[I'm trying to read one "unit" per day (three or four articles). Expected date of completion: 5/28/2011. Anthology review to come once I've read all sources.]
This anthology contains the following articles and excerpts:
- The Sociological Imagination - C. Wright Mills
- The Forest and the Trees - Allan G. Johnson
- Not Our Kind of Girl - Elaine Bell Kaplan
- Sense and Nonsense about Surveys - Howard Schuman
- Body Ritual Among the Nacirema - Horace Miner
- September 11, 2001: Mass Murder and Its Roots in Symbolism - George Ritzer
- Barbie Doll Culture and the American Waistland - Kamy Cunningham
- Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get All His Friends Absolutely Free - Jean Kilbourne
- Leaving Home for College: Expectations for Selective Reconstruction of Self - David Karp, Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, and Paul S. Gray
- Navajo Women and the Politics of Identity - Amy J. Schulz
- Gender and Aging - Kathleen Slevin and Toni Calasanti
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman
- Code of the Street - Elijah Anderson
- Life Beyond the Screen: Embodiment and Identity Through the Internet - Michael Hardey
- Clique Dynamics - Patricia Adler and Peter Adler
- Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? - A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade
- Social Networks: The Value of Variety - Bonnie Erickson
- The Functions of Crime - Emile Durkheim
- The Medicalization of Deviance - Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider
- The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison? - Jeffrey H. Reiman
- The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Frederich Engels
- Great Divides - Thomas M. Shapiro
- Wealth Matters - Dalton M. Conley
- Studying the Quagmire of Welfare Reform - Sharon Hays
- The Garment Industry in Restructuring Global Economy - Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng, Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton, and Paul Ong
- The Nanny Chain - Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Michael Jordan and the New Capitalism - Walter LaFeber
- The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. Du Bois
- Seeing More than Black and White - Elizabeth Martinez
- Immigrant America: Who They Are and Why They Come - Alejandro Portes and Rubén Rumbaut
- Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America - Charles A. Gallagher
- The Social Construction of Gender - Margaret L. Andersen
- The Politics of Masculinities - Michael A. Messner
- Catching Sense: Learning from Our Mothers to Be Black and Female - Suzanne C. Carothers
- Challenges for Middle Eastern Women - Elizabeth Fernea
- Pluralistic Ignorance and Hooking Up - Tracy A. Lambert, Arnold S. Kahn, and Kevin J. Apple
- Masculinity as Homophobia - Michael S. Kimmel
- The Long Goodbye - Diane Vaughn
- Weaving Work and Motherhood - Anita Garey
- Family Rituals and the Construction of Reality - Scott Coltrane
- Divorce and Remarriage - Terry Arendell
- Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States - Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
- Abiding Faith - Mark Chaves and Dianne Hagaman
- Are American Jews Vanishing Again? - Calvin Goldscheider
- School Girls - Peggy Orenstein
- Race in American Public Schools: Rapidly Resegregating - Erica Frankenberg and Chungmei Lee
- Racial Desegregation: Magnet Schools, Vouchers, Privatization, and Home Schooling - Loretta F. Meeks, Wendell A. Meeks, and Claudia A. Warren
- The Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work - Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni
- Toward a 24-Hour Economy - Harriet B. Presser
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Power Elite - C. Wright Mills
- Diversity in the Power Elite - Richard Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
- Forever Seen as New: Latino Participation in American Elections - Louis DeSipio and Rodolfo O. de la Garza
- Latinos' Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance - E. Richard Brown and Hongjian Yu
- Beauty Myths and Realities and Their Impact on Women's Health - Jane Sprague Zones
- Death and Social Structure - Robert Blauner
- American Apartheid - Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton
- Black, Brown, Red, and Poisoned - Regina Austin and Michael Schill
- Mobilizing mMinority Communities: Social Capital and Participation in Urban Neighborhoods - Kent E. Portney and Jeffrey M. Berry
- Generations X, Y, and Z: Are They Changing America? - Duane F. Alwin
- Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin R. Barber
- The Genius of the Civil Rights Movement: Can It Happen Again? - Aldon Morris
