THE ROLE OF
INSTITUTIONS
254 Religion is the sigh of the
oppressed creature
Karl Marx
260 The iron law of oligarchy
Robert Michels
261 Healthy people need no
bureaucracy to mate,
give birth, and die
Ivan Illich
262 Some commit crimes
because they are
responding to a social
situation Robert K. Merton
264 Total institutions strip
people of their support
systems and their sense
of self Erving Goffman
270 Government is the right
disposition of things
Michel Foucault
278 Religion has lost its
plausibility and social
significance Bryan Wilson
280 Our identity and
behavior are determined
by how we are described
and classified
Howard S. Becker
286 Economic crisis is
immediately transformed
into social crisis
Jürgen Habermas
288 Schooling has been at
once something done to
the poor and for the poor
Samuel Bowles and
Herbert Gintis
290 Societies are subject,
every now and then,
to periods of moral panic
Stanley Cohen
291 The time of the tribes
Michel Maffesoli
292 How working-class kids
get working-class jobs
Paul Willis
FAMILIES AND
INTIMACIES
298 Differences between the
sexes are cultural
creations
Margaret Mead
300 Families are factories
that produce human
personalities
Talcott Parsons
302 Western man has become
a confessing animal
Michel Foucault
304 Heterosexuality must be
recognized and studied
as an institution
Adrienne Rich
310 Western family
arrangements are diverse,
fluid, and unresolved
Judith Stacey
312 The marriage contract
is a work contract
Christine Delphy
318 Housework is directly
opposed to self-
actualization Ann Oakley
320 When love finally wins
it has to face all kinds
of defeat
Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth
Beck-Gernsheim
324 Sexuality is as much
about beliefs and
ideologies as about
the physical body
Jeffrey Weeks
326 Queer theory questions
the very grounds of
identity Steven Seidman
332 DIRECTORY
340 GLOSSARY
344 INDEX
351 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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