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Sociology Now, Census Update

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  - and Organizations Society: Interactions, Groups,


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    • Society: Putting Things in Context

    • The Social Construction of Reality

      • Cooley and the Looking-Glass Self

      • Goffman and the “Dramaturgical” Self

      • Nonverbal Communication

      • Verbal Communication

      • Patterns of Social Interaction



    • Elements of Social Structure

      • Status

      • Roles



    • Groups

      • Groups and Identity

      • Types of Groups

      • Group Dynamics

        • Social Networks

          • Networks and Social Experience

          • Networks and Globalization



        • Organizations

          • Types of Organizations

          • Are We a Nation of Joiners?

            • Inequality? Organizations: Race and Gender and



          • Bureaucracy: Organization and Power

          • Problems with Bureaucracy

          • Globalization and Organizations

          • in the 21st Century Groups ’R’ Us: Groups and Interactions





      • Culture and Society



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      • Culture

        • Cultural Diversity

        • Subcultures and Countercultures



      • Elements of Culture

        • Material Culture

        • Symbols

        • Language

        • Ritual

        • Norms

        • Values

          • Cultural Expressions

            • Universality and Localism

            • High Culture and Popular Culture

            • Forms of Popular Culture

            • The Politics of Popular Culture

            • The Globalization of Popular Culture

            • Culture as a Tool Kit



          • Cultural Change

          • Culture in the 21st Century







    • Socialization CONTENTS ix



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    • Socialization and Biology

    • Socialization in Action

      • Feral Children

      • Isolated Children

      • Primates



    • Stages in Socialization

      • Mead and Taking the Role of Others

        • Development Piaget and the Cognitive Theory of



      • Kohlberg and Moral Development

        • Personality Freud and the Development of



      • Problems with Stage Theories

        • Agents of Socialization

          • Family

          • Education

          • Religion

          • Peers

          • Mass Media

          • The Workplace



        • Socialization and the Life Course

          • Childhood (Birth to Puberty)

          • Adolescence (Roughly the Teen Years)

          • Adulthood



        • Gender Socialization

        • Socialization in the 21st Century





    • The Methods of the Sociologist How Do We Know What We Know?



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    • Why Sociological Methods Matter

      • Sociology and the Scientific Method

      • The Qualitative/Quantitative Divide



    • Doing Sociological Research

      • Methods Types of Sociological Research

      • Observational Methods

      • Analysis of Quantitative Data

      • Content Analysis

      • Making the Right Comparisons

      • of “Truth” Social Science and the Problem

        • Predictability and Probability

        • Causality

        • Issues in Conducting Research

          • Remain Objective and Avoid Bias

          • Avoid Overstating Results

          • Maintain Professional Ethics

          • The Institutional Review Board

          • Methodologies Century: Emergent





      • What Is Social Stratification?

        • Stratification? Why Do We Have Social

        • Systems of Stratification



      • Social Class

        • Theories of Social Class

          • States Socioeconomic Classes in the United

          • Class America and the Myth of the Middle



        • Income Inequality

        • Class and Race

        • Abroad Poverty in the United States and

        • Who Is Poor in America?

          • The Feminization of Poverty

          • Explaining Poverty

          • Poverty on a World Scale

          • Reducing Poverty

          • Social Mobility

            • Dynamics of Mobility

            • Social Mobility Today



          • Global Inequality

            • Classifying Global Economies

            • Explaining Global Inequality

            • Global Mobility

            • in the 21st Century Class Identity and Class Inequality







      • Stratification and Social Class PART TWO Identities and Inequalities





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    • Deviance and Crime

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      • What Is Deviance?

      • Conformity and Social Control

        • Stigma

        • Deviant Subcultures



      • Deviance and Social Coherence

        • Explaining Deviance

        • Deviance and Inequality



      • Deviance and Crime

        • Strain Theory

        • Broken Windows Theory

        • Criminal Subcultures

        • Opportunity Theory

        • Conflict Theory



      • Types of Crimes

        • Crime at Work

          • Cybercrime

          • Hate Crime

          • Crime in the United States

            • Crime and Guns

            • Crime and Gender

            • Crime and Race

            • Crime and Age

            • Crime and Class



          • The Criminal Justice System

            • Police

            • Courts

            • Punishment and Corrections



          • Globalization and Crime

            • Century Deviance and Crime in the 21st









    • Race and Ethnicity CONTENTS xi



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    • Ethnicity Distinguishing between Race and

    • What Is Race?

