Sociology 101, Introduction to
Sociology @QC
Readings for SPRING 2012, Professor Levine
Readings for the first half of
the course are here on line at www.sociology101.net. You can print them at
home, on campus, or anywhere in the world. Get a 1/2 inch or 1 inch three-ring
binder, and a three-hole puncher, and put the readings in the binder (or at
least put them in a strong, manila folder). You can also print out a second
copy of each reading, staple the pages together, and bring each article to
class when we are discussing it. There are many options.
The important thing is to have and read the
articles ON PAPER.
TIP: The headers for each
week's reading (the words right after the date), and the full title of each
article, are very important. As you read each article make sure you fully
understand the meaning of all the words and phrases, including the article
titles and sub titles. To do that you will have to use a dictionary AND closely
read all the articles. You absolutely need to remember all the headings
and reading titles. It will help you to remember the authors as well.
This reading list is the most important document
in the class. Know it well!
Peter
Berger, Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective
At http://www.amazon.com/Invitation-Sociology-Perspective-Peter-Berger/dp/0385065299 At: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780385065290&itm=3
1. Jan 30
- Feb 1 - Things are not as they seem to be:
The peculiarities and hidden uses of cultural patterns
-
Really,
Really important Things To Know For This Class and The EXAMS
- Body Rituals of the Nacirema by Horace Miner
- Baseball
Magic by George Gmelch
- India's Sacred Cow by
Marvin Harris
- Ritual & Taboo (at dictionary.com, read
closely ALL the definitions for each term)
2. Feb 6-8 - Society Inside of Us: Culture, Ethnicity, Socialization,
Internalization, and Roles
- Cultural Responses to Pain
by Mark Zborowski,
- Learning The Student Role:
Kindergarten As Academic Boot Camp by Harry Gracy
- Culture
- the Encarta Encyclopedia
3. Feb
13-15 - no school Mon - What Happens When Corporations Are Not Regulated By
Government?:
The Contradiction Between Corporate
Profit and the Public Good
- Love
Canal by Michael Brown
- Pinto
Madness by Mark Dowie
4. Feb 20-22 - class Tues & Wed, no school Monday -
Wealth and Inequality in America and the Sociological Imagaination
- Inequality:
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% by
Joseph Stiglitz
- The Great Wealth
Transfer by Paul Krugman
- Helping The Poor, The
British Way by Paul Krugman
5. Feb 27-29 - The Case of Marijuana
Possession and Policing: Things Are Not As They Seem To Be
- Whites
Smoke Pot, but Blacks Are Arrested – by Jim Dwyer
- Smoke and Horrors - Charles Blow
- Excerpts from:
Marijuana Arrest Crusade: Racial Bias and Police Policy in New York City
(30 pages) by Harry G. Levine and Deborah P. Small
- Busted: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving
Police Encounters by Flex Your Rights (45 minute video – watch closely)
- http://marijuana-arrests.com/index.html
(skim and check out)
- other readings to be added from
breaking news
(Tip: Make
sure you already have or now get Invitation
to Sociology by Peter Berger. Used books from Amazon take two weeks for
delivery)
6. March
5-7 - Family, Health and Government
Policy in the U.S., Canada, and
-
- Health
care in crisis: does Canada have the answer? From Consumer Reports
- The Idea
Behind Our Failed Health-Care System by Malcom
Gladwell
- Until Medical Bills Do
Us Part by Nicholas Kristof and Health Care Realities –
Paul Krugman
7.
March 12-14 - The Impact of Racial Prejudice (no class Monday)
- Racism
and Research: The case of the Tuskegee syphilis study by Alan
Brandt,
- Decisions
of death. by David Bruck
- Asian
Americans: The myth of the model minority by Ronald Takaki
8. March
19-21 - The Sociological Imagination
- The Promise of the
Sociological Imagination. by C. Wright Mills,
- Invitation To
Sociology by Peter Berger - Read Back Cover, Table Of Contents, Preface. (The actual paper book, not on the
web, and bring book to class)
9. March
26-28 Review and Midterm Exam - WED MARCH 28 MIDTERM EXAM - WED MARCH 28
All
readings from now on from the book by Peter Berger, Invitation to Sociology (bring to class)
10. April
2-4 - Invitation to Sociology:
"Things Are Not As They Seem"
& Debunking, Unrespectabiity,
Relativizing, Cosmopolitanism
Bring Invitation to Sociology to class)
- read Chapter 1. "Sociology As An Individual
Pastime" in Invitation to Sociology
- read Chapter 2 "Sociology as a Form of Consciousness (Bring Invitation
to Sociology to class)
Tip: first read the last two pages of Chapter 2 first, especially the
last paragraph of Chapter 2. Bring the book to class
April
9-11 SPRING BREAK - READ BERGER INVITATION TO SOCIOLOGY, REALLY!
11.
April 16-18 - Social Control, Institutions,
Stratification
- read Chapter 4 "Man In Society" (Bring Invitation to
Sociology to class)
12. April 23-25 - Roles, Reference Groups, Socialization, Internalization,
& The Sociology Of Knowledge
- read: Chapter 5: "Society In Man" (Bring
the book to class))
13. April
30-May 2 - Real Choice And Real Freedom In
The Real World (Bring the book to class)
- read: Chapter 6: "Society As Drama"
- skim: Chapter 8: "Sociology As A Humanistic Discipline"
- read closely: The Last Three Pages Of Chapter 8 -- Pages 174-176
14. May 7-9
- Review of Berger and the Semester. (Bring book to class)
15. May 14
- Last class - Review (Bring the book and all readings to class)
The final exam covers the whole semester. The final exam covers the whole semester.
All final exams at the college, including ours, will be scheduled by the QC
Registrar and held in the two weeks following the last class. The time of the
final exam is announced by the Registrar's office later in the semester.
click
here for MIDTERM STUDY MATERIALS
click
here for: KEY CONCEPTS FROM INVITATION TO SOCIOLOGY (Berger's book)
(click here)
Peter Berger, Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic
Perspective
At http://www.amazon.com/Invitation-Sociology-Perspective-Peter-Berger/dp/0385065299
At: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780385065290&itm=3
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