L A K E H E A D   U N I V E R S I T Y
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
Sociology 1100 YC
Introduction to Sociology
Fall/Winter 2006-2007
Walid Chahal

Time: Tues & Thurs 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Place: UC 0050
Office Hours: Thursday
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. UC 0037
or by appointment

Required Text:

Brym, Robert J. John Lee, Adie Nelson, Neil Guppy and Chris McCormick, 2003. Sociology: Your Campus for A New World. 	Scarborough: Thompson/Nelson 

Course Focus and objectives: 

In this course, we will present an overview of the discipline of sociology, basic sociological tools, concepts, various theoretical perspectives, and findings. The above will be illustrated by examining Canadian society and its structure, the relationship between the individual and society, and by drawing on case studies from around the world. The main goal is to further the students’ analytical skills by enhancing their knowledge of their social world, and providing them with the basis of understanding why people act the way they do.

Course Outline:
                                                                 Required Readings from our Text

1.  Introduction to sociology                       Chapter 1 
     Introduction to social analysis                
     Thinking & working sociologically--   
     Sociological perspectives

2.  Research methods                                  Chapter 2

3.  Culture                                                    Chapter 3
                                                                     
4.  Socialization                         	          Chapter 4

5.  Interactions & social organizations        Chapter 5 

6.  Deviance & crime                                   Chapter 6 

7.  Social inequality: Canadian & global perspectives—Chapter 7  

8.  Race & ethnicity                                   Chapter 8
     Aboriginal issues                                   

9.  Gender inequality                                 Chapter 9  

10.  Work & the economy                         Chapter 10

11.  Politics & the distribution of power   Chapter 11 
                                 
12.  Families                                              Chapter 12

13.  Education   	         Cchapter 13

14.  Mass Media                                        Chapter 14

15.  Health, medicine & aging                 Chapter 15

16.  Population, urbanization, & development—Chapter 16

17.  Collective actions & social movements—Chapter 17

18.  Technology & the global environment—Chapter 18
                                                                     
Course Requirements:

There are six (6) requirements for this course.

1.  One Written Assignment. Due Date:  Nov. 23rd ..................20%
Every student is expected to select (3) articles on any sociological topic from specific social science journals or books, or select internet sites and sum up and critique these articles by relying on sociological perspectives. The assignment should be no more than 1500 words (5 pages, double-spaced) in length and to be submitted (along with the articles) no later than Nov. 23rd.

Keep both disk and hard copies of the assignment as a backup.

2. Mid-term exam, October 17………………………………….10%
The mid-term exam consists of multiple-choice questions (it may also include short-answer questions).
     
3. End-of-term exam, fall term (to be announced) ……………20%
     
 The end-of-term exam will include multiple-choice questions and both short-answer   
 and short-essay questions.  
 4. End-of-term exam, winter term (to be announced)…………..20%
      The exam covers all class work, lecture and reading material to date.
 
The exams (both the mid-term and the end-of-term) cover all class work, lecture and reading material to date.  It is not the instructor’s aim to reproduce the same material that is covered in the text. The lecture material and discussions will complement, expand, and shed more light on those issues that are covered in the text.
        
5. One essay paper on any sociological topic. Due March 1st…….20% 
The essay should be no more than 1500 words (5 typed pages, double-spaced).  The student is expected to use at least one of the sociological perspectives for the analytical part of the paper. You are strongly encouraged to select a topic of specific interest to you.  If sociology is not your major, you may write a paper on an area which ties together your major and sociology.
Keep both disk and hard copies of your paper as a backup.
 
        6.  Class participation & critical reflection…………………………10%

Class attendance is expected:  In order to do well in this course, you must attend 
class on a regular basis. There will be substantial in-class discussions and much of the     
material covered in lectures will not be found in the reading. In order to participate in   class discussions, it is important that you do the readings before coming to class.  You   must come to class ready to contribute to discussion in a thoughtful way, to ask questions, as well as to reflect on the assigned readings. Students are expected to arrive before the class starts and are expected to stay in class till the end.  Students are strongly encouraged not to engage in private conversations during class lectures.  

Further, the student will be given additional information concerning course topics, course requirements, evaluation procedures and other relevant material on the first day of class.

NOTE: THERE WILL BE A PENALTY FOR ESSAYS HANDED IN LATE.

Further Readings:

Adelberg, E. & C. Currie.  In Conflict With the Law: Women & the Canadian Justice System.  Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1993.

Anderson, Karen I.  Sociology: a Critical Introduction. Scarborough: Nelson Canada, 1996.

Amin, Samir.  Dynamics of Global Crisis.  New York:  Monthly Review, 1982.

