Schedule of assignments and readings
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INTRODUCTION: THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
August 31
C. Wright Mills, "The Promise." Pp. 3-24 in The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1959).
Emile Durkheim, "What is a Social Fact?" Pp. 50-9 in The Rules of Sociological Method (Free Press, 1982 [1895]).
Recommended reading:
Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, pp. 86-94.
WHAT MAKES US SOCIAL?
September 7
CLASS CANCELLED.
Emile Durkheim, pp. 57-77, 192-5, and 202-11 in Emile Durkheim, edited by M. Emirbayer (Blackwell, 2003).
Recommended reading:
Collins & Makowsky, The Discovery of Society, chap. 6.
Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, pp. 86-94.
September 9
Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations (read "The Invisible Hand" through "The Division of Labor").
Recommended reading:
Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, pp. 10-16.
Collins & Makowsky, The Discovery of Society, chap. 2.
September 14
Max Weber, pp. 173-93, 217-20 in Max Weber, edited by S. Kalberg (Blackwell, 2005).
Recommended reading:
Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, pp. 151-63.
Collins & Makowsky, The Discovery of Society, chap. 7.
THE MAELSTROM OF MODERNITY
September 16
Emile Durkheim, "Anomic Suicide." Pp. 241-276 in Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Free Press, 1966).
Recommended reading:
Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, pp. 82-6, 224-9.
September 21
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Recommended reading:
Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, pp. 18-40.
September 23
Max Weber, pp. 194-216, 321-7 in Max Weber, edited by S. Kalberg (Blackwell, 2005).
GLOBALIZATION
September 28
First pair of take-home essays due.
Rachel Louse Snyder, chap. 1 and either chaps. 2-6 or 7-12 in Fugitive Denim (W.W. Norton, 2008). [Reading selection to be determined in prior class.]
September 30
Rachel Louse Snyder, the rest of Fugitive Denim.
October 5
Georg Simmel, "The Stranger" and "Groups and Dyads." Pp. 402-8, 118-44 in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, edited by K.H. Wolff (Free Press, 1950).
Recommended reading:
Collins & Makawosky, The Discovery of Society, pp. 160-4.
October 7
Mary Chayko, Portable Communities (State University of New York Press, 2008).
October 12
Mary Chayko, Portable Communities (State University of New York Press, 2008).
October 14
In-class midterm.
FALL BREAK: October 16-24
INEQUALITY
October 26
Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods (University of California Press, 2003).
October 28
Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods (University of California Press, 2003).
Max Weber, "Class, Status, Party." Pp. 180-95 in From Max Weber, edited by H.H. Gerth and C.W. Mills (Oxford University Press, 1958 [1924]).
Recommended reading:
Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, pp. 163-8.
November 4
Erik Olin Wright, "Class Analysis, History and Emancipation." New Left Review I/202, November-December 1993, pp. 15-35.
RACE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
November 9
W.E.B. DuBois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings." Pp. 7-14 in The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Recommended reading:
Collins & Makawosky, The Discovery of Society, pp. 191-200.
November 11
Erica Chito Childs, Fade to Black and White (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
November 16
Second pair of take-home essays due.
Erica Chito Childs, Fade to Black and White (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
CONSENT & RESISTANCE
November 18
Max Weber, excerpt from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Recommended reading:
Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, pp. 119-32.
November 23
Karl Marx, The German Ideology: A. Idealism and Materialism.
Karl Marx, The German Ideology: B. The Illusion of the Epoch.
Recommended reading:
Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, pp. 40-5.
November 25
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.
November 30
Ryan Moore, Sells Like Teen Spirit (New York University Press, 2010).
Ryan Moore, Sells Like Teen Spirit (New York University Press, 2010).
December 7
In-class final exam.
December 13 (finals week)
Third pair of take-home essays due.
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