TOPICS AND READINGS
1.Families
(The Economist) Home Sweet Home: The Debate about Family Values
Gwynn Davis and Mervyn Murch: Why Do Marriages Break Down?
Joe Chandler: Women Outside Marriage
2.Education
Nicholas Abercrombie and Alan Warde: Inequality and Selection in Education
Geoffrey Walford: Education and Private Schools
Paul E. Willis: Dossing Blagging and Wagging: Countercultural Groups in the School Environment
3.Mass Media and Communications
John B. Thompson: Mass Communication, Symbolic Goods and Media Products
Christine Geraghty: The Appeal of Soap Opera
Steven Levy with Katie Hafner and Adam Rogers: The Internet and Global Communication
4.Religion
*Bryan S. Turner: Cosmopolitan Virtue: On Religion in a Global Age
5.Work and Economic Life
Nicholas Abercrombie and Alan Warde: The Labour Process
J.I.Gershuny and R.E, Pahl: Implications and the Future of Informal Economy
Chris Brewster: You've Got to Go with the Flow: The Changing Nature of Jobs
David Lyon: Information Technology and the 'Information Society‘
6. Globalization
*Immanuel Wallerstein: Globalization or the Age of Transition? A Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World-System
7. Cities and Urban Spaces
*Barbara Freitag: Global Cities in Informational Societies
8. Population Growth
* Sarah F. Harbison and Warren C. Robinson: Globalization, Family Structure, and Declining Fertility in the Developing World
9. Health and Illness
*David Healy: Shaping the Intimate: Influences on the Experience of Everyday Nerves
10. Social Movements
* Robert A. Rhoads: Globalization and Resistance in the United Staes and Mexico: The Global Potemkin Village
11. Social Change
* Daniel Cere: Courtship Today: The View from Academia
12.Sociological Research Methods
Robert A. Georges & Michael O. Jones: The Human Element in Fieldwork
Catherine Marsh: The Value of the Survey Method
Joanna Mack & Stewart Lansley: Absolute and Relative Poverty in Britain: An Illustration of Survey Work
13.Theoretical Thinking in Sociology
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Materialist Conception of History
Emile Durkheim: The Field of Sociology
Max Weber: Meaning and Interpretation in Sociology
Anthony Giddens: Sociology and the Explanation of Human Behaviour