Sociology/Anthropology 111 - Winter Term 2002

Professor Beverly Nagel

Office: Willis 403

Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30-4:O0 p.m. or by appointment

Telephone: 646-4095

Email: bnagel@carleton.edu

•  Guidelines for Preparing a Research Paper
•  Research Resources in the Carleton College Library (NOW ONLINE!)
•  Procedures for Second Paper
•  Web sites to browse

Course Schedule and readings

This schedule will be updated and expanded as we go along. Any readings that are not online can be found on closed reserve in the library.

Jan. 7 - Introduction to the course

C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination, Ch. 1
Emile Durkheim, "What is a Social Fact?"

Jan. 9, 11 - Culture, individual and society; social bases of self

Goffman, Asylums, "The Moral Career of the Mental Patient" and
"On the Characteristics of Total Institutions" pp. 1-74

See also sme of the following web sites for classics in micro-sociology:

• Irving Garfinkel on Ethnomethodology
• George Herbert Mead, "The Mechanisms of Social Consciousness" and "The Social Self"
• Charles Cooley on "The Looking Glass Self"

Jan. 14, 16 - Socialization, deviance and social control

Morrison, pp. 120-128, 163-188
Anderson, "The Code of the Streets"
Ayres Boswell and Spade, "Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?"
Chambliss, "The Saints and the Roughnecks"

See also:

Durkheim, "On the Normality of Crime"
Pattillo, "Sweet Mothers and Gang Bangers" (available on closed reserve or through JSTOR, Carleton Library's Electronic Databases)

Jan. 18 - The social construction of deviance: anti-drinking and anti-drug campaigns

Jan. 21, 23, 25 - Institutional structures and their effects

Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation, Chs. 3, 6, 8 (skim Ch. 7)

See also, "Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students" by C. Steele

Jan. 28, 30- Foundations of macrosociology: theoretical perspectives on social structure and social change

Morrison, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, pp. 27-54, 128-148, 214-232

See also Larry Ridener's Dead Sociologists' Index

Feb. 1 - The rise of capitalism

Weber, The Protestant Ethic, Ch. 2 (pp. 47-54, 74-78), Ch. 5
Recommended: Morrison, pp. 243-255

Feb. 6 - McDonaldization

Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society
Morrison, pp. 293-304

See also Kellner, "Theorizing/Resisting McDonaldization: A Multiperspective Approach"

Feb. 8, 11, 13, 15- Inequality and Poverty

Davis and Moore, "Some Principles of Stratification"                  
  (on JSTOR)
Recommended: Morrison, pp. 232-243
Bluestone,    The Polarization of American Society 

*First essay paper assignment due: Feb. 13*

Feb. 18 - Inequality and poverty (cont)

*Macleod, Ain't No Makin' It

Feb. 20, 22 - Ethnicity and race in the social stratification system

Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth, Preface, Parts I and II, Ch.9

Feb. 25 - Roots of ethnic and racial conflict

*Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth, pp. 169-221 (discussion paper due; should cover all reading from the book)

Recommended: Bobo and Hutchings, "Perceptions of Racial Competition in a Multiracial Setting"

Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race (see esp. Chs. 1, 5, 7)

Feb. 27 - The continuing significance of race

Feagin, "The Continuing Significance of Race" (on Jstor and closed reserve)

Recommended: Bullard, Dumping in Dixie, Ch. 1, 2

*Second paper due March 1*

Mar. 1, 4 - The new immigration and the second generation

*Portes and Rumbaut, Legacies, Ch. 3 "Not Everyone is Chosen: Segmented Assimilation and Its Determinants"

and one of the case studies in Portes and Rumbaut, Ethnicities

Mar. 6, 8 - Changes in the Family

*Hochschild, The Second Shift, Chs. 2, 3, 13

Mar. 11 - Wrap up

Some Web Sites to Browse

Here are some links to web sites that are relevant to topics we will discuss during the term, as well as reference materials useful for your assignments and term papers. These resources are intended to supplement the materials included on our syllabus, and to get you started on your own explorations. There are many other web sites that are of interest to our course; if you find one that you think should be included here, please let me know! THIS LIST WILL BE UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE TERM.

For a wealth of information and links related to all aspects of sociology (and applications of the
sociological imagination) see Prof. M. Kearl's, A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace..

For classical sociological theorists, see Larry Ridener's Dead Sociologists' Index,
(includes biographies and excerpts from sociological classics)On social inequality in the U.S.

• Bluestone, The Polarization of American Society
• Executive Pay in America
• High Hopes, Little Trust: Young People's Views of the Economy and their Future
• Orfield and Yun, "Resegregation in American Schools"

Inequality World-wide

• Journal of World-Systems Research
• Photo essay - Salgado's Terra: The Landless Movement in Brazil

Race and Ethnicity

• American Slave Narratives - An Online Anthology
• Photos from the Arizona WWII Relocation Camps
• Ethnic Studies Links
• Glasshouses: A Tour of American Assimilation from a Mexican-American Perspective, California With a View by Jacalyn Lopez Garcia

Women and Social Movements

• Binghamton University Document Archive

Last modified: 1/10/02
by: Beverly Nagel