The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology6^th Edition

By Lisa McIntyre
Copyright: 2014

The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology

See All Buying Options

The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology6^th Edition

By Lisa McIntyre
Copyright: 2014

Table of Contents

Interested in seeing the entire table of contents?

Instructors | Want to see the entire product? Ready to use this product?

Order a sample.

Sign in and order a sample.

Still have questions? Contact a Technology Representative.

The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology6^th Edition

By Lisa McIntyre
Copyright: 2014

All Buying Options

Displaying 3 of 3 Buying Options.

We’re committed to providing you with high-value course solutions backed by great service and a team that cares about your success.

Hardcopy

Product Description

Receive via shipping:

Bound book containing the complete text
Full color
Hardcover or softcover

What are my shipping options?

ISBN10: 0078026881 | ISBN13: 9780078026881

$76.24

Hardcopy + Loose Leaf

Product Description

ISBN10: 1259581306 | ISBN13: 9781259581304

$330.66

Hardcopy + Hardcopy

Product Description

ISBN10: 1259672891 | ISBN13: 9781259672897

$195.35

The estimated amount of time this product will be on the market is based on a number of factors, including faculty input to instructional design and the prior revision cycle and updates to academic research-which typically results in a revision cycle ranging from every two to four years for this product. Pricing subject to change at any time.

The estimated amount of time this product will be on the market is based on a number of factors, including faculty input to instructional design and the prior revision cycle and updates to academic research-which typically results in a revision cycle ranging from every two to four years for this product. Pricing subject to change at any time.

Program Details

* indicates reading new to this edition.

Part I. The Social Imagination

1. C. Wright Mills, The Promise

2. Stephanie Coontz, How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families

3. Lisa J. McIntyre, Hernando Washington

Part II. The Research Craft

4. Stephanie Sanford and Donna Eder, Adolescent Humor During Peer Interaction

5. Charles A. Gallagher, Miscounting Race: Explaining Whites' Misperceptions of Racial Group Size*

6. Lisa J. McIntyre, Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research

7. Philip Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably

Part III. Culture

8. Clyde Kluckhohn, Queer Customs

9. Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

10. Cheryl Laz, Act Your Age

11. Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets

12. Beth A. Quinn, The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"*

13. David Grazian, The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity*

Part IV. Social Structure

14. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

15. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment

16. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment

17. Greta Feoff Paules, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip

18. Natalie Adams and Pamela Bettis, Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood

19. Harvey Molotch, The Rest Room and Equal Opportunity

Part V. Social Institutions and Socialization

20. Frederic W. Hafferty, "Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical Students*

21. Gwynne Dyer, Anybody's Son Will Do

22. Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison

23. Lynn Zimmer, How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role

24. Patti A. Giuffre and Christine L. Williams, Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of Patients

Part VI. Deviance and Social Control

25. Emile Durkheim, The Normality of Crime

26. William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks

27. D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places

28. Steven H. Lopez, Randy Hodson, and Vincent J. Roscigno, Power, Status, and Abuse At Work: General and Sexual Harassment*

29. Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating

30. Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime

Part VII. Inequality

31. James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity

32. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

33. Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto

34. Joe R. Feagn, Racism

35. Roxanna Harlow, "Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College Classroom

36. Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head

37. Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash

38. Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School

39. Randall Collins, The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders

TABLE OF CONTENTS

* indicates reading new to this edition.

Part I. The Social Imagination

1. C. Wright Mills, The Promise

2. Stephanie Coontz, How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families

3. Lisa J. McIntyre, Hernando Washington

Part II. The Research Craft

4. Stephanie Sanford and Donna Eder, Adolescent Humor During Peer Interaction

5. Charles A. Gallagher, Miscounting Race: Explaining Whites' Misperceptions of Racial Group Size*

6. Lisa J. McIntyre, Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research

7. Philip Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably

Part III. Culture

8. Clyde Kluckhohn, Queer Customs

9. Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

10. Cheryl Laz, Act Your Age

11. Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets

12. Beth A. Quinn, The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"*

13. David Grazian, The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity*

Part IV. Social Structure

14. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

15. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment

16. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment

17. Greta Feoff Paules, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip

18. Natalie Adams and Pamela Bettis, Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood

19. Harvey Molotch, The Rest Room and Equal Opportunity

Part V. Social Institutions and Socialization

20. Frederic W. Hafferty, "Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical Students*

21. Gwynne Dyer, Anybody's Son Will Do

22. Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison

23. Lynn Zimmer, How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role

24. Patti A. Giuffre and Christine L. Williams, Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of Patients

Part VI. Deviance and Social Control

25. Emile Durkheim, The Normality of Crime

26. William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks

27. D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places

28. Steven H. Lopez, Randy Hodson, and Vincent J. Roscigno, Power, Status, and Abuse At Work: General and Sexual Harassment*

29. Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating

30. Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime

Part VII. Inequality

31. James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity

32. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

33. Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto

34. Joe R. Feagn, Racism

35. Roxanna Harlow, "Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College Classroom

36. Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head

37. Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash

38. Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School

39. Randall Collins, The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders

AUTHOR BIOS