按照人文学科特点,第二版的下册涵盖社会学、文化学、语言学和新闻学四个领域。全书侧重杜会、语言和文化等领域。在原教材中,考虑到我国对学科领域的分类,社会学领域的内容没有包括在内,但在修订版中,课文的选材、注释和练习基本上都以《大学英语课程教学要求》的“一般要求”为基础。并且添加社会学领域的内容。
Unit One
Text: An Invitation to Sociology
Reading Passage One: The Sound of Silence
Reading Passage Two: Structuralism in Anthropology: Claude Levi Strauss
Unit Two
Text: The Analysis of Culture
Reading Passage One: Looking Backward at Cultural Studies
Reading Passage Two: The Influence of American Culture on Post-War Austria
Unit Three
Text: Sign, Signified, Signifier
Reading Passage One: What Is Language?
Reading Passage Two: Language and Thought
Unit Four.
Text: The Mass Media: What Is Newsworthy?
Reading Passage One: Electronic Newspapers
Reading Passage Two: Journalism Education Marked by Fragility
Unit Five
Text: The Sociological Imagination
Reading Passage One: Durkheim's Solution to Modemity's Riddle
Reading Passage Two: The Interactional Basis of Self and Other
Unit Six
Text: Constructing Cultural Metaphors
Reading Passage One: Shoring Up the West
Reading Passage Two: What Is Global Culture?
Unit Seven.
Text: Language and Literature
Reading Passage One: The Whorfian Hypothesis
Reading Passage Two: Language as a Social Behavior
Unit Eight..
Text: In All Fairness
Reading Passage'One: The Pulitzer Prizes
Reading Passage Two: Public Sphere, Complex Citizenship and News
Unit Nine
Text: Social Capital and America's Ills
Reading Passage One: Social Isolation Growing in US
Reading Passage Two: The Differences of Habermas's Ideas with Marx
Unit Ten
Text: Postmodernism and the Pluralism of Value
Reading Passage One: Popular-Common Culture.
Reading Passage Two: Globalization
Unit Eleven.
Text: The Language Game
Reading Passage One: Language as Human Behavior
Reading Passage Two: The Relationship Between Language and Thought
Unit Twelve
Text: News Agencies and Cyberspace
Reading Passage One: Journalism and Moral Innocents
Reading Passage Two: The Sweet Sound of Conflict
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises
Appendix Ⅱ Chinese Translation of the Texts
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary