Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology
, by Macionis, John J.; Benokraitis, Nijole V.
- ISBN: 9780205733163 | 0205733166
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/13/2009
This best-selling collection is the only reader that systematically weaves together three types of articles classic, contemporary,and cross-cultural for each general topic typically covered in a sociology course.Seeing Ourselvesconveys sociology's diversity of viewpoints and methodologies and includes important issues and debates that capture the fascinating complexity of the social world.
John J. Macionis was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
John Macionis' publications are wide-ranging, focusing on community life in the United States, interpersonal intimacy in families, effective teaching, humor, new information technology, and the importance of global education.
In addition, John Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis have edited the best-selling anthology Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology. Macionis and Vincent Parrillo have written the leading urban studies text, Cities and Urban Life (Pearson). Macionis’ most recent textbook is Social Problems (Pearson).
John Macionis is Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he has taught for almost thirty years. During that time, he has chaired the Sociology Department, directed the college’s multidisciplinary program in humane studies, presided over the campus senate and the college’s faculty, and taught sociology to thousands of students.
In 2002, the American Sociological Association presented Macionis with the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching, citing his innovative use of global material as well as the introduction of new teaching technology in his textbooks.
Professor Macionis has been active in academic programs in other countries, having traveled to some fifty nations. He writes, “I am an ambitious traveler, eager to learn and, through the texts, to share much of what I discover with students, many of whom know little about the rest of the world. For me, traveling and writing are all dimensions of teaching. First, and foremost, I am a teacher—a passion for teaching animates everything I do.”
At Kenyon, Macionis teaches a number of courses, but his favorite class is Introduction to Sociology, which he offers every semester. He enjoys extensive contact with students and invites everyone enrolled in each of his classes to enjoy a home-cooked meal.
The Macionis family—John, Amy, and children McLean and Whitney—live on a farm in rural Ohio. In his free time, Macionis enjoys tennis, swimming, hiking, and playing oldies rock-and-roll (he recently released his first CD). Macionis is as an environmental activist in the Lake George region of New York’s Adirondack Mountains, working with a number of organizations, including the Lake George Land Conservancy, where he serves as president of the board of trustees.
Nijole V. Benokraitis, professor of sociology at the University of Baltimore, has taught the marriage and family course for almost 25 years. It’s her favorite class, but her courses in racial and ethnic relations and gender roles run a close second. Professor Benokraitis received a B.A. in Sociology and English from Emmanuel College, an M.A. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.
She is a strong proponent of applied sociology and requires her students to enhance their study through interviews, direct observation, and other hands-on learning methods. She also enlists her students in community service activities such as tutoring and mentoring inner-city high school students, writing to government officials and other decision makers about specific social problems, and volunteering research services to nonprofit organizations.
Professor Benokraitis, who immigrated to the United States from Lithuania with her family when she was 6 years old, is bilingual and bi-cultural and is very empathetic of students who try to balance several cultural worlds. She has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited eight books, including Contemporary Ethnic Families in the United States: Characteristics, Variations, and Dynamics; Feuds about Families: Conservative, Centrist, Liberal, and Feminist Perspectives; Modern Sexism: Blatant, Subtle, and Covert Discrimination; and Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology.
Dr. Benokraitis has published numerous articles and book chapters on such topics as institutional racism, discrimination against women in government and higher education, fathers in two-earner families, displaced homemakers, and family policy. She has served as both chair and graduate program director of the University of Baltimore’s Department of Sociology and has chaired numerous university committees.
She has received grants and fellowships from many institutions, including the National Institute of Mental Health, the Ford Foundation, the American Educational Research Association, the Administration on Aging, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has for some time served as a consultant in the areas of sex and race discrimination to women’s commissions, business groups, colleges and universities, and federal government programs. She has also made several appearances on radio and television on gender communication differences and single-sex educational institutions. She currently serves on the editorial board of Women & Criminal Justice and reviews manuscripts for several academic journals.
Professor Benokraitis lives in Maryland with her husband, Dr. Vitalius Benokraitis, associate chair and director of graduate studies in computer science, Loyola College in Maryland. They have two adult children, Gema and Andrius.
Readings new to this edition in bold.
THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
Classic
1. "The Sociological Imagination" by C. Wright Mills
Classic
2. "Invitation to Sociology" by Peter L. Berger
Contemporary
3. "Women and the Birth of Sociology" by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley
Cross-Cultural
4. "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner
SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Classic
5. "The Case for Value-Free Sociology" by Max Weber
Contemporary
6. "The Importance of Social Research" by Earl Babbie
Cross-Cultural
7. "Cultural Obsession with Thinness: African American, Latina, and White Women” by Becky W. Thompson (was #11 in SO7)
CULTURE
Classic
8. "Symbol: The Basic Element of Culture" by Leslie A. White
Contemporary
9. "Manifest and Latent Functions" by Robert K. Merton
Cross-Cultural
10. "India's Sacred Cow" by Marvin Harris
SOCIETY
Classic
11. "Manifesto and the Communist Party" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Classic
12. "Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft" by Ferdinand Tönnies
Contemporary
13. "Unmarried with Children" by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Cross-Cultural
14. "The Amish: A Small Society" by John A. Hostetler
SOCIALIZATION
Classic
15. "The Self" by George Herbert Mead
Contemporary
16. "Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities" by Michael A. Messner
Contemporary
17. "Socialization and the Power of Advertising" by Jean Kilbourne
Cross-Cultural
18. "Parents' Socialization of Children in Global Perspective" by D. Terri Heath
SOCIAL INTERACTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Classic
19. "The Dyad and the Triad," by Georg Simmel
Classic
20. "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" by Erving Goffman
Contemporary
21. "Invisible Privilege" by Paula S. Rothenberg
Contemporary
22. "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation" by Deborah Tannen
Cross-Cultural
23. "The DOs and TABOOs of Body Language around the World" by Roger E. Axtell
GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Classic
24. "Primary Groups" by Charles Horton Cooley
Classic
25. "The Characteristics of Bureaucracy" by Max Weber
Contemporary
26. "McJobs: McDonaldization and the Workplace" by George Ritzer
Cross-Cultural
27. "Even If I Don't Know What I'm Doing, I Can Make It Look Like I Do: Becoming a Doctor in Canada" by Brenda L. Beagan
DEVIANCE
Classic
28. "The Functions of Crime" by Emile Durkheim
Contemporary
29. "On Being Sane in Insane Places" by Donald L. Rosenhan
Contemporary
30. "The Code of the Streets" by Elijah Anderson
Cross-Cultural
31. "Prostitution: A Worldwide Business of Sexual Exploitation" by Melissa Farley
SEXUALITY AND SOCIETY
Classic
32. "Understanding Sexual Orientation" by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin
Contemporary
33. "Sex in America: How Many Partners Do We Have?" by Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata
Cross-Cultural
34. "Homosexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective" by J. M. Carrier
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Classic
35. "Some Principles of Stratification" by Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore, with a response by Melvin Tumin
Contemporary
36. “Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America” by Barbara Ehrenreich [I need to know the permission cost for this one]
Cross-Cultural
37. "The Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West" by Daina Stukuls Eglitis
GENDER
Classic
38. "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies" by Margaret Mead
Contemporary
39. "'Night to His Day': The Social Construction of Gender" by Judith Lorber
Contemporary
40. "How Subtle Sex Discrimination Works" by Nijole V. Benokraitis
Cross-Cultural
41. "Domestic Violence: A Cross-Cultural View" by Elaine Leeder
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Classic
42. "The Souls of Black Folk" by W. E. B. Du Bois
Contemporary
43. "Controlling Images and Black Women's Oppression" by Patricia Hill Collins
Contemporary
44. "How Did Jews Become White Folks?" by Karen Brodkin Sacks
Cross-Cultural
45. “Are Asian Americans Becoming White?” by Min Zhou
THE ECONOMY AND WORK
Classic
46. "Alienated Labor" by Karl Marx
Contemporary
47. "When Work Disappears" by William Julius Wilson
Cross-Cultural
48. "Getting a Job in Harlem: Experiences of African American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican Youth" by Katherine S. Newman
POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND THE MILITARY
Classic
49. "The Power Elite" by C. Wright Mills
Contemporary
50. "Can Anyone Become President of the United States?" by G. William Domhoff
Cross-Cultural
51. "The Roots of Terrorism" by The 9/11 Commission
FAMILIES
Classic
52. "'His' and 'Her' Marriage" by Jessie Bernard
Contemporary
53. "The Mommy Myth" by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels
Cross-Cultural
54. "Mate Selection and Marriage around the World" by Bron B. Ingoldsby
RELIGION
Classic
55. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" by Max Weber
Contemporary
56. "How Student Life is Different at Religious Colleges" by Naomi Schaefer Riley
Cross-Cultural
57. "Women and Islam" by Jane I. Smith
EDUCATION
Classic
58. “Education and Inequality" by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Contemporary
59. "Savage Inequalities: Children in U.S. Schools" by Jonathan Kozol
Cross-Cultural
60. “The English Only Debate” by Alejandro Portes
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Classic
61. "The Social Structure of Medicine" by Talcott Parsons
Contemporary
62. “The Slaughterhouse: The Most Dangerous Job" by Eric Schlosser
Cross-Cultural
63. "Female Genital Mutilation" by Efua Dorkenoo and Scilla Elworthy
POPULATION AND URBANIZATION
Classic
64. "The Metropolis and Mental Life" by Georg Simmel
Classic
65. "Why Humanity Faces Ultimate Catastrophe" by Thomas Robert Malthus
Contemporary
66. "Urbanism as a Way of Life" by Louis Wirth
Contemporary
67. "Urban Sprawl: The Formation of Edge Cities" by John J. Macionis and Vincent R. Parrillo
Cross-Cultural
68. "Let's Reduce Global Population!" by J. Kenneth Smail
SOCIAL CHANGE AND MODERNITY
Classic
69. “Anomy and Modern Life" by Emile Durkheim
Classic
70. "The Disenchantment of Modern Life" by Max Weber
Contemporary
71. "The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty" by David G. Myers
Cross-Cultural
72. “Global Media” by Todd Gitlin
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