For Friday, 10/11

Prep

• William Little and Ron McGivern, Introduction to Sociology, Ch. 6 (‘Groups and Organization’), esp. Sects. 6.2 (‘Groups and Networks’), and 6.3 (‘Formal Organizations’)
• George Ritzer, ‘The McDonaldization of Society’Journal of American Culture (1983), pp.100-107

In Class

1. 1. Attendance
   2. Impeachment Watch
   3. Small Groups Exercise: Mapping Ritzer’s Argument
   4. Small Groups Exercise: McDonaldisation in Brazil
   5. Belated Introduction: Max Weber and the Rationalisation Process
      1. Rationalisation in Bed
   6. BREAK
   7. TBA
   8. For Next Time
      1. Annotating the Communist Manifesto

For Next Time

• HW due 10/13: Class Participation Self-Evaluation
• HW due 10/14: Annotated Bibliography
• William Little and Ron McGivern, Introduction to Sociology, Ch. 9 (‘Social Stratification in Canada’), esp. Sects. 9.1 (‘What Is Social Stratification?’) and 9.4 (‘Theoretical Perspectives on Social Stratification’)
• Karl Marx and Frederick Engels,The Communist Manifesto, (New York: Verso, 1998)