Texts

The following are available at the campus bookstore and on reserve at the library. If you obtain these books elsewhere, be sure that the ISBN numbers match those listed below.

The coursepack of readings prepared for this course.

Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (Basic Books, 1999 reissue. ISBN: 0465097138).

Manuel Castells, The Internet Galaxy (Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0199241538).

Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character (W. W. Norton, 2000. ISBN: 0393319873).

Thomas Holt, The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0674008243).

John Alderman, Sonic Boom (Perseus, 2002. ISBN: 0738207772).

Joel Kotkin, The New Geography (Random House, 2001. ISBN: 0375758321).

Ulrich Beck and Elizabeth Beck-Gersheim, Individualization (Sage, 2002. ISBN: 0761961127).

RECOMMENDED: Stanley Aronowitz, The Last Good Job in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. ISBN: 0742509753).

 

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