Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology, 4/e
Susan J. Ferguson,
Grinnell College
ISBN: 0072878991 Copyright year: 2005
Table of Contents
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 the sociological imagination to teen suicide
3.
Mary Romero
An Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey
---applying the sociological imagination to domestic service
Social Research
*4.
Michael Schwalbe
Finding Out How the Social World Works
---a summary of what it means to be sociologically mindful
5.
Elaine Bell Kaplan
Not Our Kind of Girl
---participant observation research among African American teen
mothers
6.
Craig Haney,
Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison
W. Curtis Banks,
---classic piece on the research design of Zimbardo’s famous experiment
and Philip G. Zimbardo
CULTURE
7.
Anne M. Velliquette
The New Tattoo Subculture
and Jeff B. Murray
---the tattoo subculture and meanings of body adornment
8.
Elijah Anderson
The Code of the Streets
---an exploration of street culture
*9.
Eugenia Kaw
“Opening” Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian
American Women
---the influence of gender and racial stereotypes on the beauty
culture
10.
Haunani-Kay Trask
Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of
Hawaiian Culture
---an examination of cultural exploitation
SOCIALIZATION
11.
Judith Lorber
"Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender
---the socialization of gender identity
12.
Michael Messner
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities
---the social construction of masculinity
13.
Robert Granfield
Making It By Faking It: Working-Class Students in an Elite Academic
Environment
---working class identity and law school socialization
14.
Gwynne Dyer
Anybody's Son Will Do
---resocialization into the total institution of the military
GROUPS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
15.
Patricia A. Adler
Peer Power: Clique Dynamics among School Children and Peter
Adler
---a study of the structure and interactional dynamics among school
children’s groups
16.
Martín Sanchéz Jankowski
Gang Business
—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
Descent Into Madness: The New Mexico State Prison Riot
---an example of social structure breaking down
DEVIANCE, CRIME, AND SOCIAL CONTROL
19.
David L. Rosenhan
On Being Sane in Insane Places
---classic piece on labeling and social deviance
20.
Penelope E. McLorg
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: The Development of
and Diane E. Taub
Deviant Identities
---the social construction of deviant identities
21.
Philippe Bourgois
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
---an ethnographic study of drug dealing in the inner-city
*22.
A. Ayres Boswell
Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some
and Joan Z. Spade
Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?
---the social organization of crime
SOCIAL INEQUALITY
Social Class
*23.
Kingsley Davis,
Some Principles of Stratification
Wilbert E. Moore
---classic piece on the functions of social stratification
and Melvin Tumin
24.
G. William Domhoff
Who Rules America?: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class
---the lifestyles and social institutions of the upper class
25.
Melvin L. Oliver
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on
and Thomas M. Shapiro
Racial Inequality
---a sociology of wealth and racial inequality
*26.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel-and-Dimed on (Not) Getting by in America
---an exploration of the lives of the working poor
Gender
27.
Barbara Risman
Gender as Structure
---a review of four theories that explain sex and gender
28.
Christine L. Williams
The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions
---an examination of sex typing and job segregation
29.
Yen Le Espiritu
The Racial Construction of Asian American Women and Men
---an examination of racist and sexist images in U.S. culture
*30.
Myra Sadker and
Failing at Fairness: Hidden Lessons
David Sadker
---gender inequality in the institution of education
Race and Ethnicity
*31.
Michael Omi
Racial Formations in the United States
and Howard Winant
---the social construction of race
*32.
Jennifer Lee and
Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America
Frank D. Bean
---how race is measured by the U.S. government
33.
Lillian B. Rubin
Is This A White Country, Or What?
---working class families talk about race and ethnicity
*34.
Charlie LeDuff
At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die
---an examination of the racial dynamics at one work place site
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Power and Politics
35.
C. Wright Mills
The Power Elite
---classic piece on the power elite
36.
Dan Clawson,
Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions
Alan Neustadtl,
Subvert Democracy
and Mark Weller
---an application of Mills' power elite
*37.
Donald L. Barlett
Playing the Political Slots: American Indians and Casinos
and James B. Steele
---the politics of and profiteering from gambling on reservations
Mass Media
38.
Martin N. Marger
The Mass Media as a Power Institution
---an examination of power and the mass media
*39.
Gregory Mantsios
Media Magic: Making Class Invisible
---how the mass media distorts social class
*40.
Todd Gitlin
Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms
Our Lives
---the globalization of American media
The Economy and Work
41.
Karl Marx and
The Manifesto of the Communist Party
Friedrich Engels
---classic piece on the relationship between the capitalists and
the workers
42.
William Julius
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
Wilson
---current analysis of inner-city joblessness
43.
Robin Leidner
Over the Counter: McDonald's
---an ethnographic study of routinization in work
Religion
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 among Americans
46.
Kathleen S. Lowney
Baring Our Souls: T. V. Talk Shows and the Religion of Recovery
---an analysis of religious revivalism and morality on T.V. talk
shows
Health and Medicine
*47.
Talcott Parsons
The Social Structure of Medicine
---classic piece on the functions of health and illness in society
*48.
Johanna McGeary
Death Stalks a Continent
---an examination of the AIDS epidemic in Africa
49.
David A. Karp
Illness and Identity
---an interview study of people with depression
Education
50.
Mary Crow Dog and
Civilize Them With A Stick
Richard Erdoes
---education as an institution of social control
51.
Peter W. Cookson, Jr.
Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Curricula
and
in America's Elite Boarding Schools
Caroline Hodges Persell
---an examination of elite education
*52.
Ann Arnett Ferguson
Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
---racial and gender stereotyping in American Schools
The Family
53.
Judith Stacey
Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here
---changing definitions of family
*54.
Ann Crittenden
The Mommy Tax
---the income discrimination faced by working mothers
55.
Arlie Russell
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home
Hochschild
Becomes Work
---how individuals combine their work and home lives
SOCIAL CHANGE
56.
George Ritzer
The McDonaldization of Society
---a contemporary theory of social change
57.
Conrad L. Kanagy
How Will the Internet Change Society?
and Donald B. Kraybill
---an examination of the social change being caused by computers
*58.
Charles Derber
The Wilding of America: Iraq and the War Against Terrorism
----war as an extreme example of social change
*59.
Amitai Etzioni
Community Building: Steps Toward 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
---social change strategies to deal with privilege and oppression
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