Armstrong, Pat and Hugh Armstrong.  The Double Ghetto:  Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work, 2nd edition.  Toronto:  McClelland & Stewart, 1993.

	.  Theorizing Women's Work.  Toronto:  Garamond Press, 1990.

Battiste, Marie and Jean Barman. First Nations Education: the Circle Unfolds. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1996.

Braverman, Harry.  Labour and Monopoly Capital:  The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century.  New York:  Monthly Review Press, 1974.

Cardoso, Fernando.  "Dependency and Development in Latin America," New Left Review 74, 14, 1972.

Chahal, Walid. “Multicultural Education and Policy Making.” In Dawn M. Zinga (ed.) Perspectives on Multiculturalism (E-book). Hamilton, Ontario: Zing Media Inc., 2004. pp. 5-21. <http://www.multiculturaldays.ca/Persp.%20Book%20COMP.pdf> 

---. “Restorative Justice: Rethinking Policy for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples” In  Dawn M. Zinga (ed.) Perspectives on Multiculturalism (E-book). Hamilton Ontario: Zing Media Inc., 2004. pp: 136-150. <http://www.multiculturaldays.ca/Persp.%20Book%20COMP.pdf>  

---. “Knowledge Discourses and International Peace and Justice.” In Canadian Critical Race Conference: Pedagogy and Practice, May 2003, Conference Proceedings, 2004. pp: 1-39. Simon Fraser University Library's website: <http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/ccrc/>

Clement, Wallace.  The Canadian Corporate Elite:  An Analysis of Economic Power.  McClelland & Stewart, 1975.

	.  Continental Corporate Power:  Economical Linkages between Canada and the U.S., McClelland & Stewart, 1977.

Comack, Elizabeth.  Women in Trouble.  Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1996.

Currie, Dawn H. and Brian D. MacLean (eds.). Rethinking the Administration of Justice.  Halifax:  Fernwood Publishing, 1992.

Das Gupta, Tania.  Racism and Paid Work. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1996.

Davis, A. K. "Canadian Society as Hinterland versus Metropolis," in R.J. Ossenberg (ed.). Canadian Society:  Pluralism, Change and Conflict, 6-32, 1971.

Dei, Sefa George J. and Agnes Calliste. Power, Knowledge and Anti-Racism Education: A Critical Reader. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2000.

Duffy, Ann, Nancy Mandell and Norene Pupo.  Few Choices.  Toronto:  Garamond Press, 1989.

Freire, P.  Pedagogy of the Oppressed.  New York:  Herder & Herder, 1972.  
Frideres, James S. Native Peoples in Canada:  Contemporary Conflict, 5th ed., Scarborough, Ontario:  Prentice-Hall, 1993.

Gaskell, Jane et al (eds.).  Claiming an Education : Feminism and Canadian Schools.  Toronto:  McGraw Hill & Ryerson Ltd., 1988.

Giroux, Henry. The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy. Aurora: Garamond Press, 2004.   

Goff, Colin H. and Charles E. Reasons.  Corporate Crime in Canada.  Scarborough, Ontario:  Prentice-Hall, 1978.

Grayson, J. Paul.  Introduction to Sociology:  An Alternate Approach.  Toronto:  Gage Publishing Ltd., 1983.

Gunder Frank, Andre.  Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America.  New York:  Monthly Review Press, 1969.

Haig-Brown, Celía. Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School. Vancouver: Tillacum Library, 1988.

Henry, Frances and Carol Tator. The Colour of Democracy: Racism in Canadian Society. 3rd  Edition. Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2006.  

Herman Edward and Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.  New York:  Pantheon Books, 1988.  

hooks, bell.  Teaching To Transgress:  Education as the Practice of Freedom.  New York:  Routledge, 1994.  
Jackson, Margaret A. and Curt T. Griffiths.  Canadian Criminology:  Perspectives on Crime & Criminality.  Toronto:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.

James, Carl E. and Adrienne Shadd. Talking About Identity: Encounters in Race, Ethnicity, and Culture, Language.  Toronto: Between the Lines, 2001.

James, Carl E. Possibilities and Limitations: Multicultural Policies and Programs in Canada. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2005.

Kelly, Jennifer. Under the Gaze: Learning to Be Black in White Society. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1998. 

Li, Peter.  Race and Ethnic Relations in Canada. 2nd edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1999

Li, Peter & B. Singh Bolaria (eds.). Contemporary Sociology: Critical Perspectives.  Toronto:  Copp Clark Ltd. 1993.

---.  Ethnic Inequality in a Class Society.  Toronto:  Wall & Thompson, 1988.

Long, David and Olive Patricia Dickason. Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues. 2nd Edition. Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2000.

Mackie