INTRODUCTION: THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Wednesday, January 17   Monday, January 22 Mills, C. Wright. 1959. "The Promise." Pp. 3-24 in The Sociological Imagination. New York: Grove Press. Jacobs, Jerry A. 2021. "Sociological Curiosity: Updating C. Wright Mills." Contexts 20(3): 34-39.   REPRODUCING SOCIAL INEQUALITY Wednesday, January 24 World of Sociology. 2002. "Family." In World of Sociology, edited by Joseph M. Palmisano. Detroit, MI: Gale Group. Lareau, Annette. 2011. Chaps. 1-2 in Unequal Childhoods, 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.   Monday, January 29 Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: select one of chaps. 3-11, then chap. 12.   DEBATES ON CLASS AND STRATIFICATION Wednesday, January 31 Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. 2010 [1848]. Pp. 14-27 in The Communist Manifesto. Marxists Internet Archive [blog].   Monday, February 5 Bourdieu, Pierre 1986. "The Forms of Capital." Pp. 241-258 in Handbook of Theory and Research For the Sociology of Education, edited by J.G. Richardson. New York, NY: Greenwood Press. Kennedy, Emily Huddart and Carly Hamdon. 2023. "Do People Who Drive Trucks Care About the Environment?" Contexts 22(3): 18-23.   Wednesday, February 7 Weber, Max. 2005 [1925]. "Class, Status, Party." Pp. 151-162 in Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity, edited by Stephen Kalberg. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Beamish, Rob. 2019. "Class." Pp. 30-33 in Core Concepts in Sociology, edited by J. M. Ryan. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.   RACE AND RACISM Monday, February 12 First pair of reading essays due. E-mail them to me by the beginning of class. READ IN CLASS: DuBois, W.E.B. 2007 [1903]. "Of Our Spiritual Strivings." Pp. 1-7 in The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Oxford University Press.   Wednesday, February 14 DuBois, W.E.B. 1996 [1899]. Chaps. 1-2, 16, 18 in The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.   Monday, February 19 Ray, Victor. 2022. On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care. New York: Random House.   INTERSECTIONALITIES OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY Wednesday, February 21 Collins, Patricia Hill and Sirma Bilge. 2016. "What is Intersectionality?" Pp. 1-30 in Intersectionality. Malden, MA: Polity.   Monday, February 26 West, Candace and Don Zimmerman. 2002 [1987]. "Doing Gender." Pp. 3-23 in Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change, edited by Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West. New York: Routledge. Geist, Claudia and Lisa Diamond. 2022. "Gender Disparities in the Real World." Contexts 21(4): 66-68.   Wednesday, February 28 Hirsch, Jennifer S. and Shamus Khan. 2020. "Sexual Projects, Sexual Citizenship, and Sexual Geographies" and "Gender and Beyond." Pp. xiii-xxi, 228-251 in Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus. New York: W.W. Norton.   March 2-17 SPRING BREAK   TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD: RELATIONSHIPS AND OPPORTUNITIES Monday, March 18 Second pair of reading essays due. E-mail them to me by the beginning of class.   Wednesday, March 20 Kao, Grace, Kara Joyner and Kelly Stamper Balistreri. 2019. Chapter 1-2 in The Company We Keep Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood. New York: Russell Sage.   Monday, March 25 Simmel, Georg. 1971 [1908]. "The Stranger." Pp. 143-149 in Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Forms, edited by Donald N. Levine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.   Wednesday, March 27 Ho, Phoebe, Hyunjoon Park, and Grace Kao. 2022. Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.   Monday, April 1 Ho et al., Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America (cont.).   SOCIAL SOLIDARITY AND ANOMIE Wednesday, April 3 Durkheim, Emile. 2002 [1897]. "Anomic Suicide." Pp. 201-239 in Suicide. London: Routledge.   Monday, April 8 Third pair of reading essays due. E-mail them to me by the beginning of class. READ IN CLASS: Metzl, Jonathan. 2019. Selection from Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland. New York: Basic Books.   Wednesday, April 10 Durkheim, Emile. 1997 [1893]. Selections from The Division of Labor in Society. New York: Free Press.   IDEOLOGY AND POWER Monday, April 15 Karl Marx, The German Ideology: A. Idealism and Materialism (1846). Read from "First Premises of Materialist Method" through "History: Fundamental Conditions." Karl Marx, The German Ideology: B. The Illusion of the Epoch. Read "Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas."   Wednesday, April 17 Weber, Max. 1999 [1922]. Selections from "Domination and Stratification." Pp. 28-46 in Max Weber: Sociological Writings, edited by Wolf Heydebrand. New York: Continuum. Weber, Max. 2005 [1922]. "The Bureaucracy (I): External Form." Pp. 194-198 in Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity, edited by Stephen Kalberg. Malden, MA: Blackwell. "Max Weber's Theory of Rationalization: What it can Tell us about Modernity." 2016. Thoughts on Existence [blog], August 13.   RETURN TO STRATIFICATION Monday, April 22 Desmond, Matthew. 2023. Poverty, By America. New York: Crown.   Wednesday, April 24 Desmond, Poverty, By America (cont.).   Monday, April 29 Last day of course. Fourth pair of take-home essays due. E-mail them to me by the beginning of class.   Tuesday, May 7 (last day of study period) Poverty paper due at 5pm via email.

 

 

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