Mapping the Social Landscape

Readings in Sociology

• Now available for the first time in print and e-book formats.

• Notable new readings in this edition that help enhance sociological understanding include:
  
  • a new reading in the culture section on global parenting by Pei-Chia Lan,
  • a new reading on negotiating space in gang neighborhoods by Randol Contreras, and  
  • a new reading in the power and politics section by Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass on their timely research on employers using bullying in the workplace.
    
    
• Several new selections to this edition illustrate timely analyses of social issues and the intersections between race, social class, and gender. As a whole, the readings examine critical sociological issues including:
  • gender socialization in children,
  • the new global elites,
  • poor women and motherhood,
  • indigenous protests of the Dakota Oil Pipeline,
  • black male nurses and the glass escalator,
  • the failure of health care during Katrina,
  • the racialization of Muslims in the United States,
  • transgender people and gender panics,
  • the admission policies of elite colleges,
  • racism and health,
  • gender and televised sports, and
  • race, wealth, and home ownership.
    
    
• An important work by Ruth Milkman on post-2008 millennial involvement in social movements has been added.
  
  
• Based on the reviewers’ comments, this edition includes eight readings that have a global emphasis, and at least seven readings in the anthology address sexuality.
  
• The piece by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas from Promises I Could Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage has returned for faculty who wish to use this anthology’s research.

KEY FEATURES:

• The organization follows that of a typical introductory sociology course and provides coverage of key concepts including culture, socialization, deviance, social structure, social inequality, social institutions, and social change.
  
  
• Classic readings by C. Wright Mills, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, David Rosenhan, Philip Zimbardo, Howard Becker, Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore, and Max Weber expose students to some of sociology’s foundational statements.
  
  
• The majority of readings come from well-known and award-winnings contemporary sociologists, as well as a handful of journalists and activists working in a sociological tradition.

• The collection provides many opportunities to discuss individual, interactional and structural levels of society; the roles of race-ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexuality in shaping social life; and the intersection of those statuses and identities.