The Individual in Society

Section 1 How Do Sociologist Look at the Individual and Society?  
Chapter 1: The Promise
   C. Wright Mills 
Chapter 2: Body Ritual among the Nacirema
   Horace Miner
Chapter 3: Returning the “Social” to Evolutionary Sociology: Reconsidering Spencer, Durkheim, and Marx’s Models of “Natural” Selection
   Jonathan H. Turner and Seth Abrutyn
Chapter 4: Why Did Human History Unfold Diff erently on Diff erent Continents for the Last 13,000 Years?
   Jared Diamond 
Chapter 5: India’s Sacred Cow
   Marvin Harris 
Chapter 6: A Sociology of Nothing: Understanding the Unmarked
   Susie Scott
Section 2 The Individual and Modernity 
Chapter 7: Native American Embodiment of the Chronicities of Modernity
   Dennis Wiedman
Chapter 8: Unpacking the Characteristics of Snapchat Users: A Preliminary Investigation and an Agenda for Future Research
   Rachel Grieve
Chapter 9: Social Media and Political Discussion: When Online Presence Silences Offline Conversation 
   Keith N. Hampton, Inyoung Shin and Weixu Lu
Chapter 10: Religious Beings in Fashionable Bodies: The Online Identity Construction of Hijabi Social Media Personalities 
   Elif Kavakci and Camille R Kraeplin
Chapter 11: Media Use and the Social Identity Model of Collective Action: Examining the Roles of Online Alternative News and Social Media News 
   Michael Chan
Section 3 The Individual and Religion
Chapter 12: Nature Meets Nurture in Religious and Spiritual Development
   Pehr Granqvist and Frances Nkara
Chapter 13: Religion in Public Institutions: Comparative Perspectives from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe
   Wendy Cadge, Mar Griera, Kristen Lucken and Ines Michalowski
Chapter 14: Buying an Afterlife: Mapping the Social Impact of Religious Beliefs through Consumer Death Goods 
   Candi K. Cann
Chapter 15: Jubilant Coral and Jade 
   Martin A. Tsang 
Chapter 16: Globalization, Religious Fundamentalism and the Need for Meaning 
   Michael B. Salzman
Section 4 Race, Ethnicity, Identity and Creating the “Other”
Chapter 17: The Construction of Southern Identity through Reality TV: A Content Analysis of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty and Buckwild
   Ariel Miller
Chapter 18: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System  
   Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt
Chapter 19: Feminism, Masculinity and Male Rape: Bringing Male Rape ‘Out of the Closet’ 
   Aliraza Javaid 
Chapter 20: The Journal of Social Psychology 
   Colin A. Zestcott, Tanya L. Tompkins, Megan Kozak Williams, Kay Livesayb and Kin L. Chanb
Chapter 21: “Being Asian American Is a Lot Different Here”: Influences of Geography on Racial Identity 
   Jason Chan
Section 5 Inequalities, Prejudice and Discrimination
Chapter 22: Being Poor, Black, and American
   William Julius Wilson
Chapter 23: Selective Incivility as Modern Discrimination in Organizations: Evidence an Impact
   Lilia M. Cortina, Dana Kabat-Farr, Emily A. Leskinen, Marisela Huerta and Vicki J. Magley
Chapter 24: Gender Inequality Issues in India
   Renu Batra and Thomas G. Reio Jr. 
Chapter 25: Spatial Stigma and Health Inequality 
   Danya E. Keene and Mark B. Padilla 
Chapter 26: “You Little Creep”: Evidence of Blatant Dehumanization of Short Groups
   Jonas R. Kunst, Nour Kteily and Lotte Thomsen
Section 6 Relationships and the Individual  
Chapter 27: Liquid Love? Dating Apps, Sex, Relationships and the Digital Transformation of Intimacy
   Mitchell Hobbs, Stephen Owen and Livia Gerber 
Chapter 28: The Making of Family Values: Developmental Idealism in Gansu, China
   Qing Lai , Arland Thornton
Chapter 29: Not Just Black and White: How Race/Ethnicity and Gender Intersect in Hookup Culture
   Sarah A. Spell