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Mon Jan
24 |
Introductions |
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Wed Jan 26 |
What is Social Structure? What
is Culture?
#1 Mills "The Promise"
#3 Romero "The Intersection of Biography and History"
#7 Velliquette and Murray "The New Tattoo Subculture" |
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Fri Jan 28 |
Social Structure in Buffalo
Creek
Erikson Part One "February 26, 1972"
Erikson Part Two "Notes on Appalachia"
#15 Kraybill "The Social Architecture of Amish Society" |
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Mon Jan
31 |
Culture in Buffalo Creek
Erikson Part Two "The Mountain Ethos"
Erikson Part Two "The Coming of the Coal Camps"
Erikson Part Two "Buffalo Creek"
#17 Blee "Women of the Klan" |
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Wed Feb 2 |
The Human Impact of Disasters
Erikson Part Three "Looking for Scars"
Erikson Part Three "Individual Trauma"
#2 Gains "Teenage Wasteland"
#46 Karp "Speaking of Sadness" |
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Fri Feb 4 |
STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE
(attendance required)
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Mon Feb 7 |
Community and the Loss of Community
Erikson Part Three "Collective Trauma"
Erikson "Conclusion"
#18 Schwalbe "The Search for Communitas . . ."
#19 Rosenham "On Being Sane in Insane Places" |
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Wed Feb 9 |
Sociological Theories
DUE DATE FOR FIRST SHORT ESSAY-OPTION 1
#4 Durkheim "What Is a Social Fact?"
#38 Marx & Engels "Manifesto of the Communist Party"
#41 Weber "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" |
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Fri Feb 11 |
The Culture of Consumption
Ritzer Ch 1 "A Tour of the New Means of Consumption"
Ritzer Ch 2 "The Revolution in Consumption and the Larger
Society"
#35 Mills "The Power Elite"
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Mon Feb
14 |
Trends in Modern Society: Rationalization
Ritzer Ch 3 "Social Theory and the New Means of Consumption"
Ritzer Ch 4 "Rationalization, Enchantment, and Disenchantment"
#54 Ritzer "The McDonaldization of Society"
#40 Leidner "Over the Counter" |
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Wed Feb 16 |
Trends in Modern Society: Hyperconsumption
Ritzer Ch 5 "Reenchantment: Creating Spectacle through Extravaganzas
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Ritzer Ch 6 "Reenchantment: Creating Spectacle through Implosion
. . . "
#9 Gibson "Warrior Dreams"
#10 Trask "Lovely Hula Hands" |
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Fri Feb 18 |
NO CLASS
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Mon Feb
21 |
The Future of Capitalism
Ritzer Ch 7 "Societal Implications and the Future of the
New Means of Consumption"
#36 Clawson et al. "Money Talks"
#37 Grieder "One World, Ready or Not"
#53 Ogburn "The Hypothesis of Cultural Lag" |
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Wed Feb 23 |
Sociological Research
#5 Sándor "The 'Other' Americans"
#6 Weitz "Personal Reflections on Researching HIV Disease"
#42 Hadaway et al. "What the Polls Don't Show" |
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Fri Feb 25 |
Gender and Society
DUE DATE FOR FIRST SHORT ESSAY-OPTION 2
#11 Lorber "Night to His Day'"
#22 Martin & Hummer "Fraternities and Rape"
#28 Rothman & Caschetta "Treating Health"
#29 Sadker & Sadker "Failing at Fairness"
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Mon Feb
28 |
Conflicts in Work and Family
Hochschild Ch 1 "The Waving Window"
Hochschild Ch 2 "Managed Values and Long Days"
Hochschild Ch 3 "An Angels of an Idea"
Hochschild Ch 4 "Family Values and Reversed Worlds" |
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Wed Mar 1 |
Gender in the Workplace
Hochschild Ch 5 "Giving at the Office"
Hochschild Ch 6 "The Administrative Mother"
Hochschild Ch 7 "All My Friends Are Worker Bees: Being a
Part-time Professional"
#27 Williams "The Glass Escalator" |
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Fri Mar 3 |
NO CLASS
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Mon Mar 6 |
Changes in Family Patterns
Hochschild Ch 8 "I'm Still Married: Work as an Escape Valve"
Hochschild Ch 9 "Catching Up on the Soaps: Male Pioneers
in the Culture of Time"
Hochschild Ch 10 "What If the Boss Says No?"
