I will generally post the prep material in the agenda for the next class, which will appear on the homepage, but you can read ahead by browsing this page. Be advised, however, that I will not necessarily assign all the readings that appear below.
Note: Readings are listed alphabetically, rather than in the order that we’ll read them. Citations for the readings here will be formatted in ASA Style as much as possible (this is an ongoing project) so that you can see how they should look in your own bibliographies; note that they are formatted more casually on the homepage.
Michael A. Caulfield, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (2017), Part I (‘Four Strategies and a Habit’); Part II (‘Look for Previous Work’), Sections 1 (‘How to Use Previous Work’), 2 (‘Fact-Checking Sites’), 3 (‘Wikipedia’); Part III, Section 1 (‘Going Upstream to Find the Source’); Part IV (‘Reading Laterally’), Sections 1 (‘What Reading Laterally Means’), 18 (‘Basic Techniques: Web Domains, WHOIS’); 20 (‘Stupid Journal Tricks’); 21 (‘Finding a Journal’s Impact Factor’); 22 (‘Using Google Scholar to Evaluate Author Expertise’), 23 (‘How to Think About Research’), 25 (‘Choosing Your Experts First’), 26 (‘Evaluating News Sources’), 27 (‘National Newspapers of Record’)
Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer, “What is Racial Domination?” Du Bois Review, 6:2, 2009, pp. 335-355.
Emile Durkheim, ‘What Is a Social Fact?’(pp. 50-59 in the linked PDF), from The Rules of Sociological Method (Les regles de méthode sociologique[1894]).
Malcolm Gladwell, ‘Designs for Working’, The New Yorker (11 December 2000).
Ground Rules for the Classroom
Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993.
Karl Marx, Thesis XI of ‘Theses on Feuerbach’.
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto, New York: Verso, 1998.
Peggy McIntosh, ‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack’(1988).
Judith Lorber, ‘Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender’.
C. Wright Mills, ‘The Promise’ (Mills 2000).
Persell, Caroline Hodges, Pfeiffer, Kathryn M., & Syed, Ali. 2007. ‘What Should Students Understand After Taking Introduction to Sociology?’Teaching Sociology35, October, pp. 300-314.
Robert Putnam, ‘Bowling Alone’ (1995).
George Ritzer, ‘The McDonaldization of Society’ Journal of American Culture (1983), pp.100-107.
Svenonius, Ian. 2015. ‘Against Tipping’. Jacobin.
Max Weber, ‘The Case for Value-Free Sociology’, excerpted from ‘Politik als Beruf’ (1920).
Max Weber, ‘The Characteristics of Bureaucracy’, Economy and Society (1921).
