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Introduction to the Course

• Overview of course content, assignments and expectations. Self-introductions.

The Sociological Imagination

• Mills, C. Wright. "The Promise," in Mapping the Social Landscape (MSL) pp. 1-7.
• Gaines, Donna. "Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead-End Kids," in MSL, pp. 7-20.
• Romero, Mary. "Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey," in MSL, pp. 20-35.
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Conducting Social Research

• Babbie, Earl. "An Idea Whose Time Has Come," in MSL, pp. 36-48.
• Haney, Craig, et al, "Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison," in MSL, pp. 49-59.
• Haney, Kaplan, Elaine Bell. "Not Our Kind of Girl," in MSL, pp. 59-67.
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Planning and Carrying Out a Research Project

• Duneier, Mitchell, "Appendix: A Statement on Method," in Sidewalk.
• Richlin-Klonsky et al, "The Ethnographic Field Research Paper," in A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers (reserve).
• Select research topics and organize groups.

The Social Structure of Disaster: The Buffalo Creek Flood

• Erikson, Everything in Its Path, Introduction, " February 26, 1972" pp. 9-48.
• Film (in class): "Buffalo Creek"

Culture, History and Community: Appalachia and The Mountain Ethos

• Erikson, Everything in Its Path, Part Two, "Notes on Appalachia" pp. 51-78, "The Mountain Ethos," pp. 79-93.
• Film (in class): "Buffalo Creek Revisited."

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Social Change: The Coal Mines and the Flood

• Erikson, Everything in Its Path, Part Two: "The Coming of the Coal Camps," pp. 94-114, "Buffalo Creek," pp. 115-132.
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Individual Trauma

• Erikson, Everything in Its Path, Part Three: "Looking for Scars," pp. 135-155, "Individual Trauma: State of Shock," pp.156-185.

Collective Trauma and Loss of Community

• Erikson, Everything in Its Path, Part Three: "Collective Trauma," pp. 186-245, "Conclusion," pp. 246-259.

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Culture and Subcultures

• Velliquette, Anne M., and Jeff B. Murray. "The New Tattoo Subculture, " in MSL, pp. 68-80.
• Gibson, J. William. "Warrior Dreams," in MSL, pp. 93-102.
• Blee, Kathleen, "Women of the Klan," In MSL 192-204.
• Group 1 research papers due.
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Group I Presentation: Everything in Its Path

• Short Essays on Everything in Its Path due.

Classical Sociological Theory

• Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels, "Manifesto of the Communist Party," in MSL, pp. 453-459.
• Weber, Max, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," in MSL, pp. 488-495.
• Durkheim, "What is a Social Fact?" (reserve).