Sociology : exploring the architecture of everyday life : readings / 4th ed.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I The Individual And Society
1 Taking a New Look at a Familiar World
The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers D.F. Chambliss
2 Seeing and Thinking Sociologically
The My Lai Massacre: Military Crime of Obedience H. Kelman and V.L. Hamilton
Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness D.A. Karp
Part II The Construction Of Self And Society
3 Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge
The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in the Crack Scare C. Reinarman and H.G. Levine
The Practice of Social Research J. O'Connell Davidson
4 Building Order: Culture and History
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema H. Miner
A Geography of Time R. Levine
The Melting Pot A. Fadiman
5 Building Identity: Socialization
Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender M. Romero
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities M.A. Messner
Coming Out: Lesbian Identities and the Categorization Problem V. Jenness
6 Building Image: The Presentation of Self
Frederick the Great or Frederick's of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women in the Military M.S. Herbert
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience J. Nelson
Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison T.J. Schmid and R.S. Jones
7 Constructing Difference: Social Deviance
The Saints and the Roughnecks W.J. Chambliss
Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America V. Adair
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control P. Conrad and J.W. Schneider
8 Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Families
No Place Like Home C. Carrington
Jesus Christ's Half-Brother Is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation S. Alexie
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work A.R. Hochschild
Part III Social Structure, Institutions, And Everyday Life
9 The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions
When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student A. Levine and J. S. Cureton
The Overworked American J.S. Schor
The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland J. Van Maanen
10 The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality
Software Entrepreneurship Among the Urban Poor: Could Bill Gates Have Succeeded If He Were Black?...Or Impoverished? A.H. Amsden and J.C. Clark
Savage Inequalities in America's Schools Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois J. Kozol
The Code of the Streets E. Anderson
These Dark Satanic Mills W. Greider
11 The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity
Stephen Cruz S. Terkel
Whitenss as an "Unmarked" Cultrual Category R. Frankenberg
The Blacker the Berry: Gender, Skin Tone, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy M.S. Thompson and V.M. Keith
"Opening" Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women E. Kaw
12 The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender
The Mismeasure of Woman C. Tavris
Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood B. Landry
Still a Man's World: Men Who Do "Women's Work" C.L. Williams
13 The Global Dynamics of Population: Demographic Trends
Planet Pokemon N. Howe and W. Strauss
Border Blues: Mexican Immigration and Mexican-American Identity F. Chideya
14 Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society
Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States J. Aho
Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politicization of White, Working-Class Women C. Krauss
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