Andrew Austin	Office Phone: 465-2359
Democracy and Justice Studies	Messages: 465-2355
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay	Office Hours: TBA
Office: MAC Hall 326A	Email: austina@uwgb.edu
Web page: http://www.uwgb.edu/austina	Course email: C6100-Su12@uwgb.edu

SOCIOL 202—Summer 2012

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

WEEK ONE
Day 1 Monday, June 18	Introduction to Course and Discipline
Day 2 Tuesday, June 19	Different Ways to Think About Society	Chapter 1. Taking a New Look at a Familiar World; Ch. 2. Seeing and Thinking Sociologically; Online: Mills, “The Promise.”
Day 3 Weds, June 20	The Materialist Conception of History	Online: Marx, “Preface to a Critique of Political Economy.”
Day 4 Thurs, June 21	Stratification, Social Class, and Inequality	Chapter 10. Stratification, Social Class and Inequality; Online: Marx and Engels, “Communist Manifesto.”
WEEK TWO
Day 5 Monday, June 25	Sex and Gender I	Chapter 12. Inequality of Sex and Gender. Online: Ehrenreich and English, “The Sexual Politics of Sickness.”
Day 6 Tuesday, June 26	Sex and Gender II
	Race and Ethnicity I	Chapter 11. Inequality of Race and Ethnicity. Online: “Whose Side are we On.”
Day 7 Weds, June 27	Race and Ethnicity II
	Midterm Review
Day 8 Thurs, June 28	MIDTERM EXAMINATION	1:00-2:00. No class following midterm
WEEK THREE
Day 9 Monday, July 2	Organizations and Social Institutions	Chapter 9. Organizations and Social Institutions. Online: Ritzer and Walczak, Rationalization and the Deprofessionalization of Physicians
Day 10 Tuesday, July 3	Organizations and Social Institutions	Chapter 8. Deviance and Crime; Online: “The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance.”
Day 11 Weds, July 4	Independence Day	No Classes
Day 12 Thurs, July 5	Crime and Deviance	Online: Chambliss, “Sociological Analysis of Law of Vagrancy; Sykes and Matza “Techniques of Neutralization.” Liazos, Garfinkel, “Conditions for a Successful Status Degradation Ritual.”
WEEK FOUR
Day 13 Monday, July 9	Culture, Socialization, and Identity	Chapter 4. Building Order: Culture and History; Online: Berger, “Invitation to Sociology.”
Day 14 Tuesday, July 10	Identity and Knowledge	Chapter 5. Identity and Socialization Chapter 6. Supporting Identity: The Presentation of Self.
Day 15 Weds, July 11	Social Constructionism	Chapter 3. The Social Construction of Knowledge.
Day 16 Thurs, July 12	Reconstructing Society	Chapter 14. Architects of Change: Reconstructing Society; Online: Wallerstein, “Social Science and the Quest for a Just Society.”
		Time-line assignment due 12:00 PM (noon)
Day 17 Friday, July 13	FINAL EXAMINATION	1:00-3:00 pm.