Course Schedule

I. Introduction: Sociological Perspective

Defining Sociology: What is Sociology?

Articles: 1) Sociological Imagination- Mills and 2) Are Human Beings Free? - Charon.

*Article Quiz #1- TBA

Introduction Outline

Main Perspectives: Structural Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Feminism

Handout for your information (Will not be tested on): Careers in Sociology

Articles: 1) Letter to the Boston Bee- Monroe, 2) Declaration of Sentiment- Stanton, 3) Discourse on Women- Mott, and 4)Three Sociological Perspectives- Colomy.

READ: Article Assignment Guidelines.

Questions for Article Assignment #1

*Assignment #1: TBA

Theory Outline.

The Theories and the Theorists- Marx, Durkheim, and Weber

Articles: 1) Hegemony- Lull and 2) The Mc.Donaldization of Society- Ritzer.

*Assignment #2: TBA

READ: Questions for Article Assignment #2-doc. format

Questions for Article Assignment #2- rtf. format

Marx Outline.

Durkheim and Weber Outlines.

II. The Individual in Society/Society in the Individual

Culture

Articles: 1) India's Sacred Cow- Harris and 2) A Look Behind the Veil- Fernea and Fernea. .

Film: Cultural Criticism and Transformation

*Article Quiz #2- TBA

Culture Outline

Socialization

Articles: 1) Social Construction of Gender- Lorber. 2) Becoming and Marijuana User- Becker, and 3)The Five Sexes- Fausto-Sterling.

Socialization Outline.

Macro-Sociology: Social Structure and Societies

Articles: 1) Saints and Roghnecks Article Link

and 2) Panic: Myth or Reality- Clarke (to be linked soon).

Questions for assignment #3

Macro-Sociology Outline.

Micro-Sociology: Social Interaction in Groups and Organizations

Articles: 1) My Secret Life as a Black Man- Walton and 2) Aces and Bombers- Albas and Albas.

*Questions for Assignment #4.

Micro-Sociology Outline #1.

Micro-Sociology Outline #2.

Mass Media and Society

Articles: 1) Oligopoly: The Big Media Game- McChesney and 2) Fear, the Media, and the Construction of Deviance- Glassner, and 3) Do Media Monsters Devour Diversity?- Gamson and Latteier.

*Article Quiz #4- TBA

Mass Media Outline.

Deviance, Conformity, Crime and Social Control

Article: 1) The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Prison- Reiman and 2) Federal Crack Cocaine Sentencing- The Sentencing Project. 3) Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia- McLorg and Taub, and 4) On Being Sane in Insane Places- Rosenhan.

Questions for Assignment #5.

Deviance Outline.

III. Social and Structural Inequality

Social Stratification and Class Inequality

Articles: 1) Corporate Welfare-Barlett and Steele, 2) Nickel-and-Dimmed: On (Not) Getting By in America- Ehrenreich, and 3) The Uses of Poverty- Gans, and 4) As American As Apple Pie- Rank (coming soon). .

*Article Quiz #5-TBA

Social Strat. Outline #1

Social Strat. Outline #2

Race and Ethnic Inequality

Articles: 1) Defining Racism- Tatum (coming soon), 2) The Myth of the Model Minority- Takaki, and

3) How Jews Became White.

*Article Quiz #6- TBA

Race Outline

Gender Inequality and Sexual Orientation

Handout: The Heterosexual Questionnaire

Article: 1)The Conundrum of the Glass Ceiling- Economist, 2)Reversing the Gender Gap-Wendland , 3) Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man- Faludi, and 4) Divorce in Perspective- Coontz.

*Assignment #6: TBA

Gender Inequality Outline.

Assignment #6 Questions

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Global Inequlaity

Articles:Coming soon.