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Society: The Basics: United States Edition by John J. Macionis

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

John Macionis shares his enthusiasm, excitement and teaching experience with a clear and engaging writing style that connects with students. Macionis', Society: The Basics, 10th edition is designed to help students see the relevance of the sociological theories and ideas that inform their own lives.

Four main themes are found throughout the text:

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Social Diversity

Global Comparisons

Critical Thinking

The new edition has an innovate new design, contemporary and compelling student applications, plus a wealth of author-written and author-managed supplemental material. This revision elevates Society's high standard of excellence, ensuring that it remains one of the foremost introductory sociology resources for students and instructors alike.

Society Reviews

KEY CHANGES

  • Student Annotations: Every 2 page spread has 2 types of student annotations:
    • Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life (helping students apply sociology's perspective and content to their own lives)
    • Making the Grade (material directly aimed at helping them succeed in their course).
  • Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life photo essays: Each chapter ends with a one-page photo essay that develops a key theme of the chapter in terms of everyday experiences and popular culture.
    • For example, Chapter 1 shows how societal forces guide the marriage choices of celebrities
  • Seeing Sociology in the News: This feature, which appears in each chapter, is a recent news story from the popular press (New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Slate, Wall Street Journal, and other sources) that illustrates the power of sociology to make sense of everyday events and trends.
  • Maps and figures come alive with annotation "balloons": Maps balloons explain how where you live has real-life consequences for people, amplifying the Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life theme. Figure balloons point out key patterns and trends, amplifying the Making the Grade theme.
  • A New Look: The design of Society 10/e has been developed to engage student readers, who are the most visually-oriented generation to ever attend college.
  • Refined "Making the Grade" end-of-chapter material: Each chapter ends with a complete and attractive "Visual Summary" revised to make reviewing content even easier.
  • The latest available statistical data (for 2006, 2007, and even 2008) are used in every case; hundreds of new research studies direct and support the revision.

CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER CHANGES

Chapter 1: Sociology

  • Updated data on society's influence on family size
  • Data on suicide rates for various categories of the U.S. population continue to support Durkheim's theory
  • "Seeing Sociology in the News" features explains how "rogue sociologist" Sudhir Venkatesh studies street gangs in a Chicago public housing project
  • Revised discussion of research methodologies contrasts positivist, interpretive, and critical approaches; all of the illustrations of major research methods are now followed by "Critical review" discussions
  • Student dialogue opens the final Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life box
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" Photo Essay- "If You Want to Observe `Em, Join `Em"

Chapter 2: Culture

  • Update on the popularity of instant messaging
  • Latest data on state laws naming English as the official language
  • Cultural values figures around the world has been revised to reflect new data from the World Values Survey
  • Expanded discussion of the effects of post-industrial technology on culture
  • Thinking About Diversity box examines the importance of race, class, and gender in the development of rock and roll and U.S. popular culture
  • Discussion of global culture now considers the fact that most the world's Web pages are written in English
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay-"Stepping into Celebrity Shoes"

Chapter 3: Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age

  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" box asks how our society defines becoming an "adult" point to many different factors
  • Expanded discussion of the importance of schooling to the socialization process
  • "Critical Review" section on agents of socialization survey
  • Expanded discussion on childhood with a look at the "hurried child" syndrome-the idea that today's children are growing up too quickly
  • Student dialogue opens the Controversy & Debate box on human freedom
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay-"Never Too Young for That First Pedicure"

Chapter 4: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

  • Revised Chapter Opener offers an "everyday life" feeling with added dialogue
  • "Your Turn" exercise asks students to think of Internet sites-including MySpace, Xanga, Facebook, and YouTube-in terms of the social construction of reality
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" box allows students to explore the world of virtual interaction at the Second Life web site
  • There is an update on the share of married women who keep their own names
  • Student dialogue has been added to another Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life boxes
  • "Bubbles" added to all the Global Maps to put global patterns in personal terms
  • Several new insights have been added to the discussion of humor
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday" Life photo essay-"Putting Your Best Cyberface Forward"

