Week 1
August 28- Introduction and Syllabus

Week 2
September 2- Labor Day- College Closed

September 4- Why Sociology?
Readings: Forest and the Trees Intro and Chapter 1 (password-protected)

September 5- Conversion Day- Sociological Lens
Reading: C. Wright Mills- Sociological Imagination: The Promise (password-protected)

Due: Subway Project Groups

Week 3
September 9- Sociological Lens
Readings: “An Intersection of Biography and History”- Mary Romero in Mapping the Social Landscape (password-protected)
Due: Subway Project Lines

September 11-Sociological Perspectives
Reading: “Communist Manifesto” Karl Marx

Week 4
September 16- Sociological Perspectives
Reading: Black Reconstruction- The Propaganda of History (chapter, password-protected)

September 18- Sociological Perspectives
Reading: Max Weber- In Mapping the social landscape- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (excerpt, password-protected)
Reading: Thirty Readings in Intro to Sociology- Reading 4- Emile Durkheim- Suicide (excerpt, password-protected)

Week 5
September 23- Sociological Research
Reading: Modules 1 and 2

September 25- Sociological Research
Reading: Modules 3 and 4

Week 6
September 30- No Classes- Holiday

October 2- Culture
Reading: Unit 4- Culture

Week 7
October 7- Socialization and Social Institutions
Reading: Unit 6

October 9- No Classes- Holiday

Week 8
October 14- No Classes- Holiday

October 16- Race
Reading: Devah Pager (password-protected)
     Due: Subway Project Observations

Week 9
October 21- Race
Video- Race, the Power of an Illusion #3

October 23- Race
Reading: Excerpts from American Apartheid (Chapters 1, 2, 5, password-protected)

Week 10
October 28- Midterm Review and Subway Report Backs

October 30- Midterm

Week 11
November 4- Social Class
Reading: Rachel Sherman- Thirty Readings- Excerpt of Class Acts (password-protected)

November 6- Gender
Video: Masculinity

Week 12
November 11-Gender
Reading: Doing Gender (password-protected)

November 13-Gender
Reading: Meadow – ‘Deep down where the music plays’: How parents account for childhood gender variance (password-protected)

Week 13
November 18- Labor and Work- Sweatshops
Video: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Reading: Human Trafficking in Global Shrimp (password-protected)

November 20- Labor and Work- The Gig Economy
Reading: Sharing economy workers: selling, not sharing (password-protected)
Reading: My Frantic Life as a Cab-Dodging, Tip-Chasing Food App Deliveryman (NYT online)

Week 14
November 25- Education
Reading: Hidden Curriculum- Anyon (password-protected)

November 27- Environment
Reading: World Meteorological Organization, “The State of the Global Climate 2018”
Reading: Nolan, et al, “Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change,” Science31 Aug 2018: Vol. 361, Issue 6405, pp. 920-923.
Video: A Sociology of Climate Change

Week 15
December 2- Social Movements
Reading: Dreamers : How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigration Debate. Introduction and Conclusion (password-protected)

December 4-Social Movements

Week 16
December 9- Presentations

December 11- Presentations and Last Thoughts
DUE: SUBWAY PROJECTS

Finals Week