(1)
Research Methods (Designs)
131(12)
Surveys
133(3)
Selecting A Sample
133(1)
Asking Neutral Questions
134(1)
Questionnaires And Interviews
134(2)
Establishing Rapport
136(1)
Participant Observation (Fieldwork)
136(1)
Case Studies
137(1)
Secondary Analysis
137(1)
Analysis Of Documents
137(2)
Experiments
139(2)
Unobtrusive Measures
141(1)
Deciding Which Method To Use
141(1)
Controversy In Sociological Research
141(2)
Gender In Sociological Research
143(1)
Ethics In Sociological Research
143(2)
Protecting The Subjects: The Brajuha Research
144(1)
Misleading The Subjects: The Humphreys Research
144(1)
How Research And Theory Work Together
145(2)
The Real World: When The Ideal Meets The Real
145(2)
Summary And Review
147(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 5
147(1)
6 Societies To Social Networks 148(26)
Societies And Their Transformation
150(6)
Hunting And Gathering Societies
150(2)
Pastoral And Horticultural Societies
152(1)
Agricultural Societies
152(1)
Industrial Societies
153(1)
Postindustrial (Information) Societies
154(1)
Biotech Societies: Is A New Type Of Society Emerging?
154(2)
Groups Within Society
156(18)
Primary Groups
158(1)
Producing A Mirror Within
158(1)
Secondary Groups
158(1)
In-Groups And Out-Groups
158(1)
Shaping Perception And Morality
159(1)
Reference Groups
159(1)
Evaluating Ourselves
160(1)
Exposure To Contradictory Standards In A Socially Diverse Society
160(1)
Social Networks
160(2)
Applied Network Analysis
161(1)
The Small World Phenomenon
161(1)
Is The Small World Phenomenon An Academic Myth?
162(1)
Building Unintentional Barriers
162(1)
Group Dynamics
162(1)
Effects Of Group Size On Stability And Intimacy
163(1)
Effects Of Group Size On Attitudes And Behavior
164(3)
Laboratory Findings And The Real World
165(2)
Leadership
167(2)
Who Becomes A Leader?
167(1)
Types Of Leaders
167(1)
Leadership Styles
168(1)
Leadership Styles In Changing Situations
168(1)
The Power Of Peer Pressure: The Asch Experiment
169(1)
The Power Of Authority: The Milgram Experiment
170(1)
Global Consequences Of Group Dynamics: Groupthink
171(1)
Preventing Groupthink
172(1)
Summary And Review
172(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 6
173(1)
7 Bureaucracy And Formal Organizations 174(22)
The Rationalization Of Society
176(3)
Why Did Society Make A Deep Shift In Human Relationships?
176(2)
Life In Traditional Societies
176(1)
The Shift To Rationality As Societies Industrialized
176(2)
Marx: Capitalism Broke Tradition
178(1)
Weber: Religion Broke Tradition
178(1)
The Two Views Today
178(1)
Formal Organizations And Bureaucracies
179(8)
Formal Organizations
179(1)
The Characteristics Of Bureaucracies
179(2)
"Ideal" Versus "Real" Bureaucracy
181(2)
Goal Displacement And The Perpetuation Of Bureaucracies
183(1)
Dysfunctions Of Bureaucracies
184(1)
Red Tape: A Rule Is A Rule
184(1)
Lack Of Communication Between Units
184(1)
Bureaucratic Incompetence
184(1)
Alienation Of Workers
185(2)
Causes Of Alienation
185(1)
The Alienated Bureaucrat
186(1)
Resisting Alienation
186(1)
Voluntary Associations
187(2)
Functions Of Voluntary Associations
187(1)
Motivations For Joining
188(1)
The Inner Circle And The "Iron Law" Of Oligarchy
188(1)
The Inner Circle
188(1)
The Iron Law Of Oligarchy
188(1)
Working For The Corporation
189(4)
Humanizing The Work Setting
189(1)
Worker Empowerment
189(1)
Corporate Child Care
190(1)
The Conflict Perspective
190(1)
Workers' Attempts To Humanize Work
190(1)
Fads In Corporate Culture
190(2)
Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes In The "Hidden" Corporate Culture
192(1)
Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes And Promotions
192(1)
Diversity In The Workplace
192(1)
Technology And The Maximum-Security Society
193(2)
Summary And Review
195(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 7
195(1)
8 Deviance And Social Control 196(32)
What Is Deviance?
198(3)
The Relativity Of Deviance
198(1)
A Neutral Term
198(1)
Stigma
199(1)
How Norms Make Social Life Possible
199(1)
Sanctions
200(1)
Competing Explanations Of Deviance: Sociobiology Psychology, And Sociology
200(1)
Biosocial Explanations
201(1)
Psychological Explanations
201(1)
Sociological Explanations
201(1)
The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
201(7)
Differential Association Theory
202(1)
The Theory
202(1)
Families
202(1)
Friends, Neighborhoods, And Subcultures
202(1)
Differential Association In The Cyber Age
203(1)
Prison Or Freedom?
