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About the Author | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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The Individual and Society | |
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Taking a New Look at a Familiar World | |
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Sociology and the Individual | |
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The Insights of Sociology | |
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The Sociological Imagination | |
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�mile Durkheim: A Sociological View of Suicide | |
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Conclusion | |
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Your Turn | |
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Key Terms | |
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Seeing and Thinking Sociologically | |
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How Individuals Structure Society | |
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Social Influence: The Impact of Other People in Our Everyday Lives | |
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Stanley Milgram: Ordinary People and Cruel Acts | |
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Societal Influence: The Effect of Social Structure on Our Everyday Lives | |
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Statuses and Roles | |
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Groups | |
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Organizations | |
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Marion Nestle: The Economics and Politics of Food | |
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Culture | |
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Values | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Family Privacy Versus Children's Welfare | |
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Norms | |
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Social Structure in Global Context | |
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Visual Essay: The Old Ball Game | |
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Three Perspectives on Social Order | |
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The Structural-Functionalist Perspective | |
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The Conflict Perspective | |
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Symbolic Interactionism | |
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Conclusion | |
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Study Site on the Web | |
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY | |
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Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge | |
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Understanding the Social Construction of Reality | |
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Laying the Foundation: The Bases of Reality | |
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Culture and Language | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: The Language of War | |
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Self- Fulfilling Prophecies | |
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Faith and Incorrigible Propositions | |
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Hugh Mehan and Houston Wood: The Infallible Oracle | |
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Building the Walls: Conflict, Power, and Social Institutions | |
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The Economics of Reality | |
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The Politics of Reality | |
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The Medium Is the Message | |
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Moral Entrepreneurs | |
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Appreciating the Contributions of Sociological Research | |
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Visual Essay: Personal Billboards | |
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The Empirical Nature of Sociological Research | |
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Qualitative and Quantitative Research | |
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Theories, Variables, and Hypotheses | |
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Modes of Research | |
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Experiments | |
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Field Research | |
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Surveys | |
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Unobtrusive Research | |
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The Trustworthiness of Social Research | |
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Samples | |
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Indicators | |
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Values, Interests, and Ethics in Sociological Research | |
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Laud Humphreys: The Tearoom Trade | |
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Conclusion | |
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Building Order: Culture and History | |
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Dimensions of Culture | |
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Material and Nonmaterial Culture | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: The Chair | |
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Global Culture | |
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Subcultures and Countercultures | |
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History: The "Archives" for Everyday Living | |
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Cultural Expectations and Social Order | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Can You Hear Me Now? | |
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Social Institutions and Cultural Norms | |
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Institutionalized Emotions | |
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Norms and Sanctions | |
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Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism | |
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Cultural Variation and Everyday Experience | |
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Health and Illness | |
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Sex | |
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Visual Essay: Funeral Rituals in the Netherlands | |
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Conclusion | |
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Building Identity: Socialization | |
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Social Structure and the Construction of Human Beings | |
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Socialization: Becoming Who We Are | |
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The Acquisition of Self | |
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The Differentiation of Self | |
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Language Acquisition and the Looking-Glass Self | |
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The Development of Role Taking | |
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Resocialization | |
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Spencer Cahill: The Professional Socialization of Funeral Directors | |
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The Self in Cultural Context | |
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Socialization and Stratification: Growing Up With Inequality | |
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Social Class | |
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Race and Ethnicity | |
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Gender | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Girls' Toys and Boys' Toys | |
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Institutions and Socialization | |
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Education | |
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Visual Essay: Becoming a Mariner | |
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Religion | |
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Mass Media | |
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Conclusion | |
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Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self | |
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Forming Impressions of Others | |
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Social Group Membership | |
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Physical Appearance | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Sizing People Up | |
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Verbal and Nonverbal Expression | |
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Managing Impressions | |
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Image Making | |
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The Illusion of Youth | |
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Political Portraits | |
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Dramaturgy: Actors on a Social Stage | |