    • Biraciality and Multiraciality

    • Ethnicity The Sociology of Race and

    • Minority Groups

    • Majority Groups

    • Prejudice

      • Stereotypes

      • Racism



    • Discrimination

      • Institutional Discrimination

      • Segregation and Integration

        • Discrimination”? Affirmative Action or “Reverse



      • Hate Groups

        • Discrimination Theories of Prejudice and

        • Doing Something about It

        • Overcoming Prejudice

        • Ethnic Groups in the United States

          • People from Europe

          • People from North America

          • People from Latin America

          • People from Sub-Saharan Africa

          • People from East and South Asia

          • People from the Middle East

          • Ethnicity and Conflict

            • Multiculturalism (Pluralism) Melting Pot (Assimilation) and



          • Bilingualism

          • Century Race and Ethnicity in the 21st







    • Sex and Gender



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    • Sex and Gender: Nature andNurture

    • The Biology of Sex and Gender

      • Evolutionary Imperatives

      • Brain and Hormone Research

      • and Gender Exploring Cross-Cultural Variations of Sex

      • The Value of Cross-Cultural Research

      • Blurring the Boundaries of Gender

        • Tell Us Rituals of Gender—And What They



      • Identity Becoming Gendered: Learning Gender

      • Gender Socialization

      • The Social Construction of Gender

        • Scale Gender Inequality on a Global and Local

        • States Gender Inequality in the United

        • The Gendered World of Work

        • Gender Inequality in School

        • Gender Inequality in Everyday Life

        • The Politics of Gender

          • Opposition to Gender Roles

          • The Women’s Movement(s)

          • Feminism

          • Century Gender Inequality in the 21st





      • Age: From Young to Old xii CONTENTS



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      • Age and Identity

        • The Stages of Life

        • Childhood

        • Adolescence

        • Young Adulthood

        • Middle Age

        • Old Age

        • Aging and Dying



      • Age and Inequality

        • Age and Poverty

        • Social Isolation

        • Retirement

          • Elder Care

          • Generations of Youth Boomers, Busters, and Boomlets: The

          • Generation X (Baby Busters)

          • Generation Y (A Baby Boomlet)

          • Global Youth—A Dying Breed

          • Youth and Inequality

            • Youth and Poverty

            • Health Care

            • Child Labor

            • and Age in the 21st Century Getting Older andGetting Better? Youth







      • Sexuality





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    • and Identities Studying Sexuality: Bodies, Behaviors,

    • Desires and Behaviors

    • Sexual Identities

    • The Interplay of Biology and Society

    • Researching Sexuality

      • Early Sex Research

      • Modern Sex Research

      • Identities American Sexual Behavior and

      • The Gender of Sexuality

      • Convergence on Campus: Hooking Up

        • Saying No Convergence on Campus: Just

        • Rape and Sexual Assault

        • What Else Affects Sexuality?

        • Sexual Inequality

          • Sexual Minority Communities

          • Sexuality as Politics

          • Sex Tourism: The Globalization of Sex

          • Pornography

          • Sex Education and Birth Control



        • Sexuality in the 21st Century





    • The Family PART THREESocial Institutions



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    • The Family Tree

      • Families as Kinship Systems

      • Culture and Forms of the Family

      • The Family Unit

      • The Development of the Family

      • The Origins of the Nuclear Family



    • Family and Ethnicity

      • The European American Family

      • The Native American Family

      • The African American Family

      • The Asian American Family

      • The Hispanic Family



    • Forming Families

      • Courtship and Dating

      • Marriage

      • Biracial Marriage

      • Same-Sex Marriage

        • Parenting

          • Gender and Parenting

          • Single-Parent Families

          • Grandparenting

          • Adoptive Parents

          • Not Parenting



        • Family Transitions

          • The Consequences of Divorce

          • Blended Families



        • Violence in Families

          • Intimate Partner Violence

            • Violence Intergenerational and Intragenerational



          • Same as It Ever Was” The Family in the 21st Century: “The







    • Economy and Work xiv CONTENTS



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    • Theories of the Economy

    • Economic Development

      • The Agricultural Economy

      • The Industrial Economy

        • Economy Consumption and the Modern



      • The Postindustrial Economy



    • Economic Systems

      • Capitalism

      • Socialism

      • Communism



    • The American Economy

      • Development Early American Economic

      • Displacement and Consolidation The Impact of Industrialization:

        • and Globalization The Postindustrial Economy: Technology

        • Corporations

        • Multinational Corporations

        • Work, Identity, and Inequality

          • How We Work

          • Types of Jobs

          • Alternatives to Wage Labor

          • Unemployment



        • Diversity in the Workplace

          • Racial Diversity

          • Gender Diversity

          • Sexual Diversity

          • Working Parents

          • Century Economy and Work in the 21st







    • Politics and Government



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    • Politics: Power and Authority

      • Class, Status, and Power

      • Traditional Authority

      • Charismatic Authority

      • Legal-Rational Authority

      • Power/Knowledge



    • Political Systems

      • Authoritarian Systems

      • Democracy

      • Problems of Political Systems

      • Citizenship

      • States The Political System of the United

      • American Political Parties

        • and Gender Party Affiliation: The Politics of Race, Class,

        • Interest Groups

        • Political Change

          • Social Movements

          • Revolutions

          • War and the Military

          • Terrorism



        • Everyday Politics

          • Being Political: Social Change

            • Dynamic? Civil Society: Declining, Increasing, or





        • Political Life in the 21st Century

        • Religion and Science CONTENTS xv





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      • Comparing Religion and Science

