Course Syllabi
Fall 2006 || Spring 2007 || Fall 2007 || Spring 2008 || Fall 2008 || Spring 2009 || Fall 2009
| Professor | Course Number | Course Name |
| Miller | Soc3b | Social Theory and Contemporary Society .doc |
| Cadge | Soc118a | Observing the Social World: Doing Qualitative Sociology .doc |
| Fellman | Soc119a | War and Possibilities of Peace .doc |
| Miller | Soc120b | Globalization and the Media .doc |
| Kim | Soc121b | Gender, Ethnicity and Migration |
| Kim | Soc122a | The Sociology of American Immigration |
| Ross | Soc123b | Crisis of the Welfare State .doc |
| Cadge | Soc129a | Sociology of Religion .doc |
| Fellman | Soc153a | The Sociology of Empowerment .doc |
| Hayim | Soc164a | Existential Sociology .doc |
| Sirianni | Soc175b | Civic Environmentalism .doc |
| Shostak | Soc189a | Sociology of Body and Health .doc |
| Conrad | Soc191a | Health, Community, and Society .doc |
| Hayim | Soc201a | Classical and Modern Critical Social Theory .doc |
| Conrad | Soc217a | Problems and Issues in the Sociology of Health and Illness .doc |
Books for Courses
Sociology 3b Social Theory and Contemporary Society Miller, Laura
1) Emile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology (The Free Press, 1997) ISBN:-
2) Robert C. Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader (2. Ed.) (W. W. Norton, 1999) ISBN:-
3) Katherine S. Newman, No Shame in My Game: The Working... (Vintage, 2000) ISBN:0375703799
Sociology 118a Observing the Social World: Doing Qualitative Sociology Cadge, Wendy
1) John Lofland, Lyn Lofland Analyzing Social Settings (Wadsworth-Thomson, ) ISBN:0534528619
2) Robert Weiss, Learning From Strangers (Simon and Schuster, ) ISBN:0684823128
3) Howard Becker, Writing For Social Scientists (University of Chicago Press, ) ISBN:0226041085
4) Robert Emerson, Rachel Frietz, Linda Shaw Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (University of Chicago Press, ) ISBN:0226206815
Sociology 119a War and Possibilities of Peace Fellman, Gordon
1) David Korten, The Great Turning (Kumarian Press, ) ISBN:1887208070
2) Stephen J. Ducat, The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars... (Beacon Press, ) ISBN:0807043451
3) Gordon Fellman, Rambo and the Dalai Lama (Sunny Press, ) ISBN:0791437841
4) Frederick H. Gareau, State Terrorism and the United States (Clarity Press, ) ISBN:0932863396
5) Frederick H. Gareau, State Terrorism and the United States(Zed Books, ) ISBN:1842775359
6) Chris Hedges, War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning (Anchor Books, ) ISBN:1400034639
7) Robert L. Holmes, Barry L. Gan, Nonviolance in Theory and Practice (2. Ed.) (Waveland Press, ) ISBN:1577663497
8) John Paul Lederach, The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (Oxford University Press, ) ISBN:0195174542
9) Donald W. Shriver, An Ethic for Enemies (Oxford University Press, ) ISBN:0195119169
10) Thich Naht Hanh, Peace is Every Step (Bantom, ) ISBN:0553351397
11) Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Bantom, ) ISBN:0553375407
12) Joshua Goldstein, War & Gender: How Gender... (Cambridge University Press, ) ISBN:0521807166
Sociology 120b Globalization and the Media Miller, Laura
1) Peter Manuel, Cassette Culture: Popular Music and... (University of Chicago Press, 1993) ISBN:0226504018
2) Mark Liechty, Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture... (Princeton University Press, 2003) ISBN:0691095930
