Essentials of sociology : a down-to-earth approach / James M. Henslin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henslin, James M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 429 pages + various pagings : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm

Edition:

Ninth edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Allyn & Bacon, 2010.

Contents:

pt. I. The sociological perspective

1. The sociological perspective

August Comte and Positivism

Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism

Karl Marx and Class Conflict

Emile Durkheim and Social Integration

Max Weber and the Protestant ethic

Sexism and early female sociologists

Racism at the time : W.E.b. DuBois

Talcott Parsons and C. Wright Mills : theory versus reform

The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois

Gender in sociological research

Ethics and values in sociological research

Values and controversy in research

2. Culture

Culture shock : the arrival of the Hmong

Components of symbolic culture

Gestures

Language

Language and perception : the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Miami : continuing controversy over language

Values, norms, and sanctions

Race and language : searching for self-labels

Folkways and mores

Subcultures

Countercultures

2-D : a new subculture and a different kind of love

Values in U.S. Society

Culture wars

Technology in the global village

The new technology

Cultural lag and cultural change

Technology and cultural leveling

3. Socialization

Feral children

Isolated children

Heredity or environment? : twin study

Institutionalized children

Deprived animals

socialization into the self and mind

Cooley and the looking-glass self

Mead and role taking

Piaget and the development of reasoning

Global aspects of the self and reasoning

Learning personality, emotions, and internal control

Freud and the development of personality

Socialization into emotions

The self and emotions as social control

Socialization into gender

Learning the gender map

Gender messages in the family

Gender message from peers

Gender messages in the mass media

Women becoming men : the sworn virgins

Mass media in social life

Lara Croft, tomb raider : changing images of women in the mass media

The family

The neighborhood

Religion

Day care

The school and peer groups

Immigrants and their children

The workplace

Resocialization

Total institutions

Childhood

Boot camp as a total institution

Adolescence

Transitional adulthood

The middle years

The older years

4. Social structure and social interaction

Macrosociology and microsociology

Social structure

Culture

College football as social structure

Social class

Social status

Roles

Groups

Social institutions

Societies and their transformation

Avatar fantasy life : blurring lines of reality

Microsociological perspective : social interaction in everyday life

Symbolic interaction

Cultural diversity in the United States

The Amish : Gemeinschaft Community in a Gesellschaft society

Looks : the last frontier of socially acceptable discrimination?

Body images and the mass media

Ethnomethodology : uncovering background assumptions

The social construction of reality

pt. II. Social groups and social control

5. Social groups and formal organizations

Social networks

Electronic communities

Bureaucracies

The McDonaldization of society

Group pranking

"Hidden" corporate culture

Managing diversity in the workplace

Group dynamics

Effects of group size of stability and intimacy

Effects of group size of attitudes and behavior

Leadership

Power of peer pressure : the Asch experiment

Power of authority : the Milgram experiment

The power of cascades

Groupthink

6. Deviance and social control

Human sexuality in cross-cultural perspective

Sanctions

Competing explanations of deviance : sociobiology, psychology, and sociology

The symbolic interactionist perspective

Shaming

The functionalist perspective

Strain theory

Pornography and the mainstream : freedom versus censorship

Illegitimate opportunity structures : social class and crime

Urban gangs in the United States

The conflict perspective

Class, crime, and the Criminal Justice System

Street crime and prisons

"Three strikes and you're out!" : unintended consequences of well-intended laws

Decline in violent crime

Recidivism

The death penalty and bias

Serial murderers in our midst

Hate crime

The medicalization of deviance : mental illness

pt. III. Social inequality

7. Global stratification

Systems of social stratification

Slavery

Caste

Slavery today

Class

Global stratification and the status of females

The global superclass

Karl Marx : the means of production

Max Weber : property, power, and prestige

Functionalist view : motivating qualified people

The conflict perspective : class conflict and scarce resources

Lenski's synthesis

Soft control versus force

Comparative social stratification

Great Britain

Former Soviet Union

Global stratification

Open season : children as prey

Colonialism

World system theory

When globalization comes home : maquiladoras south of the Border

Culture of poverty

Neocolonialism

Multinational corporations

Technology and global domination

8. Social class in the United States

Property

Super-rich

Power

Prestige

Status inconsistency

Sociological models of social class

Updating Marx

Life after the lottery

Updating Weber

Consequences of social class

Physical health

Mental health

Mental illness and inequality in medical care

Family life

Education

Politics

Crime and Criminal Justice

Social mobility

Women in studies of social mobility

Social class and the upward mobility of African Americans

Poverty

Exploring stereotypes about the poor

Children of poverty

The dynamics of poverty

Welfare reform

Horatio Alger : the social functions of a myth.

