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You may ask yourself : an introduction to thinking like a sociologist / Dalton Conley, New York University

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Conley, Dalton, 1969-
Published
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2015]
Edition
Fourth edition.
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xxxi, 730 pages, 78 variously numbered pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
ch. 1 The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction -- The Sociological Imagination -- How To Be A Sociologist According To Quentin Tarantino. A Scene From Pulp Fiction -- What Are the True Costs and Returns of College? -- Getting That 'Piece of Paper -- What Is a Social Institution? -- The Sociology of Sociology -- Auguste Comte and the Creation of Sociology -- Two Centuries Of Sociology -- Classical Sociological Theory -- American Sociology -- Modern Sociological Theories -- Sociology and Its Cousins -- History -- Anthropology -- The Psychological and Biological Sciences -- Economics and Political Science -- Divisions within Sociology -- Microsociology and Macrosociology -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 2 Methods -- Research 101 -- Causality versus Correlation -- Variables -- Hypothesis Testing -- Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability -- Role of the Researcher -- Creating and Testing Theory -- Data Collection -- Samples: They're Not Just The Free Tastes At The Supermarket -- Ethics Of Social Research -- Policy: The Political Battle Over Statistical Sampling -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 3 Culture and Media -- Definitions of Culture -- Culture = Human -- Nature -- Culture = (Superior) Man -- (Inferior) Man -- Culture = Man -- Machine -- Material versus Nonmaterial Culture -- Language, Meaning, and Concepts -- Ideology -- Studying Culture -- Subculture -- Cultural Effects: Give and Take -- Reflection Theory -- Media -- From the Town Crier to the Facebook Wall: A Brief History -- Hegemony: The Mother of All Media Terms -- The Media Life Cycle -- Texts -- Back to the Beginning: Cultural Production -- Media Effects -- The Race And Gender Politics Of Making Out -- Mommy, Where Do Stereotypes Come From? -- Racism in the Media -- Sexism in the Media -- Political Economy of the Media -- Consumer Culture -- Advertising and Children -- Culture Jams: Hey Calvin, How 'Bout Giving That Girl a Sandwich? -- Policy: What's In A Name? -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 4 Socialization and the Construction of Reality -- Socialization: The Concept -- Limits of Socialization -- "Human" Nature -- Theories of Socialization -- Me, Myself, and I: Development of the Self and the Other -- Agents of Socialization -- Families -- School -- Peers -- Media -- Adult Socialization -- Total Institutions -- Social Interaction -- Gender Roles -- The Social Construction of Reality -- Dramaturgical Theory -- Ethnomethodology -- New Technologies: What Has the Internet Done to Interaction? -- Policy: Roommates With Benefits -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 5 Groups and Networks -- Social Groups -- Just The Two Of Us -- And Then There Were Three -- Size Matters: Why Social Life Is Complicated -- Let's Get This Party Started: Small Groups, Parties, and Large Groups -- Primary and Secondary Groups -- Group Conformity -- In-Groups and Out-Groups -- Reference Groups -- From Groups to Networks -- Embeddedness: The Strength of Weak Ties -- Six Degrees -- Social Capital -- Case Study: Survival Of The Amish -- Network Analysis in Practice -- The Social Structure of Teenage Sex -- Romantic Leftovers -- Organizations -- Organizational Structure and Culture -- Institutional Isomorphism: Everybody's Doing It -- Policy: The 1965 Hart-Cellar Act -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 6 Social Control and Deviance -- What Is Social Deviance? -- Functionalist Approaches to Deviance and Social Control -- Social Control -- A Normative Theory of Suicide -- Social Forces and Deviance -- Symbolic Interactionist Theories of Deviance -- Labeling Theory -- The Stanford Prison Experiment And Abu Ghraib -- Stigma -- Broken Windows Theory of Deviance -- Crime -- Street Crime -- White-Collar Crime -- Interpreting the Crime Rate -- Crime Reduction -- Deterrence Theory of Crime Control -- Goffman's Total Institution -- Foucault on Punishment -- The U.S. Criminal Justice System -- Policy: Does Prison Work Better As Punishment Or Rehab? -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 7 Stratification -- Views of Inequality -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The Scottish Enlightenment and Thomas Malthus -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Standards of Equality -- Equality of Opportunity -- Equality of Condition -- Equality of Outcome -- Forms of Stratification -- Estate System -- Caste System -- Class System -- Status Hierarchy System -- Elite-Mass Dichotomy System -- Income Versus Wealth -- How Is America Stratified Today? -- The Upper Class -- The Middle Class -- The Poor -- Global Inequality -- Social Reproduction versus Social Mobility -- Policy: Class-Based Affirmative Action -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 8 Gender -- Mars and Venus -- Sex: A Process in the Making -- Sexed Bodies in the Premodern World -- Contemporary Concepts of Se.505. 