Course Syllabi (Older Course Syllabi)
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| Professor | Course Number | Course Name |
| Miller | Soc3b | Social Theory and Contemporary Society (.doc) |
| Hayim | Soc10b | Introduction to Social Theory (.doc) |
| Shields | Soc92a | Internships for Community Action and Social Change (.doc) |
| Hersi | Soc104a | Sociology of Education (.doc) |
| Pfefferle | Soc124b | Human Service Organizations (.doc) |
| Capetillo-Ponce | Soc125a | Latino Identity and Communities (.doc) |
| Hayim | Soc128a | Religion and Globalization (.doc) |
| Hansen | Soc130a | North American Families (.doc) |
| Kim | Soc138a |
Sociology of Gender And Race |
| Fellman | Soc141a |
Marx and Freud (.doc) |
| Miller | Soc146a |
Mass Communication Theory (.doc) |
| Cunningham | Soc151a | Biography, Community and Political Contention (.pdf) |
| Fellman | Soc157a | Sociology of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation (.doc) |
| Conrad | Soc176a | Nature, Nurture, and Public Policy (.doc) |
| Cunningham | Soc181a | Quantitative Methods of Social Inquiry (.rtf) |
| Gillespie | Soc190b | Caring in the Health Care System (.doc) schedule: (.doc) |
| Conrad | Soc203b | Field Methods (.doc) |
| Hansen | Soc206b | Families and Economic Intersections (.pdf) |
| Joseph | Anth152b (cross-listed) |
From Birth to Death: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Demography (.pdf) |
Books for Courses
Soc92a Internships for Community Action and Social Change Shields, Thomas Piņeros
Jim Shultz, The Democracy Owner's Manual: A Practical Guide to Changing the World (2002) Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ.
A selection of required and Supplemental Readings will be available on WebCt.
Soc3b Social Theory and Contemporary Society Miller, Laura
1) Emile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology. New York: The Free Press, 1997.
2) Robert C. Tucker, ed., The Marx-Engels Reader, second edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
3) Katherine S. Newman, No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City. New York: Vintage, 2000.
Soc130a North American Families Hansen, Karen V.
1) Hansen, Karen V., Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care
2) Hansen, Karen V. and Anita Ilta Garey (eds.), Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics
3) Hochschild, Arlie, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home
4) Lareau, Annette, Unequal Childhoods
Recommended Readings:
Kate Turabian, Manual for Writers
Anth125a Latino Identity and Communities Capetillo-Ponce, Jorge
1) Juan Gonzales. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. Viking Press, 2000
2) Harold Augenbrahm and Margarite Fernandez Olmos (eds.). The Latino Reader. Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1997.
3) Darder, Antonia and Torres, Rodolfo (eds.) The Latino Studies Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
4) Suarez-Orozco, M. and Paez, M. (2002) Latinos Remaking America. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
5) Packet of Selected Readings (SR)
Anth152b (cross-listed) From Birth to Death Joseph, Suzanne
1) Meredith F. Small, What's Love Got To Do With It?: The Evolution of Human Mating, Anchor Books, 1996, 0-385-47702-3.
2) Massimo Livi-Bacci (trans. Carl Ipsen), A Concise History of World Population, Blackwell, 2001, 0631223355.
3) Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider, Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and The Ideology of Class in Sicily, 1860-1980. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 0-8165-1519-0.
4) James Z. Lee and Feng Wang, One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000. Harvard University Press, 1999, 0-674-00709-3.
5) For the remaining readings available on WebCT see syllabus.
Soc124b Human Service Organizations Pfefferle, Susan
1) Lipsky, M. (1983) Street Level Bureaucracy. NY. NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
2) Smith, S.R., Lipsky, M. (1993) Non Profits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
3) Gibelman, M. (2003) Navigating Human Service Organizations. Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books.
4) Articles, for which there is a copying charge, will be available. This packet can be purchased from the instructor.
Soc151a Community, Biography & Political Contention Cunningham, David
1) Payne, Charles- I've Got the Light of Freedom, California, 1996, 0520207068
2) Weiss, Robert- Learning from Strangers, Free Press, 1995, 0684823128
3) Luker, Kristin- Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, California, 1985, 0520055977
4) McAdam, Doug- Freedom Summer, Oxford, 1990, 0195064720
5) Cunningham, David- There's Something Happening He, California, 2004, 0520239970
6) Tyson, Timothy B.- Blood Done Sign My Name, Crown, 2004, 0609610589
Soc190b Caring in the Health Care System Gillespie, Chris
1) Conrad, Peter- Sociology of Health and Illnes, Worth, 0716709988
2) Starr, Paul- The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Basic Books, 0465079350
3) Diamond, Timothy- Making Gray Gold, Chicago, 0226144747
4) Abrahram, Laurie Kaye- Mama Might Be Better Off Dead, Chicago, 0226001393
Soc138a Sociology of Gender and Race Kim, Nadia
1) Patricia Hill Collins- Black Feminist Thought, Routledge, 2000, 0415924847
2) Kum-Kum Bhavnani, ed.- Feminism and 'Race', Oxford Univ Press, 2001, 0198782365
3) Yen Espiritu - Asian American Women and Men, Rowman & Littlefield, 1996, 0803972547
4) Ruth Frankenberg - White Women, Race Matters, University of Minnesota Press, 1993, 0816622574
5) Arlie Russell Hochschild - Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, Owl Books (2nd Rep edition), 2004, 0805075097
6) Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class - Elizabeth Higginbotham and Mary Romero, eds. Sage Publications. 1997. 0803950594
Wmns105b Feminist Theories in Historical & Cross-Cultural Perspective Kim, Nadia
1) Bell Hooks - Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, South End Press (2nd edition), 2000, 0896086135
2) Judith Lorber - Paradoxes of Gender, Yale University Press (Reprint edition), 1995, 0300064977
3) R. W. Connell - Masculinities, University of California Press, 1995, 0520089995
4) Carole McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds. - Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, Routledge, 2002, 0415931533
5) Karin Martin - Puberty, Sexuality, and the Self, Routledge, 1996, 0415914256
6) Chandra Mohanty, Anna Russo, Lourdes Torres - Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, Indiana University Press, 1991, 0253206324
Soc104a Sociology of Education Hersi, Afra
1) Connell, Robert. (1993). Schools and Social Justice. Philadelphia: Temple University Press ISBN:1566391385
2) Rothenberg, Paula S., Ed. (2004). Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (Sixth Edition). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN: 0716755157
3) Spring, Joel (2003). Deculturalization and the struggle for equality: A Brief history of education of dominated cultures. McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0072563834
4) (see books on reserve at the library)
Soc203b Field Methods Conrad, Peter
* Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists, U. Chicago
* Robert Emerson, Contemporary Field Research, Waveland Press, 2001
* John Lofland and Lynn Lofland, Analyzing Social Settings, Wadsworth, 3d ed.,1994
* John Van Maanon, Tales from the Field, U. Chicago
* Charles Bosk, Forgive and Remember, expanded edition, U. Chicago, 2004
* Laud Humphries, Tearoom Trade, Aldine, rev. ed, 1975
* David Wagner, Checkerboard Square, Westview, 1993
* David Karp, Speaking of Sadness, Oxford, 1997
* Eric Klinenberg, Heat Wave, 2002, U. of Chicago