Chapter 5: Groups and Organizations

  • "Seeing Sociology in the News" discusses Facebook as new type of network that is popular among college students
  • Updated statistics on the share of college students who have participated in some volunteer activity with the last year
  • Revised data on race and gender in the U.S. workforce
  • Expanded discussion of McDonaldization
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay-"The Death of E-Mail"

Chapter 6: Sexuality and Society

  • Student-to-student dialogue in the Chapter Opening presents recent research on sexual activity among high-school students
  • Revised chapter information on state laws concerning gay marriage and domestic partnerships as well as first-cousin marriages
  • Survey data showing public attitudes about: premarital sex, extramarital sex, homosexuality, pornography, and abortion
  • Latest research data on the number of teenage pregnancies and cases of rape in the United States has been incorporated
  • The social-conflict discussion of sexuality now focuses more explicitly on feminist analysis
  • Student-to-student dialogue has been added to the "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" box on the pattern of "hooking up" and to Controversy & Debate on the abortion controversy
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay-"Campus Sexperts"

Chapter 7: Deviance

  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" box on cheating in everyday life has been updated and has new student-to-student dialogue
  • Expanded discussion of secondary deviance
  • "Your Turn" question asks students to consider the use of "rehab" by celebrities as a case of the medicalization of deviance
  • Statistical updates on: punishment given to white-collar offenders, deaths in the nation's coal mines, hate crimes, gun ownership, the number of police officers, other types of crime data
  • Revised maps and figures have new "balloon" captions that help students understand key patterns
  • Major new discussion of the death penalty
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay- More Than 1 in 100 Adults Are Now in Prison in United States"

Chapter 8: Social Stratification

  • Reworked analysis of social inequality over the course of Britain's history
  • Updates about stratification in Russia and China
  • Discussion of global income inequality and the Kuznets curve have been expanded
  • Statistical updates on: economic data by race and gender, family income and wealth, educational achievement for the U.S. population, how class standing affects the money parents have available to raise children, pay for the top-earning CEOs, and data on poverty
  • Expanded discussion of homelessness with new data on the extent of this problem
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay- "Middle-Class Americans Increasingly Downbeat about Their Short-Term Economic Progress"

Chapter 9: Global Stratification

  • The latest numbers on: which nations fall into low-, middle-, and high-income categories, profiling the world's wealthiest people, reporting the extent of worldwide income inequality, per capita income, quality of life for nations around the world, and debt of low-income nations to high-income countries
  • Maps and figures now have real-life descriptive data in the "balloon" captions
  • Global Snapshot on women's access to health care when they give birth has all new data
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay- "Bottom of the Barrel"

Chapter 10: Gender Stratification

  • The most recent data from the United Nations on which nations come closest to gender equality (and which remained furthest from that goal)
  • Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor highlighting: the share of women in the labor force, the concentration of women and men in certain categories of jobs, and the income of women and men
  • Latest data presented on the share of top U.S. corporations headed by women
  • Study findings by the U.S. Small Business Administration on the increasing number of small businesses owned by women
  • Latest achievements presented as more women move to center stage in U.S. politics, including gender breakdown of elected leaders at the state and national levels
  • Updated discussion of women in the military
  • Research reported linking women's leadership to greater profits by large corporations
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay- "Don't Judge Me by My Tights"

Chapter 11: Race and Ethnicity

  • Updates on the statistics of: U.S. births recorded as racially-mixed, minimum wage earned by immigrant, immigrants entering the country each year, income, poverty, and schooling for all racial and ethnic categories
  • "Check Your Learning" has been added to the prejudice theory section
  • Latest information on minority political leaders at the local and national levels incorporated
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay- "Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race"

Chapter 12: Economy and Work

  • Opening vignette updated with the latest information about the continuing expansion of the Wal-Mart corporation;
  • Updates on:
    • Government employment
    • Employment rates by gender, race, and ethnicity
    • The share of the U.S. workforce in farming, blue-collar, and white-collar jobs
    • Union membership
    • The rate of self-employment, especially among women
    • Unemployment
    • The share of the largest corporations headed by women and other minorities
    • Tax breaks given to large corporations
  • Explanation of the value of a college degree in lowering the risk of unemployment
  • "Global Sociology" box explains how Denmark does a remarkable job combining prosperity, equality, and political freedom
  • Discussion of politics includes updates on:
    • Democracy around the world
    • The size of government in the United States
    • Special-interest groups and political action committees in U.S. politics
    • The number of terrorist attacks around the world
    • National and global military spending
  • Updated and expanded discussion of the loss of voting rights by people convicted of serious crimes
  • Student Annotations have been added throughout
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay-"Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger"

