Name: Sociology By David M. Newman
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Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings by David M. Newman

This carefully edited companion anthology provides provocative, eye-opening examples of the practice of sociology in a well-edited, well-designed and affordable format. It includes short articles, chapters and excerpts that examine common everyday experiences, important social issues or distinct historical events that illustrate the relationship between the individual and society.

New to the Sixth Edition:

- more detail regarding the theory and/or history related to each issue presented;

- readings that show how race, social class, gender and sexual orientation intersect to influence everyday experiences;

- more focus on global issues and world religions;

- even more balanced than in previous versions of the collection.

Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Readings is the companion book to Sociology, Sixth Edition also by David M Newman (1-4129-2814-1).

About David M. Newman

David M. Newman earned his BA from San Diego State University in 1981 and his graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle (MA 1984, PhD 1988). After a year at the University of Connecticut, David taught at DePauw University for more than 30 years. Hecurrently teaches at Colgate University. David teaches courses in contemporary society, deviance,mental illness, family, social inequality, and research methods. He has published numerousarticles on teaching and has presented research papers on the intersection of gender andpower in intimate relationships. Recently most of his scholarly activity has been devoted to writingand revising several books, including Sociology:Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life:Brief Edition (SAGE, 2020); Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class,Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill, 2021); and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 2009). His most recent book, A Culture of Second Chances: The Promise, Practice and Priceof Starting Over in Everyday Life (Lexington Books, 2019), examines the cultural meaning,institutional importance, and social limitations of second chance and permanent stigmanarratives in everyday life. Jodi OBrien 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.

Part I The Individual and Society 1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World The Sociological Imagination - C. Wright Mills Body Ritual among the Nacirema - Horace Minor 2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obediance - Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton Part II The Construction of Self and Society The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers - Daniel F. Chambliss 3. Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in the Crack Scare - Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine Concepts, Indicators and Reality - Earl Babbie 4. Building Order: Culture and History The Geography of Time - Robert Levine The Melting Pot - Anne Fadiman 5. Building Identity: Socialization Life as the Maids Daughter - Mary Romero Boyhood, Organized Sports and the Construction of Masculinities - Michael A. Messner The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity and Religion in a Gay Bar - Edward R. Gray and Scott Thumma 6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self Becoming a Certain Body - Sharlene Hesse-Biber Frederick the Great or Fredericks of Hollywood: The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women in the Military - Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert Sisyphus in a Wheelchair: Physical Disabilities and Masculinity - Thomas J. Gershick 7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family No Place Like Home - Christopher Carrington Coping With Commitment: Dilemmas and Conflicts of Family Life - Kathleen Gerson Love and Gold - Arlie Russell Hochschild 8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance Watching the Canary - Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Blowing Smoke - Justin Tuggle and Malcom D. Holmes Becoming a Marijuana User - Howard Becker Part III Social Structure, Institutions and Everyday Life 9. The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland - John Van Maanen The Routinization of Disaster - Daniel Chambliss 10. The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class Inequality Making Class Invisible - Gregory Mantsios Branded With Infamy :Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America - Vivyan Adair Savage Inequalities in American Schools: Life on the Mississippi East St. Louis - Jonathan Kozol 11. The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity Are Asians Becoming White? - Min Zhou Blinded by Whiteness: The Development of White College Students Racial Awareness - Mark Chesler, Melissa Peet and Todd Sevig The Blacker the Berry: Gender, Skin Tone, Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy - Maxine S. Thompson and Verna M. Keith 12. The Architecture of Inequality: Gender and Sexuality Dilemmas of Desire - Deborah Tolman Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood - Bart Landry Still a Mans World: Men Who Do Womens World - Christine L. Williams 13. The Global Dynamics of Population: Demographic Trends The Xers versus the Boomers A Contrived War - Margaret Morganroth Gullette To Die a Little: Migration and Coffee in Mexico and Central America - Luiz Hernandez Navarro These Dark Satanic Mills - William Greider 14. Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States - James Aho Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politicization of White, Working-Class Women - Celene Krauss

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GOR003389390

ISBN 13

9781412928137

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1412928133

Title

Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings by David M. Newman

Author

David M. Newman

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Paperback

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SAGE Publications Inc

Year published

2006-03-09

Number of pages

456

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Sociology David M. Newman

Sociology by David M. Newman

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