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Wake up your introductory sociology classes! Sociology in Action helps your students learn sociology by doing sociology.

Sociology in Action by Kathleen Odell Korgen and Maxine P. Atkinson will inspire your students to do sociology through real-world activities designed to increase learning, retention, and engagement with course material. Packed with new activities and thought-provoking questions to help explain key concepts, the Second Edition of this innovative bestselling text immerses students in an active learning experience that emphasizes hands-on work, application, and learning by example. 

Each chapter has been updated to reflect recent societal changes including: the causes for and ramifications of the 2016 election; the latest issues facing the LGBT community, people of color, immigrants and refugees, and the shrinking middle class; and student loan debt. The comprehensive Activity Guide that accompanies the text provides everything you need to assign, carry out, and assess the activities that will best engage your students, fit the format of your course, and meet your course goals.

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Preface xxvii
About the Authors xxxiii
About the Contributors xxxiv
Chapter 1 Training Your Sociological Eye 2(14)
Kathleen Odell Korgen
What Is Sociology?
3(2)
Shaping and Being Shaped by Society
3(1)
How I Got Active in Sociology
4(1)
The Origins and Current Uses of Sociology
4(1)
Doing Sociology 1.1 How Can Sociology Boost Your Career?
5(1)
Changing How You View the World
5(3)
The Sociological Eye
5(1)
Doing Sociology 1.2 Showing Off Your Sociological Eye
6(1)
The Sociological Imagination
6(1)
The Fallacy of the Individualist Perspective
7(1)
Doing Sociology 1.3 Distinguishing Individual and Social Problems
8(1)
Sociology as a Social Science
8(1)
Theoretical Perspectives
8(1)
The Scientific Research Process
9(1)
Differentiating between Good Generalizations and Stereotypes
9(1)
Stereotypes
9(1)
Doing Sociology 1.4 Stereotypes and Generalizations about College Students
10(1)
Good Generalizations
10(1)
The Obligations of Sociology
10(2)
The Two Core Commitments
11(1)
Doing Sociology 1.5 with SAGE Stats: Suicide Rates and the Sociological Imagination
12(1)
The Benefits of Sociology
12(2)
Sociologists in Action: The Clothesline Project, William Edmundson
13(1)
Sociology and Democracy
14(1)
Sociology and Careers
14(1)
Conclusion
14(1)
Review
15(1)
Key Terms
15(1)
Chapter 2 Understanding Theory 16(20)
Kathleen S. Lowney
What Is Theory?
17(1)
Understanding the Structural Functionalist Perspective
17(6)
Durkheim and Types of Societies
17(1)
Social Institutions
17(2)
How I Got Active in Sociology
18(1)
Manifest Functions
18(1)
Latent Functions
18(1)
Seeing the Social World Using Structural Functionalism
19(1)
Curbing Violations of Social Norms
19(2)
Doing Sociology 2.1 Manifest and Latent Functions of Institutions
20(1)
Social Change
20(1)
What Doesn't Structural Functionalism See?
21(1)
Using Structural Functionalism to Analyze the Case of the Meitiv Family
21(2)
Understanding the Conflict Theoretical Perspective
23(4)
Karl Marx and Advanced Capitalism
23(1)
False Consciousness
23(1)
Alienation
24(1)
Karl Marx and Socialism
24(1)
Karl Marx and Communism
24(1)
From Marx to the Conflict Perspective
24(1)
Seeing the Social World Using the Conflict Perspective
25(1)
What Doesn't Conflict See?
25(1)
Theories under the Umbrella of the Conflict Perspective
25(1)
Using the Conflict Perspective to Understand the Meitiv Family
25(2)
Doing Sociology 2.2 Conflict Theory and Student Athletes
26(1)
Understanding the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
27(4)
The Social Construction of Reality
27(2)
Doing Sociology 2.3 Using Dramaturgy Theory to Analyze a Social Event
28(1)
The Looking Glass Self Theory
28(1)
Dramaturgy Theory
28(1)
Doing Sociology 2.4 Language and Social Construction
29(1)
What Doesn't Symbolic Interaction See?
29(1)
Social Constructionism
29(1)
Sociologists in Action: Courageous Conversations About Race, Chelsea Marty
30(1)
Using Symbolic Interaction to Understand the Meitiv Family
30(1)
Full Theoretical Circle
31(2)
Doing Sociology 2.5 with SAGE Stats: Viewing the Same Education Data from Three Different Perspectives
32(1)
Conclusion
33(1)
Review
33(1)
Key Terms
34(2)
Chapter 3 Using Research Methods 36(20)
Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
Amanda M. Jungels
What Is Research?
37(5)
How I Got Active in Sociology
38(1)
Why Do We Do Research?
38(1)
Using Research Skills outside the Classroom
39(2)
Sociologists in Action: Understanding How Americans Use Price Information in Health Care, David Schleifer
40(1)
Doing Sociology 3.1 Reflecting on Sociology in Your Career
41(1)
Using Research
41(1)
What Are Data and Where Do We Get Them?
42(4)
Asking Questions
42(1)
Observing and Interacting
43(1)
Looking at Documents
44(1)
Research Ethics
45(1)
What Do We Do with Data?
46(2)
Qualitative Data Analysis
46(1)
Quantitative Data Analysis
46(3)
Doing Sociology 3.2 Understanding Basic Quantitative Analysis
47(1)
Doing Sociology 3.3 with SAGE Stats: Using Research Data to Study a Public Health Problem
48(1)
Getting Started Doing Research
48(1)
Sampling and Measurement
49(2)
Roosevelt, Landon, and Literary Digest
51(1)
How Can You Recognize Good (and Bad) Research?
51(2)
Doing Sociology 3.4 Evaluating Claims in the Media and in Research
52(1)
Doing Sociology 3.5 Distinguishing Good Research from Bad Research
53(1)
Conclusion
53(1)
Review
54(1)
Key Terms
55(1)
Chapter 4 Recognizing Culture 56(20)
David E. Rohall
Defining Culture
57(1)
Finding Culture
57(1)
How I Got Active in Sociology
58(1)
Constructing Culture
58(1)
Identifying Elements of Culture
58(6)
Doing Sociology 4.1 Rings and the Social Construction of Reality
59(1)
Social Norms
59(1)
Status and Roles
60(1)
Values and Beliefs
60(2)
Symbols and Language
62(2)
Doing Sociology 4.2 Exploring Norms and Symbols in Sports
63(1)
Typology of Societies
64(2)
Hunter-Gatherers
64(1)
Horticultural/Pastoral Societies
64(1)
Agrarian Societies
64(1)
Industrial and Postindustrial Societies
65(1)
Considering Cultural Variations
66(3)
Subcultures and Multiculturalism
66(1)
Cultural Relativism and Global Culture
67(2)
Doing Sociology 4.3 Global Culture in the Sociological Eye
69(1)
The Power of Culture
69(4)
Cultural Capital and Social Intelligence
69(2)
Doing Sociology 4.4 The Differing Power of Imagery
70(1)
Social Intelligence
70(1)
Doing Sociology 4.5 Assessing Cultural Capital and Social Intelligence
71(1)
Culture and Identity
71(6)
Doing Sociology 4.6 with SAGE Stats: Spanish-Speaking U.S. Households
72(1)
Sociologists in Action: Using Public Sociology to Change Local Culture, Lyle Foster and Tim Knapp
73(1)
Conclusion
73(1)
Review
74(1)
Key Terms
74(2)
Chapter 5 Understanding Socialization and Interaction 76(20)
Amy Sodaro
What Is Socialization?
77(1)
Nature versus Nurture
77(1)
How I Got Active in Sociology
78(1)
Understanding Theories of Socialization
78(2)
Mead's Theory of Childhood Development
78(2)
Doing Sociology 5.1 Feral Children and Socialization
79(1)
Agents of Socialization
80(6)
Family
80(1)
School
81(2)
Doing Sociology 5.2 with SAGE Stats: How Many Children Are Being Raised by Grandparents?
82(1)
Peers
83(1)
Media
83(1)
Agents of Socialization for Adults
84(1)
Total Institutions
85(2)
Doing Sociology 5.3 From Another Planet
86(1)
Gender Socialization
86(1)
Sociologists in Action: "Helping Women Have a Happy Period," Angelo R. Milordo, Shaney Lara, Peter Falcichio, and Cassandra Sundstrom-Smith
87(1)
Status, Social Roles, and Identity
87(2)
Identity
88(1)
Groups, Organizations, and Bureaucracies
89(1)
Types of Groups
89(1)
The Power of Groups: Formal Organizations and Bureaucracies
89(1)
Social Interaction
90(3)
Performances and Impression Management
90(1)
Doing Sociology 5.4 Impression Management on Social Media
91(1)
Regions: Front Stage and Back Stage
91(1)
Ethnomethodology
92(1)
Conclusion
93(1)
Review
93(1)
Key Terms
94(2)
Chapter 6 Identifying Deviant Behavior 96(18)
Rena C. Zito
Defining Deviance
97(4)
Approaches to Defining Deviance
97(1)
The Statistical Approach
97(1)
Social Norms
97(1)
The Legalistic Approach
97(2)
How I Got Active in Sociology
98(1)
The Normative Approach
98(1)
Sanctions
98(1)
Doing Sociology 6.1 Deviance in the Ashley Madison Hack
99(1)
Assumptions about Social Reality and Perspectives on Deviance
99(1)
Relativist Perspective
99(1)
Absolutist Perspective
99(1)
Research Approaches versus Individual Morality
99(1)
Doing Sociology 6.2 Applying Statistical, Legalistic, and Normative Approaches
100(1)
Conflict/Critical Perspective
100(1)
"Nuts, Sluts, and Perverts" or "Deviant Heroes"?
100(1)
Doing Sociology 6.3 Deviants or Deviant Heroes?
101(1)
Origins of the Sociology of Deviance
101(2)
Early Perspectives in the Sociology of Deviance and Crime
101(1)
Durkheim's Sociological Theory of Suicide
102(1)
Durkheim and the Normality of Crime
102(1)
Creating Deviance
103(7)
Moral Entrepreneurship
103(1)
Rule Creators and Rule Enforcers
104(1)
Creating Public Morality
104(1)
Moral Conversion
104(1)
Moral Panic
104(1)
Medicalization of Deviance
105(1)
Labeling Perspective
106(1)
The Thomas Theorem
107(1)
Primary and Secondary Deviance
107(1)
Official and Informal Labels and Stigmas
107(3)
Sociologists in Action: Creating a More Just Society for All, Sarah Shannon
108(1)
Doing Sociology 6.4 The Stigma of Overdose Videos
109(1)
Social Position and Labeling
109(1)
Howard Becker's Typology of Deviance
109(1)
Doing Sociology 6.5 with SAGE Stats: Which States Incarcerate the Most People?
110(1)
Managing Deviant Identities
110(2)
Techniques of Neutralization
110(1)
Stigma Management
111(1)
Managing Visible Stigmas
112(1)
Managing Invisible Stigmas
112(1)
Conclusion
112(1)
Review
113(1)
Key Terms
113(1)
Chapter 7 Confronting Economic Inequality 114(22)
Sandra Enos
What Is Economic Inequality?
115(3)
Measuring Inequality
115(1)
Income Inequality
115(3)
How I Got Active in Sociology
116(1)
Wealth Inequality
117(1)
Doing Sociology 7.1 Exploring the Concentration of Wealth
118(1)
Meritocracy and the Functions of Inequality
118(2)
Doing Sociology 7.2 Grade Distributions and Inequality in Educational Motivation
119(1)
Marx and Weber on Inequality
120(1)
Understanding Social Stratification
120(1)
Systems of Stratification
121(1)
Examining the Class System
121(4)
The Upper Class
122(1)
The Middle Class
123(1)
The Working Class and the Poor
123(2)
Doing Sociology 7.3 Are You in the Middle Class?
124(1)
Culture of Poverty Theory and Policies toward the Poor
124(1)
Mobility within and across Generations
125(1)
Changes in the Economy
126(1)
Consequences of Inequality
126(3)
Education
127(1)
Housing
127(2)
Doing Sociology 7.4 Considering the Impact of Neighborhoods on Inequality
128(1)
Life Expectancy
129(1)
Global Inequality
129(1)
Addressing Inequality
129(5)
Doing Sociology 7.5 with SAGE Stats: How Do We Measure Income Inequality?
132(1)
Sociologists in Action: Making the World Better through Program Evaluation, Brad Rose
133(1)
Conclusion
134(1)
Review
134(1)
Key Terms
135(1)
Chapter 8 Constructing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality 136(24)
Maxine P. Atkinson
Defining Sex, Gender, Intersex, and Transgender
137(1)
How I Got Active in Sociology
138(1)
Using Theory to Understand Gender
138(3)
Structural Functionalist Perspective
138(1)
Conflict Perspectives
138(1)
Doing Sociology 8.1 Distinguishing Terms
139(1)
Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
139(1)
A More Inclusive Theory: Gender as Social Structure
140(1)
Doing Sociology 8.2 Which Is Most Helpful?
141(1)
Creating Gender and Sexual Identities, Recognizing Sexualities
141(5)
Starting Gender Socialization at Birth
141(1)
Gender Socialization through Children's Media
142(1)
Learning Gender in School
142(1)
Peers, Gender Socialization, and Sexualities
142(1)
The Media and Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
143(1)
Music, TV, and Movies
143(3)
Doing Sociology 8.3 Gender and Sexuality Lessons in Marvel Comics
144(1)
News and Advertisements
144(1)
Challenging Stereotypes
145(1)
The Media, Sexuality, and Backlash
145(1)
Gender, Sexuality, and Work
146(7)
The Gender Wage Gap
149(1)
The Wage Gap and Segregation within Occupations
149(1)
Discrimination and the Wage Gap
150(1)
The Glass Ceiling
151(2)
Doing Sociology 8.4 Women in Leadership Positions
153(1)
Sexual Harassment
153(1)
Gender and Intimate Relationships
153(4)
Sociologists in Action: Public Sociology, Barbara J. Risman
154(1)
Romantic Relationships in Historical Context
154(7)
Doing Sociology 8.5 with SAGE Stats: How Sexually Active Are High School Students?
155(1)
Doing Sociology 8.6 Romantic Relationships
156(1)
Hooking Up
156(1)
Conclusion
157(1)
Review
157(1)
Key Terms
158(2)
Chapter 9 Recognizing the Importance of Race 160(28)
Kathleen Odell Korgen
Defining Race and Ethnicity
161(3)
How I Got Active in Sociology
162(1)
The Social Construction of Race
162(1)
Doing Sociology 9.1 Sorting People by Race
163(1)
Susie Guillory Phipps and the "One-Drop Rule"
163(1)
The Repercussions of Race
164(1)
Prejudice, Stereotypes, and Discrimination
164(1)
Institutional Discrimination
165(1)
Discrimination by the U.S. Government
165(4)
The Constitution, the Compromise of 1877, and Plessy v. Ferguson
165(1)
Immigration Legislation
166(1)
Why Do People Immigrate, What Happens Once They Do, and Who Writes Our History?
167(1)
Assimilation and Conflict Perspectives
167(1)
Power and (Re)Writing History
168(1)
Doing Sociology 9.2 Maps, History, and Power
169(1)
Racial and Ethnic Inequality Today
169(7)
Housing
169(1)
The Economy
170(1)
Education
171(1)
Criminal Justice System
171(2)
Doing Sociology 9.3 Race Relations as Seen on Television
173(1)
Health Care
173(1)
Government
173(3)
Racism and Ethnocentrism Globally
176(5)
Doing Sociology 9.4 with SAGE Stats: Measuring the Growth of the Asian American Population
177(1)
The Dangers of External Inequality and the Benefits of Diversity
178(1)
Diversity Programs That Work
179(2)
Doing Sociology 9.5 The Waiting Game
180(1)
Responding (or Not) to Racism and Ethnocentrism Today
181(4)
The Color-Blind Ideology and Racism Evasiveness
182(1)
The Era of Black Lives Matter and the Presidential Election of 2016
182(1)
Ways to Address Racism and Ethnic Discrimination
183(6)
Sociologists in Action: Teaching White Students about Racism, Meghan Burke
184(1)
Doing Sociology 9.6 A Refugee Integration Plan for Your Campus
185(1)
Conclusion
185(1)
Review
186(1)
Key Terms
187(1)
Chapter 10 Understanding Institutions: Politics and the Economy 188(22)
Richard A. Zdan
The State, Power, and Legitimacy
189(2)
How I Got Active in Sociology
190(1)
Power and Legitimacy
190(1)
Legitimacy and the Right to Punish
190(1)
Doing Sociology 10.1 Legitimate versus Illegitimate Violence
191(1)
Origins of the State
191(1)
Hobbes's State of Nature and the Social Contract
191(1)
Doing Sociology 10.2 Writing a Social Contract
192(1)
Forms of Legitimate Domination
192(3)
Traditional Domination
193(1)
Rational-Legal Domination
193(1)
Charismatic Domination
193(1)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
194(1)
The Routinization of Charisma
194(1)
Doing Sociology 10.3 Legitimate Domination: 2016
195(1)
Types of Government
195(3)
Monarchy
195(1)
Democracy
195(1)
Sociologists in Action: Evaluating Government-Funded Programs, Kristin Pitts
196(1)
Oligarchy and Plutocracy
196(1)
The Iron Law of Oligarchy
197(1)
The United States and the Iron Law of Oligarchy
197(1)
Autocracy, Dictatorship, and Totalitarianism
197(1)
Autocracy and Dictatorships
197(1)
Totalitarianism
198(1)
Theoretical Approaches to Politics
198(2)
Structural Functionalism
198(1)
Pluralism
198(1)
Conflict Theory
198(1)
C. Wright Mills and the Power Elite
199(1)
G. William Domhoff and Class Domination
199(1)
Doing Sociology 10.4 Medicare for All
200(1)
Politics and the Economy
200(2)
Industrialization
201(1)
Fordism and Post-Fordism
201(1)
Deindustrialization
202(1)
Modern Economic Systems
202(2)
Capitalism
202(1)
Socialism
203(1)
Doing Sociology 10.5 The United States: A Capitalist Country?
204(1)
Beyond Politics and Economy: Communism and Fascism
204(3)
Communism
204(1)
Doing Sociology 10.6 with SAGE Stats: Government-Provided Health Care
205(1)
Fascism
205(2)
Conclusion
207(1)
Review
207(1)
Key Terms
208(2)
Chapter 11 Understanding Institutions: Family 210(22)
Carissa Froyum
What Shapes Families?
211(1)
Socially Constructing Families
211(1)
How I Got Active in Sociology
212(1)
Changing Families across History
212(6)
Doing Sociology 11.1 What Is a Family?