00 ch.15 Authority and the State -- Types of Legitimate Authority -- Charismatic Authority -- Traditional Authority -- Legal-Rational Authority -- Obedience to Authority -- The Milgram Experiment -- Authority, Legitimacy, and the State -- The International System of States -- The Case of Somali land -- New State Functions: The Welfare State -- Radical Power and Persuasion -- Power and International Relations -- Dictatorship or Democracy? States of Nature and Social Contracts -- Who Rules in the United States? -- Beyond Strawberry and Vanilla: Political Participation in Modern Democracies -- Policy: What if the House is Too Small? -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 16 Religion -- What is Religion? -- Theory: Marx, Weber, and Durkheim -- Karl Marx -- Max Weber -- Emile Durkheim -- Secularization or Speculation? -- Religious Pluralism in the United States -- Religious Attendance in the United States -- At the Micro Level: Is It a Great Big Delusion? -- The Power of Religion: Social Movements -- Religion and the Social Landscape -Familiesmiles -- Race -- Gender -- Class -- Aging -- Types of Involvement -- Geography and Politics -- Selling God and Shopping for Faith: The Commercialization of Religious Life -- Lesson 1: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em -- Lessons 2: Bigger Is Better -- Lesson 3: Speed Pleases -- Lesson 4: Sex Sells -- The Paradox of Popularity -- The Sect-Church Cycle -- Why are Conservative Churches Growing? -- Policy: Teaching the Bible in School -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 17 Science, the Environment, and Society -- Science and Society -- Thomas Kuhn and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Is Science a Social and Political Endeavor? -- The Pursuit of Truth and the Boundaries of Science -- The Laboratory as a Site for Knowledge -- The Matthew Effect -- Agriculture and the Environment -- Global Warming and Climate Change -- Organic Foods and Genetically Modified Organisms -- The Green Revolution -- Biotechnology and the Human Genome -- Gattaca: Genetics and the Future of Society -- Race and Genetics -- Policy: Frankenfood v. No Nukes v. Abortion -- Politics -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch.18 Collective Action, Social Movements, and Social Change -- Collective Action: What is it Good For? -- Theories of Collective Action -- Identity and Collective Action -- Social Movements -- Types of Social Movements -- Models of Social Movements: How Do They Arise? -- Three Stages of Social Movements -- Social Movement Organizations -- Emergence, Coalescence, and Routinization in the HIV/AIDS Movement -- Voluntary Organizations: Why Is America a "Land of Joiners"? -- Social Movements and Social Change -- Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Societies -- Premodern Societies -- Modernity -- Postmodernism -- The Causes of Social Change -Technologyology and Innovation -- New Ideas Identities -- Social Change and Conflict -- Policy: Is Activism Dead? -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox. rial Era -- Families after World War II -- Family and Work: A Not-So-Subtle Revolution -- A Feminist "Rethinking of the Family" -- When Home Is No Haven: Domestic Abuse -- The Chore Wars: Supermom Does It All -- Swimming and Sinking: Inequality and American Families -- African American Families -- Latino Families -- Flat Broke with Children -- The Pecking Order: Inequality Starts at Home -- The Future of Families, and There Goes the Nation! -- Divorce -- Blended Families -- Gay and Lesbian Couples -- Multiracial Families -- Policy: Expanding Marriage -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 13 Education -- Learning to Learn or Learning to Labor? Functions of Schooling -- Socialization -- Do Schools Matter? -- The Coleman Report -- Class Size -- Private Schools versus Public Schools -- What's Going On Inside Schools? -- The Sorting Machine Revisited: Tracking -- The Classroom Pressure Cooker -- Higher Education -- The Rise and Rise of Higher Education: Credentialism -- The SAT: Meritocracy and the Big Test -- Affirmative Action: Myths and Reality -- Intelligence or IQ? -- Inequalities in Schooling -- Class -- Race -- Ethnicity -- Impending Crisis: Boy-Girl Achievement Gap -- All in the Family -- Policy Vouchers -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 14 Capitalism and the Economy -- A Brief History of Capitalism -- Theorizing the Transition to Capitalism -- Adam Smith -- Georg Simmel -- Karl Marx -- Max Weber -- Recent Changes in Capitalism -- You've Come a Long Way, Baby (or Have You?): Work, Gender, and Family -- The Service Sector -- Globalization -- The Rights of the Corporation -- The Corporate Psychopath? -- Policy: