ISBN:
9781317690665
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (499 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Johnston, Josee Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Self - Social aspects
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS IN BRIEF -- CONTENTS -- Preface: for Instructors -- Preface: for Students -- Acknowledgements -- 1. A Day in the Life of Your Jeans: Using Our Stuff to Discover Sociology -- 1. Introduction: Sociological Imagination and Global Blue Jeans -- 2. How We Came to Be a Society of Shoppers -- Sociology's Founders: Critical Commentators on Capitalist Relationships -- Is Hello Kitty Slowly Taking Over the World? -- 3. The Sociology of Stuff: The Chapters Ahead and Three Thinking Frames -- The Evolution of Jeans Culture: A Material and Symbolic Story -- Thinking Frame #1: Material/Cultural -- Thinking Frame #2: Structure/Agency -- Thinking Frame #3: Micro/Macro -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- PART I Surviving (and Thriving) in Consumer Culture -- 2. You Are What You Eat: Culture, Norms, and Values -- 1. Introduction: How Food is Sociological -- 2. Theorizing Food -- 2.1. Marx: Food as "Fetish" -- 2.2. Durkheim: Food as Totem -- 2.3. Feminism: Food as a Women's Issue -- Sociologists in Action: Qualitative Interviewing -- 3. Food Rules: Culture, Norms, and Deviance -- 3.1. Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism -- 4. Food as a Sociological Research Topic -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- 3. Fast-Food Blues: Work in a Global Economy -- 1. Introduction: Do You Want Fries with That? -- 2. Working in a Global Food Economy -- Sociologists in Action: Ethnography -- 3. The Costs of Fast Food: McDonaldization and the Iron Cage -- 4. Worker Resistance in the Fast-Food Industry -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- 4. Coffee: Class, Distinction, and "Good" Taste -- 1. Introduction: Consuming the Perfect Coffee … -- 2. How Consumption Conveys Class and Status -- Sociologists in Action: Survey Research -- 3. Coffee Consumption and Social Status -- Caffeine as an Acceptable Addiction
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4. The Paradox of the 4 Cappuccino -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- PART II Fitting in: Being Part of the Group -- 5. Shopping Lessons: Consuming Social Order -- 1. Introduction: Why Shopping Matters -- 2. Shopping: A Brief History -- Is the Mall Open to Everyone? -- 3. Shopping Motivations and Values, Comparison and Choice -- 4. Shopping, Social Order, and Solidarity -- 4.1. A Durkheimian Approach to Social Order and Solidarity -- 4.2. Consumer Culture and Social Solidarity: Bonding Through Brands -- Sociologists in Action: Focus Groups -- 4.3. Is Shopping a Social Problem? -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- 6. Get in the Game: Race, Merit, and Group Boundaries -- 1. Introduction: Who Are You Rooting For? -- 2. Sports Teams, Group Membership, and Boundary Work -- 3. Athleticism and the Social Construction of Race -- Sociologists in Action: Field Experiments -- 4. Cheaters and Liars or Strategic Actors? Deviance in the World of Sport -- 5. Sports as a Business: Constructing Popular Heroes -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- 7. Barbies and Monster Trucks: Socialization and "Doing Gender" -- 1. Introduction: Is it "Natural" For Girls to Play with Dolls and Boys to Drive Toy Trucks? -- 2. Socializing Girls and Boys: How Toys Teach Us to "Do Gender" -- 2.1. Rich Kids and Poor Kids: Toys and Social Class -- Dolls, Race, and Agency in Children's Play -- 3. Understanding Kids' Desire for Toys: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion -- Sociologists in Action: Do Videogames Socialize Violent Behavior? -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- 8. Dreaming of a White Wedding: Marriage, Family, and Heteronormativity -- 1. Introduction: The Dream of Marriage, or the Dream of a Wedding? -- 2. Married with Children? A Brief Portrait of our Shifting Intimate Relationships -- Diverse Forms of Modern Families
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2.1. Love: From Working Partnerships to Love Matches -- Arranged Marriage -- 2.2. Modern Love: Ideals and Reality -- Intimate Partner Violence -- 3. The White Wedding: A Pricey (and Ideological) Ritual -- 3.1. Wedding Expenses and the "Wedding Industrial Complex" -- A Diamond = Eternal Love? -- Sociologists in Action: Historical Comparative Research -- 3.2. The Wedding "Ideological" Complex -- 3.2.1. Gender, Weddings, and Ideology -- 3.2.2. Heteronormativity and the Same-Sex Wedding -- 3.2.3. Class Inequality, Racial Representation, and the White Wedding Fantasy -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- 9. I 〈3 My Phone: Technology and Social Networks -- 1. Introduction: Charging Up or Shutting Down? -- 2. A Brief History of the Phone -- Who Made Your Phone? -- 3. Technology and Social Change -- Do "Easy" Technologies Necessarily Make Our Lives Easier? -- 4. Promise or Peril? The Paradox of New Technology -- Paradox #1. The Loneliness of Instant Connection -- Sociologists in Action: Social Network Analysis -- Paradox #2. Virtual Distractions and "Real"-World Problems -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- PART III Standing Out: Individuals Negotiating the Social World -- 10. Branding Your Unique Identity™: Consumer Culture and the Social Self -- 1. Introduction: Individualism in a Mass-Consumption Culture -- 2. The Social Self: Key Thinkers and Concepts -- Identities on Display: Performing Motherhood -- 3. Shopping for a Self-Concept in Consumer Culture -- A Day in Your Shoes: Sneakers and the Self -- 4. Branding Goods, Branding the Self -- Sociologists in Action: Photo Elicitation -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- 11. Looking Good: Ideology, Intersectionality, and the Beauty Industry -- 1. Introduction: Can Anyone be Beautiful? -- 2. Beauty: A Powerful Cultural Ideal -- 2.1. Beauty as a Social Construction -- 2.2. Beauty as an Ideology
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Evaluating Beauty and Body Work Practices: A Checklist -- 3. Looking Good: A Growth Industry -- 3.1. The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty: Feeling Empowered to Buy Stuff -- 3.2. Fashion: Expressing Yourself While Conforming to Trends -- The Materiality of Fast-Fashion and the Global Garment Industry -- Sociologists in Action: Content Analysis -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- 12. What's On Your Playlist? Subcultures, Racism, and Cultural Appropriation -- 1. Introduction: How Music Matters -- 2. The Status of Subcultures -- 3. Producing and Consuming Hip-Hop: Racism, White Privilege, and Cultural Appropriation -- 4. The Music Industry -- Sociologists in Action: Textual Analysis -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- 13. Our Love-Hate Relationship with the Car: Masculinity, Industry, and Environmental Sustainability -- 1. Introduction: Car Dreams and Car Realities -- 2. Car Culture is Systemic -- 3. Car Culture is Centered on Mobility -- 4. Car Culture is Symbolically Powerful -- Sociologists in Action: Archival Research -- 5. Objects of Mass Production and Consumption -- 5.1. Fordism (1910-70): Mass-Produced Cars for Mass Consumption -- 5.2. Post-Fordism (1970s-Today): Niche Markets -- 6. Car Culture is Contested -- The Uber Challenge to Car Culture -- Thinking Frames -- Active Learning -- Appendix: Advertising and Society: An Overview of Sociological Methods -- 1. Introduction: Advertising and Consumer Society -- 2. The Nature of Empirical Evidence and Explanations -- 2.1. Ways of Knowing -- 2.2. Theory, Cases, and Classes of Cases -- 2.3. Types of Data -- 2.4. Inductive and Deductive Reasoning -- 3. Sociological Methods -- 3.1. Being There: Ethnography and Participant Observation -- 3.2. Standardized Questions: Survey Research -- 3.3. Exploring in Depth: Qualitative Interviews and Focus Groups
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3.4. Document Analysis: Content Analysis, Textual Analysis, Comparative Historical Research -- 3.5. Controlled Comparisons: Experiments -- 4. Conclusion: A Diverse Methodological Toolkit -- Research Methods: Key Traits -- References -- Glossary/Index
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