This brief and economical reader, edited by Jim Henslin, is specifically designed to be used as a companion to Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, Eighth Edition. There is one reading per text chapter, including a selection to accompany the online chapter, “The Sociology of Human Sexuality.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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I. The Sociological Perspective

The Sociological Perspective

1. "Invitation to Sociology" by Peter L. Berger

Culture

2. "The Fierce People" by Napoleon Chagnon

Socialization

3. "Anybody's Son Will" Do by Gwynne Dyer

Social Structure and Social Interaction

*4. "Hooking Up on the Internet" by Helen M. Lawson and Kira Leck

II. Social Groups and Social Control

Social Groups and Formal Organizations

5. "Just Another Routine Emergency" by Daniel F. Chambliss

Deviance and Social Control

*6. "Becoming a Hit Man" by Ken Levi

III. Social Inequality

Social Stratification in Global Perspective

*7. "Job on the Line" by William M. Adler

Social Class in the United States

8. "The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All" by Herbert J. Gans

Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity

*9. "Invisible Man" by Lawrence Otis Graham

Inequalities of Gender and Age

10. "Sick Societies" by Robert B. Edgerton

IV. Social Institutions

Politics and the Economy

11. "The Power Elite" by C. Wright Mills

Marriage and Family

*12. "Social Class and Childrearing" by Annette Lareau

Education and Religion

*13. "Still Separate, Still Unequal" by Jonathan Kozol

V. Social Change

Population and Urbanization

*14. "Border Blues: The Dilemma of Illegal Immigration" by Farai Chideya

Social Change: Technology, Social Movements, and the Environment

15. "The McDonaldization of Society" by George Ritzer

Human Sexuality

16. "How Many Sexual Partners Do Americans Have?" by Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata

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