SYG
2010 - Social Problems
Detailed
Readings
Here is the link to the Reserved Readings site for your
convenience.
M. 7/2 Introduction
& Course Overview
Online- Among
Affluent
Students, a Culture of Disengagement http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kjoos/fall06/syg2000/flacks.pdf
Online- From Sociological Illiteracy to Sociological
Imagination http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/newnews/news42700a.htm
SP
1
F. 7/6 - T. 7/10 Inequality &
Intersections: Race/Gender/Sexuality/Social Class
SP 7-10
E-Reserves Graff,
Kleinman, McIntosh
A
Class Divided film
(please watch part 5 before class on Monday)
On Mon I mentioned this
NPR discussion of the history of the word hispanic as coined by the U.S.
government
On Tues we viewed clips from Tough
Guise in class, we also distributed the "Cycle of Liberation"
handout and the short reading Building
Empathy by Patricia Hill Collins
W. 7/11 - F. 7/13 Poverty & Global
Poverty
SP 6
E-Reserves Eglitis, Ehrenreich, Cox, Ehrenreich/Fox Piven,
Krugman
Online- Shiva Two Myths that Keep the World Poor- http://www.organicconsumers.org/btc/shiva112305.cfm
HTCTW 1-2
On Wed. we viewed this New
York Times site on Social Class & we listened to this NPR discussion
on the
Poverty Line
On Fri. you viewed this film on Global Poverty http://www.miniature-earth.com/
Reading
Notebook 1
(on the above 3 units) will be due Monday, July 16th.
M. 7/16 - T. 7/17 Education
SP 12
E-Reserves Manning
HTCTW 13
On Tues. we listened to this NPR discussion: Students'
View of Intelligence Can Help Grades
W.
7/18 - F 7/19 Health & Healthcare
SP 13
E-Reserves Silverstein, Mangan, Critser
HTCTW 8,19
On Wed.
we saw Sicko http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/checkup/
On Fri. we
listened to this NPR discussion
on How Food Finds its Way to Your Plate
we watched The Meatrix & Supersize Me
Optional, for more info: The
Past, Present, and Future of Food: Michael Pollan in conversation
with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods
Mon. 7/23 - Fri. 7/27 Media
E-Reserves Altheide, Mantsios, Pozner, Milkie
On Mon - Tues. we watched Merchants of Cool http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/
To go along with Killing
Us Softly, see this Dove commercial: http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/
NPR: Women in the 'Girls Gone Wild' Era (minutes
0-11:20) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6549015&sc=emaf
Reading Notebook 2
(on the above 3 units) will be due Monday, July 30th.
M. 7/30 - T. 7/31 Environment
& Ecology
SP 4, 5
E-Reserves Ryan, Rossett/Collins/Moore Lappe,
Brown/Gardner/Halweil
HTCTW 3
Online: (read) Global
Warming - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change
(read) Global
Warming: A Primer
(interactive site) Global Warming: What
you need to know (go to this link and click "Travel to the Globe to
see what's going on" then click on each of the options below "Signs"
"Sources" and "Carbon Cycle"
(read) IPCC report finalized today - http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2007-04-02-ipcc-draft_N.htm
How big is your
footprint? http://www.myfootprint.org/
On Friday evening we watched Gimme Green
(Optional, for more
information)
W.
8/1 - F. 8/3
Politics of Globalized Capitalism
SP 2
E-Reserves Barber, Featherstone, Barlett/Steele
In class on Friday we watched Walmart: the High Cost of the Low
Price
M. 8/6 - T. 8/7 Final Projects Presentations
Wed. 8/8 Creating Positive Social Change
Online - Drayton Everyone a Changemaker http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp05/pr-sp05feature2.pdf
E-Reserves Loeb
HTCTW 10, 12, 16, 18
Reading Notebook 3
(on the above 3 units) will be due Wednesday, August 8th.