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SAGE Journal Articles and Readings
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Chapter 1: Discover Sociology
SAGE Journal Articles
Mill's Sociological Imagination
Sociological Imagination Critique
Pacific Standard
Chapter 2: Discover Sociological Research
SAGE Journal Articles
Unobtrusive Research in Criminal Justice
Validity and Reliability homicide studies
Participatory Research Methods in Skid Row Los Angeles
Pacific Standard
CQ Researcher
Chapter 3: Culture and Mass Media
SAGE Journal Articles
Effects of an "appearance culture" on high school girls
Pacific Standard
Commercializing Counterculture
Race and the Culture of Excellence
CQ Researcher
Chapter 4: Socialization and Social Interaction
SAGE Journal Articles
Socialization and Teenage Activism
Media Socialization, Kids and Food
Social Roles in Total Institutions
Pacific Standard
CQ Researcher
Deprivation of Social Interaction
Reference Articles
Chapter 5: Groups, Organizations, and Bureaucracies
SAGE Journal Articles
Conflict, Power and Status in Groups
Leadership in Temporary Organizations
Pacific Standard
Groupthink among Rwanda's youth
CQ Researcher
Chapter 6: Deviance and Social Control
SAGE Journal Articles
Social Construction of Sex Trafficking
Trafficking of Human Body Parts
Pacific Standard
CQ Researcher
Police Misconduct in the United States
Reference Article
Chapter 7: Social Class and Inequality in the United States
SAGE Journal Articles
Racial Stratification and Inequality
Pacific Standard
Structural inequality and parental income
CQ Researcher
Chapter 8: Global Inequality and Poverty
Chapter 9: Race and Ethnicity
SAGE Journal Articles
Racial Disparities in Incarceration
Racialization of Crime and Punishment in America
Pacific Standard
CQ Researcher
Chapter 10: Gender and Society
SAGE Journal Articles
Doing Gender: Women on the Force
Pacific Standard
CQ Researcher
Reference Article
Chapter 11: Families and Society
SAGE Journal Articles
Consequences of Parental Divorce
Pacific Standard
Female perceptions of strength and divorce
CQ Researcher
Reference Article
Chapter 12: Education and Society
SAGE Journal Articles
The Troublesome Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
The Rise and Fall of Education Inequality
Pacific Standard
CQ Researcher
Chapter 13: Religion and Society
SAGE Journal Articles
Women and Religious Self-Identity
Pacific Standard
Contextualizing Civil Religion
CQ Researcher
Reference Article
Chapter 14: The State, War, and Terror
SAGE Journal Articles
Pacific Standard
Terrorism and Depression
CQ Researcher
Reference Article
Chapter 15: Work, Consumption, and the Economy
SAGE Journal Articles
Relieving the Burden of Emotional Labor
The Poor or the Working Class?
Underground Pro-Soccer Economy
Pacific Standard
Green Jobs in the United States
CQ Researcher
Reference Article
Chapter 16: Health and Medicine
SAGE Journal Articles
Sociology and the Sick Role Concept
Pacific Standard
The Most Dangerous Idea in Mental Health
CQ Researcher
Reference Article
Chapter 17: Population, Urbanization, and the Environment
SAGE Journal Articles
Population Growth in Oil Boomtowns
How Population Growth and Urbanization Relate to Global Climate Change.
Pacific Standard
Demography of Poverty and Migration
CQ Researcher
Chapter 18: Social Movements and Social Change
SAGE Journal Articles
What We can Learn from Occupy Wallstreet
Conflict Within Social Movements
CQ Researcher
Reference Article