Course Schedule
Section 1: Culture and Ethnography
1/15
Welcome
1/17
“The Sociological Imagination” Handout
1/22
Miner, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”
1/24 Clifford Geertz, “Thick
Description.”
Clifford
Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” (1-4 of PDF)
1/29
Havidán Rodríguez, “Rising to the
Challenges of a Catastrophe: The Emergent and Prosocial Behavior followingHurricane
Katrina.” 2006
1/31
Quiz 1
2/5
Foundations of Sociology-PowerPoint
Presentation
Section 2: Structural Inequalities and
Social Mobility
2/7
Carol Stack, All Our Kin (Excerpt)
2/14
Annette Lareau. 2002. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in
Black Families and White Families. (American Sociological Review 67:
747-776).
2/19
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers Interview (film)
2/21
Quiz 2
2/26
Film: Inside Job
Section 3: Gender and Sexuality
2/28
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the
Body : Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. 1st ed. New York,
NY: Basic Books. Chapter 1 pp. 1-30
3/3 Paper 1-If I Was a Sociologist Paper Due
3/5 Film: Dr. Money and the Boy with no Penis
3/5 Film: Dr. Money and the Boy with no Penis
3/7
Group Presentations
3/12
Midterm
Section 4: The Family and Kinship
3/19
Weston, Kath. “The Monkey Cage and the Red De
Soto” and “Exiles from Kinship” in Families
We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship, pp. 1-41. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1997.
3/21
Friedan, Betty. [1963] 2001. “The Problem that Has No Name” in The Feminine
Mystique, pp. 15-32. New York: W.W. Norton
3/26
Hochschild, Arlie. 1989. The Second
Shift. (Pp. 37-55). New York: Penguin.
Section 5: Urban Life and the Social
World
3/28
Gotham, Kevin Fox. “Marketing Mardi
Gras: Commodification, Spectacle and the Political Economy of Tourism in New
Orleans.” 2002
William Jankowiak and C. Todd White. “An Ethnological Study of New Orleans
Mardi Gras. Ethnology, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 335-349
4/4 Writing Workshop
4/9
Quiz 3
4/11 John Horne and
Wolfram Manzenreiter, “An Introduction to the Sociology of Sports Mega-Events.”
2006
4/14 Ethnographic Papers Due
4/14 Ethnographic Papers Due
Section 6: Deviance
4/16 An Ethnological Study of New Orleans Mardi Gras--Jankowiak and White
4/18 David
L. Rosenhan, 1973, On Being Sane in Insane Places.
4/23 Philippe I. Bourgois, In Search of
Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
Section 7: Social Movements
4/25 Sparks, Holloway. "Dissident Citizenship:
Democratic Theory, Political Courage, and Activist Women." Hypatia,
1997
4/30
Case Study: Violence against Women at the U.S.-Mexico Border
5/2
Group Presentations
5/7
Last day of Class Final Exam Review-Final Paper Due In Class
5/9 6:00-8:00pm Final
Exam
***Note that time is different than
regular session.
