with your textbook? Get the readings listed below bound into Giddens et al’s Essentials of Sociology, 4e for a special price. 10 ESSENTIAL READINGS “The Evolution of American Families,” by Stephanie Coontz “On the Normality of Crime,” by Emile Durkheim “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” by Barbara Ehrenreich “Performances,” by Erving Goffman “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families,” by Annette Lareau “Bourgeois and Proletarians,” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels “From The Sociological Imagination,” C. Wright Mills “Thinking about Social Change in America,” by Robert D. Putnam “The Myth of Common Sense,” by Duncan Watts “The Spirit of Capitalism,” by Max Weber  

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