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Details[edit]

Introduction to Sociology (Soc 101) Winter 2010[edit]

  • Time and Dates: 10:10AM - 11:00AM M, T, TH, F
  • Location: Morton room 201.

Helpful links[edit]

  1. Content blog: http://sociologynotescomments.blogspot.com/
  2. Project blog: http://projectsinsocandsocialchange.blogspot.com/
  3. Project assignment description. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Htw3/Autumn_2008_Projects#General_Project_Goals
  4. Blackboard 7 for OU
  5. OU Sociology and Anthropology Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bentley-Annex-Athens-Ohio/Ohio-University-Sociology-and-Anthropology/64908592428?ref=sgm
  6. Department webpage http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/socanth

Instruction Team[edit]

Instructor: Dr. Ted Welser[edit]

GA: Lauren Anderson[edit]

  • Email: lna52288 'at' gmail.com, la223209 'at' ohio.edu
  • Office: Bentley Annex 007, Tuesday 12-2, By Appointment

GA: Brandon Brooks[edit]

  • Email: brandonbrooks1 'at' gmail.com or bb292402 'at' ohio.edu
  • Office: Bentley Annex 007, Monday 11-1:00

GA: Eric Lockmer[edit]

  • Email: el181706 'at'ohio.edu, elockmer 'at' gmail.com
  • Office: Bentley Annex 124- Tuesday & Thursday 11-12.

GA: Della Winters[edit]

  • Email: dwinters10 'at' gmail.com; dm160703 'at' ohio.edu
  • Office: Bentley Annex 007- Monday 1-3; By Appointment.

Introduction[edit]

Social change. Sociologists wonder about things that most folks take for granted: why does crime drop in some neighborhoods and rise in others? Why are strict churches the fastest growing in the U.S.? How do some online communities grow rapidly, while others whither and die?

How do some groups sustain incredibly high levels of participation, yet suffer from people frequently breaking the rules? How do fads grow and die? How do people decide which social rules (norms) to follow? How does the growth of the internet affect the growth and spread of new norms?

Sociology is actually more diverse than this range of questions suggests. It is impossible to introduce all of sociology in a single course, and we won’t attempt to. Instead our course is organized around three core learning objectives that are fundamental to sociology as a social science.

  1. Help you develop your sociological imagination. The sociological imagination is the capacity to recognize how collective outcomes result from the intersection of both macro (group, culture, society) level conditions and from attributes, actions, and histories of individuals. The sociological imagination is an antidote to the tendency to over-simplify explanations for patterns we see in the world.
  2. Develop appreciation and aptitude for sociological analysis. We can’t understand how and why things happen the way they do until we can actually measure what is happening in society, populations, and groups. Throughout the course we will build the skills of social scientific observation and analysis.
  3. Encourage active involvement in the social processes of scholarship. Assignments in large classes like this are seldom more than exercises. Our assignments will go live, on the internet. Working with 3-4 teammates you will produce something of value for others. Our projects will include photo-sets on Flickr, videos on YouTube, edits to Wikipeida, and will be reported via short blog articles.
  4. conversation with eric schmidt http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googles-ceo-the-laws-are-written-by-lobbyists/63908

Overview[edit]

Course Materials[edit]

  1. Sociology, 10th edition. Rodney Stark. ISBN: 9780495093505 Link??
  2. Here Comes Everybody. Clay Shirky. Paperback: ISBN:9780143114949 @ bookstore, amazon.etc, hardback at isbn.nu: http://isbn.nu/9781594201530/ [note: hardback has lower used prices than paperback] or paperback at http://isbn.nu/9780143114949
  3. Student created work (YouTube clips, Flickr photo-sets, etc.)
  4. Additional materials linked from the course web pages.

Reading[edit]

We will use the textbook as a foundation and a jumping off point to work towards our learning objectives. Throughout we will have concrete examples of research into a wide range of topics, and we will use these examples to strengthen our sociological imaginations, to heighten our awareness of good research practices, and sharpen our ability to communicate sociological ideas to others. In terms of testing, the most important parts of the text book are those that overlap with the content of the lecture. However, the book is also a resource for your projects and to gain additional insight into issues we discussion.

We will also read an 'example' book about how our social life is being transformed by social software (Shirky). In his work we find a window into some ways our lives are changing now, and ways it might be changing in the future.

Participation[edit]

Participation in the course is assessed primarily through the in-class work, and brief electronic quizzes and take home assignments. Also, students will present projects to their classmates. All students are expected to be active and courteous audiences for their peers’ creative work.

Technology: Get with it. Or fall behind.[edit]

For this course you will need to learn to do stuff.

  • Blackboard 7
    • We will use Blackboard 7 to perform quizzes, and to report grades.
  • Google account:
    • Make comments on course blogs
    • Make blog-posts about group projects
    • Upload video to YouTube
    • Use gmail, chat, google docs, to coordinate with group members
    • Use picassa to build a photo essay.
  • Wikipedia login:
    • Case study in mass collaboration
    • Make small helpful edits to content pages
    • Make small helpful additions to course syllabus page
  • Etherpad
    • We will use etherpad for collaborative class notes composed in real time.
      • One of the Grad assistants will post a link to a new etherpad discussion for each day's lecture. Check the class schedule for the link.
  • Twitter
    • Not sure if we will use for course
  • Flickr
    • You can use Flickr for groups projects based on photo-essays

Primary Assignments[edit]

I am a strong believer in the value of effort. A big part of this course is showing up and doing your part. Therefore there are many ways for people to participate, and a large number of small assignments and graded events. However, I am also a believer in the motivational value of tests in large introductory course, so we will have one mid-term and one final. Finally, I believe that collaborative projects with public presentations are the future of much work in our world, hence part of what we do will be online and will be published for a larger audience.

Small stuff[edit]

Small stuff includes quizzes, in-class assignments, and brief take-home assignments that are announced during class. They can not be turned in late or made up. These assignments will draw on the readings assigned for that day and the ideas introduced in lecture. The quizzes will foreshadow the types of questions that will be on the exams. Some of the quizzes will be electronic, others will be paper and will be handed in during class. Any assignment descriptions will be posted to blackboard on the day they are assigned. These assignments will vary between 5-20 points each, for a total of 200 points possible.

Replacement Assignments[edit]

Small stuff will not be accepted late. However, there are two replacement assignments that you can complete and use to replace missing points from your small stuff total. These replacement assignments are each worth 15 points, and can be used to replace points that you are missing from the small stuff total.

