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"Throughout this text, the goal is to share with your students how fascinating and enlightening sociology is. Because sociology is about social life and we live in a changing global society, this 15th edition of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach continues to reflect the national and global changes that engulf us, as well as presents new sociological research. The down-to-earth examples, for which this text is known, will help your students see how sociology applies to them. So will the photos, about 555 of them, of which 228 are new. The photos are neither random nor "fillers." I have either selected or taken each of these photos, as well as written each caption. By tying the photos and their captions directly into the text, they become part of your students' learning experience"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Credits and Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Fourteenth Edition -- About the Contributors -- Part I: The Sociological Perspective -- Chapter 1: Invitation to Sociology -- Chapter 2: What Is Sociology? Comparing Sociology and the Other Social Sciences -- Chapter 3: The Promise -- Part II: Doing Sociological Research -- Chapter 4: How Sociologists Do Research -- Chapter 5: "Riding the Bull at Gilley's": Convicted Rapists Describe the Rewards of Rape -- Chapter 6: Would You Hire an Ex-Convict? -- Chapter 7: Doing Research with Streetcorner Crack Dealers -- Part III: The Cultural Context of Social Life -- Chapter 8: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema -- Chapter 9: Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamö -- Chapter 10: The Sounds of Silence -- Chapter 11: Sympathy in Everyday Life -- Chapter 12: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life -- Part IV: Socialization and Gender -- Chapter 13: Extreme Isolation -- Chapter 14: On Becoming Male: Reflections of a Sociologist on Childhood and Early Socialization -- Chapter 15: On Becoming Female: Lessons Learned in School -- Chapter 16: Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds -- Chapter 17: "But What Do You Mean?" Women and Men in Conversation -- Part V: Social Groups and Social Structure -- Chapter 18: Attacking Nicely: Women Selling Cars -- Chapter 19: Religion and Morality in Weight Loss Groups -- Chapter 20: Behavior in Pubic Places: The Sociology of the Vaginal Examination -- Chapter 21: The Lives of Homeless Women -- Chapter 22: Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead -- Part VI: Deviance and Social Control -- Chapter 23: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably -- Chapter 24: Eating Your Friends Is the Hardest: The Survivors of the F-227 -- Chapter 25: Becoming a Hit Man.