Course Syllabus

I. Some Introductory Textbooks

	1) Charles Anderson & Jeffrey Gibson. Towards a New Sociology.
	2) Charles Anderson. Sociological Essays and Research.
	3) Stewart Crysdale & Christopher Beattie. Sociology Canada: An Introductory Text.
	4) Stewart Crysdale & Christopher Beattie. Sociology Canada: Readings.
	5) Robert Hagedorn. Sociology.
	6) Sylvia Hale. Controversies in Sociology. 7) Alexander Himelfarb & C. James Richardson. People, Power, and Process: Sociology for Canadians. 8) Alexander Himelfarb & C. James Richardson. People, Power, and Process: A Reader.
	9) Diana Kendell, Jane Murray and Rick Linden. Sociology in our Times.
	10) David Lee and Howard Newby. The Problem of Sociology.
	11) Metta Spencer. Foundations of Modern Sociology.
	12) James J. Teevan. Basic Sociology: A Canadian Introduction.
	13) Lorne Tepperman and Jack Richardson. The Social World: an Introduction to Sociology.

II. Sociology of Deviance:

	1) R.P. Cuzzort and E.W. King, Humanity and Modern Social Thought, chapter 9 on Robert Merton.
	2) Kai Erikson, Wayward Puritans, chapters 1 & 3.

III. The Classical Sociologists:

	A) Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic.
		1) Cuzzort & King, Humanity and Modern Social Thought, chapter 3.

	B) Emile Durkheim and the Organization of Gods.
		1) Cuzzort & King, Humanity and Modern Social Thought, chapter 2.
		2) Randall Collins & Michael Makowsky, The Discovery of Society, chapter 5.

	C) Karl Marx and the Theory of Surplus Value.
		1) Cuzzort & King, Humanity and Modern Social Thought, chapter 4.
		2) Harry Braverman, Labour and Monopoly Capital, chapter 6.
		3) Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, pp. 372-441.

V. Class, Property, and Personality Structure:

	A) Mills on Class and Property.
		1) C. Wright Mills, White Collar, chapters 1-3.
		2) Cuzzort & King, chapter 8.

	B) Riesman on Personality Structure.
		1) David Reisman, The Lonely Crowd, chapter 1.
		2) Cuzzort & King, chapter 10.

VI. Books placed on two-hour reserve at the library:

	1) Kai Erikson, Wayward Puritans.
	2) R.P. Cuzzort & E.W. King, Humanity and Modern Social Thought
	3) C. Wright Mills, White Collar.
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