Replacement Assignment #1: Constructive Edits to Wikipedia Sociology Articles[edit]
  1. What: This assignment asks you to learn how to make small helpful edits to Wikipedia in the area of Sociology. There are many pages related to Sociology, and all of them can be improved. Small improvements can be made by anybody with a basic commitment to doing good work. You will just have to dig a little deeper than the textbook to be able to improve on the current articles. So, you task will basically have three parts: learn to edit effectively in the Wiki system, learn enough about a topic to make a small but valuable improvement to an article, and document and discuss your contributions for the assignment.
  2. How:
    1. Create a Wikipedia account for your self. You should do this in order to document your contributions and because unregistered editors are more likely to have their edits removed as suspected vandalism. Once you have created an account you need to learn how to make basic edits.
    2. Practice editing in the sandbox. Notice the edit summary box below the main editing box. Use it when you start making helpful edits to actual articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
    3. After you practice making basic edits, stop by the talk page for the Sociological imagination. Read the conversation there and look for ways that you could start making helpful edits. Ask questions there, or in the blog thread on this assignment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sociological_imagination
    4. Look for sociology related articles that need work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sociology#Articles_needing_work
  3. What to turn in:
    1. A single page word document including three parts.
      1. A description of the types of contributions you made, including URLS to the article(s) you work worked on and a URL to your user page.
    2. A description of the resources you used to learn stuff for the content of your edits. Include relevant bibliographic information.
    3. A discussion of what the experience of contributing to Wikipedia was like, what you learned, what you thought about, how these things connect to ideas from the course.
  4. Grading: There will be three grade levels for this assignment.
    1. Meh. 5pts. Bare minimum completion, little evidence of effort or involvement.
    2. Nice. 10pts. Fully completed, honestly assessed, good job of completing all parts, thoughtful reflections.
    3. Wow! 15pts. All parts completed, evidence of substantial effort and or learning; thoughtful reflections; overall a great job.
  5. Due date: Friday of Week 9. March 5th.
    1. How to turn it in, part one: Type up a word document, documenting all three parts of the assignment. Print it out and bring it to class on Friday March 5th. Put your name on your paper version, also put the gmail login you use when you post to the course blog comments.
    2. How to turn it in, part two: copy and paste the contents of your assignment into a comment blog post about this assignment. The blog post will be made on the thursday before the assignment is due. Don't put your full name on your blog comment version, just first name and you gmail login will be enough for us to match up the electronic and paper versions.
    3. You need to turn in both parts, the paper and the electronic version.
Replacement Assignment #2: Creation and interpretation of a new Gapminder graph[edit]
  1. What: This assignment asks you to apply your sociological imagination to questions of global inequality and change. You will produce a single page, typed discussion of a graph addressing issues of global inequality, generated from the Gap Minder tool. In class we have viewed graphs that showed how different countries varied on different attributes across time.
  2. Parts of the assignment:
    1. Printed graph image from gap minder. This should be a new and interesting combination of variables. Don't simply use the default settings.
    2. Your explanation of the image:
      1. What do the variables measure?
      2. Why did you chose those variables?
      3. What does the graph show?
    3. What is interesting about what you found in your graph?
      1. What sociological concepts are relevant?
  3. Link: The graphs are from a free browser application found online at: http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/
  4. How: Go to the link above and explore the gapminder tool. Start changing the variables, tracking particular countries, select different units of analysis. Your task is to use that tool to produce a sociologically interesting graph and write up a brief discussion of that graph. You will need to print a copy of the graph along with your discussion. Make sure you can print in color if color represents an important attribute in your graph. You need to change the variables that are displayed in Gapminder from drop down menus. These are located on the axis, on the section that defines color, and indicates size of the circles. You can focus on international or inter-state / international units of analysis. Below is a link to a pdf that points out some of the things you can change on the graph.
  5. Grading: There will be three grade levels for this assignment.
    1. Meh. 5pts. Bare minimum completion, little evidence of effort or involvement. No clear sociological issues represented in the graph, little connection between discussion and sociological issues.
    2. Nice. 10pts. Fully completed, honestly assessed, good job of completing all parts, thoughtful reflections. Sociological issues are clearly relevant and discussed. Horizontal axis (X) is clearly a possible cause of the vertical axis (Y).
    3. Wow! 15pts. All parts completed, evidence of substantial effort and or learning; thoughtful reflections; overall a great job. Causal relationship is clear, issues are sociologically relevant, discussion is insightful and relevant.
  6. Due date: Friday of Week 10. March 12th.
    1. How to turn it in: Type up a word document, documenting all three parts of the assignment. Print it out and bring it to class on Friday March 12th. Put your name on your paper version, also put the gmail login you use when you post to the course blog comments.

Exams[edit]

There will be two exams, a mid term and a final. The questions will include multiple choice, definitions, and short answer. Students who are unfortunate enough to miss the mid term can take a make up exam during the second hour of the final exam time slot. Each exam is worth 125 points, for a total of 250 points possible.

Projects[edit]

Students will collaborate on projects that use ideas from sociology 101 to communicate with a wider audience. Most students will create photo-essays on Flickr, YouTube videos, revised Wikipedia entries or other public media. Projects will be organized and turned in online via the course blog. Other project details will be posted online. For digital production resources, see http://www.library.ohiou.edu/serv/computers/multimedia.html the Multimedia Center. 100 points

Due date: Friday of Week 10. March 12th.

Digital Portfolio[edit]

Each student will produce a digital portfolio that describes the contributions that they made to the course along with commentary relates those contributions to the themes of the course. 50 points Here are some of the things that you can do:

  1. Participate in the blogs via comments.
  2. Contribute to the class notes on etherpad.
  3. Participate in class assignments, like editing wikipedia, creating a touchgraph image, writing a blog post, creating a project.
  4. Coordinate with group via email, chat, etc.
  5. Create resources for group work, via google docs, video editing, photography, sound mixing, etc.
  6. Promote project via facebook network, email, etc.

Keep records of these sorts of things that you do through electronic or social media systems. Think about which of those are relevant or important or notable. Show some documentation of what you did. Discuss what you did in light of concepts and goals of this course. That is the general task. But the specific deliverable will be a typed document consisting of approximately 500 words of commentary, along with documenting images, urls or quotes. Read the examples of this assignment on Blackboard under course documents.

  1. How to turn the assignment in:
    1. Type is up with URLS and all details. Save it.
    2. Copy and paste your digital portfolio into the Digital Portfolio Submission Thread, on the Content blog. (thread will be initiated during week 10)
    3. Due date: Noon on the Tuesday of Exam Week. March 16th.

