Prep
- Due 8/7/2019, 23:59: Final Exam
- Claude S. Fischer, ‘Inventing the Social Network’, Boston Review (19 December 2013)
- ‘Conclusion: Understanding and Changing the Social World’
In Class
- Attendance
- What Was the Most Important Point from Yesterday?
- Keywords: Negative Externalities
- Social Network Analysis
- Public Sociology
- BREAK
- Review: Kyle D. Stedman, ‘Annoying Ways People Use Sources’, Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Vol. 2 (2011):
- Armadillo Roadkill
- Uncle Buddy’s Encyclopedia of Useless Facts
- Am I in the Right Movie?
- I Can’t Find the Stupid Link
- I Swear I Did Some Research!
- Review: FInal Exam
- For Next Time
For Next Time
- John Atlas and Peter Dreier, ‘Is The Wire Too Cynical?’, Dissent (25 March 2008)
Links to articles about microplastics found in humans. The science itself isn’t sociological, but should develop awareness and motivation on how important this issue is.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/22/659568662/microplastics-are-turning-up-everywhere-even-in-human-excrement
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microplastics-are-blowing-in-the-wind/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oX2xFo7JA4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNJUsE7pEs4
Folks, the first of Matthew’s videos is on pessimism as a philosophy; the second is on the Kaepernick protests.