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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

Chapter 5. Building Identity: Socialization 99 Reading 5.1. Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender 101 Mary Romero Reading 5.2. The Making of Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity Among Asian American Youth 110 Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee Reading 5.3. Working `the Code': On Girls, Gender, and Inner-City Violence 118 Nikki Jones

Chapter 6. Supporting Identity:The Presentation of Self 127 Reading 6.1. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections 129 Erving Goffman Reading 6.2. Public Identities: Managing Race in Public Spaces 139 Karyn Lacy Reading 6.3. The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity 152 David Grazian

Chapter 7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family 161 Reading 7.1. The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love 163 Stephanie Coontz Reading 7.2. Gay Parenthood and the End of Paternity as We Knew It 174 Judith Stacey Reading 7.3. Covenant Marriage: Reflexivity and Retrenchment in the Politics of Intimacy 189 Dwight Fee

Chapter 8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance 195 Reading 8.1. Watching the Canary 197 Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Reading 8.2. Healing (Disorderly) Desire: Medical-Therapeutic Regulation of Sexuality201 P. J. McGann Reading 8.3. Patients, "Potheads," and Dying to Get High 212 Wendy Chapkis

PART III. SOCIAL STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS, AND EVERYDAY LIFE 221

Chapter 9.The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions 223 Reading 9.1. These Dark Satanic Mills 225 William Greider Reading 9.2. The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland 235 John Van Maanen Reading 9.3. Creating Consumers: Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids 245 Murry Milner

Chapter 10.The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality 253 Reading 10.1. Making Class Invisible 255 Gregory Mantsios Reading 10.2. The Compassion Gap in American Poverty Policy 262 Fred Block, Anna C. Korteweg, and Kerry Woodward, with Zach Schiller and Imrul Mazid Reading 10.3. Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America 271 Vivyan Adair

Chapter 11.The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity 283 Reading 11.1. Racial and Ethnic Formation 285 Michael Omi and Howard Winant Reading 11.2. Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only? 292 Mary C. Waters Reading 11.3. Silent Racism: Passivity in Well-Meaning White People 299 Barbara Trepagnier

Chapter 12.The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender 309 Reading 12.1. Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood 311 Bart Landry Reading 12.2. Still a Man's World: Men Who Do "Women's Work" 323 Christine L. Williams Reading 12.3. New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New Genders 333 Eve Shapiro

Chapter 13. Global Dynamics and Population Demographic Trends 347 Reading 13.1. Age-Segregation in Later Life: An Examination of Personal Networks 349 Peter Uhlenberg and Jenny de Jong Gierveld Reading 13.2. Love and Gold 357 Arlie Russell Hochschild Reading 13.3. Cyberbrides and Global Imaginaries: Mexican Women's Turn from the National to the Foreign 365 Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel

Chapter 14.The Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society 377 Reading 14.1. Muslim American Immigrants After 9/11: The Struggle for Civil Rights379 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Reading 14.2. The Seattle Solidarity Network: A New Approach to Working Class Social Movements 388 Walter Winslow Reading 14.3. "Aqu? estamos y no nos vamos!" Global Capital and Immigrant Rights 400 William I. Robinson

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