These required books are available at the Vassar bookstore and in the library under the reserve list for Sociology 151-Nevarez, L.:
Intersections: Readings in Sociology. A customized sociology reader compiled by Leonard Nevarez. Boston: Peason Custom Publishing. [ISBN: 0536660999]Durkheim, Emile. 1997. The Division of Labor in Society. New York: Free Press. [ISBN: 0684836386]
Ehrenreich, Barbara. 2002. Nickel and Dimed. New York: Owl Books. [ISBN: 0805063897]
Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods. Berkeley: University of California Press. [ISBN: 0520239504]
Weber, Max. 2002. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Penguin. [ISBN: 0140439218]
Ritzer, George. 2004. The Globalization of Nothing. Thousand Oaks: Sage. [ISBN: 0761988076]
The following books are available in the Sociology Department's reserve list of books for Sociology 151 (and not the reserve list created by Professor Nevarez). They provide useful historical context and theoretical elaboration for the ideas we discuss in class. If you feel unsure of your grasp of the course materials, be sure to look at the chapters I have recommended in the course schedule.
Collins, Randall and Michael Makowsky. The Discovery of Society. Any edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill.Giddens, Anthony. 1971. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim, and Max Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.