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Chapter 1 the SoCioloGiCal Topic: India’s caste system is slowly being Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Family
perSpeCtive replaced by a social class system Structure: Single Moms and Married Moms
Topic: The divorce rate of couples who cohabit Topic: Poet in Qatar sentenced to life in prison Sociology and the New Technology
before marriage is about the same as those who for writing a poem critical of the royal family box: “How Should We Handle Family
did not cohabit. Topic: Chinese leaders block Internet access to Disagreements?” Use Your App
Topic: Malls track patrons through their Facebook and Twitter Cultural Diversity around the World box: East
Smartphones so stores can send them targeted ads Topic: The Picosecond laser scanner can read Is East and West Is West: Love and Arranged
Topic: Face-recognition cameras at kiosks classify molecules on a human body Marriage in India
people by age and sex and post targeted ads Topic: Silent Circle, an unbreakable encryption app Topic: New Bianchi research on the gendered
Topic: Bionic mannequins analyze customers’ Chapter 8 SoCial ClaSS in the United division of family labor
age, sex, and race-ethnicity StateS Topic: Single women who give birth are taking
Chapter 2 Thinking Critically section: The Deserving and longer to get married
Thinking Critically section: Are We Prisoners of the Undeserving Poor Topic: About one-fourth (23 percent) of U.S.
children are born to cohabiting parents
Our Genes? Sociobiology and Human Behavior Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Researching the Topic: Men who marry and those who cohabit
Chapter 3 SoCialization American Dream: Social Mobility Today live longer than men who remain single or are
Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Gossip and Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Poverty: A divorced
Ridicule to Enforce Adolescent Norms Personal Journey Topic: Some “day care centers” are open round-
Topic: Gender messages from homosexual Figure 8.6 Adult Children’s Income Compared the-clock
parents with That of Their Parents Topic: Marriages between Asian Americans and
Topic: Babies might have an inborn sense of Chapter 9 raCe and ethniCity whites and African American women and white
fairness, indicating that, like language, morality Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Living in the men have lower divorce rates than the national
is a capacity hardwired in the brain Dorm: Contact Theory average
Topic: Sociologists are doing research on how Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Unpacking the Topic: Online dating sites are so specialized that
the individual’s sense of identity is related to Invisible Knapsack: Exploring Cultural Privilege one targets “green singles” and another targets
morality, guilt, and shame Topic: Predatory lending increased monthly women who like men with mustaches
Chapter 4 SoCial StrUCtUre and payments for home mortgages, causing many Chapter 13 edUCation and
SoCial interaCtion African Americans to lose their homes when the reliGion
Topic: Students give higher ratings to better- economic crisis hit Topic: A national sample of students,
looking teachers Topic: The United Auburn tribe’s casino in California kindergarten through 5th grade, shows teachers
Topic: To become slender, some women inject nets $30,000 a month for each tribal member bias against boys
themselves daily with hCG, a hormone that Topic: In 2012, Mazie Hirono became the first Asian Topic: Most Washington D.C., high school
comes from the urine of pregnant women American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate graduates operate at the fifth grade level
Topic: U.S. Supreme Court upheld the states’
Chapter 5 SoCial GroUpS and right to check the immigration status of anyone Topic: The Pope has begun to tweet, sending
Formal orGanizationS they stop or arrest messages in 145 characters or less
Topic: Network analysis is being used to reduce Topic: President Obama signed an Executive Chapter 14 popUlation and
gang violence Order allowing work permits to unauthorized Urbanization
Topic: Of U.S. workers, 47% are women and immigrants who meet certain qualifications Down-to-Earth Sociology box: BioFoods:
31% are minorities Chapter 10 Gender and aGe What’s in Your Future?
Chapter 6 devianCe and SoCial Thinking Critically section: Making the Topic: Europe’s oldest town, going back 6,500
Control Social Explicit: Emerging Masculinities and years, discovered in Bulgaria
Thinking Critically section: The Saints and the Femininities Topic: To encourage births, one Russian city is
Roughnecks: Labeling in Everyday Life Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Affirmative giving a day off work to make love and prizes
Thinking Critically section: Vigilantes: When Action for Men? to women who give birth on Russia day
the State Breaks Down Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Applying Topic: Indian officials say that female infanticide,
Topic: The number of U.S prisoners has begun Sociology: How to Get a Higher Salary which has led to India having an extra 37
to drop Topic: Women in jobs that give them authority million men, is a major cause of sexual
Topic: Participant observation of youth gangs and men in nurturing occupations reaffirm their harassment and rape
confirms research that ideas of masculinity gender at home Chapter 15 SoCial ChanGe and the
encourage violence, including homicide Topic: A “tough femininity” that incorporates environment
Topic: Diversion as a way to avoid labeling masculine violence is emerging among female Thinking Critically section: The Island Nations:
youthful offenders as delinquent juvenile delinquents “Come See Us While We Are Still Here”
Topic: The angry anarchist added to Merton’s Topic: Both males and females who are given a Topic: The Boston bombing
typology of responses to goals and means single dose of testosterone seek higher status Topic: The U.S. Cyber Command coordinates
Topic: Citigroup fined over a half billion dollars and show less regard for the feelings of others cyber warfare with the National Security
for selling fraudulent subprime mortgages Topic: Dominance behavior, such as winning a Agency
Topic: California is releasing some prisoners game, produces higher levels of testosterone Topic: The Stuxnet worm and the disruption of
whose third crime under the three-strikes law Topic: A movement to end male circumcision Iran’s nuclear program
was not violent Topic: China has accused the United States of
Topic: The elimination of lead in gasoline could Chapter 11 politiCS and the tens of thousands of cyberattacks against its
be the main cause for the drop in crime eConomy military websites
Topic: To keep crime statistics low, the police Thinking Critically section: Targeted Killings Topic: Both Russia and the United States still
don’t record some crimes Topic: The communist rulers of China, sensitive claim the right of first-strike, the right to strike
to online communications, change course if
Chapter 7 Global StratiFiCation they sense strong sentiment in some direction the other with nuclear weapons even though
Cultural Diversity around the World box: Topic: Super PACS that raise unlimited cash for the other has not launched any
Rape: Blaming the Victim and Protecting the individual candidates Topic: To protect its interests in Africa, the U.S.
Caste System government has formed AFRICOM, a rapid-
Topic: The estate system of social stratifiation Chapter 12 marriaGe and Family response military force
Topic: Under apartheid, South Africa’s beaches Figure 12.4 Marriage and Length of Life Topic: The nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima,
had four separate sections: for whites, Africans, Down-to-Earth Sociology box: Health Benefits Japan
Asians, and “mixed races” of Marriage: Living Longer
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