Introductory Sociology

Syllabus




Additional Material:

Updated Statistics for Erich Fromm's Sane Society, Chapter One "Are We Sane?"

 

Sociologically interesting links:

Born Rich

Documentary about young adults from wealthy American families.


Family Fundamentals

Documentary about gays and lesbians whose families of origin are fundamentalist Christians.


Barbie Nation

Documentary about the way this and other toys make gender performance seem natural instead of the socialized behavior it is.



Affluenza

Documantary about Americans' tendency to consume as much as possible without thinking much about the long-term global implications of this behavior.



Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Web site based on the work of sociologist Robert Putnam. His book Bowling Alone explains how American community and the social stability it provides has essentially disappeared in the last 30 years.



USCF Tobacco Control Archives

Archives, maintained by the library at the University of California at San Francisco, which contain significant amounts of documentation showing how the tobacco industry attempted to hide the negative effectes of smoking and how it now uses advertising to get young people outside the United States in poor nations addicted to its products.