Course Readings - Introduction to Sociology - Pittsburgh Campus

Course Readings: Chapters from Books

Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Call Number: Hillman Library - General Collection: HV6439.U7 C46 2008

ISBN: 9781594201509

Publication Date: 2008-01-10

Week 1: Thursday, June 26. Venkatesh, Sudhir. “How Does It Feel to be Black and Poor,” pp. 1-25.
Footsteps in the Dark by George Lipsitz
Call Number: Music Library (B-28 Music Building): ML3918.P67 L56 2007

ISBN: 9780816650194

Publication Date: 2007-08-29
The Gender/Sexuality Reader by Roger Lancaster (Editor); Micaela Di Leonardo (Editor)
Call Number: Hillman Library - General Collection: GN479.65 .G475 1997

ISBN: 0415910048

Publication Date: 1997-09-16

Week 3: Tuesday, July 8: D’Emilio, John D. “Capitalism and Gay Identity,” pp. 169-178.
Guyland by Michael Kimmel
Call Number: Johnstown, Greensburgh, and Bradford Campus Libraries: HQ799.6 .K56 2008

ISBN: 9780060831349

Publication Date: 2008-08-26 (Note: First edition)

Week 3: Thursday, July 10: Kimmel, Michael. “Bros Before the Hos’: the Guy Code,” pp.44-69.
Men's Lives by Michael S. Kimmel (Editor); Michael A. Messner (Editor)
Call Number: Hillman Library - General Collection: HQ1090.3 .K554 1998

ISBN: 0205266495

Publication Date: 1997-09-30

Week 3: Thursday, July 10: Boswel, A. Ayres and Joan Z. Spade. “Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?” pp. 133-147.
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
Call Number: Hillman Library - General Collection: LC4091 K69 1991

ISBN: 051758221X

Publication Date: 1991-08-27

Week 4: Thursday, July 17: Kozol, Jonathan. “Other People’s Children,” pp. 40-83
Enchanting a Disenchanted World by George Ritzer
Call Number: Hillman Library - General Collection: HC110.C6 R58 2010

ISBN: 9781412975810

Publication Date: 2009-12-09

Week 5: Tuesday, July 22: Ritzer, George. "Rationalization, Enchantment, and Disenchantment,” pp. 71-103.
One Dimensional Man: Studies In the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse
Call Number: E-Book. Also print copies: Hillman Library - General Collection: HM101 .M322

Publication Date: 1964

Week 5: Thursday, July 24: Excerpts
Illuminating Social Life by Peter Kivisto
Call Number: Hillman Library - General Collection: HM585 .I44 2001

ISBN: 0761987177

Publication Date: 2001-02-21

Week 6: Tuesday, July 29: Swatos, William. “Globalization and Religious Fundamentalism” pp. 361-384.

Course Textbook

ISBN: 9780393912999

On order for Hillman Library. Purchase at the Book Center or as an e-book:

http://books.wwnorton.com.

Films

Hip-hop : beyond beats and rhymes/ produced, directed and written by Byron Hurt
Call Number: Stark Media Services - G20 Hillman Library - limited access: DVD-13964

Week 2: Tuesday, July 1
The merchants of cool/ produced by Barak Goodman, Rachel Dretzin ; directed by Barak Goodman ; written by Rachel Dretzin
Call Number: Location: Stark Media Services - G20 Hillman Library - limited access: DVD-1227

Week 2: Thursday, July 3
Race, the power of an illusion/ written, produced and directed by Tracy Heather Strain ; edited by Randall MacLowry, Cob Carlson
Call Number: Stark Media Services - G20 Hillman Library - limited access: DVD-1415

Week 4: Thursday, July 17

Course Readings: Articles from Ejournals

Gray, Mary. Spring 2007. "Face Value." Contexts, pp. 73-75.
Week 2: Thursday, July 3
Collins, Patricia Hill. “It’s All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation,” Hypation, Vol. 13 (3), pp. 62-82.
Week 4: Tuesday, July 15
Grazian, David. "Neoliberalism and the Realities of Reality TV," Contexts, vol. 9: pp. 68-71.
Week 5: Thursday, July 22
Avishai, Orit. "Women of God," Contexts, Vol. 9 (4), 46-51d.
Week 6: Tuesday, July 29
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck. "The Post-9/11 Hijab as Icon.'" Sociology of Religion. 68 (3), pp. 68-71.
Week 6: Tuesday, July 29
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck. "The Post-9/11 Hijab as Icon." Sociology of Religion, 68 (3), pp. 253-267
Week 6: Tuesday, July 29

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Introduction to Sociology - Pittsburgh Campus

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