Hana E. Brown http://college.wfu.edu/sociology/people/faculty/hana-brown http://www.hanabrownsociology.com/
General introduction to the field; social organization and disorganization, socialization, culture, social change, and other aspects. Required for all sociology majors and minors. http://college.wfu.edu/sociology/wp-content/uploads/Full-Course-Offerings.pdf http://www.hanabrownsociology.com/Syllabus_Spring2012.pdf?attredirects=0
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life - Annette Lareau (2003) [Kindle Edition] ISBN-13 978-0520271425
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh (Jan 10, 2008) [Kindle Edition] ISBN13 978-0143114932
Mills, C. Wright. 2000. The Sociological Imagination.Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Chapter 1, “The Promise”)
Belkin, Lisa. 2008. “The Baby Name Game - Motherlode Blog.” New York Times, December 12. http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/baby-names/
Lieberson, Stanley, and Eleanor O. Bell. 1992. “Children's First Names: An Empirical Study of Social Taste.” American Journal of Sociology 98:511-554.
Schwitzgebel, Eric. 2009. “The Gender Migration of Names.” The Splintered Mind. January 2. http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2009/01/gender-migration-of-names.html
Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton. 1985. “Individualism” from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Postrel, Virginia. 2002. “How Can the Marketplace Gauge Fashions?” New York Times, May 23. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/business/23SCEN.html
Mintz, Steven. 2004. “The Social and Cultural Construction of American Childhood.” Pp. 36-56 in Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future, edited by Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Cohen, Philip. 2009. “On Naming Diversity, or Why We Never Asked if Mary Had Jumped the Shark” The Huffington Post, May 12. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-n-cohen/on-naming-diversity-or-wh_b_201525.html
Gaines, Donna. 1990. Selections from “Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead-End Kids”
Schwalbe, Michael. 1998. “Finding Out How the Social World Works” from The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversation.
Lovaglia, Michael. 2003. “From Summer Camps to Glass Ceilings: The Power of Experiments” in Contexts.
Schuman, Howard. 2002. “Sense and Nonsense about Surveys” in Contexts.
Adler, Patricia and Peter Adler. 2003. “The Promise (and Pitfalls) of Going into the Field” in Contexts.
Lorber, Judith. 1993. “Night to His Day”: The Social Construction of Gender” from Paradoxes of Gender.
Leidner, Robin. 1991. “Serving Hamburgers and Selling Insurance: Gender, Work, and Identity in Interactive Service Jobs,” Gender and Society 5:2, pp. 154-177.
Kelman, Herbert C. and V. Lee Hamilton. 1990. “The My Lai Massacre: A Crime of Obedience?” from Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility.
Goffman, Erving. 1961. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. Anchor Press. Pp. 3-25, 28-29, 35-38, 41-43, 54-55, 188-189, 207-213, 227-231, 248-253, 304-308, 318-320.
Rosenham, David L. 1973. “On Being Sane in Insane Places” in Science.
Mclorg, Penelope A. and Diane E. Taub. 1987. “Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: The Development of Deviant Identities” in Deviant Behavior.
Davis, Kingsley and Wilbert Moore. 1945. "Some Principles of Stratification,” American Sociological Review.
Tumin, Melvin M. 1953. “Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis,” American Sociological Review.
Domhoff, William G. 2011. Selections from Who Rules America? The Corporate Community and the Upper Class.
Ehrenreich, Barbara. 2002. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. (Ch. 1)
Fischer, Claude S. et al. 1996. Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Chapter 8)
Pager, Devah. 2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology 108(5):937–75.