James M. Henslin - Down to Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings

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1 Excerpts from Invitation to Sociology by Peter L. Berger. Copyright 1963 by Peter L. Berger. Reprinted by permission of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

2 Copyright 2007 by James M. Henslin.

3 The Promise, from Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills. Copyright 1959, 2000 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.

4 Copyright 2007 by James M. Henslin.

5 Copyright 1985 by The Society for the Study of Social Problems. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Social Problems , Vol. 32, No. 3, February 1985, pp. 25163.

6 Reprinted by permission of Candace Clark and the University of Chicago Press, excerpts from The Mark of a Criminal Record in American Journal of Sociology, 108 , 5: 937975. Copyright 2003 by the University of Chicago Press.

7 Reprinted by permission of Bruce Jacobs.

8 Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist , 58:3, June 1956.

9 From , 2nd Edition by Chagnon. Copyright 1977. Reprinted with permission of Wadsworth, a division of Thompson Learning: www.thompsonrights.com .

10 Reprinted by permission of Edward T. Hall.

11 Reprinted by permission of the author and the University of Chicago Press, excerpts from Sympathy Biography and Sympathy Margin in American Journal of Sociology, 93 , 2: 290321 Copyright 1987 by the University of Chicago Press.

12 Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Co., Inc., and Penguin Books Ltd., London, from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life , pp. 115. Copyright 1959 by Erving Goffman.

13 Reprinted by permission of Kingsley Davis.

14 Copyright 2007 by James M. Henslin.

15 From: Eder, Donna, Catherine Colleen Evans, and Stephen Parker, School Talk: Gender and Adolescent Culture . Copyright 1995 by Donna Eder, Catherine Colleen Evans, and Stephen Parker. Reprinted by permission of Rutgers University Press.

16 Copyright 1986 by The Society for the Study of Social Problems. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Social Problems , Vol. 33, No. 3, February 1986, pp. 17690.

17 This article was originally published in Redbook , October 1994, pp. 9193, 14547. Adapted from Talking from 9 to 5: How Womens and Mens Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work by Deborah Tannen. Copyright 1994 by Deborah Tannen. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins.

18 Reprinted by permission of Helene M. Lawson.

19 This article was written for Down to Earth Sociology . It is a revision of an analysis of women dieters in Cincinnati, Ohio, that appeared in Women and Dieting Culture , published by Rutgers University Press.

20 Copyright 2007 by James M. Henslin.

21 Reprinted with the permission of The Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women by Elliot Liebow. Copyright 1993 by Elliot Liebow. All rights reserved.

22 Reprinted by permission of William Thompson.

23 If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably by Philip Meyer, from Esquire Magazine. Copyright 1970 by Hearst Corp.

24 Copyright 2007 by James M. Henslin.

25 From Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (formerly Urban Life ) Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 4763. Copyright 1981 by Sage Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission from Sage Publications, Inc.

26 Published by permission of Transaction Publishers, from Society , Vol. 11, No. 1. Copyright 1973 by Transaction Publishers.

27 Published by permission of Transaction Publishers, from Society , Vol. 9, No. 6. Copyright 1972 by Transaction Publishers.

28 Reprinted with permission from the author and publisher from Science , Vol. 179 (January 19, 1973), pp. 25058. Copyright 1973 AAAS.

29 Reprinted by permission of Sidney Katz.

30 From Gender and Society , 3 (4). Copyright 1989 by Sage Publications. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.

31 Reprinted by permission of Clarence Page.

32 From Racist Mind by Raphael S. Ezekiel. Copyright 1995 by Raphael S. Ezekiel. Used by permission of the author and Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.

33 From Social Policy , July/August 1971, pp. 2024. Published by Social Policy Corporation, New York, NY 10036. Copyright 1971 by Social Policy Corporation.

34 Reprinted with the permission of the editor of Race, Gender, and Class . Excerpts from Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 6381.

35 Reprinted by permission of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

36 From Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America, Harper Magazine , January 1999. Copyright Barbara Ehrenrich. Reprinted by permission.

37 Reprinted by permission of the author.

38 Copyright by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd. Reprinted with permission.

39 Reprinted by permission of Harry L. Gracey.

40 From Human Nature Magazine 1 (2), pp. 28, 3036, February 1978. Copyright by Human Nature, Inc.

41 Jennifer Hunt, Urban Life , Vol. 13, No. 4 (January 1985). Copyright 1985 by Sage Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.

42 From War: Past, Present, and Future by Gwynne Dyer. Copyright 1985 by Media Resources. Used by permission of Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc.

43 Excerpts reprinted by permission from pp. 4452, 5355, 60, 65, 7276, 8285 of Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life , Robin Leidner. Copyright 1993 The Regents of the University of California.

44 Reprinted by permission of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, from Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage , Vol. 13, No. 3, July 1990.

45 Reprinted by permission of the author and publisher from Social Psychology Quarterly , 60 (1), March 1997, excerpts from various pages. Copyright 1997 by the American Sociological Association.

46 Reprinted by permission of the author.

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