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Down-to-Earth Sociology Gossip and Ridicule to Adolescence (ages 13–17) 91
Enforce Adolescent norms 87 Transitional Adulthood (ages 18–29) 92
The Workplace 88 The Middle Years (ages 30–65) 92
Resocialization 88 The Older Years (about age 63 on) 93
Total Institutions 88 Applying the Sociological Perspective to the Life Course 93
Down-to-Earth Sociology Boot Camp as a Total Are We Prisoners of Socialization? 94
Institution 89
SummAry And revIew 94
Socialization through the Life Course 90
Childhood (from birth to about age 12) 90

Chapter 4 Social Structure and Social Interaction 97

Levels of Sociological Analysis 98 cultural DivErSity in thE unitED StatES The Amish:
Gemeinschaft Community in a Gesellschaft Society 109
Macrosociology and Microsociology 99
Symbolic Interaction 112
The Macrosociological Perspective: Social Structure 99
The Sociological Significance of Social Structure 99 Down-to-Earth Sociology Beauty May Be only
Skin Deep, But Its Effects Go on Forever: Stereotypes in
Culture 100
Everyday Life 113
Social Class 100
Dramaturgy: The Presentation of Self in Everyday
Social Status 101
Life 115
Down-to-Earth Sociology College Football as Social MaSS MEDia in Social lifE “nothing Tastes as Good as
Structure 101 Thin Feels”: Body Images and the Mass Media 118
Roles 103 Ethnomethodology: Uncovering Background
Groups 104 Assumptions 119
Social Institutions 104 The Social Construction of Reality 120
Comparing Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives 104 The Need for Both Macrosociology and
Microsociology 122
Changes in Social Structure 106
SummAry And revIew 125
What Holds Society Together? 107
The Microsociological Perspective: Social Interaction in
Everyday Life 108

Chapter 5 Social Groups and Formal Organizations 128

Groups within Society 129 Dysfunctions of Bureaucracies 141
Primary Groups 130 Working for the Corporation 142
Secondary Groups 130 Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes in the “Hidden”
In-Groups and Out-Groups 133 Corporate Culture 142
Reference Groups 134 Diversity in the Workplace 143
thinking critically Managing Diversity in the
Social Networks 134
Workplace 143
Bureaucracies 136
Technology and the Control of Workers: Toward a
The Characteristics of Bureaucracies 136 Maximum-Security Society 144
cultural DivErSity in thE unitED StatES Do Your Social Group Dynamics 144
networks Perpetuate Social Inequality? 137 Sociology anD thE nEw tEchnology Cyberloafers
Goal Displacement and the Perpetuation of and Cybersleuths: Surfing at Work 145
Bureaucracies 138
Effects of Group Size on Stability and Intimacy 146
Down-to-Earth Sociology The McDonaldization of
Society 140 Effects of Group Size on Attitudes and Behavior 147