Terrible Magnificent Sociology

Publisher’s Notice
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright
About the Author
Brief Contents
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Science of Social Facts
Social Facts
Studying Social Facts
Chapter 1: The Self
The Self
Reflecting on the Self
The Story of the Self
The Self as a Social Fact
Chapter 2: Culture & Construction
Social Construction
Culture
Socialization
Culture Wars
Culture during Covid-19
Chapter 3: Our Identities
The Lure of Identity
Step 1: Invent: The Origin of Sexual Identity
Step 2: Divide: Race, Ethnicity, and the Emergence of Subcategories
Step 3: Stereotype: Filling Gender Subcategories with Contents
Step 4: Perform: Act Your Age
Step 5: Rank: The Building of Body Hierarchies
Intersectionality and Disability
Chapter 4: People In Interaction
Playing by the Rules
Symbolic Interactionism
Dramaturgy
Social Identities and Social Interactions
The Rules beneath the Rules
Putting It All Together: Exploiting the Rules of the Game
Chapter 5: Deviance & Defiance
The Social Construction of Deviance
How Societies Shape Deviance
Functions of Deviance
Deviance, Conflict, and Change
Chapter 6: Organizations, Institutions & Structures
Modernity, Its Origins, and Its Much-Hyped Demise
The Social Institution
The Inescapability of Institutions
Institutionalized Ideologies
The Social Structure
Structural Positions and Social Hierarchies
Chapter 7: Economic Inequality
The Numbers
The Prehistory of Economic Inequality
The Near History of Economic Inequality
The Rise and Fall of Capital in America
The New Gilded Age
The Future of Economic Inequality
When Is Economic Inequality Unfair?
Capitalism and Socialism: Enemies or Frenemies?
Chapter 8: Institutional Racism
Residential Segregation
Inequitable Educations
Race, Migration, and Policing
Discrimination and the Social Structure
Chapter 9: Gendered Oppression
The “Traditional†Family
The Fate of the Breadwinner/Homemaker Marriage
Dimensions of Contemporary Gender Inequality
Work and Family Today
The State of “Women’s Liberationâ€
Chapter 10: Elite Power
Elite Networks
Coordinated Institutions
Culture and Exclusion
Supporting Ideologies
The Cult of the Individual
Chapter 11: The Power of the People
The People’s Power
Harnessing Interdependent Power
Case Study: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
How Movements Win
Chapter 12: Our Future on Earth
Living in a Globalizing Human Society
Global Inequality
The Biggest Problem in the World
The Campaign to Deny Climate Change
Transnational Social Movements
Global Climate Activism
The End?
Conclusion: The Sociological Imagination
Appendix A: A Short History of Sociology
Sociology’s European Foundations
Sociology Arrives In America
A Bigger and Broader Sociology
Appendix B: A Guide to Sociological Research
Sociological Research Methods
Why So Many Methods?
Pursuing and Publishing Sociological Research
Doing Research Ethically
Building Sociological Theory
Key Moments: In the History of Sociology
Glossary
Endnotes
Credits
Index