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• Sociology
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Contents
• Boxes
• Maps
• Preface
• About the Author
• Part I: The Foundations of Sociology
• Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
• The Power of Society to guide our choices in marriage partners
• The Sociological Perspective
• 1.1: Explain how the sociological perspective differs from common sense.
• Seeing the General in the Particular
• Seeing the Strange in the Familiar
• Seeing Society in Our Everyday Lives
• Seeing Sociologically: Marginality and Crisis
• The Importance of a Global Perspective
• 1.2: State several reasons that a global perspective is important in today’s world.
• Applying the Sociological Perspective
• 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for developing public policy, for encouraging
• Sociology and Public Policy
• Sociology and Personal Growth
• Careers: The “Sociology Advantage”
• The Origins of Sociology
• 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
• Social Change and Sociology
• Science and Sociology
• Sociological Theory
• 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
• The Structural-Functional Approach
• The Social-Conflict Approach
• Feminism and Gender-Conflict Theory
• Race-Conflict Theory
• The Symbolic-Interaction Approach
• Applying the Approaches: The Sociology of Sports
• 1.6: Apply sociology’s major theoretical approaches to the topic of sports.
• The Functions of Sports
• Sports and Conflict
• Sports as Interaction
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 2: Sociological Investigation
• The Power of Society to influence our life chances
• Basics of Sociological Investigation
• 2.1: Explain how scientific evidence often challenges common sense.
• Science as One Type of Truth
• Common Sense versus Scientific Evidence
• Three Ways to Do Sociology
• 2.2: Describe sociology’s three research orientations.
• Positivist Sociology
• Interpretive Sociology
• Critical Sociology
• Research Orientations and Theory
• Issues Affecting Sociological Research
• 2.3: Identify the importance of gender and ethics in sociological research.
• Gender
• Research Ethics
• Research Methods
• 2.4: Explain why a researcher might choose each of sociology’s research methods.
• Testing a Hypothesis: The Experiment
• Asking Questions: Survey Research
• In the Field: Participant Observation
• Using Available Data: Existing Sources
• Research Methods and Theory
• Putting It All Together: Ten Steps in Sociological Investigation
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Part II: The Foundations of Society
• Chapter 3: Culture
• The Power of Society to guide our attitudes on social issues such as abortion
• What Is Culture?
• 3.1: Explain the development of culture as a human strategy for survival.
• Culture and Human Intelligence
• Culture, Nation, and Society
• How Many Cultures?
• The Elements of Culture
• 3.2: Identify common elements of culture.
• Symbols
• Language
• Values and Beliefs
• Norms
• Ideal and Real Culture
• Material Culture and Technology
• New Information Technology and Culture
• Cultural Diversity: Many Ways of Life in One World
• 3.3: Discuss dimensions of cultural difference and cultural change.
• High Culture and Popular Culture
• Subculture
• Multiculturalism
• Counterculture
• Cultural Change
• Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
• A Global Culture?
• Theories of Culture
• 3.4: Apply sociology’s macro-level theories to gain greater understanding of culture.
• Structural-Functional Theory: The Functions of Culture
• Social-Conflict Theory: Inequality and Culture
• Feminist Theory: Gender and Culture
• Sociobiology: Evolution and Culture
• Culture and Human Freedom
• 3.5: Critique culture as limiting or expanding human freedom.
• Culture as Constraint
• Culture as Freedom
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 4: Society
• The Power of Society to shape access to the Internet
• Gerhard Lenski: Society and Technology
• 4.1: Describe how technological development has shaped the history of human societies.
• Hunting and Gathering Societies
• Horticultural and Pastoral Societies
• Agrarian Societies
• Industrial Societies
• Postindustrial Societies
• The Limits of Technology
• Karl Marx: Society and Conflict
• 4.2: Analyze the importance of class conflict to the historical development of human societies.
• Society and Production
• Conflict and History
• Capitalism and Class Conflict
• Capitalism and Alienation
• Revolution
• Max Weber: The Rationalization of Society
• 4.3: Demonstrate the importance of ideas to the development of human societies.
• Two Worldviews: Tradition and Rationality
• Is Capitalism Rational?
