Course Syllabi
Spring 2005 || Fall 2005 || Spring 2006 || Fall 2006 || Spring 2007 || Fall 2007 || Spring 2008
| Professor | Course Number | Course Name |
| Cunningham | Soc1a | Order and Change in Society (.doc) |
| Hansen | Soc105a | Feminist Critiques of Sexuality and Work in America (.doc) |
| Osnowitz | Soc117a | Sociology of Work (.doc -draft version) |
| Osnowitz | Soc118a | Observing the Social World: Doing Qualitative Sociology (.doc -not the final version) |
| Fellman | Soc119a | War and Possibilities of Peace (.doc) |
| Kim | Soc122a | The Sociology of American Immigration |
| Miller | Soc150b | The Culture of Consumption (.doc) |
| Fellman | Soc153a | The Sociology of Empowerment (.doc) |
| Hayim | Soc164a | Existential Sociology (.doc) |
| Conrad | Soc191a | Health, Community and Society (.doc) |
| Conrad | Soc196a | The Medicalization of Society (.doc) |
| Hayim | Soc200a | Contemporary Social Theory (.doc) |
| Miller | Soc221b | Sociology of Culture (.doc) |
Books for Courses
Sociology 105a Feminist Critiques of Sexuality and Work In American Society Hansen, Karen
1) Escoffier, Jeffrey,Sexual Revolution
2) Labaton, Vivien and Dawn Lundy Martin (eds.),The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism
3) Lorber, Judith,Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics
4) Padavic, Irene and Barbara Reskin,Women and Men at Work
In addition a selection of articles will be available on the Web-CT page for the course.
Sociology 117a Sociology of Work Osnowitz,Debra
1) Dan Clawson, The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements
2) Ruth Milkman, Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century
3) Jackie Krasas Rogers, Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace
4) Vicki Smith, Crossing the Great Divide: Work Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy
5) Amy Wharton (Ed.), Working in America: Continuity and Change
Note: This course will include readings posted to Web CT.
Sociology 118a Observing the Social World: Doing Qualitative Sociology Osnowitz,Debra
1) John Lofland/Lyn Lofland, Analyzing Social Settings Robert Weiss, Learning From Strangers
Note: This course will include readings posted to Web CT.
Sociology 122a The Sociology of American Immigration Kim, Nadia
This course requires no book purchase. The course readings will all be placed on WebCT
Sociology 131b Womens's Biography and Society Hansen, Karen
1) Bateson, Mary Catherine, With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
2) Falk, Candace,Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman
3) Gluck, Sherna and Daphne Patai,Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History
4) Goldman, Emma,Living My Life, v. 1
5) Guberman, Jayne K., ed., In Our Own Voices: A Guide to Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women
6) Lee, Mary Paik, A Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America. “Introduction” and edited by Sucheng Chan.
7) Philipson, Ilene, Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths.
8) Ulrich, Laurel, A Midwife's Tale.
Sociology 150b The Culture of Consumption Miller, Laura
1) William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
2) David Nasaw, Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999 [1993].
Sociology 164a Existential Sociology Hayim, Gila
1) Kotarba (ed) Postmodern Existential Sociology Rowman and Littlefield
2) J P Sartre Existentialism and Human Emotions--- any edition
3) J P Sartre Anti-Semite and Jew- An exploration of the Etiology of Hate.1995
(make sure it is the edition Translated by G Becker with Intro by M. Waltzer --Schocken press 1995)
4) S.de Beauvoir The Second Sex --- Vintage Books
5) Gila Hayim Existentialism and Sociology ---- Transaction 1996
6) Goffman The Presentation of Self.....
7) S. Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling....
Sociology 191a Health, Community and Society Conrad, Peter
1) Anne Fadiman, THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN, Noonday Press (1997)
2) Peter Conrad, THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES, 7th ed., St. Martin's (2005)
3) Eric Kleinenberg, HEAT WAVE (2002), University of Chicago Press
4) Rene Dubos, MIRAGE OF HEALTH (1959, 1987), Rutgers University Press
5) Susan Sontag, ILLNESS AS METAPHOR/AIDS METAPHOR, Pantheon (1990)
6) Sylvia Tesh, HIDDEN ARGUMENTS, Rutgers U. Press (1987)
7) Robert Klitzman and Ronald Bayer, MORTAL SECRETS: TRUTH AND LIES IN THE AGE OF AIDS (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 in paper)
Sociology 196a The Medicalization of Society Conrad, Peter
1) Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider, Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness, expanded edition. Temple University Press, 1992. (D&M)
2) Michel Foucault,Birth of the Clinic, Vintage, 1965.
3) Allan V. Horowitz,Creating Mental Illness, University of Chicago Press, 2002.
4) Mieka Loe,The Rise of Viagra, NYU Press, 2004.
5) Richard Wertz and Dorothy Wertz,Lying In: A History of Childbirth, expanded edition, Yale University Press, 1989.
6) British Medical Journal, special issue on medicalization (“Too much medicine”), Volume 324, Issue 7342, April 13, 2002. All articles available on line from bmj.com. Note letters and comments for each as well.
7) Course packet containing approximately 40 articles and chapters, marked * in the syllabus.
8) Recommended: Edward Shorter,From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era , Free Press, 1992.
Sociology 200a Contemporary Social Theory Hayim, Gila
1) G. Ritzer (ed.) The Backwell Companion To Major Contemporary Social Theorists Blackwell Publishing 2003
2) Patrick Baert Social Theory in the Twentieth Century -- New York University Press 1998.
3) Pierre Bourdieu Masculine Domination Stanford University 2001
4) Deborah Reed-Danahay Locating Bourdieu Indiana University Press 2005
5) A Giddens Modernity and Self-Identity Stanford University Press 1991
6) Beck, Sznaider and Winter(eds) Global America: The Cultural Consequences of Globalization. University of Chicago Press . 2003
7) M Foucault History of Sexuality Vintage books
Recommended
8) Chris Weedon Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory Basil Blackwell 2nd edition, 1997
Works by Mead and Goffman will be handed out as selections.
Sociology 221b Sociology of Culture Miller, Laura
1) Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. New York, Anchor Books, 1967 [1966].
2) David Riesman with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character, abridged edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.
3) Todd Gitlin, The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 [1980].
4) Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, updated edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996 [1985].
5) Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style. New York: Routledge, 1981 [1979].
6) Rick Fantasia, Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.