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| About the Editors |
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| PART I The Sociological Perspective |
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The Sociological Imagination |
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Learning from the Outsider Within |
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Fighting Child Poverty in America: How Research Can Help |
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| PART II Doing Sociological Research |
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The Practice of Social Research |
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| PART III Culture |
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Barbie Doll Culture and the American Waistland |
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48 | (4) |
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The Shameless World of Phil, Sally, and Oprah: Television Talk Shows and the Deconstructing of Society |
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Family Rituals and the Construction of Reality |
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66 | (4) |
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| PART IV Socialization |
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70 | (7) |
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Navajo Women and the Politics of Identity |
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Catching Sense: Learning from Our Mothers to Be Black and Female |
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90 | (11) |
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Alternative Masculinity and Its Effects on Gender Relations in the Subculture of Skateboarding |
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| PART V Society and Social Interaction |
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110 | (2) |
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life |
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112 | (4) |
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116 | (6) |
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Identity in the Age of the Internet |
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| PART VI Groups and Organizations |
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126 | (3) |
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129 | (3) |
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Enchanting a Disenchanted World |
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132 | (6) |
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| PART VII Sexuality and Intimate Relationships |
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138 | (9) |
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Masculinity as Homophobia |
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147 | (5) |
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The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy |
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152 | (5) |
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157 | (4) |
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| PART VIII Deviance |
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161 | (3) |
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The Medicalization of Deviance |
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170 | (6) |
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Children, Prostitution, and Identity: A Case Study from a Tourist Resort in Thailand |
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176 | (6) |
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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison |
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182 | (5) |
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| PART IX Class Stratification |
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187 | (23) |
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187 | (4) |
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191 | (7) |
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198 | (5) |
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The Shredded Net: The End of Welfare as We Knew It |
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203 | (7) |
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| PART X Global Stratification |
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The Garment Industry in the Restructuring Global Economy |
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210 | (7) |
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The American Belief System Concerning Poverty and Welfare |
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217 | (6) |
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree |
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223 | (3) |
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226 | (9) |
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| PART XI Race and Ethnicity |
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235 | (25) |
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235 | (2) |
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Being More Than Black & White: Latinos, Racism and the Cultural Divides |
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237 | (6) |
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243 | (7) |
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Immigrant America: Who They Are and Why They Come |
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250 | (5) |
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What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar about Identity |
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255 | (5) |
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| PART XII Gender |
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The Social Construction of Gender |
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260 | (5) |
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The Politics of Masculinities |
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265 | (6) |
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Lipstick Politics in Iran |
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271 | (2) |
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Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images |
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273 | (10) |
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| PART XIII Aging |
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Cultural Images of Old Age |
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283 | (8) |
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From Stepping Stones to Building Blocks |
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291 | (4) |
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Social Security and the Myth of the Entitlement `Crisis' |
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295 | (7) |
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| PART XIV Families |
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In the Name of the Family |
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302 | (7) |
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309 | (11) |
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Doing Parenting: Mothers, Care Work, and Policy |
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320 | (14) |
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`Mail-Order' Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence and Immigration Law |
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334 | (8) |
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| PART XV Education |
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342 | (24) |
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342 | (7) |
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349 | (6) |
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355 | (6) |
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361 | (5) |
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| PART XVI Religion |
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism |
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366 | (5) |
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371 | (7) |
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Growing Up American: The Complexity of Ethnic Involvement |
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378 | (6) |
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384 | (11) |
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| PART XVII Work and the Economy |
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The Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work |
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395 | (8) |
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403 | (5) |
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The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland |
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408 | (9) |
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Delicate Transactions: Gender, Home, and Employment among Hispanic Women |
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417 | (11) |
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M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly |
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| PART XVIII Power and Politics |
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428 | (5) |
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Diversity in the Power Elite |
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433 | (6) |
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Power and Class in the United States |
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439 | (5) |
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The First Americans: American Indians |
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444 | (8) |
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| PART XIX Health Care |
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Medical Students' Contacts with the Living and the Dead |
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452 | (7) |
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459 | (3) |
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Corporatization and the Social Transformation of Doctoring |
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| PART XX Population, Urbanism, and the Environment |
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Urbanism as a Way of Life |
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469 | (7) |
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476 | (8) |
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Black, Brown, Red, and Poisoned |
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| PART XXI Collective Behavior/Social Movements |
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The New Feminist Movement |
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The Evolution of the U. S. Environmental Movement from 1970 to 1990: An Overview |
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499 | (8) |
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Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities |
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507 | (8) |
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The Genius of the Civil Rights Movement: Can It Happen Again? |
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515 | (6) |
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| PART XXII Social Change |
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Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft |
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Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change. |
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524 | (5) |
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Technological Diffusion or Cultural Imperialism? Measuring the Information Revolution |
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529 | (6) |
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The Biotech Century: Human Life as Intellectual Property |
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| Glossary |
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| Name/Subject Index |
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