Down to Earth Sociology: 14th Edition

Credits and Acknowledgments v Preface to the Fourteenth Edition xvii About the Contributors xxiii I. THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 1 Exploring the social world 1. Invitation to Sociology / Peter L. Berger 3 An overview of sociology 2. What Is Sociology? Comparing Sociology and the Other Social Sciences / James M. Henslin 8 The sociological imagination 3. The Promise / C. Wright Mills 20 II. DOING SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH 29 How sociologists gather data 4. How Sociologists Do Research / James M. Henslin 35 Interviewing in a difficult situation 5. "Riding the Bull at Gilley's": Convicted Rapists Describe the Rewards of Rape / Diana Scully, Joseph Marolla 48 Using experiments to uncover causation 6. Would You Hire an Ex-Convict? / Devah Pager 63 Learning the ropes: Fieldwork in an urban setting7. Doing Research with Streetcorner Crack Dealers / Bruce A. Jacobs 73 III. THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF SOCIAL LIFE 83 Ritual and magic in everyday life 8. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema / Horace Miner 87 Where violence is taken for granted 9. Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo / Napoleon A. Chagnon 92 Conforming to internalized culture 10. The Sounds of Silence / Edward T. Hall, Mildred R. Hall 109 Following rules we don't even know we have 11. Sympathy in Everyday Life / Candace Clark 118 Impression management 12. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life / Erving Goffman 135 IV. SOCIALIZATION AND GENDER 147 Learning to be human 13. Extreme Isolation / Kingsley Davis 151 Learning to be male 14. On Becoming Male: Reflections of a Sociologist on Childhood and Early Socialization / James M. Henslin 161 Learning to be female 15. On Becoming Female: Lessons Learned in School / Donna Eder 173 Putting boundaries around the sexes 16. Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds / Barrie Thorne, Zella Luria 180 Talking past one another 17. "But What Do You Mean?" Women and Men in Conversation / Deborah Tannen 192 V. SOCIAL GROUPS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE 199 Gender and selling cars 18. Attacking Nicely: Women Selling Cars / Helene M. Lawson 203 Making our bodies conform 19. Religion and Morality in Weight Loss Groups / Kandi M. Stinson 217 Desexualizing social interaction 20. Behavior in Pubic Places: The Sociology of the Vaginal Examination / James M. Henslin, Mae A. Biggs 229 The discards of industrial society 21. The Lives of Homeless Women / Elliot Liebow 242 Preparing for final farewells 22. Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead / William E. Thompson 249 VI. DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL 265 Conformity and group pressure 23. If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably / Philip Meyer 269 Doing the unthinkable 24. Eating Your Friends Is the Hardest: The Survivors of the F-227 / James M. Henslin 277 Neutralizing extreme deviance 25. Becoming a Hit Man / Ken Levi 287 How labels affect life 26. The Saints and the Roughnecks / William J. Chambliss 299 The deviance of social control 27. The Pathology of Imprisonment / Philip G. Zimbardo 315 What is normal? 28. On Being Sane in Insane Places / David L. Rosenhan 322 VII. SOCIAL INEQUALITY 335 Physical appearance 29. The Importance of Being Beautiful / Sidney Katz 341 Gender oppression 30. Fraternities and Rape on Campus / Patricia Y