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To the Student From the Author xvi
To the Instructor from the Author xvii
About the Author xxvi
Part I The Sociological Perspective
Chapter 1 The Sociological Perspective
1(36)
The Sociological Perspective
2(2)
Seeing the Broader Social Context
2(1)
The Global Context---and the Local
3(1)
Origins of Sociology
4(4)
Tradition versus Science
4(1)
Auguste Comte and Positivism
4(1)
Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism
5(1)
Karl Marx and Class Conflict
5(1)
Emile Durkheim and Social Integration
6(1)
Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
7(1)
Sociology in North America
8(2)
Sexism at the Time: Women in Early Sociology
8(1)
Racism at the Time: W. E. B. Du Bois
8(2)
Down-to-Earth Sociology W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
10(2)
Jane Addams: Sociologist and Social Reformer
11(1)
Talcott Parsons and C. Wright Mills: Theory versus Reform
11(1)
The Continuing Tension: Basic, Applied, and Public Sociology
11(1)
Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology
12(1)
Cultural Diversity in the United States Unanticipated Public Sociology: Studying Job Discrimination
13(7)
Symbolic Interactionism
13(2)
Functional Analysis
15(2)
Conflict Theory
17(1)
Putting the Theoretical Perspectives Together
18(1)
Levels of Analysis: Macro and Micro
19(1)
How Theory and Research Work Together
20(1)
Doing Sociological Research
20(1)
A Research Model
20(1)
1 Selecting a Topic
20(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Enjoying a Sociology Quiz---Testing Your Common Sense
20(2)
2 Defining the Problem
21(1)
3 Reviewing the Literature
21(1)
4 Formulating a Hypothesis
21(1)
5 Choosing a Research Method
21(1)
6 Collecting the Data
21(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Testing Your Common Sense---Answers to the Sociology Quiz
22(1)
7 Analyzing the Results
22(1)
8 Sharing the Results
22(1)
Research Methods (Designs)
22(4)
Surveys
22(4)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Loading the Dice: How Not to Do Research
26(2)
Participant Observation (Fieldwork)
27(1)
Case Studies
27(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Gang Leader for a Day: Adventures of a Rogue Sociologist
28(2)
Secondary Analysis
29(1)
Analysis of Documents
29(1)
Experiments
29(1)
Unobtrusive Measures
30(1)
Gender in Sociological Research
30(2)
Ethics in Sociological Research
32(2)
Protecting the Subjects: The Brajuha Research
32(1)
Misleading the Subjects: The Humphreys Research
33(1)
Trends Shaping the Future of Sociology
34(1)
Sociology's Tension: Research versus Reform
34(1)
Globalization
34(1)
Summary and Review
35(2)
Chapter 2 Culture
37(28)
What Is Culture?
38(2)
Culture and Taken-for-Granted Orientations to Life
39(1)
Cultural Diversity in the United States Culture Shock: The Arrival of the Hmong
40(2)
Practicing Cultural Relativism
41(1)
Cultural Diversity Around the World Dancing with the Dead
42(1)
Cultural Diversity Around the World You Are What You Eat? An Exploration in Cultural Relativity
43(2)
Components of Symbolic Culture
45(3)
Gestures
45(1)
Language
46(2)
Cultural Diversity in the United States Miami-Continuing Controversy over Language
48(2)
Language and Perception: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
48(1)
Values, Norms, and Sanctions
49(1)
Cultural Diversity in the United States Race and Language: Searching for Self-Labels
50(1)
Folkways, Mores, and Taboos
51(1)
Many Cultural Worlds
51(4)
Subcultures
51(3)
Countercultures
54(1)
Values in U.S. Society
55(3)
An Overview of U.S. Values
55(1)
Value Clusters
56(1)
Value Contradictions
56(1)
An Emerging Value Cluster
56(1)
When Values Clash
57(1)
Values as Distorting Lenses
57(1)
"Ideal" Versus "Real" Culture
58(1)
Cultural Universals
58(1)
Thinking Critically Are We Prisoners of Our Genes? Sociobiology and Human Behavior
59(4)
Technology in the Global Village
60(1)
The New Technology
60(1)
Cultural Lag and Cultural Change
61(1)
Technology and Cultural Leveling
61(2)
Summary and Review
63(2)
Chapter 3 Socialization
65(32)
Society Makes Us Human
66(1)
Feral Children
66(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Heredity or Environment? The Case of Jack and Oskar, Identical Twins
67(4)
Isolated Children
68(1)
Institutionalized Children
68(2)
Deprived Animals
70(1)
Socialization into the Self and Mind
71(3)
Cooley and the Looking-Glass Self
71(1)
Mead and Role Taking
71(1)
Piaget and the Development of Reasoning
72(2)
Global Aspects of the Self and Reasoning
74(1)
Learning Personality, Morality, and Emotions
74(4)
