INTRODUCTION: THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION September 1   September 3 Mills, C. Wright. 1959. "The Promise." Pp. 3-24 in The Sociological Imagination. New York: Grove Press.   REPRODUCING SOCIAL INEQUALITY September 8 Lareau, Unequal Childhoods, chaps. 1-5.   September 10 Lareau, Unequal Childhoods — select one of chaps. 6, 7, 8 or 11, then chap. 12.   CONCEPTUALIZING CLASS: MARX vs. WEBER September 15 Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. 2010 [1848]. Pp. 14-27 in The Communist Manifesto. Marxists Internet Archive [blog].   September 17 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.   RACE & RACISM: THE PROBLEM OF THE 20th (AND 21st?) CENTURY September 22 DuBois, W.E.B. 2007 [1903]. "Of Our Spiritual Strivings." Pp. 1-7 in The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Oxford University Press. DuBois, W.E.B. 1996 [1899]. Chaps. 1-2, 16, 18 in The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.   September 24 First pair of reading essays due. E-mail them to me by the beginning of class.   September 29 Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2014. Chaps. 1-2, 6 in Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, 4th ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.   THINKING INTERSECTIONALLY October 1 Collins, Patricia Hill and Sirma Bilge. 2016. "What is Intersectionality?" and "Intersectionality and Identity." Pp. 1-30, 114-135 in Intersectionality. Malden, MA: Polity.   October 6 Kao et al., The Company We Keep, chaps. 1-2.   October 8 Kao et al., The Company We Keep — select either of chaps. 3-6, then read chap. 7.   IMMIGRATION AND GLOBALIZATION October 13 Simmel, Georg. 1950 [1908]. "The Stranger." Pp. 402-8 in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, edited by K.H. Wolff. New York: Free Press.   October 15 Second pair of reading essays due. E-mail them to me by the beginning of class.   October 20 Miraftab, Global Heartland, pp. 1-11, chaps. 1-2 — then select one of chaps. 3-5.   October 22 Miraftab, Global Heartland, chap. 6 — then select either of chaps. 7-8 — finally, read pp. 205-208.   IDEOLOGY AND POWER October 27 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."   October 29 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.   November 3 No class: community care day.   November 5 Vitale, The End of Policing, chaps. 1-5, 7 — then select one of chaps. 6, 8, 9 or 10 — finally, read Conclusion.   November 10 Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?   November 12 Third pair of reading essays due. E-mail them to me by the beginning of class.   SOLIDARITY AND ANOMIE November 17 Durkheim, Emile. 1997 [1893]. Selections from The Division of Labor in Society. New York: Free Press.   November 19 Durkheim, Emile. 1951 [1897]. "Anomic Suicide." Pp. 241-276 in Suicide. New York: Free Press.   THANKSGIVING BREAK: November 21-29   December 1 Vassar classes shift to remote format. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness.   December 3 Metzl, Dying of Whiteness.   December 8 (last regularly scheduled class) Fourth pair of take-home essays due. E-mail them to me by the beginning of class.   Sunday, December 13 (last day of study period) Research agenda essay. E-mail it to me by 5pm.

 

 

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