Chapter 13: Family and Religion

  • Updated statistics on:
    • the cost of raising children
    • the increasing number of grandparents in the United States
    • poverty rates among various categories of U.S. families
    • patterns of family violence
    • and the number of young women who are single
  • Expanded discussion of remarriage and blended families
  • Legal changes since the last edition was published require major rewriting of the section on gay and lesbian couples (now current to mid-2008)
  • Religion section of the chapter includes updates on the share of college students with a religious preference
  • Expanded discussion of new age spirituality
  • Discussion of religious "churning" by which almost half of U.S. adults have switched religious affiliation at least once
  • Student Annotations have been added throughout,
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life photo" essay-"American Dating-Muslim Style"

Chapter 14: Education, Health, and Medicine

  • Chapter opening story has been revised
  • Updates on all educational measures:
    • The number of U.S. children in school
    • School dropout rates
    • Lifetime earnings of college graduates
  • Updated and Expanded discussion of school shootings, with recent cases
  • Expanded coverage of dropping out, with data on ten major urban school systems where less than half of all children graduate from high school
  • Revised discussions of for-profit schools and adult education updated to include the latest data and trends
  • Health and medicine section of the chapter has updates on:
    • Smoking and gender
    • Smoking among college students
    • Social patterns related to sexually-transmitted diseases
    • The latest numbers and trends in the battle against AIDS
    • The latest on the trend toward universal health care coverage
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay-"Community College; Dream Catchers"

Chapter 15: Population, Urbanization, and the Environment

  • All data has been updated to the very latest available
  • Several new examples have also been added throughout the chapter
  • Discussion of demographic transition theory has been revised for greater clarity
  • Several new "Your Turn" questions have been added to engage students in the material
  • Discussion of Sunbelt cities and urban regions have been updated
  • Revised and expanded discussion of the logic of growth linking our culture to environmental stress
  • "Grandma Macionis" box has been rewritten
  • Major revision and update on global warming
  • Student dialogue has been added to the Controversy & Debate box on population increase
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life" photo essay-"Modern Suburbia Not Just in America Anymore"

Chapter 16: Social Change: Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Societies

  • The revised chapter has new data reflecting demographic and economic changes in the United States
  • Updated discussion of ways in which life in the United States is becoming better and ways in which it is becoming worse
  • Annotation "balloons" have been added to help students understand figures better
  • "Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life"- "Revolutionary War" photo essay

About John J. Macionis

John J. Macionis was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

John Macionis' publications are wide-ranging, focusing on community life in the United States, interpersonal intimacy in families, effective teaching, humor, new information technology, and the importance of global education. .

In addition, John Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis have edited the best-selling anthology Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology. Macionis and Vincent Parrillo have written the leading urban studies text, Cities and Urban Life (Prentice Hall). Macionis's most recent textbook is Social Problems (Prentice Hall).

John Macionis is Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he has taught for almost thirty years. During that time, he has chaired the Sociology Department, directed the college's multidisciplinary program in humane studies, presided over the campus senate and the college's faculty, and taught sociology to thousands of students.

In 2002, the American Sociological Association presented Macionis with the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching, citing his innovative use of global material as well as the introduction of new teaching technology in his textbooks.

Professor Macionis has been active in academic programs in other countries, having traveled to some fifty nations. He writes, "I am an ambitious traveler, eager to learn and, through the texts, to share much of what I discover with students, many of whom know little about the rest of the world. For me, traveling and writing are all dimensions of teaching. First, and foremost, I am a teacher-a passion for teaching animates everything I do."

At Kenyon, Macionis teaches a number of courses, but his favorite class is Introduction to Sociology, which he offers every semester. He enjoys extensive contact with students and invites everyone enrolled in each of his classes to enjoy a home-cooked meal.

