Sociological snapshots 5 : seeing social structure and change in everyday life /: seeing social structure and change in everyday life. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jack Levin.
• Other Names: Levin, Jack, 1941-; Sage eReference (Online service), NYU Comp Books & Reference Supp And Deep Backlist
• Contents: THE SOCIOLOGICAL EYE; Just How Powerful Is a Role?; Better Late Than Never; Heartburn and Modern Times; FOCUS: Suggestions for Further Reading; DEVELOPING IDEAS: About Social Structure; PART I. Culture; INTRODUCTION; The Immaculate Americans; Baby Boomers; The Demise of Bystander Apathy; Elevator Culture; Making Monsters into Celebrities (with James Alan Fox); FOCUS: Suggestions for Further Reading; DEVELOPING IDEAS: About Culture; PART II. Socialization; INTRODUCTION; Can Hate Be Healed? (with Arnold Arluke); Teaching Students They Are Not at the Center; Confessions of a Soap Opera Addict; Violence in City Schools (with Heather Beth Johnson); Sticks and Stones May Break; Adult Socialization Can Be Murder; FOCUS: Suggestions for Further Reading; DEVELOPING IDEAS: About Socialization; PART III. The Group Experience; INTRODUCTION; College Fraternities: A Counteracting Force on Campus; The Appeal of Cults; Reunion, American Style; The Consequences of Coalitions; Children of the Organization Men; Thwarting the Bullies; FOCUS: Suggestions for Further Reading; DEVELOPING IDEAS: About the Group Experience; PART IV. Institutions; INTRODUCTION; Who’s Minding the Kids?; Let the System Do It!; Americans Are Moving to the Margins of Society; Dirty Work; FOCUS: Suggestions for Further Reading; DEVELOPING IDEAS: About Institutions; PART V. Deviance; INTRODUCTION; Fat Chance in a Slim World; You Must Get Ill First; Then You Recover; Is the Death Penalty Only a Vehicle for Revenge?; Animal Cruelty and Human Violence (with Arnold Arluke); America’s Youngsters Are Responsible for Church Burnings; Keeping Children Safe from Sex Crimes; FOCUS: Suggestions for Further Reading; DEVELOPING IDEAS: About Deviance; PART VI. Social Inequality; INTRODUCTION; The Economic Escalator; An Apple Pie and an Open Mind; Profiling Terrorists (with Deborah Ramirez); Gender Inequality Across Cultures; Give Us Still Your Masses; The Stigma of Aging; FOCUS: Suggestions for Further Reading; DEVELOPING IDEAS: About Social Inequality; PART VII. Social Change; INTRODUCTION; The Boomerang Effect in Planning Social Change; Fads; Keeping an Eye and a Camera on College Students; Riding the Rumor Mill; Highway to Hell?; Enquiring Times; Terror American Style; FOCUS: Suggestions for Further Reading; DEVELOPING IDEAS: About Social Change; INTO THE FUTURE; References; Index;
• Edition: 5th ed
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : Pine Forge Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 301; Sociology; Social change; Social structure -- United States; Social change; Social conditions; Social structure; Sociology; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1452215529; 9781452215525
• Related ISBNs: 9781412956499; 1412956498
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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