• Weber’s Great Thesis: Protestantism and Capitalism
• Rational Social Organization
• Emile Durkheim: Society and Function
• 4.4: Contrast the social bonds typical of traditional and modern societies.
• Structure: Society beyond Ourselves
• Function: Society as System
• Personality: Society in Ourselves
• Modernity and Anomie
• Evolving Societies: The Division of Labor
• Critical Review: Four Visions of Society
• 4.5: Summarize the contributions of Lenski, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim to our understanding of social
• What Holds Societies Together?
• How Have Societies Changed?
• Why Do Societies Change?
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 5: Socialization
• The Power of Society to shape how much television we watch
• Social Experience: The Key to Our Humanity
• 5.1: Describe how social interaction is the foundation of personality.
• Human Development: Nature and Nurture
• Social Isolation
• Understanding Socialization
• 5.2: Explain six major theories of socialization.
• Sigmund Freud’s Elements of Personality
• Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
• Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development
• Carol Gilligan’s Theory of Gender and Moral Development
• George Herbert Mead’s Theory of the Social Self
• Erik H. Erikson’s Eight Stages of Development
• Agents of Socialization
• 5.3: Analyze how the family, school, peer groups, and the mass media guide the socialization process
• The Family
• The School
• The Peer Group
• The Mass Media
• Socialization and the Life Course
• 5.4: Discuss how our society organizes human experience into distinctive stages of life.
• Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Old Age
• Death and Dying
• The Life Course: Patterns and Variations
• Resocialization: Total Institutions
• 5.5: Characterize the operation of total institutions.
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 6: Social Interaction in Everyday Life
• The Power of Society to guide the way we do social networking
• Social Structure: A Guide to Everyday Living
• 6.1: Explain how social structure helps us to make sense of everyday situations.
• Status
• 6.2: State the importance of status to social organization.
• Status Set
• Ascribed and Achieved Status
• Master Status
• Role
• 6.3: State the importance of role to social organization.
• Role Set
• Role Conflict and Role Strain
• Role Exit
• The Social Construction of Reality
• 6.4: Describe how we socially construct reality.
• The Thomas Theorem
• Ethnomethodology
• Reality Building: Class and Culture
• The Increasing Importance of Social Media
• Dramaturgical Analysis: The “Presentation of Self”
• 6.5: Apply Goffman’s analysis to several familiar situations.
• Performances
• Nonverbal Communication
• Gender and Performances
• Idealization
• Embarrassment and Tact
• Interaction in Everyday Life: Three Applications
• 6.6: Construct a sociological analysis of three aspects of everyday life: emotions, language, and hu
• Emotions: The Social Construction of Feeling
• Language: The Social Construction of Gender
• Reality Play: The Social Construction of Humor
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 7: Groups and Organizations
• The Power of Society to link people into groups
• Social Groups
• 7.1: Explain the importance of various types of groups to social life.
• Primary and Secondary Groups
• Group Leadership
• Group Conformity
• Reference Groups
• In-Groups and Out-Groups
• Group Size
• Social Diversity: Race, Class, and Gender
• Networks
• Social Media and Networking
• Formal Organizations
• 7.2: Describe the operation of large, formal organizations.
• Types of Formal Organizations
• Origins of Formal Organizations
• Characteristics of Bureaucracy
• Organizational Environment
• The Informal Side of Bureaucracy
• Problems of Bureaucracy
• Oligarchy
• The Evolution of Formal Organizations
• 7.3: Summarize the changes to formal organizations over the course of the last century.
• Scientific Management
• The First Challenge: Race and Gender
• The Second Challenge: The Japanese Work Organization
• The Third Challenge: The Changing Nature of Work
• The “McDonaldization” of Society
• The Future of Organizations: Opposing Trends
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 8: Sexuality and Society
• The Power of Society to shape our attitudes on social issues involving sexuality
• Understanding Sexuality
• 8.1: Describe how sexuality is both a biological and a cultural issue.
• Sex: A Biological Issue
• Sex and the Body
• Sex: A Cultural Issue
• The Incest Taboo
• Sexual Attitudes in the United States
• 8.2: Explain changes in sexual attitudes in the United States.
