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sociology

exploring the architecture of everyday life readings

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david m. newman DePauw University jodi o'brien Seattle University

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Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sociology : exploring the architecture of everyday life : readings / editors, David M. Newman, Jodi O'Brien. -- 9th ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4129-8760-8 (pbk.) 1. Sociology. I. Newman, David M., 1958? II. O'Brien, Jodi. HM586.S64 2013 301--dc232012031247 This book is printed on acid-free paper.

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Contents

Prefaceix About the Editors xi

PART I. THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY 1

Chapter 1.Taking a New Look at a Familiar World 3 Reading 1.1. The Sociological Imagination 5 C. Wright Mills Reading 1.2. Invitation to Sociology 10 Peter Berger Reading 1.3. The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience 14 Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton

Chapter 2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically 27 Reading 2.1. The Metropolis and Mental Life 29 Georg Simmel Reading 2.2. Gift and Exchange 35 Zygmunt Bauman Reading 2.3. Culture of Fear 44 Barry Glassner

PART II. THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY 57

Chapter 3. Building Reality:The Social Construction of Knowledge 59 Reading 3.1. Concepts, Indicators, and Reality 61 Earl Babbie Reading 3.2. Missing Numbers 65 Joel Best

Chapter 4. Building Order: Culture and History 75 Reading 4.1. Body Ritual among the Nacirema 77 Horace Miner Reading 4.2. The Melting Pot 81 Anne Fadiman Reading 4.3. McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change, and the Rise of a Children's Culture 91 James L. Watson

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