The Macionis family-John, Amy, and children McLean and Whitney-live on a farm in rural Ohio. In his free time, Macionis enjoys tennis, swimming, hiking, and playing oldies rock-and-roll (he recently released his first CD). Macionis is as an environmental activist in the Lake George region of New York's Adirondack Mountains, working with a number of organizations, including the Lake George Land Conservancy, where he serves as president of the board of trustees.

Table of Contents

IN THIS SECTION:

1.) BRIEF

2.) COMPREHENSIVE

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method

Chapter 2: Culture

Chapter 3: Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age

Chapter 4: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

Chapter 5: Groups and Organizations

Chapter 6: Sexuality and Society

Chapter 7: Deviance

Chapter 8: Social Stratification

Chapter 9: Global Stratification

Chapter 10: Gender Stratification

Chapter 11: Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 12: Economics and Politics

Chapter 13: Family and Religion

Chapter 14: Education, Health and Medicine

Chapter 15: Population, Urbanization, and the Environment

Chapter 16: Social Change: Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Societies

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method

The Sociological Perspective

Seeing the General in the Particular

Seeing the Strange in the Familiar

Seeing Society in Our Everyday Choices

Seeing Sociologically: Marginality and Crisis

The Importance of a Global Perspective

Applying the Sociological Perspective

Sociology and Public Policy

Sociology and Personal Growth

Careers: The "Sociology Advantage"

The Origins of Sociology

Social Change and Sociology

Science and Sociology

Sociological Theory

The Structural-Functional Approach

The Social-Conflict Approach

Feminism and the Gender-Conflict Approach

The Race-Conflict Approach

The Symbolic-Interaction Approach

Three Ways to Do Sociology

Positivist Sociology

Interpretive Sociology

Critical Sociology

Research Orientations and Theory

Gender and Research

Research Ethics

Research Methods

Testing a Hypothesis: The Experiment

Asking Questions: Survey Research

In the Field: Participant Observation

Seeing Sociology in the News

Using Available Data: Existing Sources

Putting It All Together: Ten Steps in Sociological Research

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 2: Culture

What is Culture

Culture and Human Intelligence

How Many Cultures?

The Elements of Culture

Symbols

Language

Values and Beliefs

Norms

Ideal and Real Culture

Technology and Culture

Hunting and Gathering

Horticulture and Pastoralism

Agriculture

Industry

Postindustrial Information Technology

Seeing Sociology in the News

Cultural Diversity

High Culture and Popular Culture

Subculture

Multiculturalism

Counterculture

Cultural Change

Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism

A Global Culture?

Theoretical Analysis of Culture

The Functions of Culture: Structural-Functional Analysis

Inequality and Culture: Social-Conflict Analysis

Evolution and Culture: Sociobiology

Culture and Human Freedom

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 3: Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age

Social Experience: The Key to Our Humanity

Human Development: Nature and Nurture

Social Isolation

Understanding Socialization

Sigmund Freud's Elements of Personality

Jean Piget's Theory of Cognitive Development

Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development

Carol Gilligan's Theory of Gender and Moral Development

George Herbert Mead's Theory of the Social Self

Erik H. Erikson's Eight Stages of Development

Agents of Socialization

The Family

The School

The Peer Group

The Mass Media

Socialization and the Life Course

Childhood

Adolescence

Seeing Sociology in the News

Adulthood

Old Age

Death and Dying

The Life Course: Patterns and Variations

Resocialization: Total Institutions

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 4: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

Social Structure: A Guide to Everyday Living

Status

Ascribed and Achieved Status

Master Status

Role

Role Conflict and Role Strain

Role Exit

The Social Construction of Reality

"Street Smarts"

The Thomas Theorem

Ethnomethodology

Reality Building: Class and Culture

Dramaturgical Analysis: The "Presentation of Self"

Performances

Seeing Sociology in the News

Nonverbal Communication

Gender Performances

Idealization

Embarrassment and Tact

Interaction in Everyday Life: Three Applications

Emotions: The Social Construction of Feeling

Language: The Social Construction of Gender

Reality Play: The Social Construction of Humor

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 5: Groups and Organizations

