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New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. How can you make a living with a major in sociology? These two publications explore careers in sociology, from business and government to health care and the law.

Chapter 2 Culture Borofsky, Robert, and Bruce Albert. Yanomani: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. The authors criticize the research on the Yanomani, including that by Chagnon in the next book, with an emphasis on anthropologists’ inconsid- eration of human rights.

Chagnon, Napoleon A. Yanomamö: The Fierce People, 5th ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1997. This account of a tribal people whose customs are extraordinarily different from ours will help you to see how arbitrary the choices are that underlie human culture. This research has aroused enormous controversy over human rights.

Davis, Wade, K. David Harrison, and Catherine Herbert Howell, eds. Book of Peoples of the World: A Guide to Cultures. New York: Random House, 2009. A panoramic view of over 200 ethnic groups across the world, from the Kallawaya of the Peruvian Andes, numbering fewer than 1,000, to the Bengalis of India, a group of 172 million.

Fulbeck, Kip. Permanence: Tattoo Portraits. New York: Chronicle Books, 2008. Through photographs of tattoos and the accounts of those who have those tattoos, you can gain insight and understanding of the tattoo subcul- tures, which are being adopted and modified by mainstreamers.

Griswold, Wendy. Cultures and Societies in a Changing World, 3rd ed. Thou- sand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2008. Analyzes how culture shapes people’s individual identity, including their norms, values, beliefs, and be- havior; also indicates how globalization is changing cultures.

Inglis, David. Culture and Everyday Life. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2006. An overview of how culture shapes, influences, and structures our everyday lives.

Jacobs, Mark D., and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan, eds. The Blackwell Com- panion to the Sociology of Culture. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. The authors of these articles explore cultural systems, everyday life, identity, collective memory, and citizenship in a global economy.

Lenski, Gerhard, and Patrick Nolan. Human Societies, 10th ed. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm, 2006. This wide-ranging examination of the fundamen- tals of human societies also analyzes social change, including globalization, outsourcing, the end of cheap oil, Islamic fundamentalism, and the rise of China.

Zellner, William W. Countercultures: A Sociological Analysis. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. The author’s analysis of skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan, survivalists, satanists, the Church of Scientology, and the Unification Church (Moonies) helps us understand why people join countercultures.

Journals Cultural Sociology and Space for Difference focus on sociological analyses of culture, with crossovers into art history, gender studies, human geography, racism, literary studies, and social activism.

Chapter 3 Socialization Ariès, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. New York: Vintage Books, 1972. The author analyzes how childhood in Europe during the Middle Ages differs from childhood today.

Greco, Monica, and Paul Stenner, eds. Emotions: A Social Science Reader. New York: Routledge, 2008. The authors examine the increasing signifi- cance of the study of emotions in the social sciences.

Grusec, Joan E., and Paul D. Hastings, eds. Handbook of Socialization: Theory and Research. New York: Guilford Press, 2007. Extensive overview of socialization from earliest childhood into adulthood.

Handel, Gerald, Spencer Cahill, and Frederick Elkin. Children and Soci- ety: The Sociology of Children and Childhood Socialization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. A symbolic interactionist perspective of childhood from birth to adolescence with an emphasis on the develop- ment of the self.

Hunt, Stephen J. The Life Course: A Sociological Introduction. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2006. Gives an overview of the life course while con- sidering what is distinct about a sociological approach to this topic.

Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. The author documents differences in child rearing in poor, working-class, and middle-class U.S. families.

Pugh, Allison J. Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Through partici- pant observation and interviewing, the author analyzes why parents, even though they are financially strapped, give in to their children’s material wants.

Settersten, Richard A., Jr., and Timothy J. Owens, eds. New Frontiers in So- cialization. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 2003. The authors of these arti- cles focus on the adult years in the life course, examining the influence of families, neighborhoods, communities, friendship, education, work, volun- teer associations, medical institutions, and the media.

Sociological Studies of Child Development: A Research Annual. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, published annually. Along with theoretical articles, this publication reports on sociological research on the socialization of children.

Turmel, André. A Historical Sociology of Childhood: Developmental Think- ing, Categorization and Graphic Visualization. New York: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 2008. The author examines how the idea of what a “normal” child is has changed over time.

Chapter 4 Social Structure and Social Interaction Berry, Bonnie. Beauty Bias: Discrimination and Social Power. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007. The subject is lookism: the many areas of discrimi- nation, negative and positive, that are based on appearance.

Bogle, Kathleen A. Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus. New York: New York University Press, 2008. An analysis of the sexual-social interaction of college students.

Cregan, Kate. The Sociology of the Body: Mapping the Abstraction of Em- bodiment. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 2006. Examines social influences on the body, the smallest unit of sociological analysis.

Day, Graham. Community and Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 2006. The author reviews changing ideas and patterns of community, from urban to rural to communes and virtual communities.

Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Peter Smith, Publisher, 1999. First published in 1959. This classic statement of dramaturgical analysis provides a different way of looking at everyday life. As a student, this was one of the most intellectually provocative books I read.

Seidman, Steven. The Social Construction of Sexuality. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. The author explores how society influences our sexual choices, our beliefs about sexuality, and our sexual standards.

Tönnies, Ferdinand. Community and Society (Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft). New York: Dover Publications, 2003. Originally published in 1887, this classic work, focusing on social change, provides insight into how society influences personality. Rather challenging reading.

Waskul, Dennis, and Phillip Vannini, eds. Body/embodiment: Symbolic In- teraction and the Sociology of the Body. London: Ashgate, 2006. Using a symbolic interactionist perspective, the authors analyze the interrelation- ship of the body, the self, and social interaction.

Whyte, William Foote. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Ital- ian Slum, 4th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Originally published in 1943. The author’s analysis of interaction in a U.S. Italian slum demonstrates how social structure affects personal relationships.

Journals Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Qualitative Sociology, and Symbolic Interaction feature articles on symbolic interactionism and analyses of every- day life.

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