Sociological Footprints Introductory Readings in Sociology

Part 1: THE DISCIPLINE OF SOCIOLOGY. 1. The Sociological Perspective: Is It Just Common Sense? An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Earl Babbie. What is a Social Fact?, Emile Durkheim. The Tools For Scientific Investigation, Leonard Cargan. The Practice of Social Research, Earl Babbie. The Promise, C. Wright Mills. Part 2: BECOMING A MEMBER OF SOCIETY. 2. Culture: Our Way of Life. The Study of Culture, Clyde Kluckholm. An Indian Father''s Plea, Robert Lake. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, Horace Miner. India''s Sacred Cow, Marvin Harris. Rethinking the Good Life, Gary Gardner & Erik Assadourian. 3. Socialization: A Lifelong Learning Process. . Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation, Kingsley Davis. Key Facts on TV Violence, The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation. Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myth of Boyhood, William Pollack. The Role of Gender Socialization in Anorosia Nervosa and Bulima Nervosa, Diane.E. Taub and Penelope A .McLong. Anybody''s Son Will Do, Gwynne Dyer. 4. Social Interaction, Groups and Bureaucracy: Life Is With People. The Exchange of Social Rewards, Peter Blau. The Sounds of Silence, Edward & Mildred Reed Hall. You Can''t Be A Sweet Cucumber In A Vinegar Barrel, Peter Zimbardo. Backboards and Blackboard: College Athletes and Role Engulfment, Patricia A.& Peter Adler. Characteristics of Bureaucracy, Max Weber. Part 3: INEQUALITIES BETWEEN GROUPS. 5. Stratification: Some Are More Equal Than Others. Money and the World We Want, Andrew Hacker . Upper Class Power, Harold R. Kerbo. Keeping Up With the Trumps, Juliet B. Schor. Class, Not Race, Richard Kahlenberg. No, Poverty Has Not Disappeared, Herbert J. Gans. 6. Minorities: The Problems of Inequality Race, Class, and Gender. White Privilege and Male Privilege, Peggy McIntosh. Racial Formation, Michael Omi & Howard Winant. In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate, Joan Moore & Raquel. Pinderhughes. Varieties of Asian Americans, Min Zhou. "This is White Country": The Racial Ideology of the Western Nations of the World-System, Eduardo Bonilla- Silva & Mary Hovsepian. Because She Looks Like a Child, Kevin Bales. 7. Deviance: Violating the Norm of Society. The Normalcy of Crime, Randal Collins. The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, Barry Glassner. Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure, Jeffrey Reiman. White Collar Crime, Richard A. Ball. On Being Sane in Insane Places, D.L. Rosenhan. Part 4: MAJOR INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIETY. 8. Marriage and Families: Diversity and Change. Flying Solo, Tamala M. Edwards. The Family in Transition, Arlene and Jerome Skolnick. Understanding the Effects of the Internet on Family Life, Robert Hughes, Jr. & Jason D. Hans. Anatomy of a Violent Relationship, Neil S. Jacobson and John M. Gottman. An Agenda for Family Policy in the United States, George T. Martin, Jr. 9. Education: An Institution in a Cross-Fire. Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp, Harry L. Gracey. Savage Inequalities: Children in America''s Schools, Jonathan Kozol . Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools, Gary Orfield, Mark D Bachmeier, David R. James, & Tamela Eitle. A Wider Lens On the Black-White Achievement Gap, Richard Rothstein. Fraternity Hazing: Insights from the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective, Stephen Sweet. 10. Religion: The Supernatural and Society. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Emile Durkheim. Secularism in Retreat, Peter L. Berger. Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States, James Aho. Motivation and Ideology: What Drives the Anti-Abortion Movement, Dallas A. Blanchard. The Decline of the American Civil Religion, Gordon Clanton & Shoon Lio. 11. Economics: The Necessities for Survival. Why Deregulation Has Gone Too Far, Robert Worth. The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin. Welfare Reform in America: A Clash of Politics and Research, Diana M. Zucherman. The Credit Card, George Ritzer . Corporate Interests: How the Media Portray the Economy, Christopher L.