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This is primarily a reading and lecture course. Lectures will be on Tuesday and Thursday from 8:10 to 9:30am. It is very important to attend all the lectures and to take careful notes. Students are required to also attend a weekly Discussion Section meeting to ask questions about the readings and the lectures. Students should read the assignments prior to their Discussion Section meeting. The midterm and final are in-class short-answer essay exams. Study questions will be handed out the week prior to the exams. The midterm will be onTuesday, April 30.The Final exam is on Thursday, June 13 from 7:00- 9:00pm.
A five page Exercise Report  is  due the week of May 13-17 in Section. Grading will be based as follows: Exercise = 30%, Midterm = 30%, Final = 40%. The following books are required reading and are available in the University Book Store:
Charles Lemert, Social Things
Stephen K. Sanderson, Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (4th ed.)
Stephen J. Rose, Social Stratification in the United States
W. Warren Wagar, A Short History of the Future
Photocopies of Thompson and Tunstall are available at the Printing and Reprographics Service in the Commons Complex. Readings marked with an asterisk (*) are required and should be read by the indicated dates. Others are recommended. Readings followed by a number in parentheses are in Thompson and Tunstall.

April 4:  No class. Read the following and attend your Discussion Section.

* Gouldner (1)

* Lemert, Social Things (whole book, skim Chaps. 4-7)

* Sanderson, Macrosociology, Chapter 1

April 9, 11 Explanations of human behavior and the study of societies.
I. SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION
A. Social creation of the self: certification and socialization

* Mead (10)

* Georg Simmel, Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations, pp. 138-63 (on reserve)
Jonathan H. Turner, On the Origins of Human Emotions, Stanford University Press, 2000.

April 16
B. Social construction of reality: institutionalization

*Berger and Luckman (43)

*Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Part 1, Section 4, "The fetishism of commodities" (on reserve)

April 18
C. Statuses and roles

*Merton (14)

*Goffman (13)

April 23
D. Types of social regulation: sharing, reciprocity, coercion, market exchange

*Blau (15)

*Karl Polanyi, "Our obsolete market mentality" Pp. 59-77 in George Dalton (ed.) Primitive, Archaic and ModernEconomies: Essays of Karl Polanyi. Boston, Beacon Press, 1968 (on reserve).

E. The moral order: deviance and social control; norms and values

*Robert Merton, "Social structure and anomie" (on reserve)

*Durkheim (7b)

*Kingsley Davis, "Jealousy and sexual property" (on reserve)

Kai Erikson, The Wayward Puritans

April 25
F. Social stratification: inequalities in small groups and in societies

*William F. Whyte, Street Corner Society, pp. 14-25 (on reserve)

*Marx and Engels (16a); Marx (16b)

*Weber (17)

*Erik Wright “Class counts: comparative studies in class analysis” (on reserve)

G.  Modes of accumulation and world-systems

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro,  Social Change Chapter 2 (on reserve)

MIDTERM April 30

May 2
II. SOCIAL EVOLUTION: FROM SIMPLE TO COMPLEX SOCIETIES

*Sanderson, Chapters 2 and 3

Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1

May 7
A. Precapitalist socio-economic systems

*Sanderson, Chapters 4,5,6,11 and 15

*David Wilkinson, "Central Civilization" (on reserve)

May 9
B. Origins of the capitalist world-economy

*Sanderson, Chapter 7

*Immanuel Wallerstein, "Three paths to national development in l6th century Europe" (on reserve)

* Start reading, Wagar, A Short History of the Future. Finish by June 6

Fernand Braudel, The Perspective of the World, Volume 3 of Civilizations and Capitalism

Exercise Report Due the week of May 13-17 in Section

May 14
C. The core countries

*Sanderson, Chapters 8,10,12

C. Chase-Dunn, "The development of core capitalism in the ante-bellum United States: tariff politics and class struggle in an upwardly mobile semiperiphery," Pp. 189-230 in Albert Bergesen (ed.) Studies of the Modern World-System

Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century (London: Verso, 1994)

May 16,21
D. The underdeveloped periphery

* Andre Gunder Frank "The development of underdevelopment" (on reserve)

*Sanderson, Chapters 9,13

Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn, Transnational Corporations and Underdevelopment
 
 
 
 
 

A. Class structure in the USA

* Rose, Social Stratification in the United States
* Sanderson, Chapter 10 (again)

May 28, 30
B. Globalization
* C. Chase-Dunn, "Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective" Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol V, 2, 1999, 165-185. http://csf.colorado.edu/jwsr/archive/vol5/vol5_number2/html/chase-dunn/index.shtml

Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change

June 4
C. Family and Gender Roles

*Sanderson, Chapters 14 

Scott Coltrane,  Gender and Families (Pine Forge, 1998)

June 6
IV. PROGRESS?

*Wagar, A Short History of the Future, Part 1

*Sanderson, Chapter 18

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Podobnik, "The next world war: world-system cycles and trends" in Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn, The Future of Global Conflict (Sage, 1999). http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html

Final Exam Thursday, June 13 from 7:00- 9:00pm