Seeing ourselves : classic, contemporary, and cross-cultural readings in sociology / [edited by] John J. Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis.

The promise of sociology/ C. Wright Mills --Invitation to sociology/ Peter L. Berger --Womanspeak and manspeak: sex differences and sexism in communication, verbal and nonverbal/ Nancy Henley --Body ritual among the Nacirema/ Horace Miner --The case for value-free sociology/ Max Weber --Whose side are we on?/ Howard S. Becker --Female anthropologist and male informant: gender conflict in a Sicilian town/ Maureen Giovannini --Symbol: the basic element of culture/ Leslie A. White --The rape culture/ Dianne F. Herman --Explaining the pig taboo/ Marvin Harris --Manifesto of the Communist Party/ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels --The computer society: changing the workplace/ Shoshana Zuboff --The Amish: a small society/ John A. Hostetler --The self/ George Herbert Mead --Homeless on the streets of New York/ John R. Coleman --Socialization in China/ David Y.F. Ho. --The presentation of self/ Erving Goffman --What makes something funny/ John J. Macionis --The death of the Frito Bandito/ Marty Westerman. Primary groups/ Charles Horton Cooley --The characteristics of bureaucracy/ Max Weber --Women at work: the "Mommy track" controversy/ Felice N. Schwartz --Japanese etiquette and ethics of business/ Boye De Mente --The functions of crime/ Emile Durkheim --On being sane in insane places/ David L. Rosenhan --Crime in world perspective/ Elliott Currie --Some principles of stratification/ Kingsley Davis --The global economy: consequences for American inequality/ Robert B. Reich --Notes from the underclass: Soviet style/ Cathy Young --The social effects of emancipation/ W.E.B. Du Bois --The Black ghetto underclass/ William Julius Wilson --The rise of Hispanic affluence/ William O'Hare --The myth of the "model minority''/ Ronald Takaki --Cultural contradictions and sex roles/ Mirra Komarovsky --Subtle and covert forms of sex discrimination/ Nijole V. Benokraitis --Homosexual behavior in cross-cultural perspective/ J.M. Carrier --The tragedy of old age in America/ Robert N. Butler --Raging against aging/ Ruth Hamel --The aged as teachers/ Donald O. Cowgill --"His" and "Her" marriage/ Jessie Bernard --Ten years after: the consequences of divorce/ Judith S. Wallerstein --Love, arranged marriage, and the Indian social structure/ Giri Raj Gupta. Education and inequality/ Samuel Bowles --Why don't college students participate?/ David A. Karp --Black students' school success: coping with the "burden of 'acting white' "/ Signithia Fordham --The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism/ Max Weber --Evangelicals in America/ Kenneth A. Briggs --Americans facing toward Mecca/ Richard N. Ostling --The power elite/ C. Wright Mills --Pornography: morality or politics?/ Catharine A. MacKinnon --Political doublespeak: a global pattern/ William Lutz --Alientated labor/ Karl Marx --Working: jobs and how people feel about them/ Studs Terkel --The revolutionary changes in Eastern Europe/ Milovan Djilas --The social structure of medicine/ Talcott Parsons --AIDS: a modern epidemic/ Charles E. Rosenberg --The health of black America/ Gerald David Jaynes --Urbanism as a way of life/ Louis Wirth --The urban real estate game: traditional and critical perspectives/ Joe R. Feagin --Third world metropolises are becoming monsters/ "Der Spiegel" --On the origins of social movements/ Jo Freeman --MADD's anti-drunk driving crusade/ Steven L. Nock --The emergence and growth of women's studies programs/ Marian Chamberlain --The metropolis and mental life/ Georg Simmel --The search for meaning in modern America/ Robert N. Bellah --The trials of modernization: the case of Brazil's Kaiapo Indians/ Marlise Simons.