The practical skeptic : readings in sociology /
The practical skeptic : readings in sociology /
[edited by] Lisa McIntyre.
- 4th ed.
- Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2009.
- xiv, 394 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface
pt. 1. The sociological imagination. 1. The promise / C. Wright Mills
2. How history and sociology can help today's families / Stephanie Coontz
3. Hernando Washington / Lisa J. McIntyre
pt. 2. The research craft. 4. Men as success objects and women as sex objects : a study of personal advertisements / Simon Davis
5. Skipping class : an analysis of absenteeism among first-year college students / Gary Wyatt
6. Doing the right thing : ethics in research / Lisa J. McIntyre
7. If Hitler asked you to electrocute a stranger, would you? Probably / Philip Meyer
pt. 3. Culture. 8. Queer customs / Clyde Kluckhohn
9. Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner
10. Act your age / Cheryl Laz
11. Marital name change : plans and attitudes of college students / Laurie Scheuble, David R. Johnson
12. The code of the streets / Elijah Anderson
13. Rock in a hard place : grassroots cultural production in the post-Elvis era / William T. Bielby
pt. 4. Social structure. 14. The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman
15. The not-so-lonely crowd : friendship groups in collective behavior / Adrian F. Aveni
16. The pathology of imprisonment / Philip G. Zimbardo
17. "Getting" and "making" a tip / Greta Foff Paules
18. Commanding the room in short skirts : cheering as the embodiment of ideal girlhood / Natalie Adams, Pamela Bettis
19. The rest room and equal opportunity / Harvey Molotch
pt. 5. Social institutions and socialization. 20. Socialization messages in primary schools : an organizational analysis / Steven Brint, Mary F. Contreras, Michael T. Matthews
21. "How can you do it?" : Dirty work and the challenge of constructing a positive identity / Blake E. Ashford, Glen E. Kreiner
22. Anybody's son will do / Gwynne Dyer
23. Suspended identity : identity transformation in a maximum security prison / Thomas J. Schmid, Richard S. Jones
24. How women reshape the prison guard role / Lynn Zimmer
25. Not just bodies : strategies for desexualizing the physical examination of patients / Patti A. Giuffre, Christine L. Williams
pt. 6. Deviance and social control. 26. The normality of crime / Émile Durkheim
27. The saints and the roughnecks / William J. Chambliss
28. On being sane in insane places / D.L. Rosenhan
29. Fraternities and collegiate rape culture : why are some fraternities more dangerous places for women? / A. Ayres Boswell, Joan Z. Spade
30. Situational ethics and college student cheating / Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, George M. Diekhoff
31. Denying the guilty mind : accounting for involvement in a white-collar crime / Michael L. Benson
pt. 7. Inequality. 32. The land of opportunity / James Loewen
33. Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich
34. The job ghetto / Katherine Newman, Chauncy Lennon
35. Racism / Joe R. Feagin
36. "Race doesn't matter, but ..." : the effect of race on college professors' experiences and emotion management in the undergraduate college classroom / Roxanna Harlow
37. Confessions of a nice Negro, or Why I shaved my head / Robin D.G. Kelley
38. The model minority myth : Asian Americans confront growing backlash / Yin Ling Leung
39. Tales out of medical school / Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D
40. Afterword : the sociological eye and its blinders / Randall Collins
eng.
9780073380032 TZS 10,000/=
Sociology.
Social problems.
301McL
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface
pt. 1. The sociological imagination. 1. The promise / C. Wright Mills
2. How history and sociology can help today's families / Stephanie Coontz
3. Hernando Washington / Lisa J. McIntyre
pt. 2. The research craft. 4. Men as success objects and women as sex objects : a study of personal advertisements / Simon Davis
5. Skipping class : an analysis of absenteeism among first-year college students / Gary Wyatt
6. Doing the right thing : ethics in research / Lisa J. McIntyre
7. If Hitler asked you to electrocute a stranger, would you? Probably / Philip Meyer
pt. 3. Culture. 8. Queer customs / Clyde Kluckhohn
9. Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner
10. Act your age / Cheryl Laz
11. Marital name change : plans and attitudes of college students / Laurie Scheuble, David R. Johnson
12. The code of the streets / Elijah Anderson
13. Rock in a hard place : grassroots cultural production in the post-Elvis era / William T. Bielby
pt. 4. Social structure. 14. The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman
15. The not-so-lonely crowd : friendship groups in collective behavior / Adrian F. Aveni
16. The pathology of imprisonment / Philip G. Zimbardo
17. "Getting" and "making" a tip / Greta Foff Paules
18. Commanding the room in short skirts : cheering as the embodiment of ideal girlhood / Natalie Adams, Pamela Bettis
19. The rest room and equal opportunity / Harvey Molotch
pt. 5. Social institutions and socialization. 20. Socialization messages in primary schools : an organizational analysis / Steven Brint, Mary F. Contreras, Michael T. Matthews
21. "How can you do it?" : Dirty work and the challenge of constructing a positive identity / Blake E. Ashford, Glen E. Kreiner
22. Anybody's son will do / Gwynne Dyer
23. Suspended identity : identity transformation in a maximum security prison / Thomas J. Schmid, Richard S. Jones
24. How women reshape the prison guard role / Lynn Zimmer
25. Not just bodies : strategies for desexualizing the physical examination of patients / Patti A. Giuffre, Christine L. Williams
pt. 6. Deviance and social control. 26. The normality of crime / Émile Durkheim
27. The saints and the roughnecks / William J. Chambliss
28. On being sane in insane places / D.L. Rosenhan
29. Fraternities and collegiate rape culture : why are some fraternities more dangerous places for women? / A. Ayres Boswell, Joan Z. Spade
30. Situational ethics and college student cheating / Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, George M. Diekhoff
31. Denying the guilty mind : accounting for involvement in a white-collar crime / Michael L. Benson
pt. 7. Inequality. 32. The land of opportunity / James Loewen
33. Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich
34. The job ghetto / Katherine Newman, Chauncy Lennon
35. Racism / Joe R. Feagin
36. "Race doesn't matter, but ..." : the effect of race on college professors' experiences and emotion management in the undergraduate college classroom / Roxanna Harlow
37. Confessions of a nice Negro, or Why I shaved my head / Robin D.G. Kelley
38. The model minority myth : Asian Americans confront growing backlash / Yin Ling Leung
39. Tales out of medical school / Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D
40. Afterword : the sociological eye and its blinders / Randall Collins
eng.
9780073380032 TZS 10,000/=
Sociology.
Social problems.
301McL