Authors: James M. Henslin
ISBN-13: 9781416536208, ISBN-10: 1416536205
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: February 2007
Edition: 14th Edition
James M. Henslin is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of many textbooks, including Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 6th ed.; Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 4th ed.; and Social Problems, 6th ed.
For thirty-five years and through thirteen editions, Jim Henslin's Down to Earth Sociology has opened new windows onto the social realities that shape our world. Now in its fourteenth edition, the most popular anthology in sociology includes new articles on our changing world while also retaining its classic must-read essays. Focusing on social interaction in everyday life, the forty-six selections bring students face-to-face with the twin projects of contemporary sociology: understanding the individual's experience of society and analyzing social structure.
The fourteenth edition's exceptional new readings include selections on the role of sympathy in everyday life, mistaken perceptions of the American family, the effects of a criminal record on getting a job, and the major social trends affecting our future. Together with these essential new articles, the selections by Peter Berger, Herbert Gans, Erving Goffman, Donna Eder, Zella Luria, C. Wright Mills, Deborah Tannen, Barrie Thorne, Sidney Katz, Philip Zimbardo, and many others provide firsthand reporting that gives students a sense of "being there." Henslin also explains basic methods of social research, providing insight into how sociologists explore the social world. The selections in Down to Earth Sociology highlight the most significant themes of contemporary sociology, ranging from the sociology of gender, power, politics, and religion to the contemporary crises of racial tension, crime, rape, poverty, and homelessness.
Credits and Acknowledgments | ||
Preface to the Ninth Edition | ||
About the Contributors | ||
1 | Invitation to Sociology | 3 |
2 | Sociology and the Social Sciences | 8 |
3 | The Promise | 19 |
4 | How Sociologists Do Research | 31 |
5 | "Riding the Bull at Gilley's": Convicted Rapists Describe the Rewards of Rape | 43 |
6 | Street Corner Society | 59 |
7 | Body Ritual Among the Nacirema | 73 |
8 | The Mysterious Fall of the Nacirema | 78 |
9 | Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo | 82 |
10 | The Sounds of Silence | 97 |
11 | The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life | 106 |
12 | Extreme Isolation | 121 |
13 | On Becoming Male: Reflections of a Sociologist on Childhood and Early Socialization | 130 |
14 | Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds | 141 |
15 | But What Do You Mean? Women and Men in Conversation | 153 |
16 | If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably | 163 |
17 | Streetwise | 170 |
18 | Diary of a Homeless Man | 180 |
19 | Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line | 193 |
20 | Behavior in Pubic Places: The Sociology of the Vaginal Examination | 203 |
21 | Lonely Hearts, Classy Dreams, Empty Wallets | 215 |
22 | Fire in Hamlet: A Case Study of State-Corporate Crime | 224 |
23 | The Survivors of the F-227 | 237 |
24 | The Saints and the Roughnecks | 246 |
25 | Coping with AIDS | 261 |
26 | The Jail as Degradation | 271 |
27 | The Pathology of Imprisonment | 283 |
28 | On Being Sane in Insane Places | 289 |
29 | The Importance of Being Beautiful | 307 |
30 | The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All | 314 |
31 | Savage Inequalities | 321 |
32 | Tally's Corner | 330 |
33 | The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats | 340 |
34 | Fraternities and Rape on Campus | 353 |
35 | Life on the Global Assembly Line | 367 |
36 | Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp | 376 |
37 | Men Who Share "The Second Shift" | 389 |
38 | The Streetcorner Preacher | 404 |
39 | The Great American Football Ritual | 412 |
40 | Medical Students' Contacts with the Living and the Dead | 426 |
41 | Police Accounts of Normal Force | 436 |
42 | The My Lai Massacre | 447 |
43 | Small Town in Mass Society | 463 |
44 | Social Change Among the Amish | 474 |
45 | The Animal Rights Crusade | 483 |
46 | The McDonaldization of Society | 492 |
47 | Being "The Other": Ethnic Identity in a Changing Society | 505 |
Glossary | 513 | |
Appendix: Correlation Chart | 527 | |
Name Index | 537 | |
Subject Index | 543 |