Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Gould, Kenneth Alan.
2. Lewis, Tammy L.

Description

1. viii, 375 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Sociology

Contents

1. Part 1: Why sociology? Section 1: The sociological imagination. Introduction ; Reading 1: C. Wright Mills, Excerpt from The sociological imagination (1959) ; Reading 2: Peter Berger, Excerpt from An invitation to sociology (1963) ; Reading 3: Kristin Luker, Excerpt from Dubious conceptions : the politics of the teenage pregnancy crisis (1996) -- Section 2: Methods and theory. Introduction ; Reading 4: Emile Durkheim, Excerpt from Suicide : a study in sociology (1951) [1897] ; Reading 5: Charles Ragin, Excerpts from Constructing social research (1994) ; Reading 6: Joel Best, Excerpt from Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists (2001) -- Part 2: What unites us. Section 3: Culture and socialization. Introduction ; Reading 7: Howard Becker, Excerpt from Doing things together (1986) ; Reading 8: Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin, Excerpt from The first R : how children learn race and racism (2001) ; Reading 9: Juliet Schor, Excerpt from Born to buy : the commercialized child and the new consumer culture (2004) -- Section 4: Social institutions. Introduction ; Reading 10: Max Weber, Excerpt from The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (2009) [1905] ; Reading 11: Charles Derber, Excerpt from Corporation nation (1998) ; Reading 12: Andrew Cherlin, The deinstitutionalization of American marriage (2004) -- Part 3: What divides us? Section 5: Race and intersectionality. Introduction ; Reading 13: W.E.B. Dubois, Excerpt from The souls of black folk (1990) [1903] ; Reading 14: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Excerpts from Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States (2003) ; Reading 15: Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, Excerpt from American apartheid : segregation and the making of the underclass (1993) -- Section 6: Class and intersectionality. Introduction ; Reading 16: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Excerpt from The communist manifesto (1848) ; Reading 17: Rachel Sherman, Excerpt from Class acts (2007) ; Reading 18: Erik Olin Wright, Excerpt from Class counts (2000) -- Section 7: Gender and intersectionality. Introduction ; Reading 19: Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman, "Doing gender" (1987) ; Reading 20: Patricia Hill Collins, Excerpt from Black feminist thought (2000) ; Reading 21: Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers, Excerpt from Families that work : policies for reconciling parenthood and employment (2003) -- Part 4: How do societies change? Section 8: Forces of social change. Introduction ; Reading 22: William Gamson, Excerpt from Strategies of social protest (1990) [1975] ; Reading 23: Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, Excerpt from Poor people's movements : why they succeed, how they fail (1979) ; Reading 24: Doug McAdam, Excerpt from Political process and the development of black insurgency, 1930-1970 (1982) -- Section 9: Global dynamics. Introduction ; Reading 25: Immanuel Wallerstein, Excerpt from The modern world system (1976) ; Reading 26: Deborah Barndt, Excerpt from Tangled routes : women, work and globalization on the tomato trail (2008) ; Reading 27: John Walton, John Seddon, and Mridula Udayagiri, Excerpt from Free markets and food riots : the politics of global adjustment (1994) -- Section 10: Public sociology. Introduction ; Reading 28: Michael Burawoy, Excerpt from Public Sociologies reader (2006) ; Reading 29: Dan Clawson, Excerpt from The next upsurge: labor and new social movements (2003) ; Reading 30: Gene Shackman, Xun Wang, Ya-Lin Liu, and Jammie Price, Excerpt from Doing sociology : case studies in sociological practice (2009).

Call number

1. JFE 13-5357

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. Thirty readings in introductory sociology / [edited by] Kenneth A. Gould, Tammy L. Lewis.

Imprint

1. New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Gould, Kenneth Alan.
2. Lewis, Tammy L.

LCCN

1. 2012027579

ISBN

1. 9780199934928 (alk. paper)
2. 0199934924 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 13-5357