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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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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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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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| 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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| Social Institutions | |
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| Culture | |
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| Norms | |
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| Social Structure in Global Context | |
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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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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Key Terms | |
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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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| Self-Fulfilling Prophecies | |
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| Faith and Incorrigible Propositions | |
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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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| Appreciating the Contributions of Sociological Research | |
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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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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Key Terms | |
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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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| Global Culture | |
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| Subcultures | |
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| Cultural Expectations and Social Order | |
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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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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Key Terms | |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Institutions and Socialization | |
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| Education | |
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| Religion | |
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| Mass Media | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Key Terms | |
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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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| Verbal and Nonverbal Expression | |
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| Managing Impressions | |
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| Image Making | |
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| Dramaturgy: Actors on a Social Stage | |
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| Front Stage and Back Stage | |
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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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| Social Status | |
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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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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Key Terms | |
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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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| 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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| How Social Diversity Influences Family | |
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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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| Family Violence | |
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| Intimate Partner Violence | |
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| Child Abuse | |
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| Intimate Violence in Cultural Context | |
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| Institutional Responses to Intimate Violence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Key Terms | |
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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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| Explaining Deviant Behavior | |
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| Deterring Deviance | |
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| Labeling Deviants | |
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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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| Depoliticizing Deviance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Key Terms | |
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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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| The Construction of Organizational Reality | |
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| Organizations and Institutions | |
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| Organizational Networks Within Institutions | |
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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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| Religion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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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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| Caste Systems | |
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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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| Neo-Marxist Models 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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| The Poor | |
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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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| 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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| Global Development and Inequality | |
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| The Global Economic Gap | |
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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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| Chapter Highlights | |
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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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| Histories of Oppression and Inequality | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| Latino/as | |
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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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| 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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| 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 Perspectives on Racism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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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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| 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 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 "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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| 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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| Diffusion of Technologies and Cultural Practices | |
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| Social Movements | |
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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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| 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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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |