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Sociology is all around us, every day, but rarely do we recognize it in every day settings. Applying Sociology to Everyday Life provides a backdrop to common sociology concepts and themes beginning with classic readings in Sociology that will be intimately familiar. Other selections are fresh works that strive to give the reader a perspective of sociological theory that might be relevant in their everyday lives. Combined, this reader provides a foundation for sociological theory, and applies theories to everyday experiences.

PART ONE: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY IN EVERYDAY LIFE . . . . . . . 1

1.1 The Promise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2 The Communist Manifesto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.3 Max Weber: The Spirit of Capitalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

1.4 The Division of Labour in Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

1.5 Why the Super Bowl Matters, Especially to Sociologists . . . . 67

1.6 Small Victories, Lasting Change: Harriet Martineau,

Slavery, and Women’s Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

1.7 Society in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

PART TWO: CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

2.1 Extreme Isolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

2.2 Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some

Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? . . . . . . . . . 102

2.3 Anybody’s Son Will Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

2.4 On the Culture of Binge Drinking in a Residential

College Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

2.5 The Social Construction of Offensive Words . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

PART THREE: INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION . . . . . . . . . 141

3.1 The McDonaldization of Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

3.2 How the Rich Educate Their Children: A Tale of a Swiss

Hogwarts Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

3.3 Weber’s Bureaucracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

3.4 Weber’s Discipline and Charisma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

PART FOUR:  GENDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

4.1 Some Theories of Gender Socialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

4.2 Taking Responsibility for Rape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

4.3 Victim Statement of Sexual Assault Victim at

Stanford University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

4.4 Reproductive Coercion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

4.5 ACOG Committee Opinion: Reproductive and

Sexual Coercion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

PART FIVE:  ETHNICITY AND RACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

5.1 Statement by Alabama Clergymen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

5.2 Letter from Birmingham City Jail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

5.3 Jackie Robinson, Curt Flood, and the Great

American Past Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

5.4 In Georgia, Immigrants Unsettle Old Sense of Place . . . . . . 223

5.5 Almond Harvest in the Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

5.6 Conversations with Cristopher: The Color of Skin . . . . . . . 233

5.7 The Toothache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

5.8 The Role of Ethnic Enclaves in Socioeconomic Mobility . . . . 240

PART SIX:  POPULATION AND MIGRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

6.1 Population Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

6.2 No Babies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

PART SEVEN: HUMAN IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

7.1 What’s Your Consumption Factor? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

7.2 Tragedy of the Commons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

7.3 Globalization and Global Warming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

PART EIGHT: WEALTH, WORK, AND INEQUALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293

8.1 Life on the Global Assembly Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

8.2 The Injustice of Justice: Jury Duty in America . . . . . . . . . . . 302

8.3 What Your Teeth Tell Me About Your Social Class . . . . . . . 306

8.4 Life at the Top in America Isn’t Just Better, It’s Longer . . . . 308

8.5 The Most Unequal Place in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Marianne Paiva is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Chico. She is also a recovering paramedic, a mother, wife, sister, and daughter.

Marianne’s research interests focus on Population and the Environment, Migration, Immigrant Populations, the intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class, and every now and then, paramedics. She is the author of Breathe: Essays from a Recovering Paramedic (2011).