Sociological Footprints Introductory Readings in Sociology

, by Cargan, Leonard; Ballantine, Jeanne H.

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ISBN: 9780534565022 | 0534565026
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Copyright: 7/15/1999

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This mainstream reader is balanced to include classical, contemporary, popular and multicultural work. SOCIOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS is our best Introduction to Sociology reader, and is so balanced that it can accompany any of our Introduction to Sociology texts (a correlation guide helps professors using Wadsworth texts by such authors as Kendall, Stark and Ferrante use this reader as part of their course). It has established itself as a well-rounded text that presents a wide variety of different types of articles. Professors like this reader because it is complete, leaving few sociological areas un-represented. New articles have been added in areas such as sports, health, gender, international, homosexuality, and macro-sociology.

Preface	p. xi
To the Student	p. xiii
Introduction: Why Study Sociology?	p. 1
The Discipline of Sociology	p. 7
Science and Sociology: Is It Just Common Sense?	p. 9
What Is a Social Fact?	p. 12
An Invitation to Sociology	p. 17
The Promise	p. 21
Some Sociological Aspects of HIV Disease	p. 27
Becoming a Member of Society	p. 35
Socialization: A Lifelong Learning Process	p. 37
Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation	p. 40
Becoming "Boys," "Men," "Guys," and "Dudes"	p. 46
The National Television Violence Study: Key Findings and Recommendations	p. 53
Beauty and the Beast of Advertising	p. 56
The Influence of Gender Socialization in Eating Disorders	p. 59
Culture: Why We Do Things the Way We Do	p. 67
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema	p. 69
India's Sacred Cow	p. 73
Expendable Youth: The Rise and Fall of Youth Culture	p. 79
Domestic Violence Against Women: A Contemporary Issue in International Health	p. 88
Interaction and Group Behavior: Life Is with People	p. 102
The Sounds of Silence	p. 104
Womanspeak and Manspeak	p. 111
Backboards and Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment	p. 116
An Introduction to McDonaldization	p. 130
Stratification: Some Are More Equal Than Others!	p. 136
Money and the World We Want	p. 138
Upper-Class Power	p. 145
Class, Not Race	p. 153
No, Poverty Has Not Disappeared	p. 160
Major Patterns of Society	p. 167
Families: Diversity and Change	p. 169
For Love Or Money? Sociodemographic Determinants of the Expected Benefits from Marriage	p. 171
The Family in the Postmodern World	p. 178
Social Structure, Families, and Children	p. 183
Family Enrichment: Programmes to Foster Healthy Family Development	p. 196
Education: Institution in a Cross-Fire	p. 205
Sandbox Society: Summary Analysis	p. 207
Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp	p. 214
Schools and Equal Opportunity	p. 224
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools	p. 232
Religion: The Supernatural and Society	p. 237
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life	p. 239
The Church, the Family, and the School in the African American Community	p. 243
Religion in Post-Protestant America	p. 250
Motivation and Ideology: What Drives the Anti-Abortion Movement	p. 258
Economics: Necessities for Survival	p. 267
The Credit Card: Private Troubles and Public Issues	p. 269
The Jobless Future?	p. 277
The Future of Women and Work: Ending the Twentieth Century	p. 288
A Broader Vision: Social Policy Options in Cross-National Perspective	p. 298
Politics: Power and Its Implications	p. 301
The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address	p. 303
If Hitler Asked You To Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably	p. 317
Money Changes Everything	p. 325
The Vicissitudes and Variety of the American Right	p. 335
Some Processes of Social Life	p. 343
Minority Relations: "I Met the Stranger and Them Is Us!"	p. 345
Discrimination and the American Creed	p. 348
Race Relations and the Nineties: Where Are the Dreams of the Sixties?	p. 353
"This Is a White Country": The Racial Ideology of the Western Nations of the World-System	p. 363
In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate	p. 368
Myths of an Aging America	p. 378
Deviance: What Does It Mean?	p. 385
Social Structure and Anomie	p. 388
Crime in the Suites	p. 395
Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure	p. 400
On Being Sane in Insane Places	p. 404
The Human Environment: Living Together on Spaceship Earth	p. 418
Limiting Consumption: Toward a Sustainable Culture	p. 420
Overview: New Records, New Stresses	p. 425
Next Doubling	p. 434
America's Cities: Centers of Culture, Commerce, and Community--or Collapsing Hope?	p. 442
Why We Have Homelessness	p. 447
Social Movement and Change: Society in Flux	p. 453
Globalization and the Mobilization of Gay and Lesbian Communities	p. 455
The Technology of Hope: Tools to Empower the World's Poorest Peoples	p. 460
Lifestyles of the New Millennium: 65 Forecasts	p. 466
A Message from Future Generations	p. 471
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