      • Classical Theories of Religion

        • Durkheim and Social Cohesion

        • Marx and Social Control

        • Weber and Social Change



      • Religious Groups

        • Cults

        • Sects

        • Denominations

        • Ecclesiae



      • Religions of the World

        • Western Religions

        • Eastern Religions

          • Resurgence? Contemporary Religion: Secularization or

            • Religion in the United States

              • Identity Religious Experience and Religious

              • Religion on Campus

              • New Age Religions

              • Religion as Politics



            • Science as an Institution

              • Types of Science

              • The Norms of Science

              • Scientific Networks

              • Scientific Breakthroughs

              • The Role of the Scientist and Society

              • Century Religion and Science in the 21st









      • Health and Illness The Body and Society:





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    • The Social Construction of the Body

      • The Sociology of Beauty

      • Embodying Identity

      • The “Disabled” Body



    • Healthy Bodies, Sick Bodies

      • Health and Inequality

        • Illness The Global Distribution of Health and

          • Sickness and Stigma

          • Health as an Institution

            • Conventional and Alternative Healthcare

            • Health Care Reform

            • Longer—and Healthier? Health in the 21st Century: Living







      • Education xvi CONTENTS



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      • The Sociology of Education

        • Education as a Social Institution

        • The History of Education



      • Education and Globalization

        • Intelligence(s) and Literacy

        • Cultural Literacy



      • Education and Inequality

        • Education and Mobility

          • Education Inequality and the Structure of



        • Bilingual Education

        • Tracking

        • Gender Inequality in School

        • Schooling for Gender Identity

        • School Reform

          • Privatization

          • Homeschooling

          • No Child Left Behind

          • The Sociology of Higher Education

            • Preparing for College

            • Higher Education and Inequality

            • Student Life



          • Education, Inc.

            • For-Profit Universities

            • The Marketization of Higher Education

            • McSchool



          • Education in the 21st Century





      • Mass Media





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    • What Are the Mass Media?

      • Types of Mass Media

        • of Media Saturation and Convergence: The Sociology





    • Media Production and Consumption

      • Culture Industries

      • Multicultural Voices

      • Media Consolidation

      • The Importance of Advertising

      • Celebrities

        • Consuming Media, Creating Identity

        • Regulating Media

        • Globalization of the Media

          • What Is Media Globalization?

          • Cultural Imperialism

          • New Voices Media in the 21st Century: New Media,







    • and Human Worlds The Natural, Physical,



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    • The Human Environment

      • Being Born

      • Dying

      • Moving In, Moving Out

      • Studying Immigration

      • Population Composition



    • Population Growth

      • How High Can It Go?

      • Demographic Transition

      • Decreasing the Rate of Flow



    • The Urban Environment

      • The City: Ancient to Modern

      • The Countryside

        • Suburbs

          • and Unequal The Sociology of Commuting: Separate



        • Revitalizing Downtown

        • Sociology and the City

          • Human Ecology

          • Global Urbanization



        • The Natural Environment

          • Energy

          • Vanishing Resources

          • Environmental Threats

          • The Sociology of Disaster



        • Environments in the 21st Century





    • Glossary

    • References

    • Name Index

    • Subject Index

    • Photo Credits



  • FIGURE 1.1 An Alternative View of the World Maps

  • FIGURE 2.2 2004 Presidential Election: Red vs. Blue

  • FIGURE 2.3 Cell Phones per 1,000 People

  • FIGURE 5.3 Internet Distribution around the World

  • FIGURE 6.3 Guns: The Global Death Toll

  • FIGURE 6.8 Death Penalty Executions in the United States

  • FIGURE 7.5 The World by Income

  • FIGURE 8.4 Second-Generation Latinos

  • FIGURE 9.1 The State of Women

  • FIGURE 9.2 Women in Government

  • FIGURE 10.2A Male Homosexuality

  • FIGURE 10.2B Female Homosexuality

  • FIGURE 11.7 Youth (Ages 15–29) as a Percent of the Total Population by Country,

  • FIGURE 12.4 State Prohibitions on Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

  • FIGURE 13.2 World Wealth Levels in the Year

  • FIGURE 13.7 For Woman, Equal Pay? No Way

  • FIGURE 15.1 World Religions (2005)

  • FIGURE 16.3 Tuberculosis Deaths in

  • FIGURE 16.4 Adults Living with HIV/AIDS (Aged 15 and over),

  • FIGURE 17.1 High School Dropouts, Age 25 and Over,

  • FIGURE 17.2 Projected Illiteracy Rates,

  • FIGURE 18.3 Advertising Expenditures Worldwide

  • FIGURE 19.2 Infant Mortality Rate in the World

  • FIGURE 19.4 Urban Population of the World

  • FIGURE 19.5 World Temperature Increases, 2001–2005

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