Contemporary Social Issues: Sociology through Case Studies
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 158
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 158
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An exciting aspect of sociology is that the whole social world is your lab. Contemporary Social Issues: Sociology through Case Studies uses a variety of vignettes as case studies to explore essential sociological concepts. Along with the vignettes, it includes multimedia field exercises to identify those concepts in your own social milieu. With luck, these exercises will help readers take sociology out of the classroom and into the world around them.
Introduction
Key Terms
Surplus Value That’s My Beer!
Alienation Boneless Skinless Breasts
Anomie My Miata
Organic and Mechanic Solidarity She Was Just a Small Town Girl
Sacred and Profane Work Suits and Wedding Dresses
Protestant Ethic The Borrower Is Slave to the Lender
Demystification of Modern Life The Old Days Were So Much Better
Iron Cage Old Farmers
Sociological Imagination Not Making Excuses, but…
Backstage and Frontstage At Least Keep the Front of House Nice
Social Construction of Reality It’s Just a Piece of Paper!
Qualitative/Ethnography Example Customer Ecology
Generalization vs Stereotypes Dirty Jokes
Lifeworlds Apache Herbs
Parenting Across Cultures Chilly Babies (Rebecca Nees)
Cultural Relativism A Fish Out of Water (Michele Scordato)
Culture Clash French Fries and Letting Them Die (Rebecca Nees)
Breaching Experiments What’s Wrong with You?!
Collective Behavior The Big Game (Kathleen Ragon)
Straight vs Gay Acceptance My Gay Brother
Pay Gap Different Women, Different Lives
Deviance as Normal and Functional A Shooting in the Neighborhood
Class Springfield
Stratification Working
Explicit Racism I’m Not Eating in There!
Implicit or Unconscious Racism Stop That Burglar!
Structural Racism Trapped Before They Even Start!
Privilege Just Do What You’re Supposed To!
Intersectionality Intersectionality and Life Course (Emmie Cochran Jackson)
Bibliography
Michael Gibbons, PhD is a sociologist with academic, business, and non-profit research experience. His PhD is from the University of Notre Dame, and he has taught at Middle Georgia State University, Gettysburg College, the University of Evansville, the University of Notre Dame, and St. Olaf College. Michael’s marketing research and consulting has been in the service of pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. He founded and Directs the Center for Applied Research and Education at Middle Georgia State University, which partners with non-profit clients to provide assessment and intelligence.