Mapping the Social Landscape (eBook)

Preface
About the Editor
Part I: The Sociological Perspective
Chapter 1: The Promise - C. Wright Mills
Chapter 2: Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead-End Kids - Donna Gaines
Chapter 3: An Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey - Mary Romero
Theory
Chapter 4: Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology - Chris Hunter and Kent McClelland
Chapter 5: The Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Chapter 6: On Being Sane in Insane Places - David L. Rosenhan
Social Research
Chapter 7: Finding Out How the Social World Works - Michael Schwalbe
Chapter 8: Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison - Craig Haney, W. Curtis Banks, and Philip G. Zimbardo
Chapter 9: Working at Bazooms: The Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality - Meika Loe
Part II. Culture
Chapter 10: Culture: A Sociological View - Howard S. Becker
Chapter 11: Raising Global Children Across the Pacific - Pei-Chia Lan
Chapter 12: Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture - Haunani-Kay Trask
Part III. Socialization
Chapter 13: “No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That!”: Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender Nonconformity - Emily W. Kane
Chapter 14: Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children - Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin
Chapter 15: Making It By Faking It: Working-Class Students in an Elite Academic Environment - Robert Granfield
Chapter 16: Anybody's Son Will Do - Gwynne Dyer
Part IV. Groups and Social Structure
Chapter 17: The Birth of the Intravidual - Dalton Conley
Chapter 18: Peer Power: Clique Dynamics among School Children - Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
Chapter 19: Shopping as Symbolic Interaction: Race, Class, and Gender in the Toy Store - Christine L. Williams
Part V. Deviance, Crime, and Social Control
Chapter 20: From Nowhere: Space, Race, and Time in How Young Minority Men Understand Encounters with Gangs - Randol Contreras
Chapter 21: Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? - A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade
Chapter 22: Descent into Madness: The New Mexico State Prison Riot - Mark Colvin
Part VI. Social Inequality
Social Class
Chapter 23: Some Principles of Stratification - Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore
Chapter 24: Who Rules America?: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class - G. William Domhoff
Chapter 25: Race, Homeownership, and Wealth - Thomas M. Shapiro
Chapter 26: Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty in the United States - H. Luke Shaefer, Kathyrn Edin, and Elizabeth Talbert
Gender
Chapter 27: Gender as Structure - Barbara Risman
Chapter 28: Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System - Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt
Chapter 29: “Dude, You’re a Fag”: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse - C. J. Pascoe
Chapter 30: Because She Looks Like a Child - Kevin Bales
Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 31: What Is Racial Domination? - Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer
Chapter 32: At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die - Charlie LeDuff
Chapter 33: Out of Sorts: Adoption and (Un)Desirable Children - Katherin M. Flower Kim
Chapter 34: Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners - Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Part VII. Social Institutions
Power and Politics
Chapter 35: The Power Elite - C. Wright Mills
Chapter 36: Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society - Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass
Chapter 37: The New Global Elite - Chrystia Freeland
Mass Media
Chapter 38: Must-See TV: South Asian Characterizations in American Popular Media - Bhoomi K. Thakore
Chapter 39: “It’s Dude Time!”: A Quarter Century of Excluding Women’s Sports in Televised News and Highlight Shows - Cheryl Cooky, Michael A. Messner, and Michela Musto
Chapter 40: Dangerous Pipelines, Dangerous People: Colonial Ecological Violence and Media Framing of Threat in the Dakota Access Pipeline Conflict - J. M. Bacon
The Economy and Work
Chapter 41: Over the Counter: McDonald's - Robin Leidner
Chapter 42: Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experiences with Women’s Work - Adia Harvey Wingfield
Chapter 43: The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work - Arlie Russell Hochschild
Religion
Chapter 44: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Chapter 45: Religion and Society: Of Gods and Demons - Steven P. Dandaneau
Chapter 46: Racialization of Muslims - Saher Selod and David G. Embrick
Health and Medicine
Chapter 47: Racism and Health: Pathways and Scientific Evidence - David R. Williams and Selina A. Mohammed
Chapter 48: Sand Castles and Snake Pits - Lillian B. Rubin
Chapter 49: A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America - Keith Wailoo
Education
Chapter 50: Civilize Them with a Stick - Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
Chapter 51: A School in the Garden - Mitchell L. Stevens
Chapter 52: Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity - Ann Arnett Ferguson
The Family
Chapter 53: The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage - Andrew J. Cherlin
Chapter 54: Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage - Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Chapter 55: Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life - Annette Lareau
Part VIII. Social Change
Chapter 56: Revolutions and Regime Change - Jeff Goodwin and René Rojas
Chapter 57: Superstorm Sandy: Restoring Security at the Shore - Diane C. Bates
Chapter 58: A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest - Ruth Milkman