Exploring the social : readings in contemporary sociology /

Exploring the social : readings in contemporary sociology / [edited by] Peter Kivisto. - Boston : McGraw Hill, c2001. - xxvii, 493 p. ; 24 cm.


CONTENT

SECTION ONE. PROFESSING SOSIOLOGY
1. The promise

2. Lost worlds and modern sociology

SECTION TWO. CULTURE AND SOCIETY
3. Experiencing the week

4. Ecumenical America: Global culture and the American cosmos

5. Norma Jeane and Jimmy dean: nostalgic signifiers of the postmodern era

6. The code of the streets

SECTION THREE. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND EVERYDAY LIFE
7. Embarrassment and social organization

8. Sociological meaning of codependence

9. The sales process and the paradoxes of trust

10. Multiple subjectivity and virtual community at the end of the Freudian century

11. Mobilizing fun

12. The telephone : personal calls, personal meaning

13. Role conflict and identity salience: college athletics and the academic role

SECTION FOUR. DEVIANCE AND CRIME
14. The construction of alcohol problems

15. Spector violence at football matches

16. Selling crack in El Barrio

17. The razor blade in the apple: The social construction of urban legends

SECTION FIVE. RACE
18. The tale of two restaurant chains

19. America's apartheid and the urban underclass

20. The worlds of the new urban poor

SECTION SIX. CLASS
21. Three nations

22. The end of the social contract

23. Shadow work






Includes bibliographical references.

0072386312 (softcover : alk. paper)

00042715


Sociology.

301 / KIV