203(1)
Control Theory
203(1)
The Theory
203(1)
Applying Control Theory
204(1)
Labeling Theory
204(4)
Rejecting Labels: How People Neutralize Deviance
204(2)
Applying Neutralization
206(1)
Embracing Labels: The Example Of Outlaw Bikers
206(1)
Labels Can Be Powerful
207(1)
How Do Labels Work?
208(1)
The Functionalist Perspective
208(6)
Can Deviance Really Be Functional For Society?
208(1)
Strain Theory: How Mainstream Values Produce Deviance
209(2)
Four Deviant Paths
210(1)
Illegitimate Opportunity Structures: Social Class And Crime
211(3)
Street Crime
211(1)
White-Collar Crime
211(2)
Gender And Crime
213(1)
The Conflict Perspective
214(2)
Class, Crime, And The Criminal Justice System
214(1)
The Criminal Justice System As An Instrument Of Oppression
214(2)
Reactions To Deviance
216(10)
Street Crime And Prisons
216(2)
The Decline In Violent Crime
218(1)
Recidivism
219(1)
The Death Penalty And Bias
220(3)
Geography
220(1)
Social Class
220(1)
Gender
220(2)
Race-Ethnicity
222(1)
The Trouble With Official Statistics
223(1)
The Medicalization Of Deviance: Mental Illness
224(2)
Neither Mental Nor Illness?
224(1)
The Homeless Mentally Ill
225(1)
The Need For A More Humane Approach
226(1)
Summary And Review
226(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 8
227(1)
9 Global Stratification 228(33)
Systems Of Social Stratification
230(8)
Slavery
231(2)
Causes Of Slavery
231(1)
Conditions Of Slavery
231(1)
Bonded Labor In The New World
232(1)
Slavery In The New World
232(1)
Slavery Today
232(1)
Caste
233(3)
India's Religious Castes
233(1)
South Africa
234(1)
A U.S. Racial Caste System
235(1)
Estate
236(1)
Women In The Estate System
236(1)
Class
236(1)
Global Stratification And The Status Of Females
237(1)
The Global Superclass
237(1)
What Determines Social Class?
238(2)
Karl Marx: The Means Of Production
238(1)
Max Weber: Property Power, And Prestige
239(1)
Why Is Social Stratification Universal?
240(3)
The Functionalist View: Motivating Qualified People
240(1)
Davis And Moore's Explanation
240(1)
Tumin's Critique Of Davis And Moore
240(1)
The Conflict Perspective: Class Conflict And Scarce Resources
241(1)
Mosca's Argument
241(1)
Marx's Argument
242(1)
Current Applications Of Conflict Theory
242(1)
Lenski's Synthesis
242(1)
How Do Elites Maintain Stratification?
243(2)
Soft Control Versus Force
243(2)
Controlling People's Ideas
243(1)
Controlling Information
244(1)
Stifling Criticism
244(1)
Big Brother Technology
244(1)
Comparative Social Stratification
245(1)
Social Stratification In Great Britain
245(1)
Social Stratification In The Former Soviet Union
245(1)
Global Stratification: Three Worlds
246(8)
The Problem With Terms
247(1)
The Most Industrialized Nations
247(3)
The Industrializing Nations
250(1)
The Least Industrialized Nations
251(1)
Modifying The Model
251(3)
How Did The World's Nations Become Stratified?
254(3)
Colonialism
254(1)
World System Theory
254(2)
Culture Of Poverty
256(1)
Evaluating The Theories
256(1)
Maintaining Global Stratification
257(2)
Neocolonialism
257(1)
Relevance Today
257(1)
Multinational Corporations
257(1)
Buying Political Stability
258(1)
Unanticipated Consequences
258(1)
Technology And Global Domination
258(1)
Strains In The Global System
259(1)
Summary And Review
259(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 9
260(1)
10 Social Class In The United States 261(33)
What Is Social Class?
263(7)
Property
263(3)
Distinguishing Between Wealth And Income
263(1)
Distribution Of Property
264(1)
Distribution Of Income
264(2)
Power
266(2)
The Democratic Facade
266(1)
The Power Elite
266(2)
Prestige
268(1)
Occupations And Prestige
268(1)
Displaying Prestige
268(1)
Status Inconsistency
269(1)
Sociological Models Of Social Class
270(5)
Updating Marx
270(2)
Updating Weber
272(3)
The Capitalist Class
273(1)
The Upper-Middle Class
273(1)
The Lower-Middle Class
274(1)
The Working Class
274(1)
The Working Poor
274(1)
The Underclass
275(1)
Consequences Of Social Class
275(4)
Physical Health
276(1)
Mental Health
276(1)
Family Life
276(1)
Choice Of Husband Or Wife
277(1)
Divorce
277(1)
Child Rearing
277(1)
Education
277(1)
Religion
277(1)
Politics
278(1)
Crime And Criminal Justice
278(1)
Social Mobility
279(4)
Three Types Of Social Mobility
279(1)
Women In Studies Of Social Mobility
280(1)
The Pain Of Social Mobility
280(3)
Poverty
283(8)
Drawing The Poverty Line
283(1)
Who Are The Nor?
