Seeing Ourselves

Readingsnew to this edition in bold. THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Classic 1. "The Sociological Imagination" by C. Wright Mills Classic 2. "Invitation to Sociology" by Peter L. Berger Contemporary 3. "Women and the Birth of Sociology" by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley Cross-Cultural 4. "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH Classic 5. "The Case for Value-Free Sociology" by Max Weber Contemporary 6. "The Importance of Social Research" by Earl Babbie Cross-Cultural 7. "Cultural Obsession with Thinness: African American, Latina, and White Women" by Becky W. Thompson (was #11 in SO7) CULTURE Classic 8. "Symbol: The Basic Element of Culture" by Leslie A. White Contemporary 9. "Manifest and Latent Functions" by Robert K. Merton Cross-Cultural 10. "India's Sacred Cow" by Marvin Harris SOCIETY Classic 11. "Manifesto and the Communist Party" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Classic 12. "Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft" by Ferdinand Tonnies Contemporary 13. "Unmarried with Children" by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas Cross-Cultural 14. "The Amish: A Small Society" by John A. Hostetler SOCIALIZATION Classic 15. "The Self" by George Herbert Mead Contemporary 16. "Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities" by Michael A. Messner Contemporary 17. "Socialization and the Power of Advertising" by Jean Kilbourne Cross-Cultural 18. "Parents' Socialization of Children in Global Perspective" by D. Terri Heath SOCIAL INTERACTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE Classic 19. "The Dyad and the Triad," by Georg Simmel Classic 20. "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" by Erving Goffman Contemporary 21. "Invisible Privilege" by Paula S. Rothenberg Contemporary 22. "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation" by Deborah Tannen Cross-Cultural 23. "The DOs and TABOOs of Body Language around the World" by Roger E. Axtell GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS Classic 24. "Primary Groups" by Charles Horton Cooley Classic 25. "The Characteristics of Bureaucracy" by Max Weber Contemporary 26. "McJobs: McDonaldization and the Workplace" by George Ritzer Cross-Cultural 27. "Even If I Don't Know What I'm Doing, I Can Make It Look Like I Do: Becoming a Doctor in Canada" by Brenda L. Beagan DEVIANCE Classic 28. "The Functions of Crime" by Emile Durkheim Contemporary 29. "On Being Sane in Insane Places" by Donald L. Rosenhan Contemporary 30. "The Code of the Streets" by Elijah Anderson Cross-Cultural 31. "Prostitution: A Worldwide Business of Sexual Exploitation" by Melissa Farley SEXUALITY AND SOCIETY Classic 32. "Understanding Sexual Orientation" by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin Contemporary 33. "Sex in America: How Many Partners Do We Have?" by Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata Cross-Cultural 34. "Homosexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective" by J. M. Carrier SOCIAL STRATIFICATION Classic 35. "Some Principles of Stratification" by Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore, with a response by Melvin Tumin Contemporary 36. "Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich [I need to know the permission cost for this one] Cross-Cultural 37. "The Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West" by Daina Stukuls Eglitis GENDER Classic 38. "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies" by Margaret Mead Contemporary 39. "'Night to His Day': The Social Construction of Gender" by Judith Lorber Contemporary 40. "How Subtle Sex Discrimination Works" by Nijole V. Benokraitis Cross-Cultural 41. "Domestic Violence: A Cross-Cultural View" by Elaine Leeder RACE AND ETHNICITY Classic 42. "The Souls of Black Folk" by W. E. B. Du Bois Contemporary 43. "Controlling Images and Black Women's Oppression" by Patricia Hill Collins Contemporary 44. "How Did Jews Become White Folks?" by Karen Brodkin Sacks Cross-Cultural 45. "Are Asian Americans Becoming White?" by Min Zhou THE ECONOMY AND WORK Classic 46. "Alienated Labor" by Karl Marx Contemporary 47. "When Work Disappears" by William Julius Wilson Cross-Cultural 48. "Getting a Job in Harlem: Experiences of African American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican Youth" by Katherine S. Newman POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND THE MILITARY Classic 49. "The Power Elite" by C. Wright Mills Contemporary 50. "Can Anyone Become President of the United States?" by G. William Domhoff Cross-Cultural 51. "The Roots of Terrorism" by The 9/11 Commission FAMILIES Classic 52. "'His' and 'Her' Marriage" by Jessie Bernard Contemporary 53. "The Mommy Myth" by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels Cross-Cultural 54. "Mate Selection and Marriage around the World" by Bron B. Ingoldsby RELIGION Classic 55. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" by Max Weber Contemporary 56. "How Student Life is Different at Religious Colleges" by Naomi Schaefer Riley Cross-Cultural 57. "Women and Islam" by Jane I. Smith EDUCATION Classic 58. "Education and Inequality" by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis Contemporary 59. "Savage Inequalities: Children in U.S. Schools" by Jonathan Kozol Cross-Cultural 60. "The English Only Debate" by Alejandro Portes HEALTH AND MEDICINE Classic 61. "The Social Structure of Medicine" by Talcott Parsons Contemporary 62. "The Slaughterhouse: The Most Dangerous Job" by Eric Schlosser Cross-Cultural 63. "Female Genital Mutilation" by Efua Dorkenoo and Scilla Elworthy POPULATION AND URBANIZATION Classic 64. "The Metropolis and Mental Life" by Georg Simmel Classic 65. "Why Humanity Faces Ultimate Catastrophe" by Thomas Robert Malthus Contemporary 66. "Urbanism as a Way of Life" by Louis Wirth Contemporary 67. "Urban Sprawl: The Formation of Edge Cities" by John J. Macionis and Vincent R. Parrillo Cross-Cultural 68. "Let's Reduce Global Population!" by J. Kenneth Smail SOCIAL CHANGE AND MODERNITY Classic 69. "Anomy and Modern Life" by Emile Durkheim Classic 70. "The Disenchantment of Modern Life" by Max Weber Contemporary 71. "The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty" by David G. Myers Cross-Cultural 72. "Global Media" by Todd Gitlin