This best-selling collection of 77 classic, contemporary, and cross-cultural articles conveys sociology's diversity
of viewpoints and methodologies. Important issues and debates are presented by scholars from many positions on
the political spectrum, and capture the fascinating complexity of the social world.
Features :
NEW--15 selections.
Gives students an anthology with 77 selections, dozens more readings than found in other texts.
Classic articles--30 in all.
Provides students with sociological statements of recognized importance and lasting significance.
Contemporary articles--24 in all--Focus on current sociological issues, controversies, and applications.
Reveals sociologists at work and demonstrates the importance of on-going research.
Cross-cultural articles--23 in all.
Casts sociological insights against the world's striking cultural diversity.
A brief introduction--Begins each selection.
Highlights key issues for students and focuses on the essential argument.
Critical-thinking questions--Concludes each selection.
Helps students assess their understanding and apply the reading to other issues.
Emphasis on diversity--Contains contemporary selections from women, African American, and Latino scholars.
Presents students with varying viewpoints on important issues.
Table of Contents
(NOTE: Readings in bold are new to this edition.)
THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE.
1. Classic: The Promise of Sociology, C. Wright Mills.
2. Classic: Invitation to Sociology, Peter L. Berger.
3. Contemporary: How Would a Sociologist Look at Sport? Jay J. Coakley.
4. Cross-Cultural: Body Ritual among the Nacirema, Horace Miner.
SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
5. Classic: The Case for Value-Free Sociology, Max Weber.
6. Contemporary: The Importance of Social Research, Earl Babbie.
7. Cross-Cultural: Arab Women in the Field, Soraya Altorki.
CULTURE.
8. Classic: Symbol: The Basic Element of Culture, Leslie A. White.
9. Classic: Manifest and Latent Functions, Robert K. Merton.
10. Contemporary: Cultural Obsessions with Thinness: African American, Latina, and White Women, Becky W. Thompson.
11. Cross-Cultural: India's Sacred Cow, Marvin Harris.
SOCIETY.
12. Classic: Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
13. Classic: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaf, Ferdinand Tönnies.
14. Contemporary: How the Internet Nurtures Long-Distance Relationships and Local Ties, John B. Horrigan.
15. Cross-Cultural: The Amish: A Small Society, John A. Hostetler.
SOCIALIZATION.
16. Classic: The Self, George Herbert Mead.
17. Contemporary: Socialization and the Power of Advertising, Jean Kilbourn.
18. Cross-Cultural: Parents' Socialization of Children in Global Perspective, D. Terri Heath.
SOCIAL INTERACTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
19. Classic: The Dyad and the Triad, Georg Simmel.
20. Classic: The Presentation of Self, Erving Goffman.
21. Contemporary: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Deborah Tannen.
22. Cross-Cultural: The DOs and TABOOs of Body Language around the World, Roger E. Axtell.
GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS.
23. Classic: Primary Groups, Charles Horton Cooley.
24. Classic: The Characteristics of Bureaucracy, Max Weber.
25. Contemporary: McJobs: McDonaldization and the Workplace, George Ritzer.
26. Cross-Cultural: Japanese Etiquette and Ethics in Business, Boye De Mente.
DEVIANCE.
27. Classic: The Functions of Crime, Emile Durkheim.
28. Contemporary: On Being Sane in Insane Places, David L. Rosenhan.
29. Cross-Cultural: The Code of the Streets, Elijah Anderson.
SEXUALITY.
30. Classic: Understanding Sexual Orientation, Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin.
31. Contemporary: Sex in America: How Many Partners Do We Have? Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann,
and Gina Kolata.
32. Cross-Cultural: Homosexual Behavior in Cross-Cultural Perspective, J.M. Carrier.
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION.
33. Classic: Some Principles of Stratification, Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore with a response by Melvin Tumin.
34. Contemporary: Who Has How Much and Why, Andrew Hacker.
35. Cross-Cultural: The Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West, Daina Stukels Eglitis.
GENDER.
