Monday-Wednesday 11:00 a.m.
Preceptors:
Telephone: 8-4557
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
A package with the required readings is available at Pequod Copy. Readings are also on reserve at Firestone Library. Copies of The Painted Bird (Week 9) can be purchased at the Princeton University Bookstore.
WEEK 1. (FEBRUARY 5) Introduction: Social Ties and Individual Experience
McNall and McNall (1992), Sociology, Chapter 7, pp. 150-63.
Stark and Bainbridge, "Networks of Faith: Interpersonal Bonds and Recruitment to Cults and Sects," American Journal of Sociology 85 (May 1980), pp. 1376-1395.
M. Granovetter, "The Strength of Weak Ties," American Journal of Sociology 78 (May 1973), pp. 1360-1379.
P. Giordano, "The Wider Circle of Friends in Adolescence," American Journal of Sociology (November 1995), pp. 661-97.
Recommended Reading:
McNall and McNall (1992), Sociology, Chapters 2 and 3. (Reserve).
WEEK 2. (FEBRUARY 12) Formal Organizations
McNall and McNall (1992), Sociology, Chapter 7, pp. 163-176.
M. Weber (1958), "Bureaucracy," in Gerth and Mills, From Max Weber, pp. 196-216.
N.W. Biggart (1989), Charismatic Capitalism, pp. 1-16 and 126-159.
A. Hochschild (1983), The Managed Heart, pp. 89-126 and 147-153.
WEEK 3. (FEBRUARY 19) Economic Inequality: Explaining Poverty
McNall and McNall (1992), Sociology, Chapter 10, pp. 228-258.
L. Wacquant and W.J. Wilson, "The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City," Annals of the American Academy of Political Social Science 501, January 1989, pp. 8-25.
Liebow (1967), "Men and Jobs on Tally's Corner."
S. McLanahan, "The Consequences of Single Motherhood," The American Prospect 18 (Summer 1994), pp. 48-58.
Stier and Tienda (1993), "Are Men Marginal to the Family?," in Jane C. Hood, ed., Men, Work, and Family, pp. 23-44.
WEEK 4. (FEBRUARY 26) Race and Ethnic Relations
Kinder and Sears (1981), "Prejudice and Politics: Symbolic Racism vs. Racial Threats to the Good Life," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, pp. 414-431.
J. Rieder (1985), Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism, Introduction, Chapter 4 and Chapter 6.
M. Kilson, "The Black Bourgeoisie Revisited," Dissent 30 (1983), pp. 85-96.
R. Takaki (1989), "The Myth of the 'Model Minority'," in Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, pp. 203-208.
Stepick and Grenier (1993), "Cubans in Miami," in Moore and Pinderhughes, In the Barrios, pp. 79-100.
WEEK 5. (MARCH 4) Gender and Work: Explaining Job Segregation by Sex
Reskin and Roos (1990), "Occupational Sex Segregation: Persistence and Change," in Reskin and Roos, eds., Job Queues, Gender Queues, pp. 3-27, 69-90.
Kanter, "The Impact of Hierarchical Structures on the Work Behavior of Men and Women," Social Problems (April 1976), pp. 415-430.
K. Gerson (1985), Hard Choices, Chapter 4, "Veering Away from Domesticity," pp. 69-91.
R. Fiorentine, "Men, Women, and the Premed Persistence Gap: A Normative Alternatives Approach," American Journal of Sociology (March 1987), pp. 1118-1137.
C. Williams (1989), Gender Differences at Work, Chapter 4, "Masculinity in Nursing," pp. 88-130.
WEEK 6. (MARCH 11) Methods for Social Research
WEEK 7 (MARCH 25) Social Change
McNall and McNall (1992), Sociology, Chapter 21, pp. 516-537.
V. Zelizer, "Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death," American Journal of Sociology (November 1978), pp. 591-610.
M. Schudson (1984), "The Emergence of New Consumer Patterns: A Case Study of the Cigarette," in Advertising: The Uneasy Persuasion, pp. 178-208.
C. Fischer, "Gender and the Residential Telephone, 1890-1940: Technologies of Sociability," Sociological Forum (Spring 1988), pp. 211-233.
R. Leidner (1993), Fast Food, Fast Talk, pp. 44-76, 134-147.
WEEK 8. (APRIL 1) Monday Lecture: Social Change (continued)
WEEK 8 (APRIL 3) Wednesday Lecture: Demographic Foundations of Social Change
R. Easterlin (1980), Birth and Fortune, Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4., pp. 3-78.
WEEK 9. (APRIL 8) Deviance: Sociological and Historical Perspectives
S. Cole (1979), The Sociological Orientation, Chapter 6.
Kosinski, The Painted Bird.
WEEK 10. (APRIL 15) Deviance: Part II
Cameron (1964), "An Interpretation of Shoplifting," in Adler and Simon, The Criminology of Deviant Women, pp. 158-166.
Lemert (1967), "The Check Forger and his Identity," in Rubington and Weinberg, Deviance: An Interactionist Perspective, pp. 406-412.
Glassner and Berg, "How Jews Avoid Alcohol Problems," American Sociological Review (August 1980), pp. 647-663.
Chambliss (1973), "The Saints and the Roughnecks," in Clark and Robboy, eds., Social Interaction: Readings in Sociology, pp. 237-251.
WEEK 11. (APRIL 22) Gender and Deviant Behavior
C. Smart (1976), Chapter 1, "The Nature of Female Criminality," Women, Crime and Criminology: A Feminist Critique, pp. 1-26.
B. Thorne, "Crossing the Gender Divide," Gender Play:Girls and Boys in School, pp. 111-34.
E. Miller (1986), Street Woman, pp. 3-11 and 35-64.
Michael, Gagnon, Laumann, and Kolata (1994), Chapter 12, "Forced Sex," Sex in America: A Definitive Survey, pp. 219-229.
Ferraro and Johnson (1989), "How Women Experience Battering," in D.H. Kelly, ed., Deviant Behavior: A Text Reader in Sociology of Deviance, pp. 247-64.
WEEK 12. (APRIL 29) Individual and Society
Berger and Kellner (1981), Sociology Reinterpreted, Chapter 4, "Sociological Interpretation and the Problem of Freedom."
Skinner (1971), Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Chapters 1 and 8.
W. Wilson (1978), On Human Nature, Chapter 7, "Altruism".
R. Wuthnow (1995), Learning to Care, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 3-35.
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