TY - BOOK AU - McIntyre,Lisa J. TI - The practical skeptic: readings in sociology SN - 9780073380032 U1 - 301McL PY - 2009/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill Higher Education KW - Sociology KW - Social problems N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007028364-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007028364-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007028364-t.html ER -