There are 3 parts to this assignment. Refer to the “Assignment Details and Instruction” pdf file attached below for everything that you need to know about to complete this assignment.
These are all the references that you need to refer to, in order to write your explanation and answers.
Note: Since I can only upload a certain number of files, I’m not able to upload all of them, so once you decide to choose your sources I’ll send them to you.
Week 1 sources:
– Mills, C. Wright. 2000 [1959]. “The Promise” [excerpt]. Pp. 3-11 in The Sociological Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
– McGreal, Chris. 2017. “Don’t Blame Addicts for America’s Opioid Crisis: Here are the Real Culprits.” The Guardian, August 13. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/13/dont-blame-addicts-for-americas-opioid-crisis-real-culprits
Week 2 sources:
– Durkheim, Emile. 1982 [1895]. “What is a Social Fact?” Pp. 50-59 in The Rules of Sociological Method. New York: The Free Press.
– Yong, Ed. 2021. “The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic is Shifting.” The Atlantic,
June 9. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/individualism-still-spoiling-pandemic-response/619133/
Week 3 sources:
– Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. 1952 [1848]. “Bourgeoisie and Proletarians.” Pp. 419-425 in Capital; Manifesto of the Communist Party. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
– Berman, Marshall. 1988. “The Melting Vision and Its Dialectic.” Pp. 90-98 in All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: Penguin.
– Césaire, Aimé. 2000 [1951]. Discourse on Colonialism, pp. 74-78. New York: Monthly Review Press. Link: https://libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g…
Week 4 sources:
– Weber, Max. 1997 [1922]. “Definitions of Sociology and Social Action.” Pp 157–164 in Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader, Ian McIntosh, ed. New York: New York University Press.
– Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 2003. “The Commercial Spirit of Intimate Life and the Abduction of Feminism: Signs from Women’s Advice Books” [excerpt]. Pp. 13–24 in The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work.Berkeley: University of California Press.
Week 5 sources:
– Ritzer, George. 1983. “The ‘McDonaldization’ of Society.” The Journal of American Culture, 6(1): 100-107.
– Graeber, David. 2018. “What is a Bullshit Job?” Pp. 1-26 in Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Week 6 sources:
– Sennett, Richard. 2012. “Inequality: Imposed and Absorbed in Childhood.” Pp. 133-147 in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation. New Haven: Yale University Press.
– Lareau, Annette. 2003. “Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth” [excerpt]. Pp. 1-8 in Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Week 7 sources:
– Khan, Shamus. 2011. “The Ease of Privilege.” Pp. 77-113 in Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Week 8 sources:
– Woodcock, Jamie. 2017. “Moments of Resistance.” Pp. 97-117 in Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres. London: Pluto Press.
– Dodson, Lisa. 2010. “Employing Parents Who Can’t Make a Living”. The Reader (Cold Type), 44: 28-34.
Week 9 sources:
– Tannen, Deborah. 2009 [1994]. “But what do you mean?” Pp. 391-397 in The Bedford Reader, 10th Edition. New York: St. Martin’s Press. [Retrieved from https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/david.brenner/engl-1301/course-materials-important-read-religiously/critical-analysis-essay-assignment/copy-of-tannen-but-what-do-you-mean]
– Zerubavel, Eviatar. 2006. “The Rules of Denial.” Pp. 17-32 in The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Week 10 sources:
– Young, Robert. 2003. “The Ambivalence of the Veil”. Pp. 80-92 in Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
– Otto, Mary. 2016. “Beauty.” Pp. 3-29 in Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America. New York: New Press.
Week 11 sources:
– Cahill, Spencer E. and Eggleston, Robin. 1994. “Managing Emotions in Public: The Case of Wheelchair Users”. Social Psychology Quarterly, 57(4):300-311.
– Cottom, Tressie McMillan. 2019. “In the Name of Beauty.” Pp. 35-72 in Thick: And Other Essays. New York: New Press.
Week 12 sources:
– Pager, Devah. 2004. “The Mark of a Criminal Record”. Focus, 23(2). 44-46.
– Johnson, Harold R. 2019. “Introduction.” Pp. 1-15 in Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
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