Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology / Edition 8

by Susan J. Ferguson

Overview

Now with SAGE Publishing, Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology is one of the most established and widely-used anthologies for Introductory Sociology. 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, Howard Becker, and Max Weber, as well as the works of contemporary scholars who address current social issues. Many of the readings integrate questions of diversity, helping students see the interrelationships among race-ethnicity, social class, and gender, and understand how these relationships have shaped the experiences of all people in society.

New selections focus on

o how Superstorm Sandy damaged social as well as physical structures

o gender panics and bathrooms

o extreme poverty in the United States

o transgender challenges to our understanding of gender

o a Muslim American punk rock subculture that is challenging Islamophobia

o lessons from the Affordable Care Act

o revolutionary movements for social change

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506368283
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/15/2017
Edition description:	Eighth Edition
Pages:	712
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Susan Ferguson is Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College, where she has taught for almost 20 years. Ferguson regularly teaches Introduction to Sociology, and her critically acclaimed anthology, Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology (McGraw-Hill, 2010) is used in introductory classes around the country. Ferguson also teaches courses on the family, medical sociology, the Sociology of the Body, and a new seminar on social inequality and identity. Ferguson has published in all of these areas, including the research collection, Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic (with co-editor Anne Kasper, Palgrave, 2000), and Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families (McGraw-Hill, 2011). In addition, Ferguson is the General Editor for “Contemporary Family Perspectives,” which is a series of research monographs and short texts on the family (Sage Publications).

Ferguson, who grew up in a working class family in Colorado, still considers the Rocky Mountains to be her spiritual home. A first-generation college student, Ferguson was able to attend college with the help of scholarships, work study, and financial loans. She majored in Political Science and Spanish and also completed certificates of study in Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies. After working a couple of years for a large research grant sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, Ferguson entered graduate school and completed her master’s degree in sociology at Colorado State University and her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her areas of study are gender, family, women’s health, and pedagogy, but her primary enthusiasm is for teaching.

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Editor
PART I. THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
1. The Promise - C. Wright Mills
2. Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead-End Kids - Donna Gaines
3. An Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey - Mary Romero
Theory
4. Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology - Chris Hunter and Kent McClelland
5. Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
6. On Being Sane in Insane Places - David L. Rosenhan
Social Research
7. Finding Out How the Social World Works - Michael Schwalbe
8. Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison - Craig Haney, W. Curtis Banks, and Philip G. Zimbardo
9. Working at Bazooms: The Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality - Meika Loe
PART II. CULTURE
10. Culture: A Sociological View - Howard S. Becker
11. “This Is for the Brown Kids!”: Racialization and the Formation of “Muslim” Punk Rock - Amy D. McDowell
12. Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture - Haunani-Kay Trask
PART III. SOCIALIZATION
13. “No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That!”: Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender Nonconformity - Emily W. Kane
14. Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children - Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin
15. Making It by Faking It: Working-Class Students in an Elite Academic Environment - Robert Granfield
16. Anybody’s Son Will Do - Gwynne Dyer
PART IV. GROUPS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
17. The Birth of the Intravidual - Dalton Conley
18. Peer Power: Clique Dynamics Among School Children - Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
19. Shopping as Symbolic Interaction: Race, Class, and Gender in the Toy Store - Christine L. Williams
PART V. DEVIANCE, CRIME, AND SOCIAL CONTROL
20. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: The Development of Deviant Identities - Penelope A. McLorg and Diane E. Taub
21. Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? - A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade
22. Descent Into Madness: The New Mexico State Prison Riot - Mark Colvin
PART VI. SOCIAL INEQUALITY
Social Class
23. Some Principles of Stratification - Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, with a response by Melvin Tumin
24. Who Rules America?: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class - G. William Domhoff
25. Race, Homeownership, and Wealth - Thomas M. Shapiro
26. Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty in the United States - H. Luke Shaefer, Kathyrn Edin, and Elizabeth Talbert
Gender
27. Gender as Structure - Barbara Risman
28. Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System - Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt
29. “Dude, You’re a Fag”: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse - C. J. Pascoe
30. Because She Looks Like a Child - Kevin Bales
Race and Ethnicity
31. What Is Racial Domination? - Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer
32. At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die - Charlie LeDuff
33. Out of Sorts: Adoption and (Un)Desirable Children - Katherin M. Flower Kim
34. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners - Evelyn Nakano Glenn
PART VII. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Power and Politics
35. The Power Elite - C. Wright Mills
36. Diversity in the Power Elite - Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
37. The Rise of the New Global Elite - Chrystia Freeland
Mass Media
38. Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age - Eric Klinenberg
39. “It’s Dude Time!”: A Quarter Century of Excluding Women’s Sports in Televised News and Highlight Shows - Cheryl Cooky, Michael A. Messner, and Michela Musto
40. Controlling the Media in Iraq - Andrew M. Lindner
The Economy and Work
41. Over the Counter: McDonald’s - Robin Leidner
42. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experiences With Women’s Work - Adia Harvey Wingfield
43. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work - Arlie Russell Hochschild
Religion
44. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
45. Religion and Society: Of Gods and Demons - Steven P. Dandaneau
46. Muslims in America - Jen’nan Ghazal Read
Health and Medicine
47. United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps - Barack Obama
48. Sand Castles and Snake Pits - Lillian B. Rubin
49. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America - Keith Wailoo
Education
50. Civilize Them With a Stick - Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
51. A School in a Garden - Mitchell L. Stevens
52. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity - Ann Arnett Ferguson
The Family
53. The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage - Andrew J. Cherlin
54. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage - Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
55. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families - Annette Lareau
PART VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE
56. Revolutions and Regime Change - Jeff Goodwin and René Rojas
57. Superstorm Sandy: Restoring Security at the Shore - Diane C. Bates
58. The Cosmopolitan Canopy - Elijah Anderson

Editorial Reviews

I have used Mapping the Social Landscape for a decade, and I am pleased with the chosen articles, both classic and contemporary, and with the short introduction to each article. My students enjoy reading the assigned articles far better than their textbook reading.”

Aimee Zoeller

[Mapping the Social Landscape] is the best reader for introductory sociology that I have found. It is an excellent collection of sociological work that is presented in a very abridged, student-friendly format. There are well-written introductions to each work by Ferguson which allows students to see how the reading relates to other sociological concepts and topics.

Stephanie Chan

[Mapping the Social Landscape] is a great resource. It contains a diverse range of articles or book chapters by sociologists (or academics/journalists writing from a sociological perspective). The articles illustrate key concepts and approaches within sociology, but do not define them, allowing the instructor to explain key ideas in class, without repeating the assigned reading, as often happens with traditional textbooks.”

Clare Sears