Introduction to Sociology


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'Sidewalk' © Farrar, Strauss, & Strauss 'Everything in Its Path' © Simon & Schuster
'Mapping the Social Landscape' © McGraw-Hill 'The Managed Heart' © U.C. Press
'Gender Play' © Rutgers University Press

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Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America

Reading List

 

 

Required Texts:
(All books are available at the bookstore and are also on reserve in the library)

Duneier, Mitchell. 2001. Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Erikson, Kai. 1976. Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Ferguson, Susan. J. 2002. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0-07-255523-8.

Hochschild, Arlie. 1983. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-05454-7.

Thorne, Barrie. 1999. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN: 0-8135-1923-3.

Click here for a list of Reserve Readings at the Library

 

 

Summary of Assignments and Due Dates
(all assignments are due at the beginning of class)

Sept. 30, Oct. 18, Nov. 13, Nov. 27 Possible due dates for short essays (two out of four) (10%)
Oct. 16Midterm Exam (15%)
Dec. 19, Thur., 9 amFinal Exam (20%)

The due dates for the following assignments vary according to group projects and individual discussant days - check schedule.

Group Research Project (25% total)
  1. Group Presentation (100 pts. - 10%)
  2. Individual Research Report (150 pts. - 15%)
Participation on Discussion Board (20% total)
  1. Class Discussant Memo (10%)
  2. Respondent Comments (10 times, 10%)
Class Participation (100 pts. -- 10%) 

 

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