Includes indexes.

The sociological perspective : invitation to sociology / Peter L. Berger -- Culture : the fierce people / Napolon Chagnon -- Socialization : anybody's son will do / Gwynne Dyer -- Social structure and social interaction : the great American football ritual / Douglas E. Foley -- How sociologists do research : inside organized racism / Kathleen M. Blee -- Societies to social networks : hanging tongues : a sociological encounter with the assembly line / William E. Thompson -- Bureaucracies and formal organizations : handling the stigma of handling the dead / William E. Thompson -- Deviance and social control : fraternities and rape culture / A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade -- Global stratification : job on the line / William M. Adler -- Social class in the United States : the uses of poverty : the poor pay all / Herbert J. Gans -- Inequalities of gender : learning silence : girls and boys in school / Peggy Orenstein -- Inequalities of race and ethnicity : how the Jews became white folks / Karen Brodkin -- Inequalities of age : "but this is my mother!" : the plight of elders in nursing homes / Cynthia Loucks -- The economy : the McDonaldization of society / George Ritzer -- Politics : the power elite / C. Wright Mills -- Marriage and family : the American family / Stephanie Coontz -- Education : college athletes and role conflict / Peter Adler and Patricia A. Adler -- Religion : India's sacred cow / Marvin Harris -- Medicine : just another routine emergency / Daniel F. Chambliss -- Population and urbanization : border blues : the dilemma of illegal immigration / Farai Chideya -- Collective behavior and social movements : the animal rights crusade / James M. Jasper and Dorothy Nelkin -- Social change and the environment : between two ages / William Van Dusen Wishard -- Human sexuality : how many sexual partners do Americans have? / Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata.