Reading List for Sociology 3321
(Note: If any chapter numbers below do not match your book, be sure to go with the title of the reading)
PART I. THEORY AND RESEARCH IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1: History, Theory, and Research Strategies
Macionis reader: Reading 1, “The Sociological Imagination” – C. Wright Mills
Macionis reader: Reading 2, “Invitation to Sociology” – Peter L. Berger
Macionis reader: Reading 6, “The Case for Value-Free Sociology” – Max Weber
Macionis reader: Reading 10, “Manifest and Latent Functions” – Robert K. Merton
PART II. FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 2: Biological and Environmental Foundations
PART III. INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD: THE FIRST TWO YEARS
Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
Chapter 6: Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
Development of the Self (symbolic interaction perspective):
Macionis Reader, Reading 17, “The Self” – George Herbert Mead
Macionis Reader, Reading 22, “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” – Irving Goffman
PART IV. EARLY CHILDHOOD: TWO TO SIX YEARS
Chapter 8: Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
Socialization
Macionis reader, Reading 20, “Parents Socialization of Children in Global Perspective”
Family and Education
Macionis reader, Reading 66, “Japanese Mothers as the Best Teachers”
PART V. MIDDLE CHILDHOOD: SIX TO ELEVEN YEARS
Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
Chapter 10: Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood
Exam 1 will cover the material above the line below this sentence
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Gender
Macionis reader, Reading 18 – “Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of
Masculinities – Micahel Messner
Race and Ethnicity as Social Control
Macionis reader, Reading 44, “The Soul of Black Folk” – W. E. B. DuBois
Macionis reader, Reading 45, “Controlling Images and Black Women’s Oppression” – P. H. Collins
Macionis reader, Reading 46, “How Did Jews Become White Folks?” – K. B. Sacks
Advertising
Macionis reader, Reading 19, “Socialization and the Power of Advertising” – Jean Kilbourne
Education and Stratification
Macionis reader, Reading 64, “Education and Inequality” – S. Bowles and H. Gintis
Macionis reader, Reading 65, “Savage Inequalities” – Jonathan Kozol
PART VI. ADOLESCENCE: THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD
Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Macionis reader, Reading 5, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” (hint, think deeply about the title!)
Chapter 12: Emotional and Social Development in Adolescence
Macionis reader, Reading 3, “Teenage Wasteland” – Donna Gaines
Macionis reader, Reading 14, “Gemeinschaft and Fesellschaft” – Ferdinand Tonnies
Physical appearance
Macionis reader: Reading 11, “Cultural Obsessions with Thinness” – Becky W. Thompson
Gender and Sex
Macionis reader, Reading 34, “Understanding Sexual Orientation” – Alfred Kinsey, et al.
Macionis reader, Reading 36, “Homosexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective” – J. M. Carrier
Religion
Macionis reader, Reading 62, “How Student Life is Different at Religious Colleges” – N. S. Riley
Macionis reader, Reading 82, “The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty” – D. G. Myers
Anomie
Macionis reader, Reading 80, “Anomy and Modern Life” – Emile Durkheim
Macionis reader, Reading 81, “The Disenchantment of Modern Life” – Max Weber
PART VII. EARLY ADULTHOOD
Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood
Chapter 14: Emotional and Social Development in Early Adulthood
Working
Macionis reader, Reading 13, “Manifesto of the Communist Party” – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Macionis reader, Reading 51, “Alienated Labor” – Karl Marx
Macionis reader, Reading 52, “When Work Disappears” – William Julius Wilson
Family
Macionis reader, Reading 15, “Unmarried with Children” – Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Gender and Sex
Macionis reader, Reading 24, “You Just Don’t Understand: Men and Women in Conversation” – D. Tannen
Macionis reader, Reading 40, “Sex and Temperment in Three Primitive Societies” – Margaret Mead
Macionis reader, Reading 41, “Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender” – J. Lorber
Social Control
Macionis reader, Reading 31, “On Being Sane in Insane Places” – D. L. Rosenham
Exam number 2 will cover the material above the line just below, and after exam 1
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Religion
Macionis reader, Reading 61, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” – Max Weber
PART VIII. MIDDLE ADULTHOOD
Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood
Chapter 16: Emotional and Social Development in Middle Adulthood
Physical Appearance
Macionis reader, Reading 25, “The Dos and TABOOS of Body Language around the World” – R. E. Axtell
The Family
Macionis reader, Reading 58, “’His’ and ‘Her’ Marriage” – Jessie Bernard
Macionis reader, Reading 59, “The Mommy Myth” – S. Douglas and M. Michaels
Macionis reader, Reading 60, “Mate Selection around the World” – Bron Ingoldsby
Working
Macionis reader, Reading
Macionis reader, Reading 28, “McJobs: McDonaldization and the Workplace” – G. Ritzer
Gender and Sex
Macionis reader, Reading 35, “Sex in America: How Many Partners Do We Have?” – R. T. Mitchell, et al.
Macionis reader, Reading 42, “How Subtle Sex Discrimination Works” – N. V. Benokraitis
Social Stratification
Macionis reader, Reading 55, “The Power Elite” – C. Wright Mills
Macionis reader, Reading 56, “Who’s Running America” – T. Dye
Religion and Gender
Macionis reader, Reading 63, “Women and Islam” – J. I. Smith
PART IX. LATE ADULTHOOD
Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood
Chapter 18: Emotional and Social Development in Late Adulthood
Social Stratification as Control
Macionis reader, Reading 38, “Who Has How Much and Why” – Andrew Hacker
Macionis reader, Reading 39, “The Uses of Global Poverty” – D. S. Eglitis
Macionis reader, Reading 49, “How the Grandparent Role is Changing” – R. Giarusso, et al.
PART X. THE END OF LIFE
Chapter 19: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
Macionis reader, Reading 48, “The Tragedy of Old Age in America” – Robert Butler
Macionis reader, Reading 50, “Our Aging World”