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* = New to this edition Preface I. THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 1. C.Wright Mills, The Promise ---classic piece on the sociological imagination 2.Donna Gaines, Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead-End Kids ---applying thesociological imagination to teen suicide 3. Mary Romero, An Intersection ofBiography and History: My Intellectual Journey ---applying the sociologicalimagination to domestic service Social Research *4. Michael Schwalbe,Finding Out How the Social World Works ---a summary of what it means to besociologically mindful 5. Craig Haney, W. Curtis Banks, and Philip G.Zimbardo, Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison ---classic piece onthe research design of Zimbardo's famous experiment 6. Elaine Bell Kaplan,Not Our Kind of Girl ---participant observation research among AfricanAmerican teen mothers II. CULTURE 7. Anne M. Velliquette and Jeff B.Murray, The New Tattoo Subculture ---the tattoo subculture and meanings ofbody adornment 8. Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets ---an explorationof street culture *9. Eugenia Kaw, "Opening" Faces: The Politics of CosmeticSurgery and Asian American Women ---the influence of gender and racialstereotypes on the beauty culture 10. Haunani-Kay Trask, Lovely Hula Hands:Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture ---an examinationof cultural exploitation III. SOCIALIZATION 11. Judith Lorber, "Night toHis Day": The Social Construction of Gender ---the socialization of genderidentity 12. Michael Messner, Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Constructionof Masculinities ---the social construction of masculinity 13. RobertGranfield, Making It By Faking It: Working-Class Students in an EliteAcademic Environment ---working class identity and law school socialization14. Gwynne Dyer, Anybody's Son Will Do ---resocialization into the totalinstitution of the military IV. GROUPS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE 15. Patricia A.Adler and Peter Adler, Peer Power: Clique Dynamics among School Children---a study of the structure and interactional dynamics among schoolchildren's groups 16. Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Gang Business: Making EndsMeet ----a functional analysis of a primary group *17. Kathleen M. Blee,Becoming a Racist: Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi Groups---an illustration of secondary group membership *18. Mark Colvin, DescentInto Madness: The New Mexico State Prison Riot ---an example of socialstructure breaking down V. DEVIANCE, CRIME, AND SOCIAL CONTROL 19. David L.Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places ---classic piece on labeling andsocial deviance 20. Penelope E. McLorg and Diane E. Taub, Anorexia Nervosaand Bulimia: The Development of Deviant Identities ---the socialconstruction of deviant identities 21. Philippe Bourgois, In Search ofRespect: Selling Crack in El Barrio ---an ethnographic study of drug dealingin the inner-city *22. A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade, Fraternities andCollegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places forWomen? ---the social organization of crime VI. SOCIAL INEQUALITY SocialClass *23. Kingsley Davis, Wilbert E. Moore, and Melvin Tumin, SomePrinciples of Stratification ---classic pieces on the functions of socialstratification 24. G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America?: The CorporateCommunity and the Upper Class ---the lifestyles and social institutions ofthe upper class 25. Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro, BlackWealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality ---a sociology ofwealth and racial inequality *26. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel-and-Dimed: On(Not) Getting By in America ---an exploration of the lives of the workingpoor Gender 27. Barbara Risman, Gender as Structure ---a review of fourtheories that explain sex and gender 28. Christine L. Williams, The GlassEscalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions ---anexamination of sex typing and job segregation 29. Yen Le Espiritu, The RacialConstruction of Asian American Women and Men ---an examination of racist andsexist images in U.S. culture 30. Myra Sadker and David Sadker, Failing atFairness: Hidden Lessons ---gender inequality in the institution of educationRace and Ethnicity *31. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formations inthe United States ---the social construction of race *32. Jennifer Lee andFrank D. Bean, Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America ---how raceis measured by the U.S. government 33. Lillian B. Rubin, Is This A WhiteCountry, Or What? ---working class families talk about race and ethnicity*34. Charlie LeDuff, At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die ---anexamination of the racial dynamics at one workplace site VII. SOCIALINSTITUTIONS Power and Politics 35. C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite---classic piece on the power elite 36. Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl and MarkWeller, Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions SubvertDemocracy ---an application of Mills' power elite *37. Donald L. Barlett andJames B. Steele, Playing the Political Slots: American Indians and Casinos---the politics of and profiteering from gambling on reservations Mass Media38. Martin N. Marger, The Mass Media as a Power Institution ---anexamination of power and the mass media *39. Gregory Mantsios, Media Magic:Making Class Invisible ---how the mass media distorts social class *40. ToddGitlin, Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms OurLives ---the globalization of American media The Economy and Work 41. KarlMarx and Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party ---classicpiece on the relationship between the capitalists and the workers 42.William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor---current analysis of inner-city joblessness 43. Robin Leidner, Over theCounter: McDonald's ---an ethnographic study of routinization in workReligion 44. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism---classic piece on the influence of religion on other social institutions*45. Mark Chaves, Abiding Faith ---the current status of religion amongAmericans 46. Kathleen S. Lowney, Baring Our Souls: TV Talk Shows and theReligion of Recovery ---an analysis of religious revivalism and morality onTV talk shows Health and Medicine *47. Talcott Parsons, The SocialStructure of Medicine ---classic piece on the functions of health and illnessin society *48. Johanna McGeary, Death Stalks a Continent ---an examinationof the AIDS epidemic in Africa 49. David A. Karp, Illness and Identity ---aninterview study of people with depression Education 50. Mary Crow Dog andRichard Erdoes, Civilize Them With A Stick ---education as an institution ofsocial control 51. Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell,Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Curricula in America's EliteBoarding Schools ---an examination of elite education *52. Ann ArnettFerguson, Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity---racial and gender stereotyping in American Schools The Family 53. JudithStacey, Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here ---changing definitions of family*54. Ann Crittendon, The Mommy Tax ---the income discrimination faced byworking mothers 55. Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Time Bind: When WorkBecomes Home and Home Becomes Work ---how individuals combine their work andhome lives VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE 56. George Ritzer, The McDonaldization ofSociety ---a contemporary theory of social change 57. Conrad L. Kanagy andDonald B. Kraybill, How Will the Internet Change Society? ---an examinationof the social change being caused by computers *58. Charles Derber, TheWilding of America: Iraq and the War Against Terrorism ---war as an extremeexample of social change *59. Amitai Etzioni, Community Building: StepsToward a Good Society ---one sociologist's vision of needed social change 60.Allan G. Johnson, What Can We Do? Becoming a Part of the Solution ---socialchange strategies to deal with privilege and oppression * = New to thisedition