• The Sexual Revolution
• The Sexual Counterrevolution
• Premarital Sex
• Sex between Adults
• Extramarital Sex
• Sex over the Life Course
• Sexual Orientation
• 8.3: Analyze factors that shape sexual orientation.
• What Gives Us a Sexual Orientation?
• How Many Gay People Are There?
• The Gay Rights Movement
• Transgender
• Sexual Issues and Controversies
• 8.4: Discuss several current controversies involving sexuality.
• Teen Pregnancy
• Pornography
• Prostitution
• Sexual Violence: Rape and Date Rape
• Theories of Sexuality
• 8.5: Apply sociology’s major theories to the topic of sexuality.
• Structural-Functional Theory
• Symbolic-Interaction Theory
• Social-Conflict and Feminist Theories
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 9: Deviance
• The Power of Society to affect the odds of being incarcerated for using drugs
• What Is Deviance?
• 9.1: Explain how sociology addresses limitations of a biological or psychological approach to devian
• Social Control
• The Biological Context
• Personality Factors
• The Social Foundations of Deviance
• Structural-Functional Theories: The Functions of Deviance
• 9.2: Apply structural-functional theories to the topic of deviance.
• Durkheim’s Basic Insight
• Merton’s Strain Theory
• Deviant Subcultures
• Symbolic-Interaction Theories: Defining Deviance
• 9.3: Apply symbolic-interaction theories to the topic of deviance.
• Labeling Theory
• The Medicalization of Deviance
• The Difference Labels Make
• Sutherland’s Differential Association Theory
• Hirschi’s Control Theory
• Theories of Class, Race, and Gender: Deviance and Inequality
• 9.4: Apply social-conflict theories to the topic of deviance.
• Deviance and Power
• Deviance and Capitalism
• White-Collar Crime
• Corporate Crime
• Organized Crime
• Race-Conflict Theory: Hate Crimes
• Feminist Theory: Deviance and Gender
• Crime
• 9.5: Identify patterns of crime in the United States and around the world.
• Types of Crime
• Criminal Statistics
• The Street Criminal: A Profile
• Crime in Global Perspective
• The U.S. Criminal Justice System
• 9.6: Analyze the operation of the criminal justice system.
• Due Process
• Police
• Courts
• Punishment
• The Death Penalty
• Community-Based Corrections
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Part III: Social Inequality
• Chapter 10: Social Stratification
• The Power of Society to affect life expectancy
• What Is Social Stratification?
• 10.1: Identify four principles that underlie social stratification.
• Caste and Class Systems
• 10.2: Apply the concepts of caste, class, and meritocracy to societies around the world.
• The Caste System
• The Class System
• Caste and Class: The United Kingdom
• Another Example: Japan
• Classless Societies? The Former Soviet Union
• China: Emerging Social Classes
• Ideology: Supporting Stratification
• 10.3: Explain how cultural beliefs justify social inequality.
• Plato and Marx on Ideology
• Historical Patterns of Ideology
• Theories of Social Inequality
• 10.4: Apply sociology’s major theories to the topic of social inequality.
• Structural-Functional Theory: The Davis-Moore Thesis
• Social-Conflict Theories: Karl Marx and Max Weber
• Symbolic-Interaction Theory: Stratification in Everyday Life
• Social Stratification: Facts and Values
• Social Stratification and Technology: A Global Perspective
• 10.5: Analyze the link between a society’s technology and its social stratification.
• Hunting and Gathering Societies
• Horticultural, Pastoral, and Agrarian Societies
• Industrial Societies
• The Kuznets Curve
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 11: Social Class in the United States
• The Power of Society to shape our changes of living in poverty
• Dimensions of Social Inequality
• 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States.
• Income
• Wealth
• Power
• Occupational Prestige
• Schooling
• U.S. Stratification: Merit and Caste
• 11.2: Explain how someone’s position at birth affects social standing later in life.
• Ancestry
• Race and Ethnicity
• Gender
• Social Classes in the United States
• 11.3: Describe the various social class positions in U.S. society.