Freud and the Development of Personality
74(1)
Kohlberg and the Development of Morality
75(1)
Socialization into Emotions
76(1)
What We Feel
77(1)
Society within Us: The Self and Emotions as Social Control
77(1)
Socialization into Gender
78(2)
Learning the Gender Map
78(1)
Gender Messages in the Family
78(1)
Gender Messages from Peers
79(1)
Cultural Diversity Around the World When Women Become Men: The Sworn Virgins
80(2)
Gender Messages in the Mass Media
81(1)
Mass Media in Social Life Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: Changing Images of Women in the Mass Media
82(1)
Agents of Socialization
83(3)
The Family
83(1)
The Neighborhood
84(1)
Religion
84(1)
Day Care
84(1)
The School
85(1)
Peer Groups
85(1)
Cultural Diversity in the United States Immigrants and Their Children: Caught between Two Worlds
86(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Gossip and Ridicule to Enforce Adolescent Norms
87(1)
The Workplace
88(1)
Resocialization
88(1)
Total Institutions
88(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Boot Camp as a Total Institution
89(1)
Socialization through the Life Course
90(4)
Childhood (from birth to about age 12)
90(1)
Adolescence (ages 13--17)
91(1)
Transitional Adulthood (ages 18--29)
92(1)
The Middle Years (ages 30--65)
92(1)
The Older Years (about age 63 on)
93(1)
Applying the Sociological Perspective to the Life Course
93(1)
Are We Prisoners of Socialization?
94(1)
Summary and Review
94(3)
Chapter 4 Social Structure and Social Interaction
97(31)
Levels of Sociological Analysis
98(1)
Macrosociology and Microsociology
99(1)
The Macrosociological Perspective: Social Structure
99(2)
The Sociological Significance of Social Structure
99(1)
Culture
100(1)
Social Class
100(1)
Social Status
101(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology College Football as Social Structure
101(7)
Roles
103(1)
Groups
104(1)
Social Institutions
104(1)
Comparing Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives
104(2)
Changes in Social Structure
106(1)
What Holds Society Together?
107(1)
The Microsociological Perspective: Social Interaction in Everyday Life
108(1)
Cultural Diversity in the United States The Amish: Gemeinschaft Community in a Gesellschaft Society
109(4)
Symbolic Interaction
112(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Beauty May Be Only Skin Deep, But Its Effects Go On Forever: Stereotypes in Everyday Life
113(5)
Dramaturgy: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
115(3)
Mass Media in Social Life "Nothing Tastes as Good as Thin Feels": Body Images and the Mass Media
118(4)
Ethnomethodology: Uncovering Background Assumptions
119(1)
The Social Construction of Reality
120(2)
The Need for Both Macrosociology and Microsociology
122(3)
Summary and Review
125(3)
Part II Social Groups and Social Control
Chapter 5 Societies to Social Networks
128(27)
Societies and Their Transformation
129(6)
Hunting and Gathering Societies
130(1)
Pastoral and Horticultural Societies
131(1)
Agricultural Societies
132(1)
Industrial Societies
133(1)
Postindustrial (Information) Societies
133(1)
Biotech Societies: Is a New Type of Society Emerging?
134(1)
Sociology and the New Technology Avatar Fantasy Life: The Blurring Lines of Reality
135(1)
Sociology and the New Technology "So, You Want to Be Yourself?" Cloning and the Future of Society
136(1)
Groups within Society
136(6)
Primary Groups
136(2)
Secondary Groups
138(1)
In-Groups and Out-Groups
138(1)
Reference Groups
139(1)
Social Networks
140(2)
Group Dynamics
142(1)
Effects of Group Size on Stability and Intimacy
142(1)
Cultural Diversity in the United States Do Your Social Networks Perpetuate Social Inequality?
143(7)
Effects of Group Size on Attitudes and Behavior
144(1)
Leadership
145(3)
The Power of Peer Pressure: The Asch Experiment
148(1)
The Power of Authority: The Milgram Experiment
149(1)
Thinking Critically If Hitler Asked You to Execute a Stranger, Would You? The Milgram Experiment
150(3)
Global Consequences of Group Dynamics: Groupthink
151(2)
Summary and Review
153(2)
Chapter 6 Deviance and Social Control
155(32)
What Is Deviance?
156(2)
How Norms Make Social Life Possible
157(1)
Cultural Diversity Around the World Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
158(2)
Sanctions
158(1)
Competing Explanations of Deviance: Sociobiology, Psychology, and Sociology
159(1)
The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
160(3)
Differential Association Theory
160(1)
Control Theory
161(1)
Labeling Theory
162(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Shaming: Making a Comeback?
