Sociology; Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Bundle

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Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-30
Publisher(s): Pine Forge Press
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To read a sample chapter from the Fifth Editions of the text and reader click on "Additional Materials" in the left column under "About This Book" or simply click here. The best introductory sociology textbook on the market and its accompanying reader are now available at an affordable package price! Simply ask your bookstore to place their order using ISBN 0-7619-8828-9. David M. Newman's Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Fifth Edition does what no other introductory sociology textbook has done: it shows students how sociology is woven into their everyday lives and does so in a readable, friendly style. For more information on this text, please click here:http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=10023 Edited by David M. Newman and Jodi O'Brien, the anthology that accompanies the text, Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Readings , has been one of the most popular collected works used in introductory sociology courses. The carefully chosen articles have proven to be relevant, fresh, and interesting to students, while introducing them to the sociological perspective. The Fifth Edition of this anthology includes 9 new articles that touch on many important sociological issues. For more information on this reader, please click here: http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=10024

Table of Contents

The Individual and Society
Taking a New Look at a Familiar World
The Sociological Imagination
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
Seeing and Thinking Sociologically
The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obediance
The Construction of Self and Society
The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers
Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge
The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in the Crack Scare
Concepts, Indicators and Reality
Building Order: Culture and History
The Geography of Time
The Melting Pot
Building Identity: Socialization
Life as the Maid's Daughter
Boyhood, Organized Sports and the Construction of Masculinities
The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity and Religion in a Gay Bar
Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self
Becoming a Certain Body
Frederick the Great or Frederick's of Hollywood: The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women in the Military
Sisyphus in a Wheelchair: Physical Disabilities and Masculinity
Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family
No Place Like Home
Coping With Commitment: Dilemmas and Conflicts of Family Life
Love and Gold
Constructing Difference: Social Deviance
Watching the Canary
Blowing Smoke
Becoming a Marijuana User
Social Structure, Institutions and Everyday Life
The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions
The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland
The Routinization of Disaster
The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class Inequality
Making Class Invisible
Branded With Infamy :Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America
Savage Inequalities in American Schools: Life on the Mississippi - East St. Louis
The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity
Are Asians Becoming White?
Blinded by Whiteness: The Development of White College Students' Racial Awareness
The Blacker the Berry: Gender, Skin Tone, Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy
The Architecture of Inequality: Gender and Sexuality
Dilemmas of Desire
Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood
Still a Man's World: Men Who Do "Women's World"
The Global Dynamics of Population: Demographic Trends
The "Xers" versus the "Boomers" - A Contrived War
To Die a Little: Migration and Coffee in Mexico and Central America
These Dark Satanic Mills
Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society
Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States
Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politicization of White, Working-Class Women
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