• The Upper Class
• The Middle Class
• The Working Class
• The Lower Class
• The Difference Class Makes
• 11.4: Analyze how social class position affects health, values, politics, and family life.
• Health
• Values and Attitudes
• Politics
• Family and Gender
• Social Mobility
• 11.5: Assess the extent of social mobility in the United States.
• Research on Mobility
• Mobility by Income Level
• Mobility: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
• Mobility and Marriage
• The American Dream: Still a Reality?
• The Global Economy and the U.S. Class Structure
• Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing Inequality
• 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.
• The Extent of Poverty
• Who Are the Poor?
• Explaining Poverty
• The Working Poor
• Homelessness
• The Trend toward Increasing Inequality
• Are the Very Rich Worth the Money?
• Can the Rest of Us Get Ahead?
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 12: Global Stratification
• The Power of Society to determine a child’s chance of survival to age five
• Global Stratification: An Overview
• 12.1: Describe the division of the world into high-, middle-, and low-income countries.
• A Word about Terminology
• High-Income Countries
• Middle-Income Countries
• Low-Income Countries
• Global Wealth and Poverty
• 12.2: Discuss patterns and explanations of poverty around the world.
• The Severity of Poverty
• The Extent of Poverty
• Poverty and Children
• Poverty and Women
• Slavery
• Explanations of Global Poverty
• Theories of Global Stratification
• 12.3: Apply sociological theories to the topic of global inequality.
• Modernization Theory
• Dependency Theory
• The Future of Global Stratification
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 13: Gender Stratification
• The Power of Society to guide our life choices
• Gender and Inequality
• 13.1: Describe the ways in which society creates gender stratification.
• Male-Female Differences
• Gender in Global Perspective
• Patriarchy and Sexism
• Gender and Socialization
• 13.2: Explain the importance of gender to socialization.
• Gender and the Family
• Gender and the Peer Group
• Gender and Schooling
• Gender and the Mass Media
• Gender and Social Stratification
• 13.3: Analyze the extent of gender inequality in various social institutions.
• Working Women and Men
• Gender and Unemployment
• Gender, Income, and Wealth
• Housework: Women’s “Second Shift”
• Gender and Education
• Gender and Politics
• Gender and the Military
• Are Women a Minority?
• Violence against Women
• Violence against Men
• Sexual Harassment
• Pornography
• Theories of Gender
• 13.4: Apply sociology’s major theories to gender stratification.
• Structural-Functional Theory
• Symbolic-Interaction Theory
• Social-Conflict Theory
• Intersection Theory
• Feminism
• 13.5: Contrast liberal, radical, and socialist feminism.
• Basic Feminist Ideas
• Types of Feminism
• Public Support for Feminism
• Gender: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 14: Race and Ethnicity
• The Power of Society to shape political attitudes
• The Social Meaning of Race and Ethnicity
• 14.1: Explain the social construction of race and ethnicity.
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Minorities
• Prejudice and Stereotypes
• 14.2: Describe the extent and causes of prejudice.
• Measuring Prejudice: The Social Distance Scale
• Racism
• Theories of Prejudice
• Discrimination
• 14.3: Distinguish discrimination from prejudice.
• Institutional Prejudice and Discrimination
• Prejudice and Discrimination: The Vicious Circle
• Majority and Minority: Patterns of Interaction
• 14.4: Identify examples of pluralism, assimilation, segregation, and genocide.
• Pluralism
• Assimilation
• Segregation
• Genocide
• Race and Ethnicity in the United States
• 14.5: Assess the social standing of racial and ethnic categories of U.S. society.
• Native Americans
• White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
• African Americans
• Asian Americans
• Hispanic Americans/Latinos
• Arab Americans
• White Ethnic Americans
• Race and Ethnicity: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 15: Aging and the Elderly
• The Power of Society to shape caregiving for older people
• The Graying of the United States
• 15.1: Explain the increasing share of elderly people in modern societies.
• Birth Rate: Going Down
• Life Expectancy: Going Up
• An Aging Society: Cultural Change
• The “Young Old” and the “Old Old”
• Growing Old: Biology and Culture
• 15.2: Describe age stratification in global context.