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Front Stage and Back Stage | |
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Peter Ubel: Elevator Talk Among Doctors and Nurses | |
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Props | |
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Social Influences on Impression Management | |
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Race and Ethnicity | |
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Elijah Anderson: Streetwise | |
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Social Status | |
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Collective Impression Management | |
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Mismanaging Impressions: Spoiled Identities | |
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Embarrassment | |
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Remedies for Spoiled Identities | |
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Stigma | |
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Conclusion | |
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Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Families | |
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Life With Others | |
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Social Diversity and Intimate Choices | |
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Religious Endogamy | |
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Racial and Ethnic Endogamy | |
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Social Class Endogamy | |
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Visual Essay: The Blending of America: Mixed Race | |
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Family Life | |
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Defining Family | |
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Historical Trends in Family Life | |
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Trends in Family Structure | |
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Trends in Household Size | |
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Trends in Divorce | |
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Cultural Variation in Intimacy and Family | |
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Family and Social Structure | |
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How Other Institutions Influence Family | |
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The Influence of Law and Politics | |
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The Influence of Religion | |
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The Influence of Economics | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Dual-Earner Parents | |
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How Social Diversity Influences Family | |
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Mary Pattillo-McCoy: Privilege and Peril in Middle-Class Black Families | |
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Family Challenges | |
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Divorce | |
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The Normalization of Divorce | |
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Children, Divorce, and Single Parenting | |
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Remarriage and Stepfamilies | |
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Family Violence | |
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Intimate Partner Violence | |
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Child Abuse | |
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Family Violence in Cultural Context | |
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Personal and Institutional Responses to Intimate Violence | |
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Conclusion | |
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Constructing Difference: Social Deviance | |
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Defining Deviance | |
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Absolutist Definitions of Deviance | |
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Relativist Definitions of Deviance | |
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The Elements of Deviance | |
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Visual Essay: A Culture of Tramps | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Sexual Abuse and the Clergy | |
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Explaining Deviant Behavior | |
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Deterring Deviance | |
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Labeling Deviants | |
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Nancy Herman: Becoming an Ex-Crazy | |
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Linking Power, Deviance, and Social Control | |
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The Criminalization of Deviance | |
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The Social Reality of Crime | |
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Corporate and White Collar Crime | |
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The Menace of "Illegal" Drugs | |
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The Medicalization of Deviance | |
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Individualizing Complex Social Issues | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: The Pharmaceutical Personality | |
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Depoliticizing Deviance | |
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Conclusion | |
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Social Structure, Institutions, and Everyday Life | |
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The Structure of Society: Organizations, Social Institutions, and Globalization | |
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Social Structure and Everyday Life | |
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Social Dilemmas: Individual Interests and Structural Needs | |
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The Tragedy of the Commons | |
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The Free-Rider Problem | |
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Solutions to Social Dilemmas | |
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The Structure of Formal Organizations | |
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Bureaucracies: Playing by the Rules | |
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George Ritzer: The McDonaldization of Society | |
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The Hierarchical Makeup of Organizations | |
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The Upper Echelons | |
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The Middle Ground | |
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The Lower Echelons | |
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The Construction of Organizational Reality | |
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Organizations and Institutions | |
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Organizational Networks Within Institutions | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: The U.S. Health Care System | |
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Institutional Pressures Toward Similarity | |
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Globalization and Social Institutions | |
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Economics | |
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Education | |
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Visual Essay: The Trail of the Tomato | |
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Religion | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality | |
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Stratification Systems | |
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Slavery | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Buying and Selling Humans | |
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Caste System | |
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Estate Systems | |
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Social Class Systems | |
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Sociological Perspectives on Stratification | |
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The Structural-Functionalist View of Stratification | |
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The Conflict View of Stratification | |
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The Marxian Class Model | |
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A Neo-Marxian Model of Stratification | |
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Weber's Model of Stratification | |
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Class Inequality in the United States | |
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Class and Everyday Life | |
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Class Distinctions | |
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The Upper Class | |
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The Middle Class | |
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The Working Class | |
