Table Of Contents
Preface
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
1A: Introduction: The Sociological Perspective
1. The Promise, C. Wright Mills
2. In Defence of Sociology, Anthony Giddens
1B: Classical Theory
3. What Is a Social Fact? Emile Durkheim
4. Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
5. Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber
1C: Contemporary Theory
6. Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology, Dorothy E. Smith
7. Panopticism, Michel Foucault
8. Revisiting Gramsci, Diana Coben
9. The Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in the Anti-Racism Discourse, George Sefa Dei
1D: Research Methods
10. General Research Orientations, Alan Bryman, James Teevan, and Edward Bell
11. Becoming an Anti-Oppressive Researcher, Karen Potts and Leslie Brown
SECTION 2: FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY: SOCIALIZATION, SOCIAL INTERACTION, AND CULTURE
12. Learning to Strip: The Socialization Experiences of Erotic Dancers, Jacqueline Lewis
13. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman
14. Students' Facebook 'Friends': Public and Private Spheres, Anne West, Jane Lewis, and Peter Currie
15. Making a Difference: Ethical Consumption and the Everyday, Matthew Adams and Jayne Raisborough
SECTION 3: MAJOR SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
3A: Families
16. The Way We Weren't: The Myth and Reality of the "Traditional" Family, Stephanie Coontz
17. (Re)Constructing Women's Resistance to Woman Abuse: Resources, Strategy Choice, and Implications Of and For Public Policy in Canada, Stephanie Patterson
18. Beyond Normalization: An Analysis of Heteronormativity in Children's Picture Books, Anika Stafford
3B: The Economy and Labour
19. Globalization, Precarious Work, and the Food Bank, E.S. Lightman, A. Mitchell, and D. Herd
20. Neoliberalism, Families, and Work-Life Balance, Kate Bezanson
3C: Education
21. Enchanting McUniversity: Toward a Spectacularly Irrational University Quotidian, George Ritzer
22. Keeping the Ivory Tower White: Discourses of Racial Domination, Carol Schick
3D: Health, Health Care, and Age
23. "Old People Are Useless": Representations of Aging on The Simpsons, Darren Blakeborough
24. Elder Abuse: The Canadian Experience, Elizabeth Podnieks
25. Gender, Race, and Health Inequalities, Ann Pederson and Dennis Raphael
SECTION 4: ISSUES OF INEQUALITY
4A: Social Class
26. Building Their Readiness for Economic "Freedom": The New Poor Law and Emancipation, Ann O'Connell
27. Introduction to New Slavery: A Reference Handbook, Kevin Bales
28. Class and Power: The Major Themes, John Porter
4B: Gender and Sexualities
29. The Many Faces of Gender Inequality, Amartya Sen
30. Sexual Ethics and Young Women's Accounts of Heterosexual Casual Sex, Melanie Beres and Pantea Farvid
31. "Real Fast and Tough": The Construction of Canadian Hockey Masculinity, Kristi Allain
4C: Ethnicity and Race
32. Emerging Realities and Old Problems, Grace-Edward Galabuzi
33. Black Learners in Canada, Rosalind Hampton
34. "Born" Freaks, "Made" Freaks, and Media Circuses: Systemic Management of Race and Gender in the Reena Virk Case, Nicole Pietsch
SECTION 5: CRIME, MORAL REGULATION, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
35. Sex, Gender, and Generation: Age of Consent and Moral Regulation in Canada, Carol Dauda
36. Learning to Protest: Youth Activist Cultures in Contemporary Urban Canada, Jacqueline Kennelly
37. Gun Violence in Toronto: Perspectives from the Police, Ifeanyi Ezeonu
38. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nations Child Welfare, Cindy Blackstock
SECTION 6: POPULATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
39. Population: Delusion and Reality, Amartya Sen
40. Wilful Imaginings, Merryl Wyn Davies
41. Globalization from the Subsistence Perspective, Sharon Ridgeway
