TOPICS AND READINGS
1. What is Sociology?
Anthony Giddens: The Scope of Sociology
C. Wright Mills: The Sociological Imagination and the Promise of Sociology
Zygmunt Bauman: Thinking Sociologically
2. Culture and Society
*Jerome H. Barkow: Universals And Evolutionary Psychology
Barkow UNIVERSALS
3. Socialization and the Life Cycle
*Nancy Chodorow: The Cycle Completed: Mothers And Children
Chodorow_Mothering
4. Social Interaction and Everyday Life
Erving Goffman: Civil Inattention and Face Engagement in Social Interaction
Michael Young: Time, Habit and Repetition in Day-to-Day Life
Deborah Tannen: „You Just Don’t Understand“
5. Crime and Deviance
Josie O'Dwyer & Pat Carlen: Surviving in a Women's Prison
Jane Dowdeswell: The ct of Rape
Michael Clarke: The Nature of Business Crime
6. Gender and Sexuality
Paul Hewitt with Jane Warren: A Self-Made Man
(The Economist) The Male Dodo: Are Men Necessary?
It’s Normal to Be Queer
Jeffrey Weeks: What do We Mean When We Talk About the Body and Sexuality?
7. Class, Stratification and Inequality
Anthony Giddens: Marx and Weber on Class
Mike Savage: The Middle Class in Modern Britain
Andy Pilkington: Is There a British Underclass?
8. Poverty, Welfare and Social Exclusion
*David L. Harvey and Michael Reed: Paradigmes of Poverty: A Critical Assessment of Contemporary Perspectives
Paradigms of Poverty
9. Race, Ethnicity and Migration
Frances Aboud: The Development of Ethnic Awareness and Identification
Tarik Modood, Sharon Beishon and Satnam Virdee: Changing Ethnic Identities in Britain
Paul Gilroy: „There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack“
10. Groups, Organizations and Networks
*Sebastian Budgen: A New ‘Spirit Of Capitalism’ (Review of Luc Boltanski & Čve Chiapello, Le Nouvel esprit du capitalisme
SEBASTIAN BUDGEN - A NEW SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM
11. Government and Politics
David Beetham & Kevin Boyle: What is Democracy?
Ernest Gellner: Nations and Nationalism
Birna Helgagottir: Eastern Europe Tires of Capitalist Promises
12. War and Terrorism
*Ulrich Beck: The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited
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