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Landis' applied approach combines readings, commentary, and core concepts. Adopters are satisfied with the lighter, core format of the text. The readings are diverse and deal with contemporary issues, thus increasing relevancy to students. The text is a smooth read for the 2-year college student, not too condescending, and not too complicated.

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• 1 Introduction: Knowledge, Science, and Sociology(p. 1)
• Knowledge(p. 3)
• Science(p. 5)
• Types of Science(p. 8)
• Social Science(p. 8)
• Sociology(p. 10)
• Sociological Theories(p. 11)
• Functional Analysis(p. 11)
• Conflict Theory(p. 12)
• Symbolic Interaction(p. 13)
• Research Methods in Sociology(p. 14)
• Three Research Techniques(p. 17)
• Problems in Social Science Investigation(p. 21)
• Ethics(p. 22)
• Is It Only Common Sense?(p. 23)
• Summary(p. 25)
• Terms for Study(p. 25)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 26)
• Reading 1.1 The Research Process--Race, Drugs, and Criminal Sentencing(p. 26)
• Notes(p. 29)
• Part 1 Socialization and Culture(p. 31)
• 2 Socialization and Self(p. 32)
• Socialization: A Social Process(p. 35)
• Gender Socialization(p. 37)
• Primary and Secondary Socialization(p. 38)
• Resocialization and Anticipatory Socialization(p. 39)
• Self and Personality(p. 41)
• The Importance of Language(p. 45)
• Definition of the Situation(p. 47)
• Debates and Issues in Socialization(p. 49)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 51)
• Summary(p. 51)
• Terms for Study(p. 52)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 53)
• Reading 2.1 The Story of My Life(p. 53)
• Reading 2.2 Mascot(p. 57)
• Reading 2.3 Cipher in the Snow(p. 63)
• Reading 2.4 Born to Raise Hell?(p. 65)
• Notes(p. 67)
• 3 Norms, Roles, Culture, Society(p. 69)
• The Meaning of Culture(p. 70)
• Norms(p. 71)
• Types of Norms(p. 74)
• Norm Conflict and Change(p. 75)
• Cultural Diversity(p. 76)
• Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism(p. 78)
• Subculture and Counterculture(p. 80)
• Multiculturalism(p. 81)
• Culture and Personality(p. 82)
• Society and Social Structure(p. 84)
• Status and Role(p. 86)
• Achieved and Ascribed Status(p. 89)
• Role Strain and Role Conflict(p. 89)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 90)
• Summary(p. 91)
• Terms for Study(p. 92)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 92)
• Reading 3.1 The Cocaine Kids(p. 93)
• Reading 3.2 One Hundred Percent American(p. 100)
• Notes(p. 102)
• Part 2 Social Organization(p. 104)
• 4 Groups(p. 106)
• Why Study Groups?(p. 107)
• Groups and Nongroups(p. 108)
• Types of Groups(p. 110)
• Primary and Secondary Groups(p. 111)
• Small Groups(p. 113)
• Formal Organizations(p. 115)
• Types of Organizations(p. 118)
• Formal Organizations--Consequences and Concerns(p. 119)
• "The Organization Man"(p. 121)
• "McDonaldization"(p. 122)
• Can Formal Organizations Change?(p. 124)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 125)
• Summary(p. 125)
• Terms for Study(p. 126)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 126)
• Reading 4.1 Crazy for God(p. 127)
• Reading 4.2 The Electronic Sweatshop(p. 132)
• Notes(p. 138)
• 5 Social Inequality: Social Class(p. 140)
• Social Stratification(p. 142)
• Stratification Systems(p. 143)
• Parallel Stratification Systems(p. 144)
• Socioeconomic Status and Social Class(p. 145)
• Wealth(p. 145)
• Power(p. 146)
• Prestige(p. 147)
• How Many Social Classes?(p. 149)
• Determining Social Class(p. 151)
• Social Class and Behavior(p. 152)
• Social Mobility(p. 155)
• Poverty and Welfare(p. 157)
• The Welfare System(p. 159)
• World Poverty(p. 161)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 162)
• Summary(p. 163)
• Terms for Study(p. 164)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 164)
• Reading 5.1 It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It(p. 165)
• Reading 5.2 The Equality Dilemma(p. 167)
• Reading 5.3 Pro-Life Versus Pro-Choice Women--A Study in Class Contrasts(p. 172)
• Notes(p. 176)
• 6 Social Inequality: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Age(p. 179)
• Minority Status(p. 180)
• Race and Ethnicity(p. 181)
• Prejudice and Discrimination(p. 183)
• Blacks and African Americans(p. 188)
• Jobs, Income, Unemployment(p. 188)
• Housing(p. 190)
• Education(p. 190)
• Voting and Elected Officials(p. 191)
• Native Americans(p. 191)
• Hispanic Americans(p. 192)
• Jews(p. 194)
• Asian Americans(p. 195)
• Gender(p. 197)
• Socialization and Gender Roles(p. 198)
• Consequences of Gender-Role Typing(p. 199)
• The Elderly(p. 202)
• Patterns of Interaction(p. 204)
• Minority-Group Reactions(p. 205)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 206)
• Summary(p. 207)
• Terms for Study(p. 207)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 208)
• Reading 6.1 Just Walk on By(p. 208)
• Reading 6.2 The Jeweler's Dilemma(p. 211)
• Reading 6.3 Exiled in Guyville(p. 215)
• Reading 6.4 Wounded Knee(p. 219)
• Reading 6.5 Dangerous Crossing(p. 223)
• Notes(p. 228)
• 7 Institutions: Family(p. 230)
• Family(p. 234)
• Structural Variabilities: How Do Family Structures Differ?(p. 234)
• Functional Uniformities: How Are Families Alike?(p. 237)
• The Family: Contrast and Change(p. 239)
• The Family in China(p. 239)
• The Family in America(p. 240)
• Later Marriage(p. 242)
• Staying Single and Living Alone(p. 242)
• Other Living Arrangements(p. 243)
• Divorce(p. 244)
• Census Bureau Facts About Marriage and Divorce in the 1990s(p. 244)
• Family Problems: The Conflict Approach(p. 245)
• The Family of the Future(p. 248)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 248)
• Summary(p. 249)
• Terms for Study(p. 250)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 251)
• Reading 7.1 They Get By with a Lot of Help from Their Kyoiku Mamas(p. 251)
• Reading 7.2 The Little Emperors, Part 1(p. 254)
• Reading 7.3 Family and Peer Group in Northton(p. 257)
• Notes(p. 261)
• 8 Institutions: Religion(p. 262)
• Religion: The Functional Approach(p. 264)
• Religious Organizations(p. 269)
• Religion in America(p. 270)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 276)
• Summary(p. 277)
• Terms for Study(p. 278)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 278)
• Reading 8.1 The Holy Ghost People(p. 279)
• Reading 8.2 The Lure of the Cult(p. 286)
• Notes(p. 289)
• 9 Institutions: Economic and Political(p. 291)
• Economic Institutions(p. 292)
• Capitalism(p. 292)
• Socialism(p. 293)
• Economic Change and the American Economy(p. 293)
• Political Institutions(p. 296)
• Distribution of Power(p. 297)
• The Pluralistic Model(p. 297)
• The Elite Model(p. 298)
• The Class Model(p. 299)
• Political Systems and American Politics(p. 301)
• The Political Economy: Separate Institutions?(p. 302)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 304)
• Summary(p. 305)
• Terms for Study(p. 306)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 306)
• Reading 9.1 In Search of the Real Bill Gates(p. 307)
• Notes(p. 312)
• 10 Institutions: Education(p. 313)
• Education and Schooling Defined(p. 314)
• The Functional Approach to Education(p. 315)
• The Conflict Approach to Education(p. 316)
• Education in America(p. 320)
• Is Change Coming in Education?(p. 323)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 326)
• Summary(p. 326)
• Terms for Study(p. 327)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 327)
• Reading 10.1 My Exotic Tribe: Children in a School Hallway(p. 328)
• Notes(p. 332)
• 11 Population and Ecology(p. 333)
• Population(p. 335)
• Fertility(p. 335)
• Mortality(p. 337)
• Migration(p. 338)
• Other Population Measures(p. 340)
• Human Ecology and the City(p. 342)
• Patterns in the United States(p. 347)
• World Patterns(p. 349)
• Population and Ecology: Problem Aspects(p. 349)
• A Population Bomb?(p. 352)
• Other Ecological Problems(p. 353)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 355)
• Summary(p. 355)
• Terms for Study(p. 356)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 356)
• Reading 11.1 Downsizing Cities(p. 357)
• Reading 11.2 The Little Emperors, Part 2(p. 362)
• Notes(p. 366)
• Part 3 Social Change and Social Deviance(p. 367)
• 12 Social Change and Social Disorganization(p. 368)
• Factors Related to Social Change(p. 371)
• Rates of Change and Planned Change(p. 373)
• Theories of Social Change(p. 375)
• Cyclic Theories(p. 375)
• Evolutionary Theories(p. 376)
• Functional Theories(p. 376)
• Conflict Theories(p. 376)
• Neoevolutionary Theories(p. 377)
• Social Change and the Future: Two Viewpoints(p. 379)
• Social Disorganization(p. 380)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 382)
• Summary(p. 382)
• Terms for Study(p. 383)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 383)
• Reading 12.1 Bushmen(p. 384)
• Reading 12.2 Everything in Its Path(p. 389)
• Notes(p. 393)
• 13 Collective Behavior(p. 394)
• Crowds(p. 396)
• Audiences, Mobs, and Riots(p. 398)
• Panic and Mass Hysteria(p. 401)
• Rumors(p. 402)
• Fads, Crazes, and Fashions(p. 404)
• Disasters(p. 405)
• Publics, Public Opinion, and Propaganda(p. 406)
• Social Movements(p. 408)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 410)
• Summary(p. 410)
• Terms for Study(p. 411)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 411)
• Reading 13.1 Maycomb Jail(p. 412)
• Reading 13.2 Looking for Justice in L.A.(p. 416)
• Notes(p. 418)
• 14 Deviance and Social Control(p. 420)
• Defining Deviance(p. 421)
• Biological Explanations(p. 422)
• Psychological Explanations(p. 422)
• Sociological Explanations(p. 422)
• Three Theories(p. 423)
• Labeling Theory(p. 424)
• Primary and Secondary Deviance(p. 427)
• Deviant Behavior in Perspective(p. 428)
• Categories of Deviance(p. 429)
• Deviant Behavior and Criminal Behavior(p. 433)
• Social Control(p. 436)
• Theory and Research: A Review(p. 441)
• Summary(p. 441)
• Terms for Study(p. 442)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 443)
• Reading 14.1 California Prisons as Geriatric Wards(p. 443)
• Reading 14.2 Harsh Brand of Justice in Belfast(p. 448)
• Notes(p. 451)
• 15 Sociology: Another Perspective(p. 453)
• A Sociological Perspective(p. 454)
• Sociological Perspectives of Sociology(p. 456)
• Sociologists--What Are They and What Do They Do?(p. 459)
• Sociology and You(p. 460)
• Terms for Study(p. 461)
• InfoTrac College Edition: Search Word Summary(p. 461)
• Notes(p. 461)
• Glossary(p. 463)
• References for Author Biographies(p. 476)
• Index(p. 477)