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Test Bank for Imagining Society An Introduction to Sociology Corrigall-Brown
Downloadable Instructor Test Bank for Imagining Society An Introduction to Sociology By Catherine Corrigall-Brown, ISBN: 9781071802274, ISBN: 9781544333427, ISBN: 9781071804803
Society and Culture
The Sociological Imagination
Reading: From The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
Three Core Foci of Sociology
Three Core Aims of Sociology
Reading: Body Ritual among the Nacirema by Horace Miner
Émile Durkheim and Social Facts
Is Sociology Just Common Sense?
Research Methods: How Do Sociologists Study Society?
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
The Individual and Society
Reading: “Review of Albert Schaeffle, Bau und Leben des Sozialen Körpers: Erster Band” by Émile Durkheim
Socialization
Methods in Depth: The Socialization of Women in the Hate Movement
Aging and Socialization
The Performance of Social Roles
Reading: “The Presentation of Self” by Erving Goffman
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
What Is Deviance?
Social Construction
Why Are People Deviant?
Reading: “On Being Sane in Insane Places” by D.L. Rosenhan
The Power of the Situation
Punishment
Reading: “The Body of the Condemned” by Michel Foucault
Methods in Depth: The Effects of Mass Incarceration After Release
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
Karl Marx: The Basics
Class Struggles
Reading: “Manifesto of the Communist Party” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Class Consciousness
Max Weber and the Multiple
Methods in Depth: Women Without Class by Julie Bettis
Bases of Power
Income and Wealth Inequality in the United States
Reading: From Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Poverty
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
Race and Ethnicity
Reading: “Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?” by Mary C. Waters
The Consequences of Social Constructions
Methods in Depth: Racial Stereotypes and Voting
Where Does Prejudice Come From?
Immigration
Reading: “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism” by Benedict Anderson
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
Sex and Gender
Gender as a Social Construction
Methods in Depth: Learning Gender From Our Parents
Gender and Institutions
Reading: “Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood” by Natalie Adams and Pamela Bettis
Feminism and Feminist Theory
Intersectionality
Sexuality
Reading: “The Invention of Heterosexuality” by Johnathan Ned Katz
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
Language
Reading: “Racism in the English Language” by Robert B. Moore
Methods in Depth: News Coverage of Refugees
Media and Culture
Corporate Concentration and the Media
Reading: From “The Power Elite” by C. Wright Mills
New Media and Social Media
Media Effects
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
What Are Families?
Larger Social Changes That Impact the Family
Reading: “What About Love?” from Getting Married: The Public Nature of Our Private Relationships by Carrie Yodanis and Sean Lauer
Theorizing the Family
Intimate Relationships
Reading: “One’s a Crowd” by Erik Klinenberg
Methods in Depth: Surveying Hookup Culture Among Youths
Summary
Key Terms
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The Schooled Society
The Functions of Education
Reading: “A Matter of Degrees” by William Beaver
Education and Social Inequality
Reading: “The Not-So-Pink Ivory Tower” by Ann Mullen
Methods in Depth: Testing the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Education, Cultural Capital, and Social Capital
Education Around the World
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
The Rationalized World
Reading: “The ‘McDonaldization’ of Society” by George Ritzer
Commodification
The Division of Labor in Society
Methods in Depth: Worker Productivity and the Hawthorne Effect
Changes in Work in the United States
Reading: “Feeling Management: From Private to Commercial Uses” by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
The Sociology of Health
The Social Determinants of Health
Reading: “The Health Gap” by Michael Marmot
Health Inequality
Reading: “Big Business in the School Cafeteria” by Ivy Ken
Health-Care Systems
Methods in Depth: Testing Solutions to Overdose Deaths
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
What Is Globalization?
Reading: “The Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West” by Daina Stukuls Eglitis
Understanding Globalization
Methods in Depth: Motivating Action on Climate Change
Global Inequality
Reading: “The Problem with Fair Trade Coffee” by Nicki Lisa Cole and Keith Brown
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
How Does Society Reproduce Itself?
The Rise of the State
The Welfare State
Methods in Depth: Assessing the Effectiveness of Means-Tested Social Programs
Reparation Programs
Reading: “Forty Acres and a Mule: What if America Pays Reparations?” By Dalton Conley
How the State Involves the Public
Reading: “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” by Robert D. Putnam
Summary
Key Terms
For Further Reading
Social Movements
Reading: Excerpt from Facebook Feminism by Alison Dahl Crossley
Trends in Social Movement Participation
Methods in Depth: How Can Activism Change You?
The Media and Social Movements
Success in Social Movements
Reading: “The Meaning of Success from the Strategy of Social Protest” by William Gamson
Public Sociology and Using Our Sociological Imagination
Summary
Key Terms
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