284(3)
The Geography Of Poverty
284(2)
Race-Ethnicity
286(1)
Education
286(1)
The Feminization Of Poverty
286(1)
Old Age
287(1)
Children Of Poverty
287(1)
The Dynamics Of Poverty Versus The Culture Of Poverty
287(2)
Why Are People Poor? '
289(1)
Deferred Gratification
289(1)
Where Is Horatio Alger? The Social Functions Of A Myth
290(1)
Peering Into The Future: Will We Live In A Three-Tier Society?
291(1)
Summary And Review
292(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 10
293(1)
11 Sex And Gender 294(32)
Issues Of Sex And Gender
296(4)
The Sociological Significance Of Gender
296(1)
Gender Differences In Behavior: Biology Or Culture?
296(2)
The Dominant Position In Sociology
298(1)
Opening The Door To Biology
298(2)
A Medical Accident
298(1)
The Vietnam Veterans Study
299(1)
More Research On Humans
299(1)
Gender Inequality In Global Perspective
300(4)
How Did Females Become A Minority Group?
301(2)
Human Reproduction
301(2)
Hand-To-Hand Combat
303(1)
Which One?
303(1)
Continuing Dominance
303(1)
Sex Typing Of Work
303(1)
Gender And The Prestige Of Work
304(7)
Other Areas Of Global Discrimination
304(4)
The Global Gap In Education
304(1)
The Global Gap In Politics
304(3)
The Global Gap In Pay
307(1)
Global Violence Against Women
307(1)
Gender Inequality In The United States
308(1)
Fighting Back: The Rise Of Feminism
308(3)
Gender Inequality In Everyday Life
311(5)
Devaluation Of Things Feminine
311(1)
Gender Inequality In Health Care
311(2)
Gender Inequality In Education
313(3)
The Past
313(1)
A Fundamental Change
313(1)
Gender Tracking
314(1)
Graduate School And Beyond
314(2)
Gender Inequality In The Workplace
316(5)
The Pay Gap
316(4)
Historical Background
316(1)
Geographical Factors
317(1)
The "Testosterone Bonus"
317(2)
Reasons For The Gender Pay Gap
319(1)
The Ceo Power Gap
320(1)
Is The Glass Ceiling Cracking?
320(1)
The Women Who Break Through
320(1)
And The Future?
320(1)
Sexual Harassment-and Worse
321(1)
Labels And Perception
321(1)
Not Just A "Man Thing"
321(1)
Sexual Orientation
321(1)
Gender And Violence
321(2)
Violence Against Women
321(7)
Forcible Rape
321(1)
Date (Acquaintance) Rape
322(1)
Murder
323(1)
Violence In The Home
323(1)
Feminism And Gendered Violence
323(1)
Solutions
323(1)
The Changing Face Of Politics
323(1)
Glimpsing The Future-with Hope
324(1)
Summary And Review
324(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 11
325(1)
12 Race And Ethnicity 326(39)
Laying The Sociological Foundation
328(5)
Race: Myth And Reality
328(3)
The Reality Of Human Variety
328(1)
The Myth Of Pure Races
328(1)
The Myth Of A Fixed Number Of Races
328(1)
The Myth Of Racial Superiority
328(3)
The Myth Continues
331(1)
Ethnic Groups
331(1)
Minority Groups And Dominant Groups
332(1)
Not Size, But Dominance And Discrimination
332(1)
Emergence Of Minority Groups
332(1)
Ethnic Work: Constructing Our Racial-Ethnic Identity
332(1)
Prejudice And Discrimination
333(6)
Learning Prejudice
333(5)
Distinguishing Between Prejudice And Discrimination
333(2)
Learning Prejudice From Associating With Others
335(1)
The Far-Reaching Nature Of Prejudice
336(1)
Internalizing Dominant Norms
336(2)
Individual And Institutional Discrimination
338(1)
Home Mortgages
338(1)
Health Care
338(1)
Theories Of Prejudice
339(4)
Psychological Perspectives
339(1)
Frustration And Scapegoats
339(1)
The Authoritarian Personality
340(1)
Sociological Perspectives
340(3)
Functionalism
340(1)
Conflict Theory
341(1)
Symbolic Interactionism
342(1)
How Labels Create Prejudice
342(1)
Labels And Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes
342(1)
Global Patterns Of Intergroup Relations
343(3)
Genocide
343(1)
Population Transfer
344(1)
Internal Colonialism
345(1)
Segregation
345(1)
Assimilation
345(1)
Multiculturalism (Pluralism)
346(1)
Racial-Ethnic Relations In The United States
346(13)
European Americans
346(2)
Latinos (Hispanics)
348(4)
Umbrella Term
348(1)
Countries Of Origin
348(1)
Unauthorized Immigrants
349(2)
Residence
351(1)
Spanish
351(1)
Economic Well-Being
351(1)
Politics
351(1)
African Americans
352(3)
Rising Expectations And Civil Strife
353(1)
Continued Gains
354(1)
Current Losses
354(1)
Race Or Social Class? A Sociological Debate
354(1)
Racism As An Everyday Burden
355(1)
Asian Americans
355(2)
A Background Of Discrimination
356(1)
Diversity
356(1)
Reasons For Financial Success
356(1)
Politics
357(1)
Native Americans
357(2)
Diversity Of Groups
357(1)
From Treaties To Genocide And Population Transfer
358(1)
The Invisible Minority And Self-Determination
358(1)
The Casinos
359(1)
Determining Identity And Goals
359(1)
Looking Toward The Future
359(4)
The Immigration Controversy
360(1)
The Affirmative Action Controversy
360(2)
Less Racism
362(1)
Toward A True Multicultural Society
362(1)
Summary And Review
363(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 12
364(1)
13 The Elderly 365(29)
Aging In Global Perspective
367(5)
The Social Construction Of Aging
367(1)
Industrialization And The Graying Of The Globe
368(1)
The Graying Of America
369(3)
Race-Ethnicity And Aging
370(1)
The Life Span
371(1)
The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
372(4)
When Are You "Old"?