Learning Outcomes[edit]

Learning outcomes: Upon completion of the course you should be able to explain what the sociological imagination is, describe its role in motivating social scientific research, and provide numerous examples that demonstrate your own sociological imagination in action. Students will also develop familiarity with fundamental concepts and areas of research in sociology.

Grading[edit]

Standard Grade Breakdown

  1. A-, A (90%-100%)
  2. B-, B, B+, (80%-89%)
  3. C-, C, C+ (70%-79%)
  4. D-, D, D+ (60%-69%)
  5. F (below 60%)

Assignment Points

  1. Small Stuff............200
  2. Exams.................250
  3. Project.................100
  4. Digital Portfolio.......50
  5. Total =................600

Other details[edit]

Improvement and effort: Some students may find that their first exam results are lower than they hoped. Students in that situation will be rewarded for improvement: for every 2 points that their final test score exceeds their mid term, 1 point will be added to their midterm score. Thus a student scoring 90/125 on the midterm and 100/125 on the final, will be assigned a new score of 105/125 for their adjusted midterm grade.

Attendance and attention: Paying attention in class will help you learn, will improve your performance in tests and assignments, and might actually be interesting. I don't take attendance. We are all adults. If you can ace my class while missing 90% of the sessions, then more power to you. That has only happened once in 1,700 students, and she was brilliant. Good luck with that. For the rest of us, come to class regularly and learn something.

Be polite: Students that disrupt class by talking / communicating on cells, texts, nudges etc. will be asked to leave the classroom. [oh, snap!]

Polite electronic communication: Use an informative subject line, like: “Soc 101 Project Question” etc. In your emails, be kind, courteous and considerate. We will be too. Send emails to your TA. We will be brief, to the point, and to the best of our abilities, prompt. Send a follow up if you don’t hear back after 24 hours (during the school week). If you send an email after dinner time (6:00) or on the weekend there is a good chance that the reply will come the next workday.

Computers and Software: Students might need help with computer and digital production resources. The CSC is across the street from Bentley. The CSC is good for drop in work, as are: http://www.library.ohiou.edu/serv/computers/software.html See also the Multimedia Center: http://www.library.ohiou.edu/serv/computers/multimedia.html; and the Lab http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/AAC/lab/software.html

Academic integrity and honesty[edit]

  • Take credit for your work only. You should, with pride, lay claim to all of your unique contributions. When you work with others on assignments you should take pains to assure that you know, appreciate, and clearly identify the contributions of each of your colleagues. Due to the construction of our assignments it is unlikely that we will have a problem with plagiarism. However, deliberate attempts to claim the work of others as your own without clear acknowledgement will be seen as plagiarism and will be severely punished: a grade of F will be assigned to the plagiarized assignment.
  • Students with disabilities I will gladly provide reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities, with the recommendation of Disability Services, at the Office for Institutional Equity (740-593-2620). Please show me the letter from that office indicating accommodations that you may need for this class.
  • Classroom privacy Faculty and students are entitled to classroom privacy, academic freedom, and professional courtesy. Consequently, observation and evaluation of our class by any observer or evaluator requires the prior notification and mutual agreement of me, the observer, and the class. Furthermore, recording of classroom activities by any electronic means, by students, other faculty, university administrators, or others, requires permission of the instructor. All students in a class must be informed if permission has been given for a class to be recorded.
  • Note: The following statement refers to the creative work of the professor. Students should determine what intellectual property licenses they will assign to their creative work.

Intellectual Copyleft Statement[edit]

  • The lectures, classroom activities and all materials associated with this class and developed by the instructor are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) license. The by-nc-sa license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute the work and they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on it. All new work based on the course materials will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.
  • For more info see the creative commons: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses

Schedule[edit]

Week 1 January 4th - January 7th[edit]