• Biological Changes
• Psychological Changes
• Aging and Culture
• Age Stratification: A Global Survey
• Transitions and Challenges of Aging
• 15.3: Discuss problems related to aging.
• Finding Meaning
• Social Isolation
• Retirement
• Aging and Poverty
• Caregiving
• Ageism
• The Elderly: A Minority?
• Theories of Aging
• 15.4: Apply sociology’s major theories to the topic of aging.
• Structural-Functional Theory: Aging and Disengagement
• Symbolic-Interaction Theory: Aging and Activity
• Social-Conflict and Feminist Theories: Aging and Inequality
• Death and Dying
• 15.5: Analyze changing attitudes about the end of life.
• Historical Patterns of Death
• The Modern Separation of Life and Death
• Ethical Issues: Confronting Death
• Bereavement
• Aging: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Part IV: Social Institutions
• Chapter 16: The Economy and Work
• The Power of Society to shape our choices in jobs
• The Economy: Historical Overview
• 16.1: Summarize historical changes to the economy.
• The Agricultural Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Information Revolution and Postindustrial Society
• Sectors of the Economy
• The Global Economy
• Economic Systems: Paths to Justice
• 16.2: Assess the operation of capitalist and socialist economies.
• Capitalism
• Socialism
• Welfare Capitalism and State Capitalism
• Relative Advantages of Capitalism and Socialism
• Changes in Socialist and Capitalist Countries
• Work in the Postindustrial U.S. Economy
• 16.3: Analyze patterns of employment and unemployment in the United States.
• The Decline of Agricultural Work
• From Factory Work to Service Work
• The Dual Labor Market
• Labor Unions
• Professions
• Self-Employment
• Unemployment and Underemployment
• The “Jobless Recovery”
• The Underground Economy
• Workplace Diversity: Race and Gender
• New Information Technology and Work
• Corporations
• 16.4: Discuss the importance of corporations to the U.S. economy.
• Economic Concentration
• Conglomerates and Corporate Linkages
• Corporations: Are They Competitive?
• Corporations and the Global Economy
• The Economy: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 17: Politics and Government
• The Power of Society to shape voting patterns
• Power and Authority
• 17.1: Distinguish traditional, rational-legal, and charismatic authority.
• Traditional Authority
• Rational-Legal Authority
• Charismatic Authority
• Politics in Global Perspective
• 17.2: Compare monarchy and democracy as well as authoritarian and totalitarian political systems.
• Monarchy
• Democracy
• Authoritarianism
• Totalitarianism
• A Global Political System?
• Politics in the United States
• 17.3: Analyze economic and social issues using the political spectrum.
• U.S. Culture and the Rise of the Welfare State
• The Political Spectrum
• Special-Interest Groups and Campaign Spending
• Voter Apathy
• Should Convicted Criminals Vote?
• Theories of Power in Society
• 17.4: Apply the pluralist, power-elite, and Marxist models to the U.S. political system.
• The Pluralist Model: The People Rule
• The Power-Elite Model: A Few People Rule
• The Marxist Model: The System Is Biased
• Power beyond the Rules
• 17.5: Describe causes of both revolution and terrorism.
• Revolution
• Terrorism
• War and Peace
• 17.6: Identify factors encouraging war or peace.
• The Causes of War
• Social Class, Gender, and the Military
• Is Terrorism a New Kind of War?
• The Costs and Causes of Militarism
• Nuclear Weapons
• Mass Media and War
• Pursuing Peace
• Politics: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 18: Families
• The Power of Society to affect the odds that a marriage will end in divorce
• Families: Basic Concepts and Global Variations
• 18.1: Describe families and how they differ around the world.
• Marriage Patterns
• Residential Patterns
• Patterns of Descent
• Patterns of Authority
• Theories of the Family
• 18.2: Apply sociology’s major theories to family life.
• Structural-Functional Theory: Functions of the Family
• Social-Conflict and Feminist Theories: Inequality and the Family
• Micro-Level Theories: Constructing Family Life
• Stages of Family Life
• 18.3: Analyze changes in the family over the life course.
