The meaning of sociology : a reader /
[edited by] Joel M. Charon.
- 8th ed.
- x, 337 páginas : ilustraciones
Incluye bibliografía.
pt. 1. The discipline of sociology -- 1. Sociology as a passion to understand / Peter L. Berger -- 2. The sociological imagination / C. Wright Mills -- 3. Max Weber, social science, and sociology / Ronald Fernandez -- 4. Critical thinking about statistics / Joel Best -- 5. Generalizing, stereotyping, and social science / Joel M. Charon -- 6. Religious fundamentalism: a sociological study / Nancy Tatom Ammerman -- pt. 2. The perspective of sociology: humans as social beings -- 7. Human nature / Charles Cooley -- 8. Socialization: the internalization of society / Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann -- 9. Presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman -- 10. Social identity / Richard Jenkins -- 11. The importance of primary groups / Dexter C. Dunphy -- 12. Collective trauma at Buffalo Creek / Kai Erikson -- 13. Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple / Charles Lindholm -- 14. Society, social control, and the individual / Peter L. Berger -- pt. 3. Social structure -- 15. Pathology of imprisonment / Philip E. Zimbardo -- 16. If Hitler asked you to electrocute a stranger, would you? Probably / Philip Meyer -- 17. The My Lai Massacre: a military crime of obedience / Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton -- 18. Four modes of inequality / William M. Dugger -- pt. 4. Social structure: class -- 19. The new American class structure / Robert Purrucci and Earl Wysong -- 20. The children of affluence / Robert Coles -- 21. The uses of poverty: the poor pay all / Herbert J. Gans -- 22. Blue collar blues / Bernard Carl Rosen -- 23. The polarization of class in the world / Robert N. Bellah. pt. 5. Social structure: race and ethnicity -- 24. Occupational opportunities and race / Stephen Steinberg -- 25. Race and middle class identity in America / Clarence Page -- 26. Latino lives in a changing America / Roberto Suro -- 27. Yellow face: Asian Americans in popular culture / Robert G. Lee -- pt. 6. Social structure: gender -- 28. The meaning of gender / Judith A. Howard and Jocelyn A. Hollander -- 29. Gender as structure / Barbara J. Risman -- 30. The working wife as an urbanized peasant / Arlie Russell Hochschild with Anne Machung -- 31. The betrayal of the American man / Susan Faludi -- pt. 7. Culture -- 32. Culture: a sociological view / Howard S. Becker -- 33. The code of the street / Elijah Anderson -- 34. American culture: individualism and community / David A. Karp -- 35. Culture and moral freedom / Alan Wolfe -- 36. The cultural dimension of globalization / Manfred B. Stegar -- pt. 8. Social institutions: economic and political -- 37. The meaning and origin of social institutions / Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann -- 38. The institution of capitalism / Michael Zweig -- 39. The rise of big business in the United States / Charles Perrow -- 40. Jobs, and joblessness, in a technological America / S. Aronowitz and W. DiFazio -- 41. The dominance of the corporation / Carl Boggs -- 42. The politics of the contented / John Kenneth Galbraith -- 43. Liberal democracy and democratic culture / Larry Diamond. pt. 9. Social institutions: familial, religious, educational -- 44. Family in transition / Arlene S. and Jerome H. Skolnick -- 45. Families and class placement / Daniel P. McMurrer and Isabel V. Sawhill -- 46. Religious fundamentalism and the family / Nancy Tatom Ammerman -- 47. The meaning of religion / Emile Durkheim -- 48. The third disestablishment of religion in the United States / Philip E. Hammond -- 49. American education: savage inequalities / Jonathan Kozol -- 50. The hidden curriculum in undergraduate business education / Kenneth N. Ehrensal -- pt. 10. Social change -- 51. Class, social conflict, and social change / Karl Marx -- 52. Society and change / Michel Crozier -- 53. Social movements and social change: the case of the Militia Movement / Lane Crothers -- 54. Islamic fundamentalism and social change / Bernard Lewis -- 55. Globalization / Anthony Giddens.