  1. Monday: Introduction, Sociological Imagination, Example: Name Trends
    1. Readings: Nuthin.
    2. Ideas: Sociological Imagination. Social outcomes, individual actions, social change, trends.
    3. Clip of the Day: Capsule x Daft Punk x Beastie Boys - Starry Sky YEAH! Remix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9MCbsdCLhI&feature=related
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/js3y8yQGkG
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Brandon
    6. Class Review: Della
    7. Stage Manager: Eric
  2. Tuesday: What is sociology? Chapter 1.
    1. A few partial answers. Chapter 1: Page 1-24
    2. Course logistics
    3. Clip of the Day: NirGaGa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hcAS2NKW9M
    4. Today's etherpad: http://etherpad.com/Veq6ZQiMuO
    5. Etherpad Moderator:Della
    6. Class Review: Eric and Lauren
    7. Stage Manager: Brandon
  3. Thursday: Research Theory and the Scientific Process
    1. Reading Assignment: Chapter 1: Principles of Sociology, Page 1 - 24
    2. Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk
    3. Today's etherpad: http://etherpad.com/crrNmnarAa
    4. Etherpad Moderator: Eric
    5. Class Review: Lauren and Brandon
    6. Stage Manager: Della
  4. Friday: Review
    1. Here comes everybody: Shirky, Chapter 1 For more info on Shirky, see post on contents blog: http://sociologynotescomments.blogspot.com/2010/01/shirky-chapter-1.html
    2. Quiz: Posted to BlackBoard, under "Assignments" available from Friday @ 3pm till Monday @ 10am.
    3. Etherpad: we skipped etherpad today due to technical difficulties @ etherpad.
    4. Etherpad Moderator: Eric
    5. Class Review: Brandon
    6. Stage Manager: Lauren

Week 2 January 11th - January 14th[edit]

  1. Monday: Culture and Society: Structure.
    1. Chapter 2: Concepts for Social and Cultural Theories 31-39
    2. Clip of the day: DJ Earworm - United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop) - Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNzrwh2Z2hQ
    3. Today's notes on googledoc: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AbdK55LJYgKQZGR2OTlnemdfMTQ0cDM2anJuNnM&hl=en
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/mePsklTReV
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Brandon
    6. Class Review: Della and Lauren
    7. Stage Manager: Eric
  2. Tuesday: Culture and Society: Culture.
    1. Chapter 2: Concepts for Social and Cultural Theories 39-43; 43-62.
    2. Clip of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMbVPMzSqYY
    3. Today's Etherpad1: http://etherpad.com/7wFl2TjGBT
    4. Today's Etherpad2: http://etherpad.com/o0pJDlROWK
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Eric
    6. Class Review: Lauren and Della
    7. Stage Manager: Brandon
  3. Thursday: Micro-Level Theories of Action.
      1. Chapter 3: Microsociology: Testing Interaction Theories, 67-89
      2. a decent entry on Rational Choice Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory
      3. a helpful entry on social psychology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_psychology_(sociology)
      4. an incomplete but ok entry on Symbolic Interactionism Symbolic_interactionism
      5. a weak entry on Exchange theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_theory
    2. Clip of the day: http://www.youtube.com/v/4Q75KhAeqJg&hl=en_US&fs=1&
    3. Today's Etherpad1: http://etherpad.com/kyN2ZdrgBU
    4. Today's Etherpad2 : http://etherpad.com/PKEQaY8JdO
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Lauren
    6. Class Review: Eric and Brandon
    7. Stage Manager: Della
  4. Friday: Review
    1. Chapter 2, Here comes everybody
    2. Clip of the day: Honda Ad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuyaVcqTgic
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/YO6637GBZu
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/IyL3U8MOio
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Brandon
    6. Class Review: Brandon and Eric
    7. Stage Manager: Lauren and Della
    8. Quiz: This weekend.

Week 3January 18th - January 21st[edit]

  1. Monday: MLK Day, No Class :)
  2. Tuesday: Sampling Populations and Networks
    1. New Readings: Wikipedia entries on Sampling and Census
    2. New Readings: Wikipedia entry on social network: Social network
    3. Clip of the Day: Social Media Revolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/wrGA0pXh99
    5. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/KdUDUN7OkL
    6. Etherpad Moderator: Della
    7. Class Review: Lauren
    8. Stage Manager: Brandon
  3. Thursday: Networks in our everyday life.
    1. Ties back to Chapter 1 Page 13-16
    2. The ties that blog: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61.6907&rep=rep1&type=pdf
    3. Introduce Project Assignment,
      1. Facebook Network, Mini network
    4. Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs
    5. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/xKyh3r1n8T
    6. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/1nL48HKs6W
    7. Etherpad Moderator: Lauren
    8. Class Review: Eric
    9. Stage Manager: Della
  4. Friday: Shirky, Chapter 3
    1. Review
    2. Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-W52tCPkoM
    3. Today's Etherpad 1: http://etherpad.com/d4gtv6U9C2
    4. Today's Etherpad 2: http://etherpad.com/Fe3AsFQ4lg
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Eric
    6. Class Review: Brandon and Della0
    7. Stage Manager: Lauren

Week 4 January 25th - January 28th[edit]

Macro level social dynamics: Conflict and Political Power.

