Mapping the Social Landscape

Readings in Sociology

Susan J. Ferguson

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781544334660
• eBook ISBN: 9781071822548
• Edition: 9
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.

Mapping The Social Landscape is one of the most established and widely-used readers for Introductory Sociology. The organization follows that of a typical introductory sociology course and provides coverage of key concepts including culture, socialization, deviance, social structure, social inequality, social institutions, and social change. Susan J. Ferguson selects, edits, and introduces 58 readings representing a plurality of voices and views within sociology. The selections include classic statements from great thinkers like C. Wright Mills, Karl Marx, and Max Weber, as well of the works of contemporary scholars who address current social issues. Throughout this collection, there are many opportunities to discuss individual, interactional, and structural levels of society; the roles of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping social life; and the intersection of statuses and identities.


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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Editor
• Part I The Sociological Perspective
• Reading 1 The Promise
• Reading 2 Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead-End Kids
• Reading 3 An Intersection Of Biography And History: My Intellectual Journey
• Theory
• Reading 4 Theoretical Perspectives In Sociology
• Reading 5 Manifesto Of The Communist Party
• Reading 6 On Being Sane In Insane Places
• Social Research
• Reading 7 Finding Out How The Social World Works
• Reading 8 Interpersonal Dynamics In A Simulated Prison
• Reading 9 Working At Bazooms: The Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality
• Part II Culture
• Reading 10 Culture: A Sociological View
• Reading 11 Raising Global Children Across the Pacific
• Reading 12 LOVELY HULA HANDS: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture
• Part III Socialization
• Reading 13 “No Way my Boys are Going to be Like That!”: Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender Nonconformity
• Reading 14 Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children
• Reading 15 Making It by Faking It: Working-Class Students in an Elite Academic Environment
• Reading 16 Anybody’s Son Will Do
• Part IV Groups and Social Structure
• Reading 17 The Birth of the Intravidual
• Reading 18 Peer Power: Clique Dynamics among School Children
• Reading 19 Shopping as Symbolic Interaction: Race, Class, and Gender in the Toy Store
• Part V Deviance, Crime, and Social Control
• Reading 20 From Nowhere: Space, Race, and Time in How Young Minority Men Understand Encounters with Gangs
• Reading 21 Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?
• Reading 22 Descent Into Madness: The New Mexico State Prison Riot
• Part VI Social Inequality
• Social Class
• Reading 23 Some Principles Of Stratification
• Reading 24 Who Rules America?: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class
• Reading 25 Race, Homeownership, And WealthRace, Homeownership, And Wealth
• Reading 26 Understanding The Dynamics Of $2-A-Day Poverty In The United Statesx
• Gender
• Reading 27 Gender As Structure
• Reading 28 Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System
• Reading 29 “DUDE, YOU’RE A FAG”: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse
• Reading 30 Because She Looks Like A Child
• Race And Ethnicity
• Reading 31 What Is Racial Domination?
• Reading 32 At A Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die
• Reading 33 Out Of Sorts: Adoption and (Un)Desirable Children
• Reading 34 Yearning For Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners
• Part VII Social Institutions
• Power and Politics
• Reading 35 The Power Elite
• Reading 36 Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society
• Reading 37 The New Global Elite
• Mass Media
• Reading 38 Must-See TV: South Asian Characterizations in American Popular Media
• Reading 39 “It’s Dude Time!”: A Quarter Century of Excluding Women’s Sports in Televised News and Highlight Shows
• Reading 40 Dangerous pipelines, dangerous people: Colonial Ecological Violence and Media Framing of Threat in the Dakota Access Pipeline Conflict
• The Economy and Work
• Reading 41 Over the Counter: McDonald’s
• Reading 42 Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experiences with Women’s Work
• Reading 43 The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
• Religion
• Reading 44 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Reading 45 Religion and Society: Of Gods and Demons
• Reading 46 Racialization and Muslims
• Health and Medicine
• Reading 47 Racism and Health: Pathways and Scientific Evidence
• Reading 48 Sand Castles and Snake Pits
• Reading 49 A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America
• Education
• Reading 50 Civilize Them With A Stick
• Reading 51 A School In A Garden
• Reading 52 Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
• The Family
• Reading 53 The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage
• Reading 54 Promises I can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
• Reading 55 Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
• Part VIII Social Change
• Reading 56 Revolutions And Regime Change
• Reading 57 Superstorm Sandy: Restoring Security at the Shore
• Reading 58 A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest