This brief anthology for introductory sociology is a collection of 24 short readings that illustrate key concepts in sociology, relate to the everyday lives of students, and spark good classroom discussions. The selections represent four theoretical traditions in sociology (functionalism, symbolic interaction, conflict theory, feminism) and show the range and diversity of sociology and the people who practice it. The book is designed for instructors who want to expose students to some original scholarship in their first sociology course, but who do not want to adopt a comprehensive reader along with the core text they are using.
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Part I: Thinking Sociologically
Reading 1: The Sociological Imagination – C. Wright Mills
Reading 2: “Not Your Typical Student”: The Social Construction of the “First-Generation” College Student – Tina Wildhagen
Reading 3: W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Heterogeneity: How The Philadelphia Negro Shaped American Sociology – Marcus Anthony Hunter
Reading 4: Sense and Nonsense About Surveys – Howard Schuman
Part II: Culture, Socialization and Interaction
Reading 5: The Presentation of Self – Erving Goffman
Reading 6: Disciplined Preferences: Explaining the (Re)Production of Latino Endogamy – Jessica M. Vasquez
Reading 7: American Hook Up – Lisa Wade
Reading 8: Rethinking Colorblindness: How Role Conflict Shapes Administrators’ Responses to Racial Inequality at a Predominantly White University – Cedrick-Michael Simmons
Reading 9: Neither Clear Nor Present: The Social Construction of Safety and Danger – Ruth Simpson
Part III: Constructing Deviance and Normality
Reading 10: Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating – Emily E. La Beff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Diekhoff
Reading 11: The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
Reading 12: Excerpt from Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines – Jennifer A. Reich.
Reading 13: American Policing and the Danger Imperative – Michael Sierra-Arevalo
Part IV: Gender
Reading 14: Doing Gender – Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman
Reading 15: Doing, Undoing, or Redoing Gender? – Catherine Connell
Reading 16: “Out” in the Club: The Down Low, Hip-Hop, and the Architexture of Black Masculinity – Jeffrey Q. Mc Cune
Reading 17: Masculine Norms and Infectious Disease: The Case of COVID-19 – Tyler Reny
Part V: Race
Reading 18: The Code of the Streets – Elijah Anderson
Reading 19: She’s Not a Low Class Dirty Girl – Kimberly Kay Hoang
Reading 20: America for Americans: A history of Xenophobia – Erika Lee
Reading 21: The Political Bind of Oil vs. Tribes – Yvonne P. Sherwood
Part VI: Social Class
Reading 22: Unequal Childhoods – Annette Lareau
Reading 23: Identity Exploration or Labor Market Reaction: Social Class Differences in College Student Participation in Peace Corps, Teach for America, and Other Service Programs – Alanna Gillis
Reading 24: Excerpt from Strangers in Their Own Land – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Reading 25: Excerpt from Uberland: How Algorithms are rewriting the rules of work – Alex Rosenblatt
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Kimberly J. Mc Gann (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) is Associate Professor of Sociology at Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., where she regularly teaches introduction to sociology, marriage and families, race and ethnicity, and mass media and popular culture.
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