Topics of Readings and course requirement

Instructor: Noriko Hashimoto
Consultation time: MWF 1:30-2:30, TTH 2:30-4:30
Venue of consultation: Faculty lounge/ Library

Topics of Readings and course requirement

I. Discipline of Sociology

a. Sociological imagination, history and biography

   Reading: The promise of sociology by C. Wright Mills (pp. 19-26)

   Invitation to sociology by Peter Berger (pp. 3-7) in Down to earth sociology (9th Ed.) by James         Henslin

b. Theoretical perspectives in sociology

    Reading: The uses of poverty: The poor pay all by Herbert Gans (pp. 314-320) in                    　Down to earth sociology (9th Ed.) by James Henslin

   

Requirement: Newspaper clipping that shows any of the perspectives

II. Sociology as a Science

a.  Methods of Sociological Research

   Reading: How sociologists do research by James Henslin (pp. 31-42) in Down to earth sociology       (9th Ed.) by James Henslin

 b. Practice of Research

   Readings: Street corner society by William Foote Whyte (pp. 59-67) in Down to                          　earth sociology (9th Ed.) by James Henslin 

　The Case for Value-Free Sociology by Max Weber (pp. 22- 23) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, 　　　

　Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology

Requirement: Participant observation on your own social group/neighborhood

III. Self and Groups

a.  Sociological Approaches to the Self

    Reading: The presentation of self in everyday life by Erving Goffman (pp. 117-127) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology

b.  Agents of Socialization

    Reading: The Self by George Herbert Mead (pp. 80-87)

IV. Culture

a.  Culture and Society

   Reading:  What Culture Is by A.L. Kroeber (pp.36-40) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic,    　Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology **　1989 Edition 

b.  Elements of Culture

   Reading: Town fiesta: An anthropologist’s view by Frank Lynch (pp. 219-236) in Philippine society 　and the individual

c.  Cultural Variation

   Reading:  Assimilation in American Life by Milton M. Gordon International Migration 

   Digest Vol. 1, No. 2 (Autumn, 1964), pp. 232-235

V. Social Structure and Social Control

a.  Elements of Social Structure

b.  Types of Social Control

c.  Conformity and Deviance

   Readings: Suicide by Emile Durkheim (pp. 125-   　131) in Readings for introducing sociology (Ed.) Richard Larson and Ronald Knapp

VI. The Family and Intimate Relationships

a. Sociological Perspectives on the Family

　  Reading: The Origin of the Family by Kathleen Gough (pp.238-247) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, 　  Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology Marriage and Diverse        
    Lifestyles**1989 Edition
b. Marriage and Diverse Lifestyles

    Reading: The Violent Family by Suzanne K. Steinmetz (pp.248-254) in Seeing Ourselves: 
    Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology Stratification**　1989 
    Edition

VII. Stratification
a. Social Inequality

　 Video: The Slum - Episode 3: Storm Rising, Aljazeera  

b. Sex and gender

   Reading: The role of theory in sociology by Janet Saltzman Chafetz (pp. 15-20) in  Readings for        introducing sociology (Ed.) Richard Larson and Ronald Knapp

c. Class and inequality

   Reading: Big and little people: Social class in the rural Philippines by Frank Lynch (pp. 104-111)        in Philippine society and the individual

d. Categorically  differences (Religion and Ethnicity)

   Reading: Ethno-religious groups, identification, trust and social distance in the ethno-religiously     

   stratified Philippines by Menandro Abanes et al. in Research in Social Stratification   and Mobility      (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2014.02.001)

VIII. On Social Change

a. Factors Leading to Social Change

    Reading: Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (pp. 58-65)

b. Social Change Theories

   Reading: The Meeting Place by John Paul Lederach

   Journey Towards Reconciliation, forthcoming from Harald Press, Spring 1998.      

   http://conflict.colorado.edu/the-meeting-place.html

c. Globalization

   Reading: The Mcdonaldization of society by George Ritzer (pp. 494-504) in Down to earth    

   sociology (9th Ed.) by James Henslin

 Requirement: A sociological paper due on the week before the final examination date