The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology

<h3>* indicates reading new to this edition.<br></h3><h2>Part I. The Social Imagination </h2><h3>1. C. Wright Mills, The Promise</h3><h3>2. Stephanie Coontz, How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families</h3><h3>3. Lisa J. McIntyre, Hernando Washington<p></p></h3><h2>Part II. The Research Craft </h2><h3>4. Stephanie Sanford and Donna Eder, Adolescent Humor During Peer Interaction</h3><h3>*5. Charles A. Gallagher, Miscounting Race: Explaining Whites' Misperceptions of Racial Group Size</h3><h3>6. Lisa J. McIntyre, Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research</h3><h3>7. Philip Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably<br></h3><h2>Part III. Culture</h2><h3>8. Clyde Kluckhohn, Queer Customs</h3><h3>9. Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema</h3><h3>10. Cheryl Laz, Act Your Age</h3><h3>11. Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets </h3><h3>*12. Beth A. Quinn, The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"</h3><h3>*13. David Grazian, The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity<p></p></h3><h2>Part IV. Social Structure </h2><h3>14. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life</h3><h3>15. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment</h3><h3>16. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment</h3><h3>17. Greta Feoff Paules, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip</h3><h3>18. Natalie Adams and Pamela Bettis, Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood</h3><h3>19. Harvey Molotch, The Rest Room and Equal Opportunity<p></p></h3><h2>Part V. Social Institutions and Socialization </h2><h3>*20. Frederic W. Hafferty, "Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical Students</h3><h3>21. Gwynne Dyer, Anybody's Son Will Do</h3><h3>22. Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison</h3><h3>23. Lynn Zimmer, How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role</h3><h3>24. Patti A. Giuffre and Christine L. Williams, Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of Patients<p></p></h3><h2>Part VI. Deviance and Social Control </h2><h3>25. Emile Durkheim, The Normality of Crime</h3><h3>26. William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks</h3><h3>27. D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places</h3><h3>*28. Steven H. Lopez, Randy Hodson, and Vincent J. Roscigno, Power, Status, and Abuse At Work: General and Sexual Harassment </h3><h3>29. Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating</h3><h3>30. Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime<p></p></h3><h2>Part VII. Inequality</h2><h3>31. James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity</h3><h3>32. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America</h3><h3>33. Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto</h3><h3>34. Joe R. Feagn, Racism</h3><h3>35. Roxanna Harlow, "Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College Classroom</h3><h3>36. Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head</h3><h3>37. Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash</h3><h3>38. Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School</h3><h3>39. Randall Collins, The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders</h3>