Regulating Finance -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox. and ch.15 Authority and the State -- Types of Legitimate Authority -- Charismatic Authority -- Traditional Authority -- Legal-Rational Authority -- Obedience to Authority -- The Milgram Experiment -- Authority, Legitimacy, and the State -- The International System of States -- The Case of Somali land -- New State Functions: The Welfare State -- Radical Power and Persuasion -- Power and International Relations -- Dictatorship or Democracy? States of Nature and Social Contracts -- Who Rules in the United States? -- Beyond Strawberry and Vanilla: Political Participation in Modern Democracies -- Policy: What if the House is Too Small? -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 16 Religion -- What is Religion? -- Theory: Marx, Weber, and Durkheim -- Karl Marx -- Max Weber -- Emile Durkheim -- Secularization or Speculation? -- Religious Pluralism in the United States -- Religious Attendance in the United States -- At the Micro Level: Is It a Great Big Delusion? -- The Power of Religion: Social Movements -- Religion and the Social Landscape -Familiesmiles -- Race -- Gender -- Class -- Aging -- Types of Involvement -- Geography and Politics -- Selling God and Shopping for Faith: The Commercialization of Religious Life -- Lesson 1: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em -- Lessons 2: Bigger Is Better -- Lesson 3: Speed Pleases -- Lesson 4: Sex Sells -- The Paradox of Popularity -- The Sect-Church Cycle -- Why are Conservative Churches Growing? -- Policy: Teaching the Bible in School -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 17 Science, the Environment, and Society -- Science and Society -- Thomas Kuhn and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Is Science a Social and Political Endeavor? -- The Pursuit of Truth and the Boundaries of Science -- The Laboratory as a Site for Knowledge -- The Matthew Effect -- Agriculture and the Environment -- Global Warming and Climate Change -- Organic Foods and Genetically Modified Organisms -- The Green Revolution -- Biotechnology and the Human Genome -- Gattaca: Genetics and the Future of Society -- Race and Genetics -- Policy: Frankenfood v. No Nukes v. Abortion -- Politics -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch.18 Collective Action, Social Movements, and Social Change -- Collective Action: What is it Good For? -- Theories of Collective Action -- Identity and Collective Action -- Social Movements -- Types of Social Movements -- Models of Social Movements: How Do They Arise? -- Three Stages of Social Movements -- Social Movement Organizations -- Emergence, Coalescence, and Routinization in the HIV/AIDS Movement -- Voluntary Organizations: Why Is America a "Land of Joiners"? -- Social Movements and Social Change -- Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Societies -- Premodern Societies -- Modernity -- Postmodernism -- The Causes of Social Change -Technologyology and Innovation -- New Ideas Identities -- Social Change and Conflict -- Policy: Is Activism Dead? -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox. rial Era -- Families after World War II -- Family and Work: A Not-So-Subtle Revolution -- A Feminist "Rethinking of the Family" -- When Home Is No Haven: Domestic Abuse -- The Chore Wars: Supermom Does It All -- Swimming and Sinking: Inequality and American Families -- African American Families -- Latino Families -- Flat Broke with Children -- The Pecking Order: Inequality Starts at Home -- The Future of Families, and There Goes the Nation! -- Divorce -- Blended Families -- Gay and Lesbian Couples -- Multiracial Families -- Policy: Expanding Marriage -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 13 Education -- Learning to Learn or Learning to Labor? Functions of Schooling -- Socialization -- Do Schools Matter? -- The Coleman Report -- Class Size -- Private Schools versus Public Schools -- What's Going On Inside Schools? -- The Sorting Machine Revisited: Tracking -- The Classroom Pressure Cooker -- Higher Education -- The Rise and Rise of Higher Education: Credentialism -- The SAT: Meritocracy and the Big Test -- Affirmative Action: Myths and Reality -- Intelligence or IQ? -- Inequalities in Schooling -- Class -- Race -- Ethnicity -- Impending Crisis: Boy-Girl Achievement Gap -- All in the Family -- Policy Vouchers -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox -- ch. 14 Capitalism and the Economy -- A Brief History of Capitalism -- Theorizing the Transition to Capitalism -- Adam Smith -- Georg Simmel -- Karl Marx -- Max Weber -- Recent Changes in Capitalism -- You've Come a Long Way, Baby (or Have You?): Work, Gender, and Family -- The Service Sector -- Globalization -- The Rights of the Corporation -- The Corporate Psychopath? -- Policy: Regulating Finance -- Conclusion -- Practice -- Paradox.
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9780393937732 paperback
0393937739 paperback
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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