9. Race and ethnicity

Race : myths and reality

Tiger Woods : mapping the changing ethnic terrain

Ethnic groups

Minority groups and dominant groups

Ethnic work : constructing our racial-ethnic identity

Prejudice and discrimination

Learning prejudice

The racist mind

Individual and institutional discrimination

Theories of prejudice

Global patterns of intergroup relations

Genocide

Population transfer

Internal colonialism

Segregation

Assimilation

Multiculturalism (pluralism)

Racial-ethnic relations in the United States

European Americans

Latinos (Hispanics)

African Americans

Asian Americans

Stealth racism in the rental market

Native Americans

The immigration debate

The shifting U.S. racial-ethnic mix

Affirmative action

True multicultural society

10. Gender and age

Issues of sex and gender

Gender differences in behavior : biology or culture?

Gender inequality in global perspective

Women in Iran

The origins of patriarchy

Global violence against women

Female circumcision

Gender inequality in the United States

The rise of feminism

Gender inequality in health care

Gender inequality in education

Gender inequality in the workplace

Affirmative Action for men?

Sexual harassment

Violence against women

Inequalities of aging

Aging in global perspective

Social construction of aging

Industrialization and the graying of the globe

The graying of America

Fighting for resources : Social Security legislation

Intergenerational competition and conflict

Senior citizen discounts : stirrings of resentment

pt. IV. Social institutions

11. Politics and the economy

Power, authority, and violence

Monarchies

Democracies

Dictatorships and oligarchies

The U.S. political system

Political parties and elections

Voting patterns

Lobbyists and special-interest groups

Pluralism

The power elite

War and terrorism

Why nations go to war

Terrorism

Suicide terrorists

Child soldiers

Work in the global village

Preindustrial societies : birth of inequality

Industrial societies : birth of the machine

Postindustrial societies : birth of the information age

Biotech societies : merger of biology and economics

The child workers

World economic systems

Capitalism

Socialism

The new Capitalism of China

Global oppression of workers

Stagnant paychecks

The new economic system and the old divisions pf wealth

12. Marriage and family

Marriage and family in global perspective

Marriage and family in theoretical perspective

Functions and dysfunctions

Struggles between husbands and wives

Gender, housework, and childcare

The family life cycle

Love and courtship in global perspective

Marriage

Childbirth

Child rearing

Family transitions

African American families

Latino families

Asian American families

Native American families

One-parent families

Couples without children

Blended families

Gay and lesbian families

Cohabitation

Divorce and remarriage

Children of divorce

Grandchildren of divorce

The absent father and serial fatherhood

The ex-spouses

Remarriage

Battering, child abuse, and incest

The dilemma of abused women

Successful marriages

Symbolic interactionism and the misuse of statistics

13. Education and religion

Education : transferring knowledge and skills

Education and industrialization

Community colleges

Education in the most industrialized nations : Japan

Education in the industrializing nations : Russia

Education in the least industrialized nations : Egypt

Functionalist perspective : providing social benefits

Cultural transmission of values

Social integration

Gatekeeping (social placement)

Conflict perspective : perpetuating social inequality

The hidden curriculum

Discrimination by IQ

Unequal funding

Family background

Symbolic interactionist perspective : teacher expectations

The Rist research

Problems in U.S. education

Mediocrity

Cheating

Violence

School shootings

Technology and education

Internet university

Religion : establishing meaning

Functions of religion

Dysfunctions of religion

Symbolic interactions perspective

Religious symbols

Rituals

Beliefs

Religious experience

Opium of the people

Legitmating social inequalities

Religion and the spirit of capitalism

Types of religious groups

Cult

Sect

Human heads and human blood : the toleration of religion

church Ecclesia

Religion in the United States

God on the net : the online marketing of religion

pt. V. Social change

14. Population and urbanization

Population in global perspective

The new Malthusians

The Anti-Malthusians

Population growth

Urbanization

Killing little girls : an ancient and thriving practice

Development of cities

U.S. urban patterns

Reclaiming Harlem : a twist in the invasion-succession cycle

Models of urban growth

Concentric-zone

Sector

Multiple-nuclei

Peripheral

City life

Alienation in the city

Community in the city

Norm of noninvolvement and the diffusion of responsibility

Urban revitalization

15. Social change and the environment

Four social revolutions

From Gemeinshaft to Gesellschaft

The industrialization revolution and capitalism

Conflict, power, and global politics

Theories and process of social change

Evolution from lower to higher

Natural cycles

Conflict over power

Ogburn's theory

Sociological significance of technology

From electronic toy to political weapon : twittering in the digital age

Computers in education

Computers in business and finance

Computers in warfare

The coming Star Wars

Social movements

Propaganda and the mass media

Deception and persuasion in propaganda

Resurgence

Prochoice and prolife as a social movement

The growth machine versus the Earth

Environmental problems and industrialization

The environmental movement

Ecosabatage

Environmental sociology

Rainforests : lost tribes, lost knowledge

Epilogue : why major in sociology?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages r1-r19) and index.

ISBN:

9780205763122

020576312X

OCLC:

650504694