372(1)
Changing Perceptions As You Age
372(1)
Four Factors In Our Decision
372(1)
Changing Perceptions Of The Elderly
373(2)
Shifting Meanings
373(2)
The Influence Of The Mass Media
375(1)
The Functionalist Perspective
376(2)
Disengagement Theory
376(1)
Evaluation Of The Theory
376(1)
Activity Theory
377(1)
Evaluation Of The Theory
377(1)
Continuity Theory
377(1)
Evaluation Of The Theory
377(1)
The Conflict Perspective
378(5)
Fighting For Resources: Social. Security Legislation
378(2)
Intergenerational Competition And Conflict
380(2)
Fighting Back
382(1)
The Gray Panthers
382(1)
The American Association Of Retired Persons
383(1)
Recurring Problems
383(4)
Gender And Living Arrangements Of The Elderly
383(1)
Nursing Homes
383(3)
Understaffing, Dehumanization, And Death
384(2)
Elder Abuse
386(1)
The Elderly Poor
386(1)
Race-Ethnicity And Poverty
386(1)
Gender And Poverty
386(1)
The Sociology Of Death And Dying
387(3)
Industrialization And The New Technology
387(1)
Death As A Process
387(1)
Hospices
388(1)
Suicide And Age
389(1)
Adjusting To Death: The Importance Of "Closure"
389(1)
Looking Toward The Future
390(2)
New Views Of Aging
390(1)
Creative Aging
390(1)
The Impact Of Technology
391(1)
Summary And Review
392(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 13
393(1)
14 The Economy 394(33)
The Transformation Of Economic Systems
396(2)
Preindustrial Societies: The Birth Of Inequality
396(1)
Industrial Societies: The Birth Of The Machine
396(1)
Postindustrial Societies: The Birth Of The Information Age
397(1)
Biotech Societies: The Merger Of Biology And Economics
397(1)
Implications For Your Life
397(1)
The Transformation Of The Medium Of Exchange
398(3)
Earliest Mediums Of Exchange
399(1)
Medium Of Exchange In Agricultural Societies
399(1)
Medium Of Exchange In Industrial Societies
399(2)
Medium Of Exchange In Postindustrial Societies
401(1)
World Economic Systems
401(6)
Capitalism
401(2)
What Capitalism Is
401(1)
What State Capitalism Is
401(1)
The Development Of State Capitalism
402(1)
Socialism
403(1)
What Socialism Is
403(1)
Socialism In Practice
403(1)
Democratic Socialism
404(1)
Ideologies Of Capitalism And Socialism
404(1)
Criticisms Of Capitalism And Socialism
404(1)
The Convergence Of Capitalism And Socialism
405(2)
Changes In Socialist Countries
405(1)
Changes In Capitalism
406(1)
Possible Transmergence
407(1)
The Functionalist Perspective On The Globalization Of Capitalism
407(3)
The New Global Division Of Labor
407(1)
Capitalism In A Global Economy
408(2)
Corporate Capitalism
408(1)
Separation Of Ownership And Management
408(2)
Functions And Dysfunctions On A Global Scale
410(1)
The Conflict Perspective On The Globalization Of Capitalism
410(7)
Making Capitalism Flourish: Profits And Self-Interests
410(3)
Corporate-Political Connections
410(3)
Corporate Power And Conspiracies
413(1)
Multiplying Power: Interlocking Directorships
413(1)
The Global Superclass
413(1)
Shifting Dominance And Power
414(1)
Global Investing
414(3)
Work In U.S. Society
417(6)
The Transition To Postindustrial Society
417(1)
Women And Work
417(2)
The Quiet Revolution
417(1)
Female-Male Work Styles
418(1)
The Underground Economy
419(2)
Stagnant Paychecks
421(1)
Patterns Of Work And Leisure
421(2)
Work And Leisure And The Transformation Of Economies
422(1)
Trends In Leisure
422(1)
Telecommuting
422(1)
The Mobile Shift
423(1)
Global Capitalism And Our Future
423(2)
The New Economic System And The Old Divisions Of Wealth
424(1)
Summary And Review
425(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 14
426(1)
15 Politics 427(32)
Micropolitics And Macropolitics
429(1)
Power, Authority, And Violence
429(4)
Authority And Legitimate Violence
430(1)
The Collapse Of Authority
430(1)
Traditional Authority
431(1)
Rational-legal Authority
431(1)
Charismatic Authority
432(1)
The Threat Posed By Charismatic Leaders
432(1)
Authority As Ideal Type
432(1)
The Transfer Of Authority
433(1)
Types Of Government
433(3)
Monarchies: The Rise Of The State
433(1)
Democracies: Citizenship As A Revolutionary Idea
434(2)
Dictatorships And Oligarchies: The Seizure Of Power
436(1)
The U.S. Political System
436(7)
Political Parties And Elections
436(2)
Slices From The Center
437(1)
Third Parties
437(1)
Contrast With Democratic Systems In Europe
438(1)
Voting Patterns
438(3)
Social Integration
441(1)
Alienation
441(1)
Apathy
441(1)
The Gender And Racial-Ethnic Gaps In Voting
441(1)
Lobbyists And Special-Interest Groups
441(2)
Lobbying By Special-Interest Groups
442(1)
The Money
442(1)
Who Rules The United States?
443(3)
The Functionalist Perspective: Pluralism
443(1)
The Conflict Perspective: The Power Elite
444(1)
Which View Is Right?
444(2)
War And Terrorism: Implementing Political Objectives
446(10)
Is War Universal?
446(1)
How Common. Is War?
446(1)
Why Countries Go To War
447(1)
The War Machine And The Profits Of War
447(1)
Costs Of War
447(2)
A Special Cost Of War: Dehumanization
449(2)
Success And Failure Of Dehumanization
449(2)
Terrorism
451(3)
Targeted Killings
454(1)
Sowing The Seeds Of Future Violence
455(1)
Selling War Technology
455(1)
Alignments And Disalignments
455(1)
A New World Order?
456(1)
Trends Toward Unity
456(1)
Inevitable Changes
456(1)
Summary And Review
457(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 15
458(1)
16 Marriage And Family 459(34)
Marriage And Family In Global Perspective
461(2)
What Is A Family?
461(1)
What Is Marriage?
462(1)
Common Cultural Themes
462(1)
Mate Selection
462(1)
Descent
462(1)
Inheritance
463(1)
Authority
463(1)
Marriage And Family In Theoretical Perspective
463(4)
The Functionalist Perspective: Functions And Dysfunctions
464(1)
Why The Family Is Universal
465(1)
Functions Of The Incest Taboo
465(1)
Isolation And Emotional Overload
465(1)
The Conflict Perspective: Struggles Between Husbands And Wives
465(1)
The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Gender, Housework, And Child Care
466(1)
Changes In Traditional Gender Orientations
466(1)
Paid Work And Housework
466(1)
More Child Care
467(1)
Total Hours
467(1)
A Gender Division Of Labor
467(1)
The Family Life Cycle
467(9)
Love And Courtship In Global Perspective
467(2)
Marriage
469(1)
The Social Channels Of Love And Marriage
469(1)
Childbirth
470(2)
Ideal Family Size
470(1)
Marital Satisfaction
471(1)
Child Rearing
472(3)
Married Couples And Single Mothers
472(1)
Single Fathers
473(1)
Day Care
474(1)
Nannies
474(1)
Uber As A Parent Substitute
474(1)
Social Class
474(1)
Family Transitions
475(1)
Transitional Adulthood And The Not-So-Empty Nest
475(1)
Widowhood
475(1)
Diversity In U.S. Families
476(5)
African American Families
476(1)
Latino Families
477(1)
Asian American Families
478(1)
Native American Families
478(1)
One-Parent Families
479(1)
Couples Without Children
479(1)
Blended Families
479(1)
Gay And Lesbian Families
480(1)
Adoption By Gay And Lesbian Couples
480(1)
Trends In U.S. Families
481(2)
The Changing Timetable Of Family Life: Marriage And Childbirth
481(1)
Cohabitation
481(2)
Cohabitation And Marriage: The Essential Difference
482(1)
Cohabitation And Health
482(1)
Does Cohabitation Make Marriage Stronger?
482(1)
The "Sandwich Generation" And Elder Care
483(1)
Divorce And Remarriage
483(5)
Ways Of Measuring Divorce
483(2)
Divorce And Mixed Racial-Ethnic Marriages
485(1)
Children Of Divorce
486(1)
Negative Effects
486(1)
What Helps Children Adjust To Divorce?
