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PART I. THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
1. The Promise / C. Wright Mills
2. Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead/End Kids / Donna Gaines
3. An Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey / Mary Romero
Theory
4. Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology / Chris Hunter and Kent Mc Clelland
5. Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
6. On Being Sane in Insane Places / David L. Rosenhan
Social Research
7. Finding Out How the Social World Works / Michael Schwalbe
8. Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison / Craig Haney, W. Curtis Banks, and Philip G. Zimbardo
9. Working at Bazooms: The Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality / Meika Loe
PART II. CULTURE
10. Culture: A Sociological View / Howard S. Becker
11. "This Is for the Brown Kids!": Racialization and the Formation of "Muslim" Punk Rock / Amy D. Mc Dowell
12. Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture / Haunani/Kay Trask
PART III. SOCIALIZATION
13. "No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That!": Parents' Responses to Children's Gender Nonconformity / Emily W. Kane
14. Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children / Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin
15. Making It by Faking It: Working/Class Students in an Elite Academic Environment / Robert Granfield
16. Anybody's Son Will Do / Gwynne Dyer
PART IV. GROUPS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
17. The Birth of the Intravidual / Dalton Conley
18. Peer Power: Clique Dynamics Among School Children / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
19. Shopping as Symbolic Interaction: Race, Class, and Gender in the Toy Store / Christine L. Williams
PART V. DEVIANCE, CRIME, AND SOCIAL CONTROL
20. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: The Development of Deviant Identities / Penelope A. Mc Lorg and Diane E. Taub
21. Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? / A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade
22. Descent Into Madness: The New Mexico State Prison Riot / Mark Colvin
PART VI. SOCIAL INEQUALITY
Social Class
23. Some Principles of Stratification / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, with a response by Melvin Tumin
24. Who Rules America?: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class / G. William Domhoff
25. Race, Homeownership, and Wealth / Thomas M. Shapiro
26. Understanding the Dynamics of 2 dollars-a-Day Poverty in the United States / H. Luke Shaefer, Kathyrn Edin, and Elizabeth Talbert
Gender
27. Gender as Structure / Barbara Risman
28. Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System / Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt
29. "Dude, You're a Fag": Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse / C. J. Pascoe
30. Because She Looks Like a Child / Kevin Bales
Race and Ethnicity
31. What Is Racial Domination? / Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer
32. At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die / Charlie Le Duff
33. Out of Sorts: Adoption and (Un)Desirable Children / Katherin M. Flower Kim
34. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners / Evelyn Nakano Glenn
PART VII. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Power and Politics
35. The Power Elite / C. Wright Mills
36. Diversity in the Power Elite / Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
37. The Rise of the New Global Elite / Chrystia Freeland
Mass Media
38. Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age / Eric Klinenberg
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
40. Controlling the Media in Iraq / Andrew M. Lindner
The Economy and Work
41. Over the Counter: Mc Donald's / Robin Leidner
42. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men's Experiences With Women's Work / Adia Harvey Wingfield
43. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work / Arlie Russell Hochschild
Religion
44. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber
45. Religion and Society: Of Gods and Demons / Steven P. Dandaneau
46. Muslims in America / Jen'nan Ghazal Read
Health and Medicine
47. United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps / Barack Obama
48. Sand Castles and Snake Pits / Lillian B. Rubin
49. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America / Keith Wailoo
Education
50. Civilize Them With a Stick / Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes 51. A School in a Garden / Mitchell L. Stevens
52. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity / Ann Arnett Ferguson
The Family
53. The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage / Andrew J. Cherlin
54. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage / Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
55. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families / Annette Lareau
PART VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE
56. Revolutions and Regime Change / Jeff Goodwin and René Rojas
57. Superstorm Sandy: Restoring Security at the Shore / Diane C. Bates
58. The Cosmopolitan Canopy / Elijah Anderson
1. The Promise / C. Wright Mills
2. Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead/End Kids / Donna Gaines
3. An Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey / Mary Romero
Theory
4. Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology / Chris Hunter and Kent Mc Clelland
5. Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
6. On Being Sane in Insane Places / David L. Rosenhan
Social Research
7. Finding Out How the Social World Works / Michael Schwalbe
8. Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison / Craig Haney, W. Curtis Banks, and Philip G. Zimbardo
9. Working at Bazooms: The Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality / Meika Loe
PART II. CULTURE
10. Culture: A Sociological View / Howard S. Becker
11. "This Is for the Brown Kids!": Racialization and the Formation of "Muslim" Punk Rock / Amy D. Mc Dowell
12. Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture / Haunani/Kay Trask
PART III. SOCIALIZATION
13. "No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That!": Parents' Responses to Children's Gender Nonconformity / Emily W. Kane
14. Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children / Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin
15. Making It by Faking It: Working/Class Students in an Elite Academic Environment / Robert Granfield
16. Anybody's Son Will Do / Gwynne Dyer
PART IV. GROUPS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
17. The Birth of the Intravidual / Dalton Conley
18. Peer Power: Clique Dynamics Among School Children / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
19. Shopping as Symbolic Interaction: Race, Class, and Gender in the Toy Store / Christine L. Williams
PART V. DEVIANCE, CRIME, AND SOCIAL CONTROL
20. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: The Development of Deviant Identities / Penelope A. Mc Lorg and Diane E. Taub
21. Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? / A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade
22. Descent Into Madness: The New Mexico State Prison Riot / Mark Colvin
PART VI. SOCIAL INEQUALITY
Social Class
23. Some Principles of Stratification / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, with a response by Melvin Tumin
24. Who Rules America?: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class / G. William Domhoff
25. Race, Homeownership, and Wealth / Thomas M. Shapiro
26. Understanding the Dynamics of 2 dollars-a-Day Poverty in the United States / H. Luke Shaefer, Kathyrn Edin, and Elizabeth Talbert
Gender
27. Gender as Structure / Barbara Risman
28. Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System / Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt
29. "Dude, You're a Fag": Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse / C. J. Pascoe
30. Because She Looks Like a Child / Kevin Bales
Race and Ethnicity
31. What Is Racial Domination? / Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer
32. At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die / Charlie Le Duff
33. Out of Sorts: Adoption and (Un)Desirable Children / Katherin M. Flower Kim
34. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners / Evelyn Nakano Glenn
PART VII. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Power and Politics
35. The Power Elite / C. Wright Mills
36. Diversity in the Power Elite / Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
37. The Rise of the New Global Elite / Chrystia Freeland
Mass Media
38. Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age / Eric Klinenberg
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
40. Controlling the Media in Iraq / Andrew M. Lindner
The Economy and Work
41. Over the Counter: Mc Donald's / Robin Leidner
42. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men's Experiences With Women's Work / Adia Harvey Wingfield
43. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work / Arlie Russell Hochschild
Religion
44. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber
45. Religion and Society: Of Gods and Demons / Steven P. Dandaneau
46. Muslims in America / Jen'nan Ghazal Read
Health and Medicine
47. United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps / Barack Obama
48. Sand Castles and Snake Pits / Lillian B. Rubin
49. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America / Keith Wailoo
Education
50. Civilize Them With a Stick / Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes 51. A School in a Garden / Mitchell L. Stevens
52. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity / Ann Arnett Ferguson
The Family
53. The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage / Andrew J. Cherlin
54. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage / Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
55. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families / Annette Lareau
PART VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE
56. Revolutions and Regime Change / Jeff Goodwin and René Rojas
57. Superstorm Sandy: Restoring Security at the Shore / Diane C. Bates
58. The Cosmopolitan Canopy / Elijah Anderson