Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This revised and updated introductory reader in sociology offers a comprehensive, yet challenging set of readings for students approaching the study of sociology for the first time.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• What is Sociology? The Scope of Sociology
• The Sociological Imagination and the Promise of Sociology C. Wright
• Mills Thinking Sociologically
• 2 Culture and Society What is Culture?
• The Proper Study of Mankind The Economist
• The Internet in the Middle East and North Africa Human Rights Watch
• 3 A Changing World
• The McDonaldization of Society George Ritzer Beyond the Information Revolution
• Globalization
• 4 Social Interaction and Everyday Life
• The Structure of Face Engagements
• Erving Goffman Social Interaction and Everyday Life
• Embarrassment and Interactional Organization Christian Heath Time, Habit and Repetition in Day-to-Day Life
• 5 Gender and Sexuality Explaining Gender and Gender
• Inequalities Jane Pilcher Lesbians at home
• What do we mean when we talk about the body and Sexuality?
• A Self-Made Man
• The Male Dodo: Are Men Necessary? The Economist
• 6 Sociology of the Body: Health, Illness and Ageing
• A Sociology of `Fringe' Medicine: A Healthy Alternative
• The Sociology of Health and Illness
• Patenting Life Jeremy Rifkin Sickness and Health in Pre-Modern
• 7 Families Constructing Post-divorce childhoods
• The Normal Chaos of Love
• Home Sweet Home The Economist On Friendship
• 8 Crime and Deviance A Sociology of Hackers
• Electronic Policing
• Babes Love to Kill Ruaridh Nicoll Surviving in a Women's Prison
• 9 Race, Ethnicity and Migration
• In Defence of the Nation
• The Development of Ethnic Awareness and Identification Frances Aboud
• There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack Paul Gilroy Europe Needs More
• Immigrants The Economist
• 10 Class, Stratification and Inequality
• Are Social classes dying?
• Lipset Marx and Weber on Class
• Capitalism without Classes
• Haves and Have-Nots: How to Overcome the Digital Divide The Economist
• 11 Poverty, Welfare and Social Exclusion Rethinking Poverty in Globalized Conditions
• When Work Disappears: new implications for race and urb