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ISBN10: 0078026881 | ISBN13: 9780078026881
ISBN10: 0078026881
ISBN13: 9780078026881
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The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology includes classic sociological research writings as well as recent pieces on fascinating topics of interest to students. It is the ideal companion to McIntyre's text, The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology, or other sociology texts. Readings in this edition challenge students to re-evaluate familiar social arenas: the college classroom, televised sports shows, restaurants, doctors' offices and even public restrooms. The readings focus around the essential message that there is much that goes on in the social world that escapes the sociologically untrained eye.
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Part I. The Social Imagination
1. C. Wright Mills, The Promise
2. Stephanie Coontz, How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families
3. Lisa J. McIntyre, Hernando Washington
Part II. The Research Craft
4. Stephanie Sanford and Donna Eder, Adolescent Humor During Peer Interaction
*5. Charles A. Gallagher, Miscounting Race: Explaining Whites' Misperceptions of Racial Group Size
6. Lisa J. McIntyre, Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research
7. Philip Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably
Part III. Culture
8. Clyde Kluckhohn, Queer Customs
9. Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
10. Cheryl Laz, Act Your Age
11. Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets
*12. Beth A. Quinn, The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"
*13. David Grazian, The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity
Part IV. Social Structure
14. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
15. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment
16. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment
17. Greta Feoff Paules, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip
18. Natalie Adams and Pamela Bettis, Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood
19. Harvey Molotch, The Rest Room and Equal Opportunity
Part V. Social Institutions and Socialization
*20. Frederic W. Hafferty, "Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical Students
21. Gwynne Dyer, Anybody's Son Will Do
22. Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison
23. Lynn Zimmer, How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role
24. Patti A. Giuffre and Christine L. Williams, Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of Patients
Part VI. Deviance and Social Control
25. Emile Durkheim, The Normality of Crime
26. William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks
27. D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places
*28. Steven H. Lopez, Randy Hodson, and Vincent J. Roscigno, Power, Status, and Abuse At Work: General and Sexual Harassment
29. Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating
30. Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime
Part VII. Inequality
31. James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity
32. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
33. Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto
34. Joe R. Feagn, Racism
35. Roxanna Harlow, "Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College Classroom
36. Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head
37. Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash
38. Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School
39. Randall Collins, The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders
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