Social Groups

Primary and Secondary Groups

Group Leadership

Group Conformity

Reference Groups

In-Groups and Out-Groups

Group Size

Social Diversity: Race, Class, and Gender

Networks

Seeing Sociology in the News

Formal Organizations

Types of Formal Organizations

Origins of Formal Organizations

Characteristics of Bureaucracy

Organizational Environment

The Informal Side of Bureaucracy

Problems of Bureaucracy

The Evolution of Formal Organizations

Scientific Management

The First Challenge: Race and Gender

The Second Challenge: The Japanese Work Organization

The Third Challenge: The Changing Nature of Work

The "McDonalization" of Society

The Future of Organizations: Opposing Trends

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 6: Sexuality and Society

Understanding Sexuality

Sex: A Biological Issue

Sex and the Body

Sex: A Cultural Issue

The Incest Taboo

Sexual Attitudes in the United States

The Sexual Revolution

The Sexual Counterrevolution

Premarital Sex

Sex between Adults

Seeing Sociology in the News

Extramarital Sex

Sex over the Life Course

Sexual Orientation

What Gives Us a Sexual Orientation?

How Many Gay People Are There?

The Gay Rights Movement

Sexual Issues and Controversies

Teen Pregnancy

Pornography

Prostitution

Sexual Violence: Rape and Date Rape

Theoretical Analysis of Sexuality

Structural-Functional Analysis

Symbolic-Interaction Analysis

Social-Conflict and Feminist Analysis

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 7: Deviance

What is Deviance?

Social Control

The Biological Context

Personality Factors

The Social Foundations of Deviance

The Functions of Deviance: Structural-Analysis

Durkheim's Basic Insight

Merton's Strain Theory

Deviant Subcultures

Labeling Deviance: Symbolic-Interaction Analysis

Labeling Theory

The Medicalization of Deviance

Sutherland's Differential Association Theory

Hirschi's Control Theory

Deviance and Inequality: Social-Conflict Analysis

Deviance and Power

Deviance and Capitalism

White-Collar Crime

Corporate Crime

Organized Crime

Deviance, Race, and Gender

Hate Crimes

The Feminist Perspective: Deviance and Gender

Crime

Types of Crime

Criminal Statistics

The Street Criminal: A Profile

Crime in Global Perspective

The U.S. Criminal Justice System

Due Process

Police

Courts

Punishment

Seeing Sociology in the News

The Death Penalty

Community-Based Corrections

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 8: Social Stratification

What is Social Stratification?

Caste and Class Systems

The Caste System

The Class System

Caste and Class: The United Kingdom

Classless Societies? The Former Soviet Union

China: Emerging Social Classes

Ideology: The Power behind Stratification

The Functions of Social Stratification

The Davis-Moore Thesis

Stratification and Conflict

Karl Marx: Class Conflict

Why No Marxist Revolution?

Max Weber: Class, Status, and Power

Stratification and Interaction

Stratification and Technology: A Global Perspective

Hunting and Gathering Societies

Horticultural, Pastoral, and Agrarian Societies

Industrial Societies

The Kuznets Curve

Inequality in the United States

Income, Wealth, and Power

Occupational Prestige

Schooling

Ancestry, Race, and Gender

Social Classes in the United States

The Upper Class

The Middle Class

The Working Class

The Lower Class

The Difference Class Makes

Health

Values ad Attitudes

Politics

Family and Gender

Social Mobility

Myth versus Reality

Mobility by Income Level

Mobility: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Mobility and Marriage

The American Dream: Still a Reality?

The Global Economy and the U.S. Class Structure

Seeing Sociology in the News

Poverty in the United States

The Extent of Poverty

Who Are the Poor?