3) Steven Kemper, Buying and believing: Sri Lankan Advertising... (University of Chicago Press, 2001) ISBN:0226430413
Sociology 121b Gender, Ethnicity and Migration Kim, Nadia
1) Yen Le Espiritu, Homebound: Filipina American Lives across culture, communities & countries (University of California Press, ) ISBN:0520235274
2) Jennifer Hirsch, A courtship after marriage(University of California Press, ) ISBN:0520228715
3) Ji-yeon Yuh, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown (New York University Press, ) ISBN:0814796990
Sociology 122a The Sociology of American Immigration Kim, Nadia
1) Yen Le Espiritu, Homebound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries (University of California Press, 2003) ISBN:0520235274
Sociology 123b Crisis of the Welfare State Ross, George
1) Jacob Hacker, The Divided Welfare State (Cambridge University Press, -) ISBN:0521013283
2) Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here (Anchor Random House, -) ISBN:0385265565
3) Theda Skocpol, Boomerang (W. W. Norton Company, -) ISBN:8003539909
4) Kent Weaver, Ending Welfare As We Know It (Brookings Institution Press, -) ISBN:0815792484
Sociology 129a Sociology of Religion Cadge, Wendy
1) Nancy Ammerman, Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the modern world (Rutgers University Press, ) ISBN:081351231X
2) Lynn Davidman, Tradition in a Rootless World: Women turn to Orthodox Judaism (University of California Press, ) ISBN:0520075455
3) Tanya Erzen, Straight to Jesus: Sexual & Christian conversions in the Ex. gay movement (University of California Press, ) ISBN:0520245822
4) Maria Frederick, Between Sundays: Black women and everyday struggles of faith (University of California Press, ) ISBN:0520233948
5) Phillip Hammond, With Liberty for all: Freedom of Religion in the United States (Westminster John Knox Press, ) ISBN:0664257682
6) Robert Wuthnow, Rediscovering the Sacred: Perspectives on Religion in contemporary society (Eerdmans Publishing Co. , ) ISBN:0802806333
Sociology 153a The Sociology of Empowerment Fellman, Gordon
1) Terrence Real, I Don't want to Talk About It... (Scribner, ) ISBN:0684835398
2) Frances Moore Lappe, Democracy's Edge (Jossey-Bass, ) ISBN:0787943118
3) Berger, Boudin, Farrow, Letters From Young Activists (Avalon Publishing Group, ) ISBN:1560257474
4) Gordon Fellman, Rambo and the Dalai Lama (Sunny Press, ) ISBN:0791437841
5) Bell Hooks, All About Love(Horper Collins, ) ISBN:0060959479
6) Corey Robin, Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University, ) ISBN:0195189124
7) Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path... (Bantam, ) ISBN:0553351397
8) Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, ) ISBN:0415908086
9) Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger (Penguin Group, ) ISBN:1573229377
Sociology 164a Existential Sociology Hayim, Gila
1) Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions (Citadel Press, 1984) ISBN:0806509023
2) Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Vintage Books, ) ISBN:0679724516
3) Gila Hayim, Existentialism and Sociology (Transaction Publishers, 1995) ISBN:1560008407
4) Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Anchor Books, 1959) ISBN:0385094027
5) Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (, ) ISBN: Consult campus bookstore for correct edition.
Sociology 175b Civic Environmentalism Sirianni, Carmen
1) Luke Cole, Sheila foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise... (New York University Press, 2000) ISBN:0814715362
2) Jason Corburn, Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health... (MIT Press, 2005) ISBN:0262532727
3) William Shutkin, The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in... (MIT Press, 2000) ISBN:0262692708
4) Freeman House, Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species(Beacon Press, 1999) ISBN:0807085499
5) Edward Weber, Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management... (MIT Press, 2003) ISBN:0262731517
6) Matthew McKinney, William Harmon, The Western Confluence: A Guide to Governing... (Island Press, 2004) ISBN:1559639636
Sociology 189a Sociology of body and Health Shostak, Sara
1)Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, (Vintage Books, 1997) ISBN:0679735291 (RECOMMENDED)
2)Debra Gimlin, Body Work: Beauty & Self Image in American Culture, (University of California Press, 2002) ISBN:0520228561
3)Nora Ellen Groce, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language, (Harvard University Press, 2005) ISBN:067427041X
4)Sharon Preves, Intersex & Identity: The Contested Self, (Rutgers University Press, 2003) ISBN:0813532299
5)Greg Critser, Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) ISBN:0618380604
6)J. Elson, Am I Still A Woman? Hysterectomy and Gender Identity, (Temple University Press, 2003) ISBN:1592132103
7)Susan Martha Kahn, Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel, (Duke University Press, 2000) ISBN:0822325985
8)Emily Martin, The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, (Beacon Press, 2001) ISBN:0807046450
Sociology 191a Health, Community, and Society Conrad, Peter
1) Peter Conrad, The Sociology of Health & Illness: Critical perspectives 7th ed.(Worth Publishers, ) ISBN:0716709988
2) Rene Dubas, Mirage of Health (Rutgers University Press, ) ISBN:0813512603
3) Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ) ISBN:0374525641
4) Eric Klinenberg, Heatwave: A social autopsy of disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, ) ISBN:0226443221
5) Robert Klitzman, Being Positive: The livers of men & women with HIV(Ivan B. Dee Publisher, ) ISBN:1566631645
6) Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors (Picador USA, ) ISBN:0312420137
7) Sylvia Nolde Tesh, Hidden Arguments: Political ideology and disease prevention policy (Rutgers University Press, ) ISBN:0813513154
Sociology 201a Classical and Modern Critical Social Theory Hayim, Gila
1) Richard Hadden, Sociological Theory-Introduction to Classical Theory (Broadview Press, 1999) ISBN:1551110954
2) Alan Carling, Globalization and Identity (I. B. Tauris, 2005) ISBN:185043848X
3) David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory (University of California Press, ) ISBN:0520041755 (RECOMMENDED)
4) Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Penguin Group, ) ISBN:978014043
5) Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology... (Beacon Press, ) ISBN:0807014176
6) Steven Seidman, Contested Knowledge (3. Ed.) (Blackwell Publishing, ) ISBN:0631226710
7) John Sitton, Habermas and Contemporary Society (Palgrane Macmillan, ) ISBN:140396193X
8) David Held, Anthony McGrew, Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governce(Polity Press, 2002) ISBN:074562734X
9) Nancy Fraser, Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in contemporary Social Theory(University of Minnesota Press, 1989) ISBN:0816617783
10) Alberto Melucci, The Playing Self(Cambridge Univerity Press, 1996) ISBN:0521564824
11) Alison Brown, On Foucault(Thomson/Wadsworth, ) ISBN:0534576141
12) Alex Collinicos, Social Theory(New York Universty Press, 1999) ISBN:081471594X (RECOMMENDED)
13) Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish(Vintage Books, ) ISBN:0679752552
14) Nick Crossley, John Michael Roberts, After Habermas (Blackwell, ) ISBN:1405123656
Sociology 217a Problems and Issues in the Sociology of Health and Illness Conrad, Peter
1) Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Basic Books, ) ISBN:0465079350
2) Renee Anspach, Deciding Who Lives (University of California Press, ) ISBN:0520052684
3) Eliot Freidson, Profession of Medicine (University of Chicago Press, ) ISBN:0226262286
4) Charles Bosk, Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure (2. Ed.)(University of Chicago Press, ) ISBN:0226066789
5) Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health (Rutgers University Press, ) ISBN:0813512603
6) Sylvia Tesh, Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology & Disease Prevention (Rutgers University Press, ) ISBN:0813513154
7) Kristin Barker, The Fibromyalgia Story (Temple University Press, ) ISBN:1592131611
8) Chloe Bird, Peter Conrad & Alan Fremont, Handbook of Medical Sociology (5. Ed.)(Prentice Hall, ) ISBN:0130144568
9) Peter Conrad, Sociology of Health & Illness: Critical Perspectives (7. Ed.) (Worth Publishers, ) ISBN:0716709988