486(1)
Perpetuating Divorce
487(1)
Grandchildren Of Divorce: Ripples To The Future
487(1)
Fathers' Contact With. Children After Divorce
487(1)
The Ex-Spouses
487(1)
Remarriage
488(1)
Two Sides Of Family Life
488(3)
The Dark Side Of Family Life: Battering, Child Abuse, Marital Rape, And Incest
488(2)
Spouse Battering
488(1)
Child Abuse
488(1)
Marital And Intimacy Rape
489(1)
Incest
489(1)
The Bright Side Of Family Life: Successful Marriages
490(1)
Successful Marriages
490(1)
Symbolic Interactionism And The Misuse Of Statistics
490(1)
The Future Of Marriage And Family
491(1)
Summary And Review
491(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 16
492(1)
17 Education 493(27)
The Development Of Modern Education
495(3)
Education In Earlier Societies
495(1)
Industrialization And Universal Education
495(3)
Hodgepodge Education And National Disunity
495(1)
Industrialization And Mandatory Education
496(1)
The Expansion Of Education
496(2)
Education In Global Perspective
498(3)
Education In The Most Industrialized Nations: Japan
498(1)
Education In The Industrializing Nations: Russia
499(1)
Education In The Least Industrialized Nations: Egypt
500(1)
The Functionalist Perspective: Providing Social Benefits
501(4)
Teaching Knowledge And Skills
501(1)
Cultural Transmission Of Values
502(1)
Social Integration
502(1)
Integrating Immigrants
502(1)
Stabilizing Society: Maintaining The Status Quo
502(1)
Integrating People With Disabilities
502(1)
Gatekeeping (Social Placement)
503(1)
Replacing Family Functions
503(1)
Other Functions
503(2)
A Surprising Latent Function
505(1)
The Conflict Perspective: Perpetuating Social Inequality
505(4)
The Hidden Curriculum: Reproducing The Social Class Structure
505(1)
Tilting The Tests: Discrimination By IQ
506(1)
Stacking The Deck: Unequal Funding
507(1)
The Correspondence Principle
508(1)
The Bottom Line: Family Background
508(1)
Reproducing The Social Class Structure
508(1)
Reproducing The Racial-Ethnic Structure
508(1)
The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Teacher Expectations
509(3)
The Rist Research
509(1)
The Rosenthal-Jacobson Experiment
510(1)
How Do Teacher Expectations Work?
511(1)
Self-Expectations
511(1)
Problems In U.S. Education-and Their Solutions
512(5)
Mediocrity
513(1)
The Rising Tide Of Mediocrity
513(1)
The SATs
513(1)
Grade Inflation, Social Promotion, And Functional Illiteracy
514(1)
Raising Standards
514(1)
Raising Standards For Teachers
514(1)
A Warning About Higher Standards
514(1)
Cheating
515(1)
The Solution To Cheating
515(1)
Violence
516(1)
Technology And Education
517(1)
Summary And Review
518(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 17
519(1)
18 Religion 520(35)
What Is Religion?
522(1)
The Functionalist Perspective
523(5)
Functions Of Religion
523(2)
Meaning And Purpose
523(1)
Emotional Comfort
523(1)
Social Solidarity
523(1)
Guidelines For Everyday Life
523(2)
Social Control
525(1)
Adaptation
525(1)
Support For The Government
525(1)
Social Change
525(1)
Functional Equivalents Of Religion
525(1)
Dysfunctions Of Religion
526(2)
Religion As Justification For Persecution
526(1)
War And Terrorism
526(2)
The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
528(4)
Religious Symbols
528(1)
Rituals
529(1)
Beliefs
529(1)
Religious Experience
529(1)
Community
529(3)
Unity
529(3)
Exclusion
532(1)
The Conflict Perspective
532(1)
Opium Of The People
532(1)
Legitimating Social Inequalities
532(1)
Religion And The Spirit Of Capitalism
533(1)
The World's Major Religions
534(6)
Judaism
534(2)
Christianity
536(1)
Islam
536(2)
Hinduism
538(1)
Buddhism
539(1)
Confucianism
539(1)
Types Of Religious Groups
540(4)
Cult
541(1)
Sect
542(1)
Church
542(1)
Ecclesia
543(1)
Variations In Patterns
543(1)
When Religion And Culture Conflict
543(1)
Religion In The United States
544(7)
Characteristics Of Members
544(1)
Social Class And Religious Participation
544(1)
Race-Ethnicity
545(1)
Characteristics Of Religious Groups
545(4)
Diversity
545(1)
Pluralism And Freedom
546(1)
Competition And Recruitment
546(1)
Commitment
546(1)
Toleration
547(1)
Fundamentalist Revival
547(1)
The Electronic Church
547(2)
Secularization Of Religion And Culture
549(8)
The Secularization Of Religion
549(1)
The Secularization Of Culture
550(1)
The Future Of Religion
551(1)
Summary And Review
552(2)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 18
554(1)
19 Medicine And Health 555(32)
Sociology And The Study Of Medicine And Health
557(1)
The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
557(1)
The Role Of Culture In Defining Health And Illness
557(1)
The Components Of Health
558(1)
The Functionalist Perspective
558(1)
The Sick Role
558(1)
Elements Of The Sick Role
558(1)
Ambiguity In The Sick Role
558(1)
Gatekeepers To The Sick Role
559(1)
Gender Differences In The Sick Role
559(1)
The Conflict Perspective
559(4)
Global Stratification And Health Care
559(1)
Establishing A Monopoly On U.S. Health Care
560(3)
The Professionalization Of Medicine
561(1)
The Monopoly Of Medicine
562(1)
Historical Patterns Of Health
563(1)
Physical Health
563(1)
Leading Causes Of Death
563(1)
Were Americans Healthier In The Past?