  1. Monday: Macro-sociology and conflict;
    1. Chapter 4: Macrosociology: Studying Larger Groups Societies 95-120
    2. Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiiQPqmYE1A
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/lV65lO2xMH
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/F0tOVDiqLA
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Brandon
    6. Class Review: Lauren and Della
    7. Stage Manager: Eric
      1. Conflict theory. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googles-ceo-the-laws-are-written-by-lobbyists/63908
  2. Tuesday: Politics and the State Part 1. The State.
    1. Chapter 15: Politics and The State, 415-441
    2. Tragedy of the Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
    3. The Levithan
    4. Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoNdr0AbttI
    5. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/9a299eQM4s
    6. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/fV98MHghjT
    7. Etherpad Moderator: Della
    8. Class Review: Lauren and Eric
    9. Stage Manager: Brandon
    10. Great example of the tragedy of the commons and lack of international order due to an absences of a state above that of nation states. "China threatens world health by unleashing waves of superbugs "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7168303/China-threatens-world-health-by-unleashing-waves-of-superbugs.html
  3. Thursday: Politics and the State Part 2. Controlling The State.
    1. Political Institutions and the problem of agency.
    2. Chapter 15: Politics and The State, 415-441
      1. pretty good discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_theory
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/xyCHhkz4eB
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/9ci1hGeV4g
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Lauren
    6. Class Review: Eric
    7. Stage Manager: Della
  4. Friday: Review Shirky: 4,5,6,7
    1. Clip of the day 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
    2. Clip of the day 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzN4633mpI
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/kxgGimF39F
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/uTEpNR39Uv
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Eric
    6. Class Review: Brandon
    7. Stage Manager: Lauren

Week 5 February 1st - February 4th[edit]

  1. Monday: Rational Legal Systems, Weber, and corruption
    1. Chapter 9: Concepts and Theories of Stratification, Pages 263-241
    2. Clip of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ePWK0qfisE
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/G4e0halrAh
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/nKLOpd4oMK
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Brandon
    6. Class Review: Della
    7. Stage Manager: Eric
  2. Tuesday: Remainder of Shirky's book.
    1. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/XthgqzZUyG
    2. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/tq2tTSQmTK
    3. Etherpad Moderator:
    4. Class Review:
    5. Stage Manager:
  3. Thursday: Midterm Review Session
    1. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/ZSE8WgOPgk
    2. Today's Etherpad:http://etherpad.com/vn5AKlxb6t
    3. Etherpad Moderator:
    4. Class Review:
    5. Stage Manager:
  4. Friday:
    1. Midterm Exam
      1. Short answer and Essay will be during class time on Friday
      2. Multiple choice will be online via black board, over the weekend.
      3. cheerios!

Week 6 February 8th - February 11th[edit]

  1. Monday:
    1. Chapter 9: Concepts and Theories of Stratification, 231-235; 242-251
    2. Chapter 10: Comparing Systems of Stratifcation, 255-278
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/8WDJVr5tzv
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/x0yjylyLw4
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Lauren
    6. Clip of the day: This is it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMkFK4wgslU&feature
    7. Class Review: Della
    8. Stage Manager: Eric
  2. Tuesday: Project Organization and Questions. http://projectsinsocandsocialchange.blogspot.com/2010/02/group-thread.html
    1. See blog post for group writing task (make comment in thread)
    2. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/hUXr5gwr74
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/Sb4Rnxi5QV
    4. Clip of the day: ellen's show:
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Eric
    6. Class Review: Lauren
    7. Stage Manager: Della
  3. Thursday:
    1. Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Conflict
    2. Chapter 11: Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Conflict, 283-321
    3. Clip of the day: Muppets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/8YAZHoJGrn
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Lauren
    6. Class Review: Eric
    7. Stage Manager: Della
  4. Friday: Review
    1. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/zWWi323kdh
    2. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/F0Z6PkReTq
    3. Etherpad Moderator: Eric
    4. Class Review: Brandon
    5. Stage Manager: Lauren
    6. Quiz