Explaining Poverty

The Working Poor

Homelessness

Class, Welfare, Politics, and Values

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 9: Global Stratification

Global Stratification: An Overview

A Word about Terminology

High-Income Countries

Middle-Income Countries

Low-Income Countries

Global Wealth and Poverty

The Severity of Poverty

The Extent of Poverty

Poverty and Children

Poverty and Women

Slavery

Explanations of Global Poverty

Global Stratification: Theoretical Analysis

Modernization Theory

Seeing Sociology in the News

Dependency Theory

Global Stratification: Looking Ahead

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 10: Gender Stratification

Gender and Inequality

Male-Female Differences

Gender in Global Perspective

Patriarchy and Sexism

Gender and Socialization

Gender and the Family

Gender and the Peer Group

Gender and Schooling

Gender and the Mass Media

Gender and Social Stratification

Working Women and Men

Seeing Sociology in the News

Gender, Income, and Wealth

Housework: Women's "Second Shift"

Gender and Education

Gender and Politics

Gender and the Military

Are Women a Minority?

Minority Women: Intersection Theory

Violence against Women

Violence against Men

Sexual Harassment

Pornography

Theoretical Analysis of Gender

Structural-Functional Analysis

Social-Conflict Analysis

Feminism

Basic Feminist Ideas

Types of Feminism

Opposition to Feminism

Gender: Looking Ahead

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 11: Race and Ethnicity

The Social Meaning of Race and Ethnicity

Race

Seeing Sociology in the News

Ethnicity

Minorities

Prejudice and Stereotypes

Measuring Prejudice: The Social Distance Scale

Racism

Theories of Prejudice

Discrimination

Institutional Prejudice and Discrimination

Prejudice and Discrimination: The Vicious Circle

Majority and Minority: Patterns of Interaction

Pluralism

Assimilation

Segregation

Genocide

Race and Ethnicity in the United States

Native Americans

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

African Americans

Asian Americans

Hispanic Americans/Latinos

Arab Americans

White Ethnic Americans

Race and Ethnicity: Looking Ahead

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 12: Economics and Politics

The Economy: Historical Overview

The Agricultural Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

The Information Revolution and Postindustrial Society

Sectors of the Economy

The Global Economy

Seeing Sociology in the News

Economic Systems: Paths to Justice

Capitalism

Socialism

Welfare Capitalism and State Capitalism

Relative Advantages of Capitalism and Socialism

Changes in Socialist and Capitalist Countries

Work in the Postindustrial U.S. Economy

The Changing Workplace

Labor Unions

Professions

Self-Employment

Unemployment and Underemployment

Workplace Diversity: Race and Gender

New Information: Technology and Work

Corporations

Economic Concentration

Conglomerates and Corporate Linkages

Corporations: Are They Competitive?

Corporations and the Global Economy

The Economy: Looking Ahead

Politics: Historical Overview

Politics in Global Perspective

Monarchy

Democracy

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

A Global Political System?

Politics in the United States

U.S. Culture and the Rise of the Welfare State

The Political Spectrum

Party Identification

Special Interest Groups

Voter Apathy

Should Convicted Criminals Vote?

Theoretical Analysis of Power in Society

The Pluralist Model: The People Rule

The Power-Elite Model: A Few People Rule

The Marxist Model: The System is Biased

Power beyond the Rules

Revolution

Terrorism

War and Peace

The Causes of War

Social Class and the Military

Is Terrorism a New Kind of War?

The Costs and Causes of Militarism

Nuclear Weapons

Mass Media and War

Pursuing Peace

Politics: Looking Ahead

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 13: Family and Religion

Family: Basic Concepts

Family: Global Variations

Marriages Patterns

Residential Patterns

Patterns of Descent

Patterns of Authority

Theoretical Analysis of Families

Functions of Family: Structural-Functional Analysis

Inequality and Family: Social-Conflict and Feminist Analysis

Constructing Family Life: Micro-Level Analysis

Stages of Family Life

Courtship and Romantic Love

Settling In: Ideal and Real Marriage

Child Rearing

The Family in Later Life

Seeing Sociology in the News

U.S. Families: Class, Race, and Gender

Social Class

Ethnicity and Race

Gender

Transitions and Problems in Family Life

Divorce

Remarriage and Blended Families

Family Violence

Alternative Family Forms

One-Parent Families

Cohabitation

Gay and Lesbian Couples

Singlehood

New Reproductive Technologies and Family

Families: Looking Ahead

Religion: Basic Concepts

Theoretical Analysis of Religion

Functions of Religion: Structural-Functional Analysis

Constructing the Sacred: Symbolic-Interaction Analysis

Inequality and Religion: Social-Conflict Analysis

Religion and Social Change

Max Weber: Protestantism and Capitalism

Liberation Theology

Types of Religious Organizations

Church

Sect

Cult

Religion in History

Religion in the United States

Religion Commitment

Religion: Class, Ethnicity, and Race

Religion in a Changing Society

Changing Affiliation

Secularization

Civil Religion

"New Age" Seekers: Spiritually without Formal Religion

Religious Revival: "Good Old-Time Religion"

