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Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology by Susan J. Ferguson

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

Mapping the Social Landscape Reviews

[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

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 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

About Susan J. Ferguson

Susan Ferguson is Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College, where she has taught for over 25 years. Ferguson regularly teaches Introduction to Sociology, and her critically acclaimed anthology, Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology (SAGE, Eighth Edition, 2018) is used in introductory classes around the country. Ferguson also teaches courses on the family, medical sociology, global health, and a 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), Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families (Sage, 2019), and Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality and Identity (Sage, 2016). In addition, Ferguson is the General Editor for Contemporary Family Perspectives, a series of research monographs on the family (Sage Publications). During fall 2016, Ferguson taught three courses on the inaugural Colorado State University Semester at Sea voyage, including the Sociology of Gender, Introduction to Sociology, and Global Studies. Most recently, Ferguson has been nominated for the ASA Hans O. Mauksch Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching.

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 Rene Rojas 57. Superstorm Sandy: Restoring Security at the Shore - Diane C. Bates 58. The Cosmopolitan Canopy - Elijah Anderson

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Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology by Susan J. Ferguson

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Susan J. Ferguson

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