• Courtship
• Settling In: Ideal and Real Marriage
• Child Rearing
• The Family in Later Life
• U.S. Families: Class, Race, and Gender
• 18.4: Explain how class, race, and gender shape family life.
• Social Class
• Ethnicity and Race
• Gender
• Transitions and Problems in Family Life
• 18.5: Analyze the effects of divorce, remarriage, and violence on family life.
• Divorce
• Remarriage and Blended Families
• Family Violence
• Alternative Family Forms
• 18.6: Describe the diversity of family life in the United States.
• One-Parent Families
• Cohabitation
• Gay and Lesbian Couples
• Singlehood
• Extended Family Households
• New Reproductive Technologies and Families
• Families: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 19: Religion
• The Power of Society to shape our values and beliefs
• Religion: Concepts and Theories
• 19.1: Apply sociology’s major theories to religion.
• Religion and Sociology
• Structural-Functional Theory: Functions of Religion
• Symbolic-Interaction Theory: Constructing the Sacred
• Social-Conflict Theory: Inequality and Religion
• Feminist Theory: Gender and Religion
• Religion and Social Change
• 19.2: Discuss the links between religion and social change.
• Max Weber: Protestantism and Capitalism
• Liberation Theology
• Types of Religious Organizations
• 19.3: Distinguish among church, sect, and cult.
• Church
• Sect
• Cult
• Religion in History and Around the World
• 19.4: Contrast religious patterns around the world.
• Religion in Preindustrial Societies
• Religion in Industrial Societies
• World Religions
• Christianity
• Islam
• Judaism
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Confucianism
• Religion: East and West
• Religious Trends in the United States
• 19.5: Analyze patterns of religiosity in the United States.
• Religious Affiliation
• Religiosity
• Religious Diversity: Class, Ethnicity, and Race
• Secularization
• Civil Religion
• “New Age” Seekers: Spirituality without Formal Religion
• Religious Revival: “Good Old-Time Religion”
• Religion: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 20: Education
• The Power of Society to open the door to college
• Education: A Global Survey
• 20.1: Compare schooling in high-, middle-, and low-income societies.
• Schooling and Economic Development
• Schooling in India
• Schooling in Japan
• Schooling in Great Britain
• Schooling in the United States
• The Functions of Schooling
• 20.2: Apply structural-functional theory to schooling.
• Socialization
• Cultural Innovation
• Social Integration
• Social Placement
• Latent Functions of Schooling
• Schooling and Social Interaction
• 20.3: Apply social-interaction theory to schooling.
• The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• Schooling and Social Inequality
• 20.4: Apply social-conflict theory to schooling.
• Social Control
• Standardized Testing
• School Tracking
• Inequality among Schools
• Access to Higher Education
• Greater Opportunity: Expanding Higher Education
• Community Colleges
• Privilege and Personal Merit
• Problems in the Schools
• 20.5: Discuss dropping out, violence, and other problems facing today’s schools.
• Discipline and Violence
• Student Passivity
• Dropping Out
• Academic Standards
• Grade Inflation
• Current Issues in U.S. Education
• 20.6: Summarize the debate over the performance of U.S. schools.
• School Choice
• Home Schooling
• Schooling People with Disabilities
• Adult Education
• The Teacher Shortage
• Schooling: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 21: Health and Medicine
• The Power of Society to shape patterns of health
• What Is Health?
• 21.1: Explain how patterns of health are shaped by society.
• Health and Society
• Health: A Global Survey
• 21.2: Contrast patterns of health in low- and high-income countries.
• Health in Low-Income Countries
• Health in High-Income Countries
• Health in the United States
• 21.3: Analyze how race, class, gender, and age are linked to health.
• Who Is Healthy? Age, Gender, Class, and Race
• Cigarette Smoking
• Eating Disorders
• Obesity
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Ethical Issues Surrounding Death
• The Medical Establishment
• 21.4: Compare the medical systems in nations around the world.
• The Rise of Scientific Medicine
• Holistic Medicine
• Paying for Medical Care: A Global Survey
• Paying for Medical Care: The United States
• The Nursing Shortage
• Theories of Health and Medicine
• 21.5: Apply sociology’s major theories to health and medicine.
