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Readings
 Johnson, Allan. 2014. The Forest and the Trees. Chapters 1 & 2.
 Excerpts from: Mills, C. Wright. 1959. “Chapter 1: The Promise.” Pp. 3-24 in The Sociological
Imagination. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
 Exercpts from: Berger, Peter. 1963. Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective. New
York, NY: Anchor Books: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group.
 Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise, and Suzy Maves McElrath. 2011. “Embedded
Sociologists.” Contexts Spring:44-50.
 Persell, Caroline. 1990. “Doing Social Research.” From: Persell, Caroline Hodges. 1990.
“Doing Social Research.” Pp. 26-36 in Understanding Society: An Introduction to Sociology.
3rd ed. New York , NY : Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Available at:
http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/introtosociology/Documents/Persell%20Methods
%20Reading11.htm
 Miner, Horace. 1956. “Body Ritual among the Nacirema.” American Anthropologist 58(3):503507.
 Rosenhan, David. 1973. “On Being Sane in Insane Places.” Science 179(4070):250-258.
OR students may listen to a 29-minute BBC radio story, “The Pseudo-Patient Study,” available
at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lny4
 Excerpts from: Collins, Randall. 1998. “The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders.” Contemporary
Sociology (27)1:2-7.
 Goffman, Alice. 2009. “On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto.” American
Sociological Review 74:339-357.
 Lareau, Annette. 2002. “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families
and White Families.” American Sociological Review 67(5):747-776.
 Gaventa, John. 1995. “Citizen Knowledge, Citizen Competence and Democracy Building.” The
Good Society 5(3):28-35.
 Hoffman, Andrew J. 2012. “Climate Science as Culture War.” Stanford Social Innovation
Review Fall:30-37.
 Pellow, David Naguib and Robert J. Brulle. 2007. “Poisoning the planet: the struggle for
environmental justice.” Contexts Winter:37-41.
 Rank, Mark R. 2011. “Rethinking American Poverty.” Contexts Spring:16-21.
 Gans, Herbert J. 2005. “Race as Class.” Contexts Fall:17-21.
 Alvarado, Lorriz Anne. 2010. “Dispelling the Meritocracy Myth: Lessons for Higher Education
and Student Affairs Educators.” The Vermont Connection 31:10-20.
 Hays, Sharon. 2003. “Off the Rolls: The Ground-Level Results of Welfare Reform.” Dissent
Fall:48-53.
 Excerpt from: Nordberg, Jenny. 2014. The Underground Girls of Kabul. Penguin Random
House, New York. Available at: https://www.scribd.com/doc/237914917/Underground-Girls-ofKabul-by-Jenny-Nordberg-Excerpt
and
Nordberg, Jenny. 2010. “Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part.” New York Times,
September 20. Available: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/world/asia/21gender.html
 Sarkeesian, Anita. 2015/2013. Feminist Frequency. Watch an episode such as Women as
Reward at https://feministfrequency.com/video/women-as-reward/ or Damsel in Distress at
https://feministfrequency.com/video/damsel-in-distress-part-1/
 Ganz, Marshall. 2011. “Public Narrative, Collective Action, and Power.” Pages 273-289
(Chapter 18) in Odugbemi, Sina and Taeku Lee (Eds.), Accountability Through Public Opinion:
From Inertia to Public Action. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development /
The World Bank, Washington, DC. Available at:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTGOVACC/Resources/Accountabilitybookweb.pdf
 Love, Barbara. 1984. “Developing a Liberatory Consciousness.” Pp. 470-474 in Readings for
Diversity and Social Justice, edited by M. Adams. L. Bell, and P. Griffin. New York,
NY:Routledge.
 Meyer, David. 2003. “How social movements matter.” Contexts Fall:30-35.
 Francis, Ara and Jill Bakehorn. 2013. “on (not) practicing what we preach.” Contexts Fall:8083.
 Excerpts from: Feltey, Kathryn. 2012. “Doing Sociology to Make a Difference: Commitment,
Values, and the Promised Land.” Sociological Focus 39(3):149-156.