Contributor
Heeren, John W., 1944-
Edition Statement:5th ed.
Imprint:Los Angeles, Calif. : Roxbury Pub. Co., c2000.
Descriptionxiv, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:The sociological imagination / C. Wright Mills. - Getting it done: notes on student fritters / Stan Bernstein. - Egoistic suicide / Emile Durkheim. - 'It's awful! It's terrible! It's...never mind' / Steven A. Holmes. - Intelligence and giftedness / Miles D. Storfer. - India's sacred cow / Marvin Harris. - Rule enforcement without visible means: Christmas gift-giving in middletown / Theodore Caplow. - Approaches to the iron cage: reconstructing the bars of Weber's metaphor / Jay Klagge. - Socialization in three cultures: a difficult child in a Japanese preschool / Joseph J. Tobin, David Y. H. Wu, and Dana H. Davidson. - As the twig is bent: children reared in feminist households / Barbara J. Risman and Kristen Meyers. - Sexuality and gender in children's daily worlds / Barrie Thorne and Zella Luria. - 'You just don't understand': the role of gender in conversational interruptions / Deborah Tannen. - Drinking during adolescence / Laurie Chassin and Christian DeLucia. - The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. - The flap over executive pay / Business Week. - America's shame: women and children in shelters / Barbara A. Arrighi. - The job ghetto / Katherine Newman and Chauncey Lennon. - Policies of prejudice / Gregory Squires. - Cowboys and indians: perceptions of western films among American Indians and anglos / JoEllen Shively. - Token women in the corporation / Rosabeth Moss Kanter. - How women experience battering: the process of victimization / Kathleen Ferraro and John Johnson. - Social policy and everyday life in nursing homes / Timothy Diamond.
Note:Home work time / Marilyn Snell. - The transformation of family life / Lillian B. Rubin. - 'We always stood on our own two feet': self-reliance and the American family / Stephanie Coontz. - The army's racial success story: how do they do it? / Charles Moskos. - Alienation in work / Karl Marx. - Sweatshop Barbie: exploitation of third world labor / Anton Foek. - Mechanisms of control in the temporary help service industry / Heidi Gottfried. - The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber. - Husbands and wives in fundamentalist homes / Nancy Tatom Ammerman. - Savage inequalities / Jonathan Kozol. - Canadian and American health care: myths and realities / Terry Mizrahi, Robert Fasano, and Susan M. Dooha. - The meaning of success: the athletic experience and the development of male identity / Michael Messner. - Crime and the media / Jay Livingston. - Islands in the street: urban gangs as economic organizations / Martin Sánchez Jankowski. - Policing the ghetto underclass: the politics of law and law enforcement / William J. Chambliss. - The razorblade in the apple: the social construction of urban legends / Joel Best and Gerald T. Horiuchi. - Equal time for women: notes on the male strip show / David M. Petersen and Paula Dressel. - Confronting deadly disease: identity construction among gay men with AIDS / Kent L. Sandstrom. - Life in big red: struggles and accommodations in a Chicago polyethnic tenement / Dwight Conquergood. - Falling from grace: the experience of downward mobility / Katherine S. Newman. - Credit cards, fast-food restaurants, and rationalization / George Ritzer. - The impact of mobile communications / James E. Katz and Philip Aspden.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