• Structural-Functional Theory: Role Analysis
• Symbolic-Interaction Theory: The Meaning of Health
• Social-Conflict and Feminist Theories: Inequality and Health
• Health and Medicine: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Part V: Social Change
• Chapter 22: Population, Urbanization, and Environment
• The Power of Society to shape our view of global warming
• Demography: The Study of Population
• 22.1: Explain the concepts of fertility, mortality, and migration, and how they affect population si
• Fertility
• Mortality
• Migration
• Population Growth
• Population Composition
• History and Theory of Population Growth
• 22.2: Analyze population trends using Malthusian theory and demographic transition theory.
• Malthusian Theory
• Demographic Transition Theory
• Global Population Today: A Brief Survey
• Urbanization: The Growth of Cities
• 22.3: Summarize patterns of urbanization in the United States and around the world.
• The Evolution of Cities
• The Growth of U.S. Cities
• Suburbs and Urban Decline
• Postindustrial Sunbelt Cities
• Megalopolis: The Regional City
• Edge Cities
• Changes to Rural Areas
• Urbanism as a Way of Life
• 22.4: Identify the contributions of Tönnies, Durkheim, Simmel, Park, Wirth, and Marx to our underst
• Ferdinand Tönnies: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
• Emile Durkheim: Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
• Georg Simmel: The Blasé Urbanite
• The Chicago School: Robert Park and Louis Wirth
• Urban Ecology
• Urban Political Economy
• Urbanization in Poor Nations
• 22.5: Describe the third urban revolution now under way in poor societies.
• Environment and Society
• 22.6: Analyze current environmental problems such as pollution and global warming.
• The Global Dimension
• Technology and the Environmental Deficit
• Culture: Growth and Limits
• Solid Waste: The Disposable Society
• Water and Air
• The Rain Forests
• Global Climate Change
• Declining Biodiversity
• Environmental Racism
• Toward a Sustainable Society and World
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 23: Collective Behavior and Social Movements
• The Power of Society to encourage or discourage participation in social movements
• Studying Collective Behavior
• 23.1: Distinguish various types of collective behavior.
• Localized Collectivities: Crowds
• 23.2: Identify five types of crowds and three explanations of crowd behavior.
• Mobs and Riots
• Crowds, Mobs, and Social Change
• Theories of Crowd Behavior
• Dispersed Collectivities: Mass Behavior
• 23.3: Describe rumor, disasters, and other types of mass behavior.
• Rumor and Gossip
• Public Opinion and Propaganda
• Fashions and Fads
• Panic and Mass Hysteria
• Disasters
• Social Movements
• 23.4: Analyze the causes and consequences of social movements.
• Types of Social Movements
• Claims Making
• Explaining Social Movements
• Gender and Social Movements
• Stages in Social Movements
• Social Movements and Social Change
• Social Movements: Looking Ahead
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Chapter 24: Social Change: Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Societies
• The Power of Society to shape our view of science
• What Is Social Change?
• 24.1: State four defining characteristics of social change.
• Causes of Social Change
• 24.2: Explain how culture, conflict, ideas, and population patterns direct social change.
• Culture and Change
• Conflict and Change
• Ideas and Change
• Demographic Change
• Visions of Modernity
• 24.3: Apply the ideas of Tönnies, Durkheim, Weber, and Marx to our understanding of modernity.
• Four Dimensions of Modernization
• Ferdinand Tönnies: The Loss of Community
• Emile Durkheim: The Division of Labor
• Max Weber: Rationalization
• Karl Marx: Capitalism
• Theories of Modernity
• 24.4: Contrast analysis of modernity as mass society and as class society.
• Structural-Functional Theory: Modernity as Mass Society
• Social-Conflict Theory: Modernity as Class Society
• Modernity and the Individual
• Modernity and Progress
• Modernity: Global Variation
• Postmodernity
• 24.5: Discuss postmodernism as one type of social criticism.
• Modernization and Our Global Future
• 24.6: Evaluate possible directions of future social change.
• Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life
• Seeing Sociology in Your Everyday Life
• Making the Grade
• Glossary
• References
• Credits
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