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Down to earth sociology : introductory readings James M Henslin

By: Material type: Continuing resourcePublication details: New York : Free Press, ©1997.Description: xv,527p.: 24cmISBN:
  • 9780029146514
  • 0029146518
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM51 .D68
Contents:
Invitation to sociology / Peter L. Berger -- Sociology and the social sciences / James M. Henslin -- The promise / C. Wright Mills -- How sociologists do research / James M. Henslin -- "Riding the bull at Gilley's": convicted rapists describe the rewards of rape / Diana Scully Joseph Marolla -- Street corner society / William Foote Whyte -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- The mysterious fall of the Nacirema / Neil B. Thompson -- Doing fieldwork among the Yanomamo / Napoleon A. Chagnon -- The sounds of silence / Edward T. Hall, Mildred R. Hall -- The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman -- Extreme isolation / Kingsley Davis -- On becoming male: reflections of a soiciologist on childhood and early socialization / James M. Henslin -- Sexuality and gender in children's daily worlds / Barrie Thorne, Zella Luria. But what do you mean? women and men in conversation / Deborah Tannen -- If Hitler asked you to electrocute a stranger, would you? probably / Philip Meyer -- Streetwise / Elijah Anderson -- Diary of a homeless man / John R. Coleman -- Hanging tongues: a sociological encounter with the assembly line / William E. Thompson -- Behavior in pubic places: the sociology of the vaginal examination / James M. Henslin, Mae A. Biggs -- Lonely hearts, classy dreams, empty wallets / Amy Waldman -- Fire in Hamlet: a case study of state-corporate crime / Judy Root Aulette and Raymond Michalowski -- The survivors of the F-227 / James M. Henslin -- The saints and the roughnecks / William J. Chambliss -- Coping with AIDS / Rose Weitz -- The jail as degradation / John Irwin -- The pathology of imprisonment / Philip G. Zimbardo -- On being sane in insane places / David L. Rosenhan -- The importance of being beautiful / Sidney Katz -- The uses of poverty: the poor pay all / Herbert J. Gans -- Savage inequalities / Jonathan Kozol -- Tally's corner / Elliot Liebow. The Bohemian Grove and other retreats / G. William Domhoff -- Fraternities and rape on campus / Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer -- Life on the global assembly line / Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes -- Learning the student role: kindergarten as academic boot camp / Harry L. Gracey -- Men who share "the second shift" / Arlie Hochschild, Anne Machung -- The streetcorner preacher / Lawrence K. Hong and Marion V. Dearman -- The great American football ritual / Douglas E. Foley -- Medical students' contact with the living and the dead / Allen C. Smith, III, Sherryl Kleinman -- Police accounts of normal force / Jennifer Hunt -- The My Lai Massacre / Herbert Kelman, V. Lee Hamilton -- Small town in mass society / Arthur J. Vidich, Joseph Bensman -- Social change among the Amish / Jerry Savells -- The animal rights crusade / James M. Jasper, Dorothy Nelkin -- The McDonaldization of society / George Ritzner -- Being "the other": ethnic identity in a changing society / Arturo Madrid.
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Includes index.

Invitation to sociology / Peter L. Berger --
Sociology and the social sciences / James M. Henslin --
The promise / C. Wright Mills --
How sociologists do research / James M. Henslin --
"Riding the bull at Gilley's": convicted rapists describe the rewards of rape / Diana Scully Joseph Marolla --
Street corner society / William Foote Whyte --
Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner --
The mysterious fall of the Nacirema / Neil B. Thompson --
Doing fieldwork among the Yanomamo / Napoleon A. Chagnon --
The sounds of silence / Edward T. Hall, Mildred R. Hall --
The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman --
Extreme isolation / Kingsley Davis --
On becoming male: reflections of a soiciologist on childhood and early socialization / James M. Henslin --
Sexuality and gender in children's daily worlds / Barrie Thorne, Zella Luria. But what do you mean? women and men in conversation / Deborah Tannen --
If Hitler asked you to electrocute a stranger, would you? probably / Philip Meyer --
Streetwise / Elijah Anderson --
Diary of a homeless man / John R. Coleman --
Hanging tongues: a sociological encounter with the assembly line / William E. Thompson --
Behavior in pubic places: the sociology of the vaginal examination / James M. Henslin, Mae A. Biggs --
Lonely hearts, classy dreams, empty wallets / Amy Waldman --
Fire in Hamlet: a case study of state-corporate crime / Judy Root Aulette and Raymond Michalowski --
The survivors of the F-227 / James M. Henslin --
The saints and the roughnecks / William J. Chambliss --
Coping with AIDS / Rose Weitz --
The jail as degradation / John Irwin --
The pathology of imprisonment / Philip G. Zimbardo --
On being sane in insane places / David L. Rosenhan --
The importance of being beautiful / Sidney Katz --
The uses of poverty: the poor pay all / Herbert J. Gans --
Savage inequalities / Jonathan Kozol --
Tally's corner / Elliot Liebow. The Bohemian Grove and other retreats / G. William Domhoff --
Fraternities and rape on campus / Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer --
Life on the global assembly line / Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes --
Learning the student role: kindergarten as academic boot camp / Harry L. Gracey --
Men who share "the second shift" / Arlie Hochschild, Anne Machung --
The streetcorner preacher / Lawrence K. Hong and Marion V. Dearman --
The great American football ritual / Douglas E. Foley --
Medical students' contact with the living and the dead / Allen C. Smith, III, Sherryl Kleinman --
Police accounts of normal force / Jennifer Hunt --
The My Lai Massacre / Herbert Kelman, V. Lee Hamilton --
Small town in mass society / Arthur J. Vidich, Joseph Bensman --
Social change among the Amish / Jerry Savells --
The animal rights crusade / James M. Jasper, Dorothy Nelkin --
The McDonaldization of society / George Ritzner --
Being "the other": ethnic identity in a changing society / Arturo Madrid.

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