564(1)
Mental Health
564(1)
Issues In Health Care
564(10)
Medical Care: A Right Or A Commodity?
565(1)
Skyrocketing Costs
565(1)
Social Inequality
565(1)
Reducing Inequalities: Health Care Reform
566(1)
Malpractice Lawsuits And Defensive Medicine
566(1)
Medical Incompetence
567(1)
Death By Doctors
567(1)
Using A Checklist
567(1)
Federal Center For Patient Safety
568(1)
Depersonalization: The Medical Cash Machine
568(1)
Conflict Of Interest
569(1)
Medical Fraud
569(1)
Sexism And Racism In Medicine
570(1)
The Medicalization Of Society
570(1)
Theoretical Perspectives
570(1)
Medically Assisted Suicide
570(1)
Reducing The Costs Of Medical Care
571(3)
Health Maintenance Organizations
571(1)
Diagnosis-Related Groups
572(1)
Pay-As-You-Go Clinics
572(1)
Group Care
572(1)
Workplace Care
572(1)
Retail Health Clinics
572(1)
Telemedicine
572(1)
Dumping
573(1)
Rationing Medical Care
573(1)
Threats To Health
574(8)
HIV/AIDS
574(3)
Origin
575(1)
The Transmission Of HIV/AIDS
575(1)
Gender, Circumcision, And Race-Ethnicity
575(1)
The Stigma Of Aids
576(1)
Is There A Cure For Aids?
576(1)
Weight: Too Much And Too Little
577(1)
Alcohol And Nicotine
577(3)
Alcohol
577(1)
Nicotine
578(2)
Disabling Environments
580(1)
Medical Experiments: Callous And Harmful
580(1)
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
580(1)
The Guatemalan Experiment
580(1)
The Cold War Experiments
580(1)
Playing God
581(1)
Chicken Bones And The Globalization Of Disease
581(1)
Rubbing Chicken Bones Together
582(1)
Treatment Or Prevention?
582(1)
The Future Of Medicine
582(3)
Alternative Medicine
583(1)
Technology
584(5)
Digital Medicine
584(1)
Summary And Review
585(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 19
586(1)
20 Population And Urbanization 587(35)
Population In Global Perspective
589(1)
A Planet With No Space For Enjoying Life?
589(6)
The New Malthusians
589(2)
The Anti-Malthusians
591(1)
Who Is Correct?
592(1)
Why Are People Starving?
593(2)
Population Growth
595(9)
Why The Least Industrialized Nations Have So Many Children
596(1)
Consequences Of Rapid Population Growth
597(1)
Population Pyramids As A Tool For Understanding
598(1)
The Three Demographic Variables
598(2)
Fertility
598(1)
Mortality
599(1)
Migration
599(1)
Problems In Forecasting Population Growth
600(4)
Urbanization
604(1)
The Development Of Cities
605(7)
Urbanization
605(3)
The Appeal Of Cities
605(3)
Forced Urbanization
608(1)
Metropolises
608(1)
Megalopolises
608(1)
Megacities
608(1)
Megaregions
608(1)
U.S. Urban Patterns
608(4)
From Country To City
608(1)
From City To City
609(1)
Between Cities
610(1)
Within The City
610(1)
From City To Suburb And Back
610(1)
Smaller Centers
610(2)
Models Of Urban Growth
612(3)
The Concentric Zone Model
612(1)
The Sector Model
612(1)
The Multiple-Nuclei Model
613(1)
The Peripheral Model
613(1)
Critique Of The Models
614(1)
City Life
615(3)
Alienation In The City
615(1)
Community In The City
616(1)
Who Lives In The City?
616(1)
The Cosmopolites
616(1)
The Singles
616(1)
The Ethnic Villagers
616(1)
The Deprived
617(1)
The Trapped
617(1)
Critique
617(1)
The Norm Of Noninvolvement And The Diffusion Of Responsibility
617(1)
Tuning Out: The Norm Of Noninvolvement
617(1)
Urban Problems And Social Policy
618(2)
Suburbanization
618(1)
City Versus Suburb
618(1)
Suburban Flight
619(1)
Living At The Mall
619(1)
Disinvestment And Deindustrialization
619(1)
The Potential Of Urban Revitalization
619(5)
Public Sociology
620(1)
Summary And Review
620(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 20
621(1)
21 Collective Behavior And Social Movements 622(26)
Collective Behavior
624(1)
Early Explanations: The Transformation Of People
624(2)
How Crowds Change People
624(1)
The Acting Crowd
625(1)
The Contemporary View: The Rationality Of The Crowd
626(1)
The Minimax Strategy
626(1)
Emergent Norms
626(1)
How Sociologists Study Collective Behavior
627(1)
Forms Of Collective Behavior
627(9)
Riots
627(2)
Participants In Riots
628(1)
Rumors
629(1)
Panics
630(2)
The Classic Panic
630(2)
Mass Hysteria
632(1)
Moral Panics
632(2)
Fads And Fashions
634(1)
Urban Legends
635(1)
Social Movements
636(1)
Types And Tactics Of Social Movements
637(4)
Types Of Social Movements
637(1)
Tactics Of Social Movements
638(1)
Levels Of Membership
638(1)
The Publics
638(1)
Relationship To Authorities
639(1)
Multiple Realities And Social Movements
639(1)
Propaganda And The Mass Media
639(2)
Gatekeepers To Social Movements
641(1)
Why People Join Social Movements
641(2)
Relative Deprivation Theory: Improving Status And Power
641(1)
Relativity Of Deprivation
641(1)
Relative Deprivation And The Civil Rights Movement
642(1)
Declining Privilege Theory: Protecting Status And Power
642(1)
Moral Issues And Ideological Commitment
642(1)
When Social Movements Pose A Threat To The Government
643(1)
On The Success And Failure Of Social Movements
643(3)
The Rocky Road To Success
643(1)
The Stages Of Social Movements
644(1)
Resurgence
645(1)
Summary And Review
646(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 21
647(1)
22 Social Change And The Environment 648(28)
How Social Change Transforms Social Life
650(4)
The Four Social Revolutions
650(1)
From Gemeinschaft To Gesellschaft
650(1)
The Industrial Revolution And Capitalism
651(1)
Social Movements
652(1)
Conflict, Power, And Global Politics
652(2)
A Brief History Of Geopolitics
652(1)
G7 Plus
652(1)
Dividing Up The World
652(1)
Four Threats To This Coalition Of Powers
653(1)
The Growing Relevance Of Africa
654(1)
Theories And Processes Of Social Change
654(4)
Evolution From Lower To Higher
654(1)
Natural Cycles
655(1)
Conflict Over Power And Resources
655(1)
Ogburn's Theory
656(2)
Invention
656(1)
Discovery
657(1)
Diffusion
657(1)
Cultural Lag
657(1)
Evaluation Of Ogburn's Theory
657(1)
How Technology Is Changing Our Lives
658(7)
Extending Human Abilities
658(1)
The Sociological Significance Of Technology: How Technology Changes Social Life
659(1)
Changes In Production
659(1)
Changes In Worker-Owner Relations
659(1)
Changes In Ideology
659(1)
Changes In Conspicuous Consumption
659(1)
Changes In Family Relationships
660(1)
When Old Technology Was New: The Impact Of The Automobile
660(2)
Displacement Of Existing Technology
660(1)
Effects On Cities
660(1)
Changes In Architecture
661(1)
Changed Courtship Customs And Sexual Norms
661(1)
Effects On Women's Roles
661(1)
The New Technology: The Microchip And Social Life
662(2)
Computers In Education
662(1)
Computers In Business And Finance
663(1)
Computers In International Conflict
663(1)
Cyberspace And Social Inequality
664(1)
The Growth Machine Versus The Earth
665(11)
The Globalization Of Capitalism And The Race For Economic Growth
666(1)
A Sustainable Environment
666(1)
Environmental Problems And Industrialization
666(3)
Toxic Wastes
666(1)
Fossil Fuels And Climate Change
667(2)
The Energy Shortage And Internal Combustion Engines
669(1)
The Rain Forests
669(1)
The Environmental Movement
669(3)
Environmental Sociology
672(1)
Technology And The Environment: The Goal Of Harmony
673(1)
Summary And Review
674(1)
Thinking Critically About
Chapter 22
675(1)
Epilogue: Why Major in Sociology? 676
Glossary G-1
References R-1
Name Index N-1
Subject Index S-1
Credits CR-1
James M. Henslin, who was born in Minnesota, graduated from high school and junior college in California and from college in Indiana. Awarded scholarships, he earned his Masters and doctorate degrees in sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After this, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health, and spent a year studying how people adjust to the suicide of a family member. His primary interests in sociology are the sociology of everyday life, deviance, and international relations. Among his numerous books is Down-to-Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings (Free Press), now in its twelfth edition. This book of readings reflects some of these sociological interests. He has also published widely in sociology journals, including Social Problems and American Journal of Sociology.

While a graduate student, Jim Henslin taught at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. After completing his doctorate, he joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology. He says, Ive always found the introductory course enjoyable to teach. I love to see students faces light up when they first glimpse the sociological perspective and begin to see how society has become an essential part of how they view the world.

Henslin enjoys reading and fishing. His two favorite activities are writing and traveling. He especially enjoys visiting and living in other cultures, for this brings him face to face with behaviors and ways of thinking that he cannot take for granted, experiences that make sociological principles come alive.