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| About The Everyday Sociology Reader | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Thinking Sociologically and Doing Sociology | |
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| The Sociological Perspective | |
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| The Promise | |
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| Sociological Theory | |
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| Fractals, Theories, and Patterns | |
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| Research Questions | |
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| Matching Research Methods to Research Questions | |
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| Conducting Research | |
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| Where to Sit: Doing Qualitative Research | |
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| Statistics | |
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| Scary Numbers | |
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| Culture, Consumption, and Media | |
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| Consumption | |
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| Conspicuous Consumption | |
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| Lifestyle | |
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| The Visible Lifestyle: American Symbols of Status | |
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| Television | |
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| Reality Life | |
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| Magazines | |
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| Beauty Myths and Magazines | |
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| Email | |
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| Marketing Ideas and Fears through Email: Pass Along Hoaxes and Urban Legends | |
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| Self and Interaction | |
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| The Public Self | |
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| [Impression Management] | |
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| Breaching Norms | |
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| Grocery Shopping, Ordering Whoppers, and Borat | |
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| Managing Stigma | |
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| Stand By Our Man | |
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| Identity | |
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| Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students | |
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| Identity and Value | |
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| Romantic Exchanges | |
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| Community, Organizations, and Social Groups | |
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| Organizations | |
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| Bureaucracy | |
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| Organizational Failure | |
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| Bureaucracy: Resistance to Change and Adaptation | |
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| Declining Civic Engagement | |
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| Civic Participation | |
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| Increasing Civic Engagement | |
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| Beyond Bowling Alone | |
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| Barriers to Involvement | |
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| Social Movements and Your Attention Span | |
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| Crime and Deviance | |
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| Understanding Crime Statistics | |
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| Murder and Statistics | |
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| A Theory of Crime | |
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| Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety | |
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| Challenging a Theory of Crime | |
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| Beyond Broken Windows | |
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| Understanding Deviance | |
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| [The Relationship Between Celebrity and Deviant Behavior] | |
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| Navigating the Deviant Label | |
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| Rehab, Labeling, and Deviance | |
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| Stratification | |
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| American Class Structure | |
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| Class in America | |
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| The Intersection of Race and Class | |
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| Class and Race | |
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| Class in Everyday Life | |
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| Class Consciousness | |
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| Media Representations of Class | |
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| Class Action in the Media | |
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| Shifting Perceptions of Homelessness | |
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| The Disaster of Homelessness | |
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| Gender and Sexuality | |
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| Gender as a Performance | |
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| Doing Gender | |
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| Performing Masculinity | |
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| The Well-coiffed Man: Class, Race, and Heterosexual Masculinity in the Hair Salon | |
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| Gender and Power | |
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| Language, Gender, and Power | |
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| Gender and Sex | |
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| Back Stage Out in Front: Impressions of Teen Pregnancy | |
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| Sexual Orientation | |
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| Does Finger Size Reveal Sexual Orientation? | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Constructing Race | |
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| Racial Formation | |
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| Racial Identity | |
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| Black and White or Rainbow Colors: Tiger Woods and the "One-Drop Rule" | |
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| Race Relations | |
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| Racial Tensions and Living in a Color-blind Society | |
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| Constructing Ethnicity | |
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| The Costs of a Costless Community | |
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| Ethnic Identity | |
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| Celebrating St. Patrick's Day: Symbolic Ethnicity | |
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| Social Institutions | |
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| Families and Work | |
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| The Overextended Family | |
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| Child Care | |
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| Who Cares for America's Babies? | |
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| Work and the Economy | |
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| White-collar Downward Mobility | |
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| Work and Social Networks | |
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| Getting a Job: Weak Social Ties and Online Connections | |
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| Education and Inequality | |
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| Hitting Them Hardest When They're Small | |
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| Education and Globalization | |
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| Globalization and Higher Education | |
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| Religion and Spirituality | |
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| Bridging the Gap: The Split between Society and Spirituality | |
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| Religion and Deviance | |
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| What Is a Cult? | |
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| Government and Power | |
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| The Sociology of Conspiracy | |
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| Social Change | |
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| Generational Change | |
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| Generations X, Y, and Z: Are They Changing America? | |
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| Immigration Trends | |
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| Black Ethnicity: The Foreign-born in America | |
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| Immigration and Social Change | |
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| Rethinking Crime and Immigration | |
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| Fear of Immigration and Change | |
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| Statistics and Myths about Immigrants | |
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| Social Movements and Social Change | |
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| Social Movements and the Environment | |
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| Credits | |