This Annual Editions reader is an updated compilation of articles from current newspapers, magazines, and journals. The articles cover tribal cultures; socialization and social control; social inequalities; and social changes. Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/) is a student Web site which supports Annual Editions titles and provides students with study tips and links to related sites.

UNIT 1. Culture

Part A. Modern, Traditional, and Unusual Cultures

1. Modernization’s Challenge to Traditional Values: Who’s Afraid of Ronald McDonald?, Ronald Inglehart and Wayne E. Baker, The Futurist, March/April 2001

2. The Mountain People, Colin M. Turnbull, Intellectual Digest, April 1973

Part B. American Culture and Cultural Change

3. More Moral, David Whitman, The New Republic, February 22, 1999

4. American Culture Goes Global, or Does It?, Richard Pells, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 12, 2002

5. What’s so Great About America?, Dinesh D’Souza, The American Enterprise, April/May 2002

UNIT 2. Socialization and Social Control

Part A. Childhood and Influences on Personality and Behavior

6. Boys Will Be Boys, Barbara Kantrowitz and Claudia Kalb, Newsweek, May 11, 1998

7. Born to Be Good?, Celia Kitzinger, New Internationalist, April 1997

Part B. Crime, Law Enforcement, and Social Control

(and more...)