TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. The Discipline of Sociology
 On Reason and Freedom
  C. Wright Mills
 Sociology: A Definition and Some Preliminary Considerations
  Anthony Giddens

2. Sociological Theory and Methods
 Commodities
  Karl Marx
 On the Concept of Sociology and the "Meaning" of Social Conduct
  Max Weber

3. Culture and Society
 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
  Richard Borshay Lee
 On the Definition of the Situation
  W.I. Thomas

4. Socialization, Education, and Mass Media
 Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other
  George Herbert Mead
 The Genesis of Ruling-Class Control
  David N. Smith
 The Growing Gap
  Ben H. Bagdikian

5. Everyday Life
 The Laws of Looking
  Michael Argyle
 Listening to Other Cultures
  Deborah Tannen

6. Crime and Deviance
 Crime (from The Rules of Sociological Method)
  Emile Durkheim
 A Sociological Theory of Criminal Behavior
  Edwin H. Sutherland and Donald R. Cressey

7. Social Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender
 The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
  Jared Diamond
 Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
  Allan M. Brandt
 When Work Disappears
  William Julius Wilson
 The Working Wife as Urbanizing Peasant
  Arlie Hochschild

8. Economy and Work
 The General Formula for Capital
  Karl Marx
 Estranged Labour
  Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
 Workaday World, Crack Economy
  Philippe Bourgois

9. Power and Political System
 Types of Political Systems
  Tom Bottomore

10. Religion
 Religious Individualism and Fundamentalism
  Robert Bellah, et. al.
 Christian Soldiers
  Sidney Blumenthal

11. Marriage and Family Relations
 The Economy of Dating
  Beth L. Bailey
 Marriage and the Construction of Reality
  Peter L. Berger and Hansfried Kellner
 The Secret Ranking
  Hans L. Zetterberg

12. Modernity and Social Change
 The Structuring of Protest
  Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
 Maoist Society: The Production Team
  Sulamith Heins Potter