Course Syllabi
Spring 2005 || Fall 2005 || Spring 2006 || Fall 2006 || Spring 2007 || Fall 2007 || Spring 2008
| Professor | Course Number | Course Name |
| Conrad | Soc1a | Order and Change in Society (.doc) |
| Hayim | Soc10b | Introduction to Sociological Theory (.doc) |
| Shields | Soc92a | Internships for Community Action and Social Change (.doc) |
| Evans | Soc104a | Sociology of Education (.doc) |
| Williams | Soc107a | Global Apartheid and Global Social Movements (.doc) |
| Fellman | Soc112b | Social Class and Social Change (.doc) |
| Fellman | Soc114a | Psychoanalytic Sociology (.doc) |
| Hayim | Soc128a | Religion and Globalization (.doc) |
| Osnowitz | Soc130a | Families (.doc) |
| Kim | Soc138a | Sociology of Gender and Race (.doc) |
| Sirianni | Soc147a | Organizations and Social Change (.doc) |
| Cunningham | Soc154a | Community Structure and Youth Subcultures (.doc) |
| Cunningham, Auslander | Soc156a | Social Change in American Communities (Please contact the professor for the syllabus) |
| Williams | Soc171a | Women Leaders and Transformation in Developing Countries (.doc) |
| Osnowitz | Soc178a | Sociology of Professions (.doc) |
| Cunningham | Soc181a | Quantitative Methods of Social Inquiry (.doc) |
| Potter | Soc189a | Sociology of Body and Health (.doc) |
| Kim | Soc210b | Gender and Race Relationality |
Books for Courses
Sociology 1a Order and Change in Society Conrad, Peter
1) Mitchell Dunier, Sidewalk (Ferrar Strauss Haltzbrinck Publishers, 1999) ISBN:0374527253
2) Kai Erikson, Everything in Its Path (Simon and Schuster, 1976) ISBN:0671240676
3) Barbara Ehrencreich, Nickel and Dimed (Metropolitan Books Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2001) ISBN:0805063889
4) Ruth Horowitz, Honor and the American Dream (Rutgers University Press, 1983) ISBN:0813509912
5) Douglas McAdam, Freedom Summer(Oxford University Press, 1992) ISBN:0195064720
6) Sussan A. Ferguson, Mapping the Social Landscape (McGraw Hill, 2005) ISBN:0072878991
Sociology 10b Introduction to Sociological Theory Hayim, Gila
1) Collins and Makowsky, The Discovery of Society, 7th edition, McGraw Hill
2) Farganis, Readings in Social Theory, Fourth Edition, McGraw Hill (2004)
3) Anderson Elijah, The Code of the Street, Norton (1999) (new book)
4) Peter Kivisto, Illuminating Social Life, Third Edition, Pine Forge Press (2005) RECOMMENDED (highly)
Sociology 104a Sociology of Education Evans, Michael
1) Meredith Maran, Class Dismissed, ISBN# 0312283091
2) Dan Lortie, School Teacher , ISBN # 0226493539
3) George Sylvester Counts, Dare the School Build a New Social Order?, ISBN # 0809308789
Sociology 107a Global Apartheid and Global Social Movements Williams, Dessima
1) York W. Wallance Bradshaw, Global Inequalities, ISBN# 080399040X
2) Ian Christie, From Here to Sustainablity: Politics in the Real World, ISBN # 1853837350
Sociology 112b Social Class and Social Change Fellman, Gordon
1) John Berger, Ways of Seeing (Penguin, -) ISBN:0140135154
2) Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel, Economic Apartheid (New Press, 2005) ISBN:1595580158
3) Teresa Brennan, Globalization and Its Terrors (Routledge, -) ISBN:0415285232
4) Alfie Kohn, No Contest (Houghton-Mifflin Mariner Books, -) ISBN:0395431254
5) James Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me(New Press/Norton Touchstone, -) ISBN:0684818868
6) Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics(Penguin), -)ISBN:0451527100
7) Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy(South End Press, 2005) ISBN:089408745X
8) Betsy Leonder-Wright, Class Matters (New Press, 2005) ISBN:0865715238
Sociology 128a Religion and Globalization Hayim, Gila
1) Linda Woodhead, Religion in the Modern World (Routledge, 2002) ISBN:0415217849
2) Akbar S Ahmed, Islam Under Siege (Polity Press, 2003) ISBN:0745622100
3) Mikael Rothstein, New Age Religion and Globalization (Aarhus University Press, 2001) ISBN:8772887923
4) Manuel Vasquez, Globalizing The Sacred (Rutgers 2003) ISBN:081353285X
Sociology 130a Families Osnowitz, Debra
1) Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (University of California Press, -) ISBN:0520239504
2) Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Thesis, and Dissertations(6th Ed.) (University of Chicago Press, -) ISBN:0226814273
3) Nicholas Townsend, The Package Deal: Marriage, Work, and Fatherhood in Men's Lives (Temple University Press, -) ISBN:1566399572
4) Hansen & Garey, Families in the U.S. :Kindshio and DEstic Politics (Temple University Press, -) ISBN:1566395909
5) Karen Hansen, Not-so-Nuclear Families(Rutgers University Press, -) ISBN:0813535018
6) Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift (Penguin, -)
Sociology 138a Sociology of Gender and Race Kim, Nadia
1) Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought (Routledge, 2000) ISBN:0415924847
2) Ruth Frankenburg, White Women, Race Matters (University of Minnesota Press, 1993) ISBN:0816622574
3) Arlie Hachschild, Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (Haltzbrinck Publishers Owl Books, 2004) ISBN:0805075097
4) Yen Espiritu, Asian American Women and Men (Rawman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1996) ISBN:0803972547
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domestica (University of California Press, 2001) ISBN:0520226437
Sociology 147a Organizations and Social Change Sirianni, Carmen
1) Jim Diers, Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2004)
2) Dennis Shirley, Community Organizing and Urban School Reform (University of Texas Press, 1997)
3) Wesley Skogan and Susan Hartnett, Community Policing, Chicago Style (Oxford University Press, 1998)
4) Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont, and Jason Stephens, Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility (Jossey Bass, 2003)
5) Mindy Fried, Taking Time: Parental Leave Policy and Corporate Culture (Temple University Press, 1998)
6) John Hoerr, "We Can' Eat Prestige": The Women Who Organized Harvard (Temple University Press, 1997)
Sociology 154a Community Structure and Youth Subculture Cunningham, David
1) William Finnegan, Cold New World (Modern Library, 1999) ISBN:0375753826
2) Sanyika Shakur, Monster (Grove, 2004) ISBN:0802141447
3) Jim Fricke & Charlie Ahearn, Yes Yes Y'all (Da Capo, 2002) ISBN:030681224X
4) Lauraine Leblanc, Pretty in Punk (Rutgers, 1999) ISBN:0813526515
Sociology 156a Social Change in American Communities Cunningham, David & Auslander, Mark
1) Charles L. Briggs, Learning to Ask: A Sociologistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research (Cambridge University Press, 1986) ISBN:-
2) James C. Cobb, The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Southern Identity (Oxford University Press, 1992) ISBN:-
3) Adam Gussow, Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition (Chicago, 2002) ISBN:-
4) Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi(Laurel, 1968)
5) Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Strugle (University of California Press, 1996) ISBN:-
Sociology 171a Women Leaders and Transformation in Developing Countries Williams, Dessima
1) Michael Genovese, Women as National Leaders, ISBN# 0803943385
2) Janet Higbie, Eugenia: The Carbbean Iran Lady, ISBN # 0333572351
Sociology 178a Sociology of Professions Osnowitz, Debra
1) Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Basic Books, 1984) ISBN:0465079350
2) Eliot Freidson, Professionalism Reborn: Theory, Prophecy, and Policy (University of Chicago Press, 1994) ISBN:0226262219
3) Daniel Chanbliss, Beyond Caring (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN:0226101029
4) Jennifer Pierce, Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms (University of California Press, 1995) ISBN:0520201084
5) Mindy Fried, Taking Time(Temple University Press, -) ISBN:1566396476
6) Meiksins and Whalley, Putting Work in Its Place (Cornell University Press, 2004) ISBN:0801489520
Sociology 181a Quantitative Methods of Social Inquiry Cunningham, David
1) Bonnie Erickson & Terry Nosanchunk, Understanding Data (University of Toronto Press, 2002) ISBN:-
Sociology 189a Sociology of Body and Health Potter, Deborah
1) Nora E. Groce, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Marthas Vineyard, ISBN:067427041X
2) Debra L. Gimlin, Body Work: Beauty and Self Image in American Culture (University of California Press, 2002) ISBN:0520228561
3) Maxine Leeds Craig, Ain't I A Beauty Queen: Black Women, Beauty and the Politics of Race (Oxford University Press, 2002) ISBN:019515262X RECOMMENDED
4) Jean Elson, Am I still a woman?: Hysterectomy and Gender Identity (Temple University Press, 2003) ISBN:1592132111 RECOMMENDED