36. Classic: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, Margaret Mead.
37. Contemporary: How Subtle Sex Discrimination Works, Nijole V. Benokraitis.
38. Cross-Cultural: Save the Children, Mothers and Children in the World Today, Daina Stukels.
RACE AND ETHNICITY.
39. Classic: The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois.
40. Contemporary: Controlling Images and Black Women's Oppression, Patricia Hill Collins.
41. Contemporary: How Did Jews Became White Folks? Karen Brodkin Sacks.
42. Cross-Cultural: Out of Harmony: Health Problems and Young Native American Men, Jennie R. Joe.
AGING AND THE ELDERLY.
43. Classic: The Tragedy of Old Age in America, Robert N. Butler.
44. Contemporary: How the Grandparent Role Is Changing, Roseann Giarrusso, Merril Silverstein, and Vern L. Bengston.
45. Cross-Cultural: Our Aging World, Frank B. Hobbs and Bonnie L. Damon.
THE ECONOMY AND WORK.
46. Classic: Alienated Labor, Karl Marx.
47. Contemporary: When Work Disappears, William Julius Wilson.
48. Cross-Cultural: Getting a Job in Harlem: Experiences of African American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican Youth,
Katherine S. Newman.
POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND THE MILITARY.
49. Classic: The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills.
50. Contemporary: Understanding the September 11th Attacks: A Human Rights Approach, Kathryn Sikkink.
51. Cross-Cultural: Freedom in the World: A Global Survey, Adrian Karatnycky.
FAMILY.
52. Classic: "His" and "Her" Marriage, Jessie Bernard.
53. Contemporary: The Decline of Marriage and Fatherhood, David Popenoe.
54. Cross-Cultural: Mate Selection and Marriage around the World, Bron B. Ingoldsby.
RELIGION.
55. Classic: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber.
56. Contemporary: Seeker Churches: Promoting Traditional Religion in a Nontraditional Way, Kimon Howland Sargeant.
57. Cross-Cultural: Women and Islam, Jane I. Smith.
EDUCATION.
58. Classic: Education and Inequality, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis.
59. Contemporary: Savage Inequalities: Children in U.S. Schools, Jonathan Kozol.
60. Cross-Cultural: Academic Achievement in Southeast Asian Refugee Families, Nathan Caplan, Marcella H. Choy,
and John K. Whitmore.
HEALTH AND MEDICINE.
61. Classic: The Social Structure of Medicine, Talcott Parsons.
62. Contemporary: The Health of Latino Families, Ruth E. Zambrana, Claudia Dorrington, and David Hayes-Bautista.
63. Cross-Cultural: Female Genital Mutilation, Efua Dorkenoo and Scilla Elworthy.
POPULATION AND URBANIZATION.
64. Classic: The Metropolis and Mental Life, Georg Simmel.
65. Classic: Urbanism as a Way of Life, Louis Wirth.
66. Contemporary: Urban Sprawl: The Formation of Edge Cities, John J. Macionis and Vincent R. Parrillo.
67. Cross-Cultural: Let's Reduce Global Population, J. Kenneth Smail.
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY.
68. Classic: Why Humanity Faces Ultimate Catastrophe, Thomas Robert Malthus.
69. Contemporary: Rich Planet, Poor Planet: Global Environment and Poverty in 2001, Christopher Flavin.
70. Cross-Cultural: Supporting Indigenous Peoples, Alan Thein Durning.
COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
71. Classic: On the Origin of Social Movements, Jo Freeman.
72. Contemporary: The Animal Rights Movement as Moral Crusade, James M. Jasper and Dorothy Nelkin.
73. Cross-Cultural: Abortion Movements in Poland, Great Britain, and the United States, Janet Hadley.
SOCIAL CHANGE AND MODERNITY.
74. Classic: Anomy and Modern Life, Emile Durkheim.
75. Classic: The Disenchantment of Modern Life, Max Weber.
76. Contemporary: The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty, David G. Myers.
77. Cross-Cultural: The Price of Modernization: The Case of Brazil's Kaiapo Indians, Marlise Simons.
