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In a message dated 5/14/01 8:33:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
br00162@binghamton.edu writes:
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Date: 5/14/01 8:33:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: br00162@binghamton.edu (C. Bandhauer)
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I have no better ideas than Khaldoun's for Social Theory texts, but if
anyone could recommend books/ texts for Intro to Sociology I would be
grateful. I've got two sections of it in the fall.
Thanks,
Carina
I recommend 'The McDonaldization of Society' by George Ritzer. Although it
has serious problems (he comes off as a bit of a crybaby) it does actually
situate its theory around a place all students relate to. I would not
recommend Michael Schwalbe "The Sociologically Examined Life". Written in an
easy, anecdotal style, it nevertheless makes extremely tendentious arguments
(frequently couched in the tone that the 'sociologically mindful' will always
agree with him) with virtually no evidence to back them up. I've been using
selections from the NYTimes series 'How Race is Lived in America'--I think
they've put them together in book form as well. Sage has an intro text
'Sociology for the Twenty First Century' (not to be confused with the Abu
Lughod book of the same name) that is supposed to be more world systemsesque.
They also have a book of active learning exercises that sounds
promising--has anyone used it?
Steven Sherman
on 5/14/01 11:06 AM, KSamman@aol.com at KSamman@aol.com wrote:
George and others,
I am also in the market for social theory text. Although I have
yet to discover the perfect text, there are a few that look promising.
I guess the problem I'm having is with texts that have excerpts
from the original readers. These tend to be very skimpy and include
only a few pages from each thinker. You may also want to consider
creating a reader yourself and include some world-systems writers
that tend to be omitted from many of these texts.
I am leaning towards secondary texts because the concepts and ideas...
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Carina A. Bandhauer
Department of Sociology
Binghamton University
State University of New York
Binghamton NY 13902-6000
Home: (607) 723-0837
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I have no better ideas than Khaldoun's for Social Theory texts, but if
anyone could recommend books/ texts for Intro to Sociology I would be
grateful. I've got two sections of it in the fall.
Thanks,
Carina
on 5/14/01 11:06 AM, KSamman@aol.com at KSamman@aol.com wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE>George and others,
I am also in the market for social theory text. Although I have
yet to discover the perfect text, there are a few that look promising.
I guess the problem I'm having is with texts that have excerpts
from the original readers. These tend to be very skimpy and include
only a few pages from each thinker. You may also want to consider
creating a reader yourself and include some world-systems writers
that tend to be omitted from many of these texts.
I am leaning towards secondary texts because the concepts and ideas...
</BLOCKQUOTE>
********************************
Carina A. Bandhauer
Department of Sociology
Binghamton University
State University of New York
Binghamton NY 13902-6000
Home: (607) 723-0837
Office: (607) 777-6337 (no message)
VoiceMail: (607) 777-2203
Fax: (607) 777-4197
Email: br00162@binghamton.edu
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