#50 Stacey "Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here" |
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Wed Mar 8 |
Working Class Families
Hochschild Ch 11 "I Want Them to Grow Up to Be Good Single
Moms"
Hochschild Ch 12 "The Overextended Family"
Hochschild Ch 13 "Overtime Hounds"
#51 Collins "The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture" |
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Fri Mar 10 |
Can Family-Work Conflicts
Be Resolved?
DUE DATE FOR SECOND ESSAY
Hochschild Ch 14 "The Third Shift"
Hochschild Ch 15 "Evading the Time Bind"
Hochschild Ch 16 "Making Time"
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Mon Mar
13 |
REVIEW |
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Wed Mar 15 |
MIDSEM EXAM |
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Fri Mar 17 |
NO CLASS |
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SPRING BREAK |
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Mon Apr 3 |
Race in America
Feagin & Sikes Ch 1 "The Continuing Significance of
Racism"
Feagin & Sikes Ch 2 "Navigating Public Places"
#24 Oliver & Shapiro "Black Wealth/White Wealth" |
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Wed Apr 5 |
Education and Race
Feagin & Sikes Ch 3 "Seeking a Good Education"
#47 Crow Dog & Erdoes "Civilize Them with a Stick"
#49 Valdés "Con Respeto"
#13 Granfield "Making It by Faking It" |
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Fri Apr 7 |
Housing Segregation
Feagin & Sikes Ch 6 "Seeking a Good Home and Neighborhood"
#31 DuBois "The Problem of the Twentieth Century . . . "
#39 Wilson "When Work Disappears"
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Mon Apr
10 |
Resistance to Racism
Feagin & Sikes Ch 7 "Contending With Everyday Discrimination"
#8 Anderson "The Code of the Streets"
#21 Bourgois "In Search of Respect" |
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Wed Apr 12 |
Can We All Get Along?
Feagin & Sikes Ch 8 "Changing the Color Line"
#32 Rubin "Is This a White Country, or What?" |
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Fri Apr 14 |
NO CLASS
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Mon Apr
17 |
The "Model Minority"
Tuan "Introduction"
Tuan Ch 1 "Racialized Ethnics Compared to White Ethnics"
#33 Abelmann & Lie "Blue Dreams" |
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Wed Apr 19 |
Socialization in Asian-American
Communities
Tuan Ch 2 "Cars, Girls, And Baseball-but with an Asian Twist"
Tuan Ch 3 "I knew that I was different."
#12 Messner "Boyhood, Organized Sports" |
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Fri Apr 21 |
Constructing an Asian-American
Identity
Tuan Ch 4 "Practicality always steps in."
Tuan Ch 5 "I'm an American with a Japanese look."
#30 Espiritu "The Racial Construction of Asian American
Women and Men"
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Mon Apr
24 |
Reviewing Race and Ethnicity
DUE DATE FOR THIRD ESSAY
Tuan "Conclusion: The Racialized Ethnic Experience" |
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Wed Apr 26 |
Charity and Social Class
Poppendieck "Introduction"
Poppendieck Ch 1 "Charity for All"
Poppendieck Ch 2 "Who Eats Emergency Food?"
#23 Domhoff "Who Rules America?" |
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Fri Apr 28 |
NO CLASS
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Mon May 1 |
The Functions of Poverty
Poppendieck Ch 3 "The Rise of Emergency Food"
Poppendieck Ch 5 "The Uses of Emergency Food"
#25 Gans "The Positive Functions of the Undeserving Poor" |
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Wed May 3 |
More Blessed to Give than Receive
Poppendieck Ch 6 "The Seductions of Charity"
Poppendieck Ch 8 "Charity and Dignity"
#26 Edin & Lein "Making Ends Meet" |
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Fri May 5 |
Charity and Social Policy
Poppendieck Ch 9 "The Ultimate Band-Aid"
Poppendieck "Conclusion"
#43 Blanchard "The Anti-Abortion Movement . . . "
#56 Flacks "Think Globally, Act Politically"
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Mon May 8 |
DUE DATE FOR FOURTH ESSAY |
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Wed May10 |
REVIEW FOR FINAL |
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Fri May 12 |
NO CLASS |