213(1)
Early Families
213(1)
Preindustrial U.S. Families
213(1)
Slavery and Families
213(1)
Industrial U.S. Families
213(1)
The 1900s and Emotion-Based U.S. Families
214(1)
Diversifying U.S. Families
215(1)
Making Way for Families of Today
216(2)
Doing Sociology 11.2 with SAGE Stats: Single Motherhood in America
217(1)
Understanding Families through Theory
218(2)
Structural Functionalism
218(1)
Conflict Perspective
219(1)
Feminist Perspective
219(1)
Intersectionality
219(1)
Social Exchange Theory
219(1)
The Norm of Reciprocity
220(1)
Families Caring for Each Other
220(3)
Sociologists in Action: Increasing Access to Healthy Food, Sinikka Elliott
221(1)
Parenting and Social Class
221(1)
Doing Sociology 11.3 Applying Your Sociological Imagination: Who Took Care of You?
222(1)
Caretaking and Changing Gendered Roles
222(1)
The Sandwich Generation
223(1)
Family Problems
223(2)
Violence and Victimization
223(1)
Breaking Apart and Staying Together
223(1)
Effects of Instability on Children
224(1)
Supporting Children
224(1)
Doing Sociology 11.4 Examining Family-Friendly Policies for Students on Your Campus
225(1)
How Work and Policy Shape Families
225(4)
Addressing Work and Family Challenges Today
225(1)
Using Sociology to Address Family Issues
226(7)
Doing Sociology 11.5 Comparing Paid Leave in Twenty-One Countries
227(2)
Conclusion
229(1)
Review
230(1)
Key Terms
230(2)
Chapter 12 Understanding Institutions: Education 232(26)
Melissa S. Fry
What Is Education as an Institution?
233(1)
Institutionalizing Education
233(1)
How I Got Active in Sociology
234(1)
Education and Modes of Production
234(1)
Preindustrial Societies
234(1)
Industrial Manufacturing and Large-Scale Agriculture
234(1)
The Postindustrial Knowledge and Service Economy
234(1)
Doing Sociology 12.1 Examining the Local School Board as an Institution
235(1)
Public Education and the Postindustrial Economy
235(1)
Theorizing Education
235(5)
Doing Sociology 12.2 How the Intersection of Biography and History Shapes Educational Experiences
236(1)
The Social Functions of Education
236(1)
Socialization: Cohesion and Control
236(1)
Labor Force Preparation
236(1)
Conflict, Power, and Education
237(1)
Class, Gender, Race, and School Experiences
237(1)
The Curriculum, Ideology, and Inequality
237(1)
Doing Sociology 12.3 Gender and K-12 Teaching Occupations and Salaries
238(1)
Tracking and Inequality
238(1)
Doing Sociology 12.4 Applying Sociological Theory to Educational Issues
239(1)
Symbolic Interaction, Socialization, and Cultural Production in Schools
239(1)
Socialization, Socioeconomic Status, and School Success
239(1)
Education and Social Inequality in the United States
240(9)
Class and Family Background
240(1)
Leveling the Playing Field with Early Education
240(1)
Separate and Unequal: Racial and Economic Segregation in Schools
241(1)
Reproducing Inequality within Schools
242(1)
Higher Education
243(1)
Types of Colleges, Student Success, and Tracking
244(1)
Funding for Higher Education
244(1)
Affirmative Action in College Admissions
245(2)
Gender and Education
247(2)
Doing Sociology 12.5 Racial Representation in Higher Education
248(1)
Global Education and Global Inequality
249(3)
Giving U.S. Students a Global Perspective
249(1)
Doing Sociology 12.6 The Importance of a Global Perspective for Today's Workforce?
250(1)
Global Educational Parity Efforts
250(1)
Sociologists in Action: Supporting Life Chances for Our Most Vulnerable Populations, Gabriella C. Gonzalez
251(1)
Finland: Global Leader in Quality Education
251(1)
Leveling the Playing Field: Public Policy and Education in the United States
252(4)
Pre-K Education
252(1)
The Abecedarian Project
252(1)
K-12 Education
252(3)
Doing Sociology 12.7 with SAGE Stats: Which Public Schools Have the Most Money to Spend?
253(1)
Charter Schools and Vouchers
253(1)
Doing Sociology 12.8 Applying Choice Outside of Schools
254(1)
Doing Sociology 12.9 What Could Improve Public Education?
255(1)
The Future of Public Education and Democracy
255(1)
Conclusion
256(1)
Review
256(1)
Key Terms
257(1)
Chapter 13 Experiencing Health, Illness, and Medical Care 258(20)
Amy Irby-Shasanmi
What Does Sociology Have to Do with Health, Illness, and Medical Care?
259(1)
How Sociology Helps Medical Professionals (and Everyone) Understand Health and Illness
259(1)
How I Got Active in Sociology
260(1)
The Illness Experience
260(2)
Doing Sociology 13.1 Experiencing Illness
261(1)
The Sick Role and the Impact of Illness on Families
261(1)
Medicalization
262(2)
Medicalization and Marketing
262(1)
Doing Sociology 13.2 "Longer, Darker, Fuller Lashes"
263(1)
Pros and Cons of Medicalization
263(1)
Explaining Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health
264(5)
Fundamental Cause Theory
264(5)
Sociologists in Action: Improving Community Health through Transforming a Park, Tyesha Crawford
265(1)
Doing Sociology 13.3 Food Insecurity
266(2)
Doing Sociology 13.4 with SAGE Stats: Measuring the Spread of the Opioid Epidemic
268(1)
Social Distribution of Illness
269(4)
Distributions of Physical Illnesses and Life Expectancy
269(2)
The Distribution of Mental Illnesses
271(2)
Doing Sociology 13.5 Top Ten Causes of Death
272(1)
The U.S. Health Care System
273(3)
Cost of and Access to Health Care
273(1)
Health Insurance
273(1)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
273(2)
The Underinsured
275(4)
Doing Sociology 13.6 Medicaid Expansion
276(1)
Conclusion
276(1)
Review
277(1)
Key Terms
277(1)
Chapter 14 Understanding Institutions: Religion 278(24)
Andrea N. Hunt
Defining Religion Sociologically
279(1)
Religion Is More Than a Private Matter
279(1)
How I Got Active in Sociology
280(1)
Religious Pluralism and Secularization
280(6)
Changing Demographics and Pluralism
280(1)
Doing Sociology 14.1 Clarifying Your Understanding of Religion
281(1)
Secularization
281(3)
Doing Sociology 14.2 Identifying Common Beliefs and Practices across Religions
282(2)
Sects, Cults, and New Religious Movements
284(2)
Religious Fundamentalism
286(1)
Extreme and Violent Fundamentalism
287(1)
Changing Religious Life in the United States
287(3)
Religious Affiliation and Race
287(1)
Religious Affiliation and Gender
288(1)
Doing Sociology 14.3 Personal Conceptions of God
289(1)
Religious Affiliation and Sexual Orientation
289(1)
Global Diffusion of Religion
290(4)
Cultural Diffusion
291(3)
Doing Sociology 14.4 Comparing Religions
292(1)
Doing Sociology 14.5 with SAGE Stats: Measuring the Growth of Islam in the United States
293(1)
Applying Sociological Theory to Religion
294(2)
Structural Functionalism
294(1)
Conflict Theory
294(1)
Karl Marx
295(1)
Max Weber
295(1)
Symbolic Interaction
295(1)
Religion and Social Issues, Social Change, and Everyday Life
296(3)
Religious Affiliation and Attitudes toward Social Issues
296(1)
Religion and Social Change
296(1)
The Continuing Influence of Religion in Everyday Life
297(6)
Sociologists in Action: Religion and End-of-Life Care, Heather Grigsby
298(1)
Conclusion
299(1)
Review
299(1)
Key Terms
300(2)
Chapter 15 Saving the Environment 302(22)
John Chung-En Liu
Facing Our Environmental Challenges
303(2)
How I Got Active in Sociology
304(1)
The Physical Reality of Environmental Problems
304(1)
Doing Sociology 15.1 Calculate Your Own Ecological Footprint
305(1)
How Do Sociologists Study Environmental Issues?
