Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter 1: What Is a Social Fact? / Emile Durkheim -- Chapter 2: Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Chapter 3: The Promise / C. Wright Mills -- Chapter 4: Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology / Dorothy E. Smith -- Chapter 5: Panopticism / Michel Foucault -- Chapter 6: Revisiting Gramsci / Diana Cohen -- Chapter 7: The Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in the Anti-racism Discourse / George Sefa Dei -- Chapter 8: Sexism in Research / Margrit Eichler -- Chapter 9: Becoming an Anti-oppressive Researcher / Karen Potts and Leslie Brown -- Chapter 10: Where in the World Do Children Learn "Bloody Revenge"?: Cults of Terror and Counter-terror and Their Implications for Child Socialisation / Antionette Errante -- Chapter 11: Preserving a Vital and Valued Self in the Face of AIDS / Kent L. Sandstrom -- Chapter 12: Pretty in Ink: Conformity, Resistance, and Negotiation in Women's Tattooing / Michael Atkinson -- Chapter 13: Making the Lives of Transsexual People Visible: Addressing the Politics of Social Erasure / Viviane Namaste -- Chapter 14: Purchasing the Canadian Teenage Identity: ICTs, American Media, and Brand-Name Consumption / Stephen Gennaro -- Chapter 15: The Way We Weren't: The Myth and Reality of the "Traditional" Family / Stephanie Coontz -- Chapter 16: Family Responsibilities: The Politics of Love and Care / Meg Luxton -- Chapter 17: Will & Grace: Negotiating (Gay) Marriage on Prime-Time Television / Karin Quimby -- Chapter 18: Serving the McCustomer: Fast Food Is Not about Food / Ester Reiter -- Chapter 19: The Discarded Factory: Degraded Production in the Age of the Superbrand / Naomi Klein -- Chapter 20: Enchanting McUniversity: Toward a Spectacularly Irrational University Quotidian / George Ritzer -- Chapter 21: Keeping the Ivory Tower White: Discourses of Racial Domination / Carol Schick -- Chapter 22: Gender, Race, and Health Inequalities / Ann Pederson and Dennis Raphael Chapter 23: The Growth in Poverty and Social Inequality: Losing Faith in Social Justice / Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell -- Chapter 24: Introduction to New Slavery: A Reference Handbook / Kevin Bales -- Chapter 25: Class and Power: The Major Themes / John Porter -- Chapter 26: The Many Faces of Gender Inequality / Amartya Sen -- Chapter 27: Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics / R.W. Connell -- Chapter 28: Gender Trouble / Judith Butler -- Chapter 29: Skater Girlhood and Emphasized Femininity: "You Can't Land an Ollie Properly in Heels" / Deirdre M. Kely, Shauna Pomerantz, and Dawn Currie -- Chapter 30: Emerging Realities and Old Problems / Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- Chapter 31: "Canadian" as an Ethnic Category: Implications for Multiculturalism and National Unity / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann -- Chapter 32: Heroes or Villains?; and Stereotyping as a Signifying Practice / Stuart Hall -- Chapter 33: Health Care in an Aging Society: Issues, Controversies, and Challenges for the Future / Karen R. Grant -- Chapter 34: The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality / Mary Louise Adams -- Chapter 35: Gays and Lesbians of the First Nations [Aboriginal, First Nations, Native peoples] / Susan Beaver -- Chapter 36: Beyond Image Content: Examining Transsexuals' Access to the Media / Viviane Namaste -- Chapter 37: National Security as Moral Regulation: Making the Normal and the Deviant in the Security Campaigns against Gay Men and Lesbians / Gary Kinsman -- Chapter 38: Legal Responses to Violence against Women in Canada / Elizabeth A. Sheehy -- Chapter 39: "The Pecker Detectors Are Back": Regulation of the Family Form in Ontario Welfare Policy / Margaret Hillyard Little and Ian Morrison -- Chapter 40: Population, Delusion and Reality / Amartya Sen -- Chapter 41: The Clash of Ignorance / Edward W. Said.