For Friday, 9/27

Prep

• Matthew Desmond, ‘In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation’, Times Sunday Magazine (14 August 2019)
• William Little and Ron McGivern, Introduction to Sociology, Ch. 18 (‘Work and the Economy’), esp. Section 18.1 (‘Economic Systems’)
• Review Rebecca Jones, ‘Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother With Logic?’,  pp. 156-71. This can be a light skim.

In Class

1. 1. Attendance
   2. Current Events: Holy Shit! Impeachment!!?
   3. Review for Midterm Exam
   4. Logical Argumentation
      1. Slavery and Capitalism: Mapping Desmond (2019)
      2. Intro to Hypothes.is
   5. BREAK
   6. Economic Systems
   7. For Next Time

For Next Time

• William Little and Ron McGivern, Introduction to Sociology, Ch. 17 (‘Government and Politics’), esp. Sections 17.1 (‘Power and Authority’) and 17.2 (‘Democratic Will Formation’)
• TBA