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For semester/quarter courses in introductory sociology that use a reader.
This best-selling introductory sociology reader provides classical, contemporary and cross-cultural readings on each key sociological topic. Seeing Ourselves strives to showcase the different perspectives sociology offers.complexity of the social world.
* Indicates readings new to this edition.
THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
Classic
1. The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
Classic
2. Invitation to Sociology by Peter L. Berger
Contemporary
3. Teenage Wasteland by Donna Gaines*
Contemporary
4. Women and the Birth of Sociology by Patricia Madoo-Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley*
Cross-Cultural
5. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner
SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Classic
6. The Case for Value-Free Sociology by Max Weber
Contemporary
7. The Importance of Social Research by Earl Babbie
Cross-Cultural
8. Arab Women in the Field by Soraya Altorki
CULTURE
Classic
9. Symbol: The Basic Element of Culture by Leslie A. White
Classic
10. Manifest and Latent Functions by Robert K. Merton
Contemporary
11. Cultural Obsessions with Thinness: African American, Latina, and White Women by Becky W. Thompson
Cross-Cultural
12. India's Sacred Cow by Marvin Harris
SOCIETY
Classic
13. Manifesto and the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Classic
14. Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft by Ferdinand Toennies
Contemporary
15. Unmarried with Children by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas*
Cross-Cultural
16. The Amish: A Small Society by John A. Hostetler
SOCIALIZATION
Classic
17. The Self by George Herbert Mead
Contemporary
18. Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities by Michael A. Messner*
Contemporary
19. Socialization and the Power of Advertising by Jean Kilbourne
Cross-Cultural
20. Parents' Socialization of Children in Global Perspective by D. Terri Heath
SOCIAL INTERACTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Classic
21. The Dyad and the Triad, by Georg Simmel
Classic
22. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Contemporary
23. Invisible Privilege by Paula S. Rothenberg*
Contemporary
24. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
Cross-Cultural
25. The DOs and TABOOs of Body Language around the World by Roger E. Axtell
GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Classic
26. Primary Groups by Charles Horton Cooley
Classic
27. The Characteristics of Bureaucracy by Max Weber
Contemporary
28. McJobs: McDonaldization and the Workplace by George Ritzer
Cross-Cultural
29. Even If I Don't Know What I'm Doing, I Can Make It Look Like I Do: Becoming a Doctor in Canada by Brenda L. Beagan*
DEVIANCE
Classic
30. The Functions of Crime by Emile Durkheim
Contemporary
31. On Being Sane in Insane Places by Donald L. Rosenhan
Contemporary
32. The Code of the Streets by Elijah Anderson
Cross-Cultural
33. Prostitution: A Worldwide Business of Sexual Exploitation by Melissa Farley*
SEXUALITY AND SOCIETY
Classic
34. Understanding Sexual Orientation by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin
Contemporary
35. Sex in America: How Many Partners Do We Have? by Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata
Cross-Cultural
36. Homosexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective by J. M. Carrier
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Classic
37. Some Principles of Stratification by Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore, with a response by Melvin Tumin
Contemporary
38. Who Has How Much and Why by Andrew Hacker
Cross-Cultural
39. The Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West by Daina Stukuls Eglitis
GENDER
Classic
40. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies by Margaret Mead
Contemporary
41. 'Night to His Day': The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber*
Contemporary
42. How Subtle Sex Discrimination Works by Nijole V. Benokraitis
Cross-Cultural
43. Domestic Violence: A Cross-Cultural View by Elaine Leeder*
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Classic
44. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Contemporary
45. Controlling Images and Black Women's Oppression by Patricia Hill Collins
Contemporary
46. How Did Jews Become White Folks? by Karen Brodkin Sacks
Cross-Cultural
47. Out of Harmony: Health Problems and Young Native American Men by Jennie R. Joe
AGING AND THE ELDERLY
Classic
48. The Tragedy of Old Age in America by Robert N. Butler
Contemporary
49. How the Grandparent Role is Changing by Roseann Giarrusso, Merril Silverstein, and Vern L. Bengston
Cross-Cultural
50. Our Aging World by Frank B. Hobbs and Bonnie L. Damon
THE ECONOMY AND WORK
Classic
51. Alienated Labor by Karl Marx
Contemporary
53. When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson
Cross-Cultural
54. Getting a Job in Harlem: Experiences of African American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican Youth by Katherine S. Newman
POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND THE MILITARY
Classic
55. The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Contemporary
56. Who's Running America? by Thomas R. Dye*
Cross-Cultural
57. The Roots of Terrorism by The 9/11 Commission*
FAMILIES
Classic
58. 'His' and 'Her' Marriage by Jessie Bernard
Contemporary
59. The Mommy Myth by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels*
Cross-Cultural
60. Mate Selection and Marriage around the World by Bron B. Ingoldsby
RELIGION
Classic
61. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Contemporary
62. How Student Life is Different at Religious Colleges by Naomi Schaefer Riley*
Cross-Cultural
63. Women and Islam by Jane I. Smith
EDUCATION
Classic
64. Education and Inequality by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Contemporary
65. Savage Inequalities: Children in U.S. Schools by Jonathan Kozol
Cross-Cultural
66. Japanese Mothers as the Best Teachers by Keiko Hirao*
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Classic
67. The Social Structure of Medicine by Talcott Parsons
Contemporary
68. The Slaughterhouse: The Most Dangerous Job by Eric Schlosser*
Cross-Cultural
69. Female Genital Mutilation by Efua Dorkenoo and Scilla Elworthy
POPULATION AND URBANIZATION
Classic
70. The Metropolis and Mental Life by Georg Simmel
Classic
71. Urbanism as a Way of Life by Louis Wirth
Contemporary
72. Urban Sprawl: The Formation of Edge Cities by John J. Macionis and Vincent R. Parrillo
Cross-Cultural
73. Let's Reduce Global Population! by J. Kenneth Smail
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
Classic
74. Why Humanity Faces Ultimate Catastrophe by Thomas Robert Malthus
Contemporary
75. Rich Planet, Poor Planet: Global Environment and Poverty by Christopher Flavin
Cross-Cultural
76. Supporting Indigenous Peoples by Alan Thein Durning
COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Classic
77. On the Origins of Social Movements by Jo Freeman
Contemporary
78. The Animal Rights Movement as a Moral Crusade by James M. Jasper and Dorothy Nelkin
Cross-Cultural
79. Abortion Movements in Poland, Great Britain, and the United States by Janet Hadley
SOCIAL CHANGE AND MODERNITY
Classic
80. Anomy and Modern Life by Emile Durkheim
Classic
81. The Disenchantment of Modern Life by Max Weber
Contemporary
82. The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty by David G. Myers
Cross-Cultural
83. The Price of Modernization: The Case of Brazil's Kaiapo Indians by Marlise Simons