Exploring the social : readings in contemporary sociology / [edited by] Peter Kivisto.
Publication details: Boston : McGraw Hill, c2001.Description: xxvii, 493 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0072386312 (softcover : alk. paper)
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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.
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