Religion: Looking Ahead

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 14: Education, Health and Medicine

Education: A Global Survey

Schooling and economic Development

Schooling in India

Schooling in Japan

Schooling in the United States

The Functions of Schooling

Schooling and Social Interaction

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Schooling and Social Inequality

Public and Private Education

Access to Higher Education

Greater Opportunity: Expanding Higher Education

Privilege and Personal Merit

Seeing Sociology in the News

Problems in the Schools

Discipline and Violence

Student Passivity

Dropping Out

Academic Standards

Grade Inflation

Recent Issue in U.S. Education

School Choice

Home Schooling

Schooling People with Disabilities

Adult Education

The Teacher Shortage

Schooling: Looking Ahead

Health and Medicine

Health and Society

Health: A Global Survey

Health in Low-Income Countries

Health in High-Income Countries

Health in the United States

Who is Healthy? Age, Gender, Class, and Race

Cigarette Smoking

Eating Disorders

Obesity

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Ethical Issues Surrounding Death

The Medical Establishment

The Rise of Scientific Medicine

Holistic Medicine

Paying for Medical Care: A Global Survey

Paying for Medical Care: The United States

The Nursing Shortage

Theoretical Analysis of Health and Medicine

Structural-Functional Analysis: Role Theory

Symbolic-Interaction Analysis: The Meaning of Health

Social-Conflict and Feminist Analysis

Health and Medicine: Looking Ahead

Seeking Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 15: Population, Urbanization, and the Environment

Demography: The Study of Population

Fertility

Mortality

Migration

Population Growth

Population Composition

History and Theory of Population Growth

Malthusian Theory

Demographic Transition Theory

Global Population Today: A Brief Survey

Urbanization: The Growth of Cities

The Evolution of Cities

The Growth of U.S. Cities

Suburbs and Urban Decline

Sunbelt Cities and Urban Sprawl

Megalopolis: The Regional City

Edge Cities

The Rural Rebound

Urbanism as a Way of Life

Ferdinand Tonnies: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

Emile Durkheim: Mechanical and Organic Solidarity

Georg Simmel: The Blase Urbanite

The Chicago School: Robert Park and Louis Wirth

Urban Ecology

Urban Political Economy

Urbanization in Poor Nations

Seeing Sociology in the News

Environment and Society

The Global Dimension

Technology and the Environmental Deficit

Culture: Growth and Limits

Solid Waste: The Disposable Society

Water and Air

The Rain Forests

Environmental Racism

Looking Ahead: Toward a Sustainable Society and World

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Chapter 16: Social Change: Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Societies

What is Social Change?

Causes of Social Change

Culture and Change

Conflict and Change

Ideas and Change

Demographic Change

Social Movements and Change

Seeing Sociology in the News

Disasters: Unexpected Change

Modernity

Ferdinand Tonnier: The Loss of Community

Emile Durkheim: The Division of Labor

Max Weber: Rationalization

Karl Marx: Capitalism

Structural-Functional Analysis: Modernity as Mass Society

The Mass Scale of Modern Life

The Ever-Expanding State

Social-Conflict Analysis: Modernity as Class Society

Capitalism

Persistent Inequality

Modernity and the Individual

Mass Society: Problems of Identity

Class Society: Problems of Powerlessness

Modernity and Progress

Modernity: Global Variation

Postmodernity

Looking Ahead: Modernization and Our Global Future

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life

Making the Grade

Visual Summary

Sample Test Questions

Glossary

References

Photo Credits

Name Index

Subject Index

Additional information

CIN013501882XG
9780135018828
013501882X
Society: The Basics: United States Edition by John J. Macionis
John J. Macionis
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Pearson Education (US)
2008-09-29
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