| 8/19 |
Introduction – Suicide and social structure, the problem of sociology |
8/21
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Suicide continued; modernity, the problem of order
Reading: Robert Alun Jones' analysis of Durkheim's Suicide
http://eddie.cso.uiuc.edu/Durkheim/Summaries/suicide.html |
8/24
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The Sociological Perspective
Readings: Peter Berger, from Invitation to Sociology, pp. 3-8.
C. Wright Mills, from The Sociological Imagination, pp. 8-12. |
8/26
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Methods and Statistics I
Reading: How to Lie with Statistics, pp.7-52 (Intro. And Ch.1-3) |
8/28
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Methods and Statistics I
Reading: How to Lie with Statistics, pp.7-52 (Intro. And Ch.1-3) |
8/31
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Methods III
Reading: How to Lie with Statistics, pp.100-142(Ch.9&10) |
9/2
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Social Exchange and Social Roles
Readings: Berger, from Invitation to Sociology, pp. 75-81.
Goffman, from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, pp.
82-90. |
9/4
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Balance Theory I - micro-foundations of social structure
First Assignment Due! |
| 9/7 |
Labor Day! |
9/9
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Stratification; feudal and modern social structures
Reading: Marx and Engels, from The Communist Manifesto, pp.145-154
Also online: http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html |
| 9/11 |
Balance Theory II |
9/14
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Weak and Strong Ties
Reading: Mark Granovetter, "The Strength of Weak Ties" (rs) |
| 9/16 |
Social Networks |
9/18
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The Arithmetic of social relations:
Reading: Rytina and Morgan, "The Arithmetic of Social Relations" (rs) |
9/21
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Structures of Deviance and Obedience
Reading: Merton, from Social Theory and Social Structure,
pp.91-101. |
9/23
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Authority and Obedience
Reading: Stanley Milgram, from Obedience, pp.109-120.
Assignment 2 Due! |
| 9/25 |
Class Cancelled! |
9/28
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Social Constructions of Deviance
Reading: Rosenhan, "On Being Sane in Insane Places," pp.321-328.
Video: "Young Criminals"
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| 9/30 |
Discussion of "Young Criminals" |
10/2
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Stratification: Social Mobility
Reading: Jay MacLeod, from Ain't no Makin’ it. (rs) |
10/5
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Stratification: The Ghetto Underclass
Reading: William Julius Wilson, from The Truly Disadvantaged,
195-205. |
| 10/7 |
Review/catch-up day |
| 10/9 |
Midterm! |
| 10/12 |
University Day - Class cancelled |
| 10/14 |
Fall Break - Have fun |
| 10/16 |
Fall Break - Have fun |
10/19
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Education and Inequality: status attainment in the US
Reading: Hurn, “The Limits and Possibilities of Schooling”, pp.310-320. |
10/21
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The organization of education
Reading: Ray Rist, "Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations"
(rs)
Also available in: Harvard Educational Review, vol. 40, #3, pp.411-442. |
10/23
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IQ, test scores and educational outcomes
Reading: Hernstein and Murray, "Race, genes and IQ - An Apologia" (rs)
Also available in The New Republic, October 31, 1994, pp.27-37. |
10/26
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Politics and liberal thought
Reading: Federalist papers #10 (online)
http://www.babcom.com/rkba/federalist/paper10.html
First Review Due! |
10/28
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Cross-cutting cleavages and the Tocquevillian solution
Reading: Tocqueville, from Democracy in America
Vol. 2, Section 2, Chaps. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/toc_indx.html |
10/30
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Individualism
Reading: Turnbull, from The Mountain People, pp. 26-35.
Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (rs)
from Georg Simmel, On Individuality and Social Forms, pp.324-339. |
11/2
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Social Organization: primary and secondary groups
Reading: Cooley, from Social Organization, pp. 131-134. |
11/4
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Social Capital and its decline
Readings: Robert Putnam, "Bowling Alone"
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v006/6.1putnam.html
Putnam, "The Prosperous Community," pp.135-142 |
11/6
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Technology and community
Reading: "Net Surfers don't ride alone: Virtual Communities as Communities"
http://www.acm.org/ccp/references/wellman/wellman.html |
| 11/9 |
Wrap-up Communities |
11/11
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Religion and Meaning: Ultimate ends and religious experience
Reading: Max Weber homepage
http://msumusik.mursuky.edu/~felwell/http/weber/whome.htm
Second Review Due! |
11/13
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Rationalization and modernity; total institutions
Reading: Coser and Coser, "Jonestown as a Perverse Utopia," pp.302-309. |
| 11/16 |
Rationalization vs. McDonaldization
Web page: http://www.sociology.net/mcdonald/ |
11/18
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High modernity and the self
Reading: Anthony Giddens, from Modernity and Self-Identity.
http://www.runet.edu/~lridener/courses/GIDDENS.HTML |
11/20
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Us vs. Them
Reading: Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations," pp. 392-400. |
| 11/23 |
Group Presentations |
| 11/25 |
TBA |
| 11/27 |
Thanksgiving Break |
| 11/30 |
Group Presentations |
| 12/2 |
Group Presentations |
| 12/4 |
Group Presentations |
| 12/7 |
Exam Review |
| 12/14 |
Final Exam - 8:00am ->
Good Luck! |