Hi Sunny,
I hesitate to suggest this since it seems rather self-interested, but my book Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools, and American Culture (Worth Publishers, 2005) might fit the bill for a short and accessible example of sociology.
I analyze 185 films about high school (Breakfast Club, Mean Girls, Dead Poet's Society, Dangerous Minds, etc.) and use sociological theories to explain how these films tell us how Americans understand youth, education, and social class.
The nice thing is that the data are available to the students to evaluate and challenge my claims.
It was recently the subject of an "author-meets-critic" session at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings and an undergraduate member of the panel actually suggested that the book should be taught in high school!
Let me know if you think it works!
best,
Robert Bulman
Robert C. Bulman
Associate Professor, Sociology
Saint Mary's College of California
Moraga, CA 94575-4618
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