Week 7 February 15th - February 18th[edit]

  1. Monday:
    1. Racial and ethnic conflict part 2
    2. Chapter 11: Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Conflict, 283-321.
    3. Today's Etherpad:http://etherpad.com/MwPnTPIQaX
    4. Today's Etherpad:http://etherpad.com/zdiy8pdW2K
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Brandon
    6. Clip of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FmPskTljo0
    7. Class Review: Della
    8. Stage Manager: Eric
  2. Tuesday: Project work day
  3. Thursday:
    1. Gender Inequality
    2. Chapter 12: Gender and Inequality, 325-354
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/rt2ugHM0r1
    4. Etherpad Moderator: Brandon
    5. Class Review: Eric
    6. Stage Manager: Lauren
  4. Friday: Review
    1. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/5VcIwMUpZb
    2. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/j51rE7Eov2
    3. Etherpad Moderator:
    4. Clip of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGmjmazE5c
    5. Class Review:
    6. Stage Manager:
    7. Quiz

Week 8 February 22nd - February 25th[edit]

  1. Monday:
    1. Crime and Deviance
    2. Chapter 7: Crime and Deviance, 175-203
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/IS01tcsil9
    4. Etherpad Moderator: Lauren
    5. Class Review: Della
    6. Stage Manager: Eric
  2. Tuesday: Project Work Day
  3. Thursday: Crime and theories of deviance
    1. Chapter 7: Crime and Deviance, 175-207
    2. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/5jVZHNzzwH
    3. Etherpad Moderator: Brandon
    4. Class Review: Lauren
    5. Stage Manager: Della
  4. Friday: Review
    1. Quiz
    2. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/IgsqqWgECt
    3. Etherpad Moderator:
    4. Clip of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tZG5j1nGsA
    5. Class Review: Brandon
    6. Stage Manager:

Week 9 March 1st - March 4th[edit]

  1. Monday:
    1. Poverty and Debt.
    2. Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cp5zMTswXk
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/CmJ6JN6wNB
    4. Etherpad Moderator: Brandon
    5. Class Review: Della
    6. Stage Manager: Eric
  2. Tuesday: Project Work Day
  3. Thursday:
    1. Social Change and Development
    2. Chapter 17: Social Change: Development and Global Inequality, 471-484
    3. Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehu3wy4WkHs
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/Gu6m331Zmj
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Lauren
    6. Class Review: Eric
    7. Stage Manager: Della
      1. Today we talk about technology and social change, here is a related story about cell phones in the developing world, here is a relevant link http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14483896
  4. Friday: Review; Project Screening Day 1
    1. Due Today: Wikipedia Replacement Assignment, turn in during class and online.
    2. Clip of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Bd65M1ens&NR=1
    3. Another related clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FE9cPXE3M&NR=1
    4. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/Awk78XYIn1
    5. Etherpad Moderator: Della
    6. Class Review: Brandon
    7. Stage Manager: Lauren

Week 10 March 8th - March 11th[edit]

  1. Monday: Project Work Day
  2. Tuesday: Modernization and Globalization
    1. Chapter 17: Social Change: Development and Global Inequality, 484-494
    2. Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDCxaQhhL0A
    3. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/KsX1yu80Co
    4. Etherpad Moderator:
    5. Class Review:
    6. Stage Manager:
  1. Thursday: Final Project Screening
    1. Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBsypHzF3U&feature=fvst
    2. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/mi9LvwbEq5
    3. Etherpad Moderator:
    4. Class Review:
    5. Stage Manager:
  2. Friday: Final Review Session PROJECTS DUE TODAY
    1. Today's Etherpad: http://etherpad.com/ky3on0lQkS
    2. Etherpad Moderator:
    3. Class Review:
    4. Stage Manager:

Finals Week March 15th - March 19th[edit]

Exam: Friday, March 19, at 8:00AM

Resources[edit]

blah blah Smiley Face (:

Millennial Students and Doing Stuff Online[edit]

I am doing an informal talk with a Residence Hall at OU. organized by Lizzie Rosegrant and Chris Wagner.

The 'millennial generation' and more specifically, the birth cohorts who are 18-20 right now are different from all previous generations in terms of the rate at which they participate in social media, texting, and other simple by recently developed forms of mediated communication.

  1. Check out the discussion outline and records at OpenEtherpad:
    1. http://openetherpad.org/O45IRIQwqe
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