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The contexts reader
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
[2017]
Edition
Third edition.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - Third edition.
Part 1: How to Do Sociology : 1. Sociologists as Outliers / Joel Best
2. Viewpoints: How to Do Ethnography Right / Dana R. Fischer; Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin; Annette Lareau and Aliya Hamid Rao
3. Sense and Nonsense about Surveys / Howard Schuman
4. This Revolution Is Not Being Televised / Michael A. Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan, and Nicole Willms
5. From Summer Camps to Glass Ceilings: The Power of Experiments / Michael J. Lovaglia
Part 2: Culture : 6. Babes in Bikeland / Bjorn Christianson
7. English Soccer's Mysterious Worldwide Popularity / James P. Curley and Oliver Roeder
8. Tiger Girls on the Soccer Field / Hilary Levey Friedman
9. Opera Thugs and Passionate Fandom / Claudio E. Benzecry
10. Our Hard Days' Night / Simon J. Williams
Part 3. Crime and Punishment : 11. Viewpoints: Rape and Rape Culture / Lisa Wade; Brian Sweeney; Amelia Seraphia Derr; Michael A. Messner; Carol Burke
12. Becoming a Stickup Kid / Randol Contreras
13. Explaining and Eliminating Racial Profiling / Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Patricia Warren
14. Digital Punishment's Tangled Web / Sarah Esther Lageson
15. Six Lessons of Suicide Bombers / Robert J. Brym
16. Viewpoints: Trafficking in Humans / Sutapa Basu; Anne T. Gallagher; Denise Brennan; Elena Shih; Ronald Weitzer
Part 4. Race and Ethnicity : 17. Viewpoints: Black and Blue / Shehzad Nadeem; Sudhir Venkatesh; Laurence Ralph; Elliott Currie; Katherine Beckett
18. Covering the Three Missouri Michaels / Steven W. Thrasher
19. The Whiteness of Oscar Night / Matthew W. Hughey
20. Social Mobility among Second-Generation Latinos / Van C. Tran
21. Ask a Sociologist: Jennifer Lee on Naming Success / Jennifer Lee
Part 5: Gender and Sexuality : 22. Viewpoints: Boys / Niobe Way; C.J. Pascoe; Mark McCormack; Amy Schalet; Freeden Oeur
23. What's So Cultural about Hookup Culture? / Lisa Wade
24. Hookups, Sex, and Relationships in College / Jessie Ford and Paula England
25. Sexual Orientation versus Behavior
Different for Men and Women? / Eliza Brown and Paula England
26. Women's Sexual Orientation and Sexual Behavior: How Well Do They Match? / Mónica L. Caudillo and Paula England
27. Lesbian Geographies / Amin Ghaziani
28. #callmecaitlyn and Contemporary Trans* Visibility / D'Lane Compton and Tristan Bridges
29. Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penic Panics / Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook
Part 6: Marriage and Family : 30. The Superstrong Black Mother / Sinikka Elliott and Megan Reid
31. The Joy of Cooking? / Sarah Bown, Sinikka Elliott, and Joslyn Brenton
32. Working-Class Growing Pains / Jennifer M. Silva
33. Marrying across Class Lines / Jessi Streib
34. Viewpoints: After Gay Marriage Equality Forum / Andrew J. Cherlin; Steven W. Thrasher; Joshua Gamson; Georgiann Davis
Part 7: Education : 35. Oyler School against the Odds / Amy Scott
36. Academic Hack Heard Round the World / Philip N. Cohen and Syed Ali
37. Friends with Academic Benefits / Janice McCabe
38. Whitewashing Academic Mediocrity / Tomás R. Jiménez and Adam L. Horowitz
39. The Challenge of Diverse Public Schools / Toby L. Parcel, Joshua A. Hendrix, and Andrew J. Taylor
40. Viewpoints: Affirmative Inaction / Richard D. Kahlenberg; Sigal Alon; Jennifer Pierce; John D. Skrentny
Part 8: Health : 41. Revisiting the Rationing of Medical Degrees in the United States / Tania M. Jenkins and Shalini Reddy
42. Dealing with the Diagnosis / Gary C. David
43. Dropping the "Disorder" in PTSD / R. Tyson Smith and Owen Whooley
44. Getting the Most Out of the U.S. Health Care System / Amanda M. Gengler
45. Breastfeed at Your Own Risk / Julie E. Artis
Part 9: Science : 46. Not a Snowball's Chance for Science / Dana R. Fischer, Joseph Waggle, and Lorien Jasny
47. Microscopic Hair Comparison and the Sociology of Science / Simon A. Cole and Troy Duster / 48. Learning from NASA's Robotic Planetary Missions / Janet Vertesi
49. What Gender is Science? / Maria Charles
Part 10: Politics : 50. Hiking the West Bank / Andy Clarno
51. Words Burn Lips / Silvia Pasquetti
52. Viewpoints: It's High Time / Shehzad Nadeem; Craig Reinarman; Wendy Chapkis; Jake Browne
53. Community Organizing and Social Change / Randy Stoecker
54. Sacco and Vanzetti and the Immigrant Threat / Richard Alba
55. Viewpoints: Fifty Year of "New" Immigration / Shehzad Nadeem; John D. Skrentny; Jennifer Lee; Jody Agius Vallejo; Zulema Valdez; Donna R. Gabaccia
56. A Fracking Fracas Demonstrates Movement Potential / Brian K. Obach
Part 11: Work and Inequality : 57. Asian Americans, Bamboo Ceilings, and Affirmative Action / Margaret M. Chin
58. A Hand Up for Lower-Income Families / Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Laura Tach, Jennifer Sykes, and Kathryn Edin
59. Falling Upward / Dalton Conley
60. Normal Unpredictability and the Chaos in Our Lives / Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
61. Viewpoints: On the Sharing Economy / Shehzad Nadeem; Juliet B. Schor; Edward T. Walker; Caroline W. Lee; Paolo Parigi and Karen Cook
62. Same Trailer, Different Park / Esther Sullivan and Edna Ledesma
Part 12: Cities : 63. Mumbai Sleeping / Dhruv Dhawan
64. Permanent Impermanence / Syed Ali
65. The King of Compton / Jooyoung Lee
66. Black Philly after the Philadelphia Negro / Marcus Anthony Hunter
67. I Gentrify Bed-Stuy / Syed Ali.
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Ali, Syed,1968- editor
American Sociological Association issuing body
Cohen, Philip N. editor
Page, Letta contributor
American Sociological Association issuing body
Cohen, Philip N. editor
Page, Letta contributor
ISBN
9780393639650
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