163(2)
Thinking Critically The Saints and the Roughnecks: Labeling in Everyday Life
165(1)
The Functionalist Perspective
166(1)
Can Deviance Really Be Functional for Society?
166(1)
Strain Theory: How Mainstream Values Produce Deviance
166(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Running Naked with Pumpkins on Their Heads or Naked on a Bike: Deviance or Freedom of Self-Expression?
167(3)
Illegitimate Opportunity Structures: Social Class and Crime
169(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Islands in the Street: Urban Gangs in the United States
170(2)
The Conflict Perspective
172(1)
Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System
172(1)
The Criminal Justice System as an Instrument of Oppression
173(1)
Reactions to Deviance
173(1)
Cultural Diversity Around the World "Dogging" in England
174(3)
Street Crime and Prisons
174(3)
Thinking Critically "Three Strikes and You're Out!" Unintended Consequences of Well-Intended Laws
177(3)
The Decline in Violent Crime
177(1)
Recidivism
178(1)
The Death Penalty and Bias
178(2)
Down-to-Earth Sociology The Killer Next Door: Serial Murderers in Our Midst
180(1)
Thinking Critically Vigilantes: When the State Breaks Down
181(1)
The Trouble with Official Statistics
182(3)
The Medicalization of Deviance: Mental Illness
182(2)
The Need for a More Humane Approach
184(1)
Summary and Review
185(2)
Part III Social Inequality
Chapter 7 Social Stratification
187(42)
An Overview of Social Stratification
188(5)
Slavery
189(1)
Caste
190(2)
Social Class
192(1)
Global Stratification and the Status of Females
192(1)
The Global Superclass
192(1)
Global Stratification: Three Worlds
193(3)
The Most Industrialized Nations
193(1)
The Industrializing Nations
193(3)
Thinking Critically Open Season: Children as Prey
196(1)
The Least Industrialized Nations
197(1)
How Did the World's Nations Become Stratified?
197(3)
Colonialism
197(3)
World System Theory
200(1)
Thinking Critically When Globalization Comes Home: Maquiladoras South of the Border
200(2)
Culture of Poverty
201(1)
Evaluating the Theories
202(1)
Why Is Social Stratification Universal?
202(2)
The Functionalist View: Motivating Qualified People
202(1)
The Conflict Perspective: Class Conflict and Scarce Resources
203(1)
Strains in the Global System
204(1)
What Determines Social Class?
205(1)
Karl Marx: The Means of Production
205(1)
Max Weber: Property, Power, and Prestige
206(1)
Social Class in the United States
206(4)
Property
207(2)
Power
209(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology How the Super-Rich Live
210(3)
Prestige
211(1)
Status Inconsistency
212(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology The Big Win: Life after the Lottery
213(1)
A Model of Social Class
214(2)
Consequences of Social Class
216(2)
Physical Health
217(1)
Mental Health
217(1)
Thinking Critically Mental Illness and Inequality in HealthCare
218(2)
Family Life
218(1)
Education
219(1)
Religion
219(1)
Politics
220(1)
Crime and Criminal Justice
220(1)
Social Mobility
220(2)
Three Types of Social Mobility
220(1)
Women in Studies of Social Mobility
221(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology "The American Dream" Today: Research on Social Mobility
222(1)
Poverty
223(1)
Drawing the Poverty Line
224(1)
Children of Poverty
224(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Some Facts about Poverty: What Do You Know?
224(1)
Thinking Critically The Nation's Shame: Children in Poverty
225(2)
Where Is Horatio Alger? The Social Functions of a Myth
226(1)
Summary and Review
227(2)
Chapter 8 Sex and Gender
229(33)
Issues of Sex and Gender
230(4)
Gender Differences in Behavior: Biology or Culture?
231(1)
The Dominant Position in Sociology
231(1)
Opening the Door to Biology
231(3)
Thinking Critically Making the Social Explicit: Emerging Masculinities and Femininities
234(2)
Gender Inequality in Global Perspective
236(1)
How Did Females Become a Minority Group?
236(1)
Mass Media in Social Life Women in Iran: The Times Are Changing, Ever So Slowly
237(5)
Sex Typing of Work
239(1)
Gender and the Prestige of Work
239(1)
Other Areas of Global Discrimination
239(3)
Gender Inequality in the United States
242(1)
Cultural Diversity Around the World Female Circumcision
243(5)
Fighting Back: The Rise of Feminism
244(2)
Gender Inequality in Everyday Life
246(1)
Gender Inequality in Health Care
246(1)
Gender Inequality in Education
247(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Cold-Hearted Surgeons and Their Women Victims
248(2)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Affirmative Action for Men?
