Sociology: exploring the architecture of everyday life, reading / editors, David M. Newman, Jodi O'Brien, Michelle Robertson.

Machine-generated contents note: 1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World --
"The Sociological Imagination" --
"Invitation to Sociology" / C. Wright Mills --
"The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience" / Peter Berger --
2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically / Herbert Kelman / V. Lee Hamilton --
"The Metropolis and Mental Life" / V. Lee Hamilton / Herbert Kelman --
"Culture of Fear" / Georg Simmel --
"The (Mis)Education of Monica and Karen" / Barry Glassner --
3. Building Reality:The Social Construction of Knowledge / Laura Hamilton / Elizabeth A. Armstrong --
"Concepts, Indicators, and Reality" / Laura Hamilton / Elizabeth A. Armstrong --
"Measuring Same-Sex Relationships" / Earl Babbie --
4. Building Order: Culture and History / Nancy Bates / Theresa J. DeMaio --
"Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" / Nancy Bates / Theresa J. DeMaio --
"The Melting Pot" / Horace Miner --
"McDonald's in Hong Kong" / Anne Fadiman --
5. Building Identity: Socialization / James L. Watson --
"Life as the Maid's Daughter" / James L. Watson --
"Tiger Girls on the Soccer Field" / Mary Romero --
"Working the "Code"' / Hilary Levey Friedman --
6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self / Nikki Jones --
"The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections" / Nikki Jones --
"Blue Chip Blacks: Managing Race in Public Spaces" / Erving Goffman --
"The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity" / Karyn R. Lacy --
7. Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Family / David Grazian --
"The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love" / David Grazian --
"Gay Parenthood and the End of Paternity as We Knew It" / Stephanie Coontz --
"Covenant Marriage: Reflexivity and Retrenchment in the Politics of Intimacy" / Judith Stacey --
8. Constructing Difference: Social Deviance / Dwight Fee --
"Watching the Canary" / Dwight Fee --
"Healing (Disorderly) Desire: Medical-Therapeutic Regulation of Sexuality" / Lani Guinier / Gerald Torres --
"Patients, 'Potheads' and Dying to Get High" / P.J. McGann --
9. The Structure of Society: Organizations and Social Institutions / Wendy Chapkis --
"These Dark Satanic Mills" / Wendy Chapkis --
"The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland" / William Greider --
"Cool Stores, Bad Jobs" / John Van Maanen --
10. The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class Inequality / Yasemin Besen-Cassino --
"Making Class Invisible" / Yasemin Besen-Cassino --
"Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America" / Gregory Mantsios --
"The People of Wal-Mart" / Vivyan Adair --
11. The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity / Nicholas Copeland / Christine Labuski --
"Racial and Ethnic Formation" / Nicholas Copeland / Christine Labuski --
"Optional Ethnicities" / Howard Winant / Michael Omi --
"Jeremy Lin's Model Minority Problem" / Mary C. Waters --
12. The Architecture of Inequality: Sex and Gender / Maxwell Leung --
"Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood" / Maxwell Leung --
"Still a Man's World: Men Who Do 'Women's Work'" / Bart Landry --
"New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New Gender" / Christine L. Williams --
13. Global Dynamics and Population Demographic Trends / Eve Shapiro --
"India's Reproductive Assembly Line" / Eve Shapiro --
"Love and Gold" / Sharmila Rudrappa --
"Age-Segregation in Later Life: An Examination of Personal Networks" / Arlie Russell Hochschild --
14. The Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society / Jenny de Jong Gierveld / Peter Uhlenberg --
"'Aqui Estamos y No Vamos!' Global Capital and Immigrant Rights" / Peter Uhlenberg / Jenny de Jong Gierveld --
"The Seattle Solidarity Network: A New Approach to Working-Class Social Movements" / William I. Robinson --
"Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politicization of White, Working-Class Women" / Walter Winslow.

The latest update of this carefully edited anthology for introductory sociology that focuses on everyday experiences, important sociological issues, and key historical events.