Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings

I. THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World The Sociological Imagination - C. Wright Mills Invitation to Sociology - Peter Berger The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience - Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner Researchers, Dealers and Smugglers - Patricia AdlerII. THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY3. Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge Concepts, Indicators and Reality - Earl Babbie Sense and Nonsense About Surveys - Howard Schuman4. Building Order: Culture and History Body Ritual Among the Nacirema - Horace Miner The Melting Pot - Anne Fadiman McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change and the Rise of a Children's Culture - James L. Watson5. Building Identity: Socialization Life as the Maid's Daughter - Mary Romero The Making of Culture, Identity and Ethnicity Among Asian American Youth - Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee Working the Code: Girls, Gender and Inner-City Violence - Nikki Jones6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman Maternity and its Discontents: Getting the Body Back After Pregnancy - Rebecca L. Upton and Sallie S. Han The Girl Hunt: Performing Masculinity - David Grazian7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love - Stephanie Coontz Diversity Among Same-Sex Couples and their Children - Gary Gates Coping with Commitment - Kathleen Gerson8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance Watching the Canary - Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Patients and Potheads - Wendy Chapkis Medicine as an Institution of Social Control - Peter Conrad and Joseph SchneiderIII. SOCIAL STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS AND EVERYDAY LIFE9. The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions These Dark Satanic Mills - William Greider How to Squeeze More out of a Penny - Ellen Rosen (Walmart) Separating the Men from

Jodi O'Brien (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Professor of Sociology at Seattle University. She teaches courses in social psychology, sexuality, inequality, and classical and contemporary theory. She writes and lectures on the cultural politics of transgressive identities and communities. Her other books include Everyday Inequalities (Basil Blackwell), Social Prisms: Reflections on Everyday Myths and Paradoxes (Pine Forge Press), and The Production of Reality: Essays and Readings on Social Interaction, Fourth Edition (Pine Forge Press). David M. Newman (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Professor of Sociology at DePauw University. In addition to the introductory course, he teaches courses in research methods, family, social psychology, deviance, and mental illness. He has won teaching awards at both the University of Washington and DePauw University. His other written work includes Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill) and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill).