Readings
For those of you checking out the website before you sign up for my classes, do not despair!
The following readings are not all required. The readings deal with things that we cover in class and are there for you to get a better understanding of the material. Depending on the class you take, no more than four of the articles below are required for the course.
Alcoholism: The Disease Model Revisited
Artificial Beauty and the New Feminism:
Solomon Asch: Opinions and Social Pressure:
A School in Coal's Shadow
Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Speech
Brave Neuro World Required for Introduction to Sociology
Sociological Imagination: C. Wright Mills Required for all Courses
C. Wright Mills: 50 Years Later
Construction of Adult Entertainment
William Chambliss: The Saints and the Roughnecks
Debt to Society: How we got to two million prisoners
Debt to Society: Alternatives to prisons
The Medicalization of Deviance
Reflexive Self Through Narrative Required for Intro to Sociology
Reflexive Self Through Narrative Part II Required for Intro to Sociology
The Souls of Black Folk: WEB DuBoise
Should Affirmative Action Be Abolished?
Educational Inequality: Inequality in NY Gifted Program
Erotic Capital: The advantages of sexiness!
Fukushima and US Mortality Rates: NEW Did the Fukushima meltown kill Americans?
Foucault, Governmentality and Critique
From Durkheim: Rules of the Sociological Method
From Durkheim: Rules of the Sociological Method: The Normality of Crime
From Foucault: History of Sexuality
From Stauber and Rampton: Toxic Sludge is Good for You
It's OK to be Ugly: Is there a sociology of "looksism?"
Kingsley Davis: A Final Note on Extreme Isolation
Robert Merton: Society and Anomie:
Stanley Milgram: A Behavioral Study of Obedience:
One Nation, Many Gods: How teaching about religion can help instill tolerance in schools
A Peculiar Version of Friendly Fire
From Foucault: Discipline and Punish
From Boulding - Cultures of Peace
From Goffman - Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
HDI and Inequality in the United States
What's American About America?
The Westernization of the World
Video Games and Youth Violence
Cultural Assimilation and Inter-racial Marriage
NIU Shooting: Another look at Anomie
What Happened When an Anti-Choice Catholic Woman Need an Abortion at Dr. Tiller's Clinic
Spoil Rotten (Alfie Kohn) Kids these days are...not really so bad!
Required Readings (For Life)
Below is a list of my famous (or rather infamous "required readings." Remember, these are not required readings for the course, but they are, or at least should be, required reading for life.
