The practical skeptic : readings in sociology

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.

Part I The Social Imagination

1 The PromiseC. Wright Mills

2 How History and Sociology Can Help Today's FamiliesStephanie Coontz

3 Hernando WashingtonLisa J. McIntyre

Part II The Research Craft

4 Men as Success Objects and Women as Sex Objects: A Study of Personal AdvertisementsSimon Davis

5 Miscounting Race: Explaining Whites' Misperceptions of Racial Group SizeCharles A. Gallagher

6 Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social ResearchLisa J. McIntyre

7 If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? ProbablyPhilip Meyer

Part III Culture

8 Queer CustomsClyde Kluckhohn

9 Body Ritual Among the NaciremaHorace Miner

10 Act Your AgeCheryl Laz

11 The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"Beth A. Quinn

12 The Code of the StreetsElijah Anderson

13 Danger in Contemporary LegendsElissa R. Henken

Part IV Social Structure

14 The Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeErving Goffman

15 The Not-So-Lonely Crowd: Friendship Groups in Collective BehaviorAdrian F. Aventi

16 The Pathology of ImprisonmentPhilip G. Zimbardo

17 "Getting" and "Making" a TipGreta Feoff Paules

18 Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal GirlhoodNatalie Adams and Pamela Bettis

19 The Rest Room and Equal OpportunityHarvey Molotch

Part V Social Institutions and Socialization

20 "Tuck in That Shirt!" Race, Class, Gender, and Discipline in an Urban SchoolEdward W. Morris

21 Emotional Capital and Professional Socialization: The Case of Mortuary Science Students (and Me)Spencer E. Cahill

22 Anybody's Son Will DoGwynne Dyer

23 Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security PrisonThomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones

24 How Women Reshape the Prison Guard RoleLynn Zimmer

25 Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of PatientsPatti A. Giuffre and Christine L. Williams

Part VI Deviance and Social Control

26 The Normality of CrimeEmile Durkheim

27 The Saints and the RoughnecksWilliam J. Chambliss

28 On Being Sane in Insane PlacesD. L. Rosenhan

29 Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party RapeElizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura Hamilton and Brian Sweeney

30 Situational Ethics and College Student CheatingEmily E. LaBeff and Robert E. Clark and Valerie J. Haines and George M. Dickhoff

31 Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar CrimeMichael L. Benson

Part VII Inequality

32 The Land of OpportunityJames Loewan

33 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaBarbara Ehrenreich

34 The Job GhettoKatherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon

35 RacismJoe R. Feagn

36 "Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College ClassroomRoxanna Harlow

37 Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My HeadRobin D. G. Kelley

38 The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing BacklashYin Ling Leung

39 Tales Out of Medical SchoolAdriane Fugh-Berman, M.D

40 The Sociological Eye and Its BlindersRandall Collins

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