250(1)
Gender Inequality in die Workplace
251(4)
The Pay Gap
251(4)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Applying Sociology: How to Get a Higher Salary
255(2)
Is the Glass Ceiling Cracking?
255(1)
Sexual Harassment---and Worse
256(1)
Gender and Violence
257(2)
Violence against Women
257(2)
The Changing Face of Politics
259(1)
Glimpsing the Future---with Hope
260(1)
Summary and Review
260(2)
Chapter 9 Race and Ethnicity
262(38)
Laying the Sociological Foundation
263(2)
Race: Myth and Reality
263(2)
Cultural Diversity in the United States Tiger Woods: Mapping the Changing Ethnic Terrain
265(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Can a Plane Ride Change Your Race?
266(4)
Ethnic Groups
266(1)
Minority Groups and Dominant Groups
267(1)
Ethnic Work: Constructing Our Racial-Ethnic Identity
268(2)
Prejudice and Discrimination
270(1)
Learning Prejudice
270(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Living in the Dorm: Contact Theory
271(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology The Racist Mind
272(2)
Individual and Institutional Discrimination
273(1)
Theories of Prejudice
274(3)
Psychological Perspectives
274(1)
Sociological Perspectives
275(2)
Global Patterns of Intergroup Relations
277(1)
Genocide
277(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology The Man in the Zoo
278(3)
Population Transfer
279(1)
Internal Colonialism
279(1)
Segregation
280(1)
Assimilation
280(1)
Multiculturalism (Pluralism)
280(1)
Racial-Ethnic Relations in the United States
281(2)
European Americans
282(1)
Latinos (Hispanics)
283(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack: Exploring Cultural Privilege
283(2)
Cultural Diversity in the United States The Illegal Travel Guide
285(9)
African Americans
287(3)
Asian Americans
290(2)
Native Americans
292(2)
Looking Toward the Future
294(2)
The Immigration Debate
295(1)
Affirmative Action
295(1)
Cultural Diversity in the United States Glimpsing the Future: The Shifting U.S. Racial-Ethnic Mix
296(1)
Toward a True Multicultural Society
297(1)
Summary and Review
297(3)
Part IV Social Institutions
Chapter 10 Marriage and Family
300(1)
Marriage and Family in Global Perspective
301(3)
What Is a Family?
301(1)
What Is Marriage?
301(1)
Common Cultural Themes
302(2)
Sociology and the New Technology Online Dating: Risks and Rewards
304(1)
Marriage and Family in Theoretical Perspective
305(1)
The Functionalist Perspective: Functions and Dysfunctions
305(1)
The Conflict Perspective: Struggles between Husbands and Wives
306(1)
The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Gender, Housework, and Child Care
306(2)
The Family Life Cycle
308(1)
Love and Courtship in Global Perspective
308(1)
Marriage
308(1)
Cultural Diversity Around the World East Is East and West Is West: Love and Arranged Marriage in India
309(2)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Health Benefits of Marriage: Living Longer
311(2)
Childbirth
312(1)
Sociology and the New Technology What Color Eyes? How Tall? Designer Babies on the Way
313(2)
Child Rearing
313(2)
Family Transitions
315(1)
Diversity in U.S. Families
315(5)
African American Families
316(1)
Latino Families
316(1)
Asian American Families
317(1)
Native American Families
318(1)
One-Parent Families
318(1)
Couples without Children
319(1)
Blended Families
319(1)
Down-to-Earth Sociology Family Structure: Single Moms and Married Moms
320(2)
Gay and Lesbian Families
321(1)
Trends in U.S. Families
322(2)
The Changing Timetable of Family Life: Marriage and Childbirth
322(1)
Cohabitation
323(1)
The "Sandwich Generation" and Elder Care
324(1)
Divorce and Remarriage
324(3)
Ways of Measuring Divorce
324(1)
Divorce and Intermarriage
325(1)
Children of Divorce
325(2)
Down-to-Earth Sociology "What Are Your Chances of Getting Divorced?"
327(3)
Grandchildren of Divorce
329(1)
Fathers' Contact with Children after Divorce
329(1)
The Ex-Spouses
329(1)
Remarriage
329(1)
Two Sides of Family Life
330(2)
The Dark Side of Family Life: Battering, Child Abuse, Marital Rape, and Incest
330(1)
The Bright Side of Family Life: Successful Marriages
331(1)
Symbolic Interactionism and the Misuse of Statistics
332(1)
The Future of Marriage and Family
332(1)
Sociology and the New Technology "How Should We Handle Family Disagreements?" Use Your App
333(1)
Summary and Review
334(2)
Epilogue: Why Major in Sociology? 336
Glossary 1(1)
References 1(1)
Name Index 1(1)
Subject Index 1(1)
Credits 1