First year undergraduate students of sociology.

David M. Newman earned his B.A. from San Diego State University in 1981 and his graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle (M.A. 1984, PhD 1988). After a year at the University of Connecticut, David came to DePauw University in 1989 and has been there ever since. David teaches courses in Contemporary Society, Deviance, Mental Illness, Family, Social Psychology, and Research Methods. He has published numerous articles on teaching and has presented research papers on the intersection of gender and power in intimate relationships. Recently most of his scholarly activity has been devoted to writing and revising several books, including Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life: Brief Edition (Sage, 2017); Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill, 2017); and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 2009). His most recent book, Redemption or Stigma? The Promise, Practice and Price of Second Chances in American Culture (Lexington Books), is projected to be published in 2019. It examines the cultural meaning, institutional importance, and social limitations of second chance and permanent stigma narratives in everyday life. Jodi O'Brien is Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at Seattle University. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society and co-editor of the Contemporary Sociological Perspectives book series. Her books include The Production of Reality, Social Prisms, and Everyday Inequalities. Her courses and research focus on difference, power and discrimination, and religion and sexuality. Michelle Robertson (PhD, Washington State University) is Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Edward's University. In addition to the introductory course, she teaches courses in research, statistics, theory, sport, masculinities, family, and social inequality. She won a teaching award at Washington State University and does research on classroom incivility.

Part I: The Individual and Society Chapter 1: Taking a New Look at a Familiar World The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills Invitation to Sociology by Peter Berger The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience by Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton Chapter 2: Seeing and Thinking Sociologically The Metropolis and Mental Life by Georg Simmel Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner The (Mis)Education of Monica and Karen by Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. Armstrong Part II: The Construction of Self and Society Chapter 3: Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge Concepts, Indicators, and Reality by Earl Babbie Measuring Same-Sex Relationships by Nancy Bates and Theresa J. DeMaio Chapter 4: Building Order: Culture and History Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner The Melting Pot by Anne Fadiman McDonald's in Hong Kong by James L. Watson Chapter 5: Building Identity: Socialization Life as the Maid's Daughter by Mary Romero Tiger Girls on the Soccer Field by Hilary Levey Friedman Working the 'Code' by Nikki Jones Chapter 6: Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections by Erving Goffman Blue Chip Blacks: Managing Race in Public Spaces by Karyn R. Lacy The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity by David Grazian Chapter 7: Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love by Stephanie Coontz Gay Parenthood and the End of Paternity as We Knew It by Judith Stacey Covenant Marriage: Reflexivity and Retrenchment in the Politics of Intimacy by Dwight Fee Chapter 8: Constructing Difference: Social Deviance Watching the Canary by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Healing (Disorderly) Desire: Medical-Therapeutic Regulation of Sexuality by P.J. McGann Patients, `Potheads,' and Dying to Get High by Wendy Chapkis Part III: Social Structure, Institutions, and Everyday Life Chapter 9: The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions These Dark Satanic Mills by William Greider The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland by John Van Maanen Cool Stores, Bad Jobs by Yasemin Besen-Cassino Chapter 10: The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class Inequality Making Class Invisible by Gregory Mantsios Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America by Vivyan Adair The People of Wal-Mart by Nicholas Copeland and Christine Labuski Chapter 11: The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity Racial and Ethnic Formation by Michael Omi and Howard Winant Optional Ethnicities by Mary C. Waters Jeremy Lin's Model Minority Problem by Maxwell Leung Chapter 12: The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood by Bart Landry Still a Man's World: Men Who Do 'Women's Work' by Christine L. Williams New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New Gender by Eve Shapiro Chapter 13: Global Dynamics and Population Demographic Trends India's Reproductive Assembly Line by Sharmila Rudrappa Love and Gold by Arlie Russell Hochschild Age-Segregation in Later Life: An Examination of Personal Networks by Peter Uhlenberg and Jenny de Jong Gierveld Chapter 14: The Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society 'Aqui Estamos y No Vamos!' Global Capital and Immigrant Rights by William I. Robinson The Seattle Solidarity Network: A New Approach to Working Class Social Movements by Walter Winslow Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politicization of White, Working-Class Women by Celene Krauss