305(5)
Social Construction of Nature
305(1)
American Wilderness
305(2)
Doing Sociology 15.2 with SAGE Stats: How Much of Our Electricity Comes from Burning Coal?
306(1)
China's Great Leap Forward
307(1)
Constructing Environmental Problems
307(1)
Doing Sociology 15.3 Human-Nature Photo Contest
308(1)
Environmental Awareness and Concern
308(2)
Doing Sociology 15.4 Climate Change Campaigner for a Day
310(1)
How Did We Mess Up? Theories of Environmental Change
310(3)
Population and the Environment
310(2)
Production and the Environment
312(1)
Getting Off the Treadmill of Production
312(1)
Doing Sociology 15.5 The Story of Stuff
313(1)
Ecological Modernization Theory
313(1)
Consumption and the Environment
313(2)
Green Consumption
314(1)
Doing Sociology 15.6 Greenwashing Product Review Inverted Quarantines
315(1)
Who Suffers Most from Environmental Problems?
315(4)
Environmental Racism
316(1)
The Environmental Justice Movement
316(1)
Sacrifice Zones
318(1)
Climate Justice
318(7)
Sociologists in Action: Creating Engaged Climate Justice Scholarship, Timmons Roberts
319(1)
Social Solutions to Environmental Problems
319(1)
Doing Sociology 15.7 Environmental Inequalities and Social Solutions
320(1)
Conclusion
320(1)
Review
321(1)
Key Terms
322(2)
Chapter 16 Changing Society through Social Movements 324(22)
Wendy M. Christensen
What Is a Social Movement?
325(1)
Components of a Social Movement
325(1)
How I Got Active in Sociology
326(1)
Protests: The Most Visible Part of Social Movements
326(1)
Participating in Social Movements
326(2)
Doing Sociology 16.1 Planning Direct Action
327(1)
Power and Inequality Issues in Social Movements
327(1)
Socioeconomic Status and Ability
328(1)
Mobilizing and Organizing
328(1)
Community-Based Organizing
328(1)
Types of Social Movements
328(3)
Sociologists in Action: Participating in the Movement to End Poverty, Alicia Swords
329(1)
Doing Sociology 16.2 The Use and Effectiveness of "Slacktivism"
330(1)
Social Movement Theory
331(2)
Conflict Theory
331(1)
Symbolic Interactionist Theory
331(2)
Doing Sociology 16.3 Framing the Gay Rights Movement
332(1)
Social Movement Framing
332(1)
Identity Based Social Movements
332(1)
The Six Steps of Social Movement Success
333(6)
Identify an Issue
333(1)
The Women's Movement
333(1)
Form a Group
334(1)
The Civil Rights Movement
334(1)
The Women's Movement
335(1)
Challenges to Forming a Group
335(1)
Marginalization of Members
336(1)
Cultural Differences
336(1)
Create a Strategy
336(1)
The Civil Rights Movement
336(1)
Mobilize Resources
336(1)
Doing Sociology 16.4 Media Coverage of Protests
337(1)
The Women's Movement
337(1)
Organize Actions
337(1)
The Civil Rights Movement
337(1)
Gaining Power and Success
338(1)
The Civil Rights Movement
338(1)
The Women's Movement
338(1)
Why Social Movements Fail
338(1)
Success Can Bring Backlash: The Marriage Equality Movement
339(2)
Successful Tactics of the Marriage Equality Movement
339(1)
With Success Comes Backlash
340(1)
Doing Sociology 16.5 with SAGE Stats: Has the Marriage Equality Movement Led to More Same-Sex Marriage?
341(1)
How Can We Create Social Change?
341(3)
Participatory Action Research
342(1)
Empowerment, Responsibility, and Making Social Change
342(1)
How You Can Help Bring about Social Change
343(1)
Conclusion
344(1)
Review
344(1)
Key Terms
345(1)
Glossary 346(7)
References 353(21)
Index 374(14)
Learning Activities 388