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Mike Rose: The Mind at Work | |
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The Poor | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Out on the Street | |
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What Poverty Means in the United States | |
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The Poverty Line | |
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The Near-Poor | |
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The Poverty Rate | |
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Why Poverty Persists | |
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Enduring Disparities in Income and Wealth | |
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The Social "Benefits" of Poverty | |
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The Ideology of Competitive Individualism | |
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The Culture of Poverty | |
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Global Development and Inequality | |
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The Global Economic Gap | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: The Global Health Divide | |
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Explanations for Global Stratification | |
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Global Financial Organizations | |
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Multinational Corporations | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity | |
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Race and Ethnicity: More Than Just Biology | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Politics and Multiracial Identity | |
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Histories of Oppression and Inequality | |
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Native Americans | |
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Latino/as | |
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Visual Essay: "Civilizing" 'the Indians | |
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African Americans | |
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Asian Americans | |
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Muslim Americans | |
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Racial and Ethnic Relations | |
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Personal Racism | |
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Stereotypes | |
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Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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The Privilege of Having No Color | |
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Class, Race, and Discrimination | |
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Quiet Racism | |
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Joe Feagin and Eileen O'Brien: White Men on Race | |
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The Cultural Ideology of Racism | |
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Racism in Language | |
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The Myth of Innate Racial Inferiority | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Racial Superiority and the Dominant Black Athlete | |
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Institutional Racism: Injustice Built Into the System | |
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Racial Inequality in the Economic System | |
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Racial Inequality in the Health Care System | |
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Racial Inequality in the Educational System | |
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Remedies for Institutional Racism: Affirmative Action | |
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Global Perspective on Racism | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender | |
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Sexism at the Personal Level | |
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Sexism and Social Interaction | |
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Laura Miller: Gender, Power, and Harassment in the Military | |
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Sexual Orientation | |
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Violence Against Women | |
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Rape as a Means of Social Control | |
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Victim Blaming | |
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The Ideology of Sexism: Biology as Destiny | |
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Institutions and Gender Inequality | |
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Gender Inequality in Health and Health Care | |
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Gender Inequality in the Media | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Can Media Images Be Hazardous to Your Health? | |
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Gender Inequality in Families | |
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Gender Inequality in Education | |
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Gender Inequality in the Economy | |
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Segregation in the Workplace | |
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The Wage Gap | |
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The Global Devaluation of Women | |
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Conclusion | |
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Demographic Dynamics: Population Trends | |
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The Influence of Birth Cohorts | |
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Baby Boomers | |
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Generation X | |
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The Millennium Generation | |
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Demographic Dynamics | |
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Population Growth | |
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Global Imbalances in Population Growth | |
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Politics, Culture, and Population Growth | |
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Age Structure | |
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Geographic Distribution | |
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Migration Within a Society | |
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Migration from One Country to Another | |
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Population Trends in the United States | |
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Immigration and the Changing Face of the United States | |
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The Immigrant Surge | |
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Visual Essay: Immigrant Nation | |
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Social Responses to Immigrants | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: The Peculiar Politics of Immigration | |
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The "Graying" of the United States | |
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Conclusion | |
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Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society | |
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Social Change | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Parental Pressure in Childhood Sports | |
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The Speed of Social Change | |
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Causes of Social Change | |
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Environmental and Population Pressures | |
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Cultural and Technological Innovation | |
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Micro-Macro Connection: Technology and the Erosion of Privacy | |
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Diffusion of Technologies and Cultural Practices | |
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Social Movement | |
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Types of Social Movements | |
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Elements of Social Movements | |
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Ideology | |
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Visual Essay: Portraits of Grief | |
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Rising Expectations | |
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Resource Mobilization | |
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Bureaucratization | |
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Political Opportunity Structure | |
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The Sociological Imagination Revisited | |
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Conclusion and Farewell | |
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Study Site on the Web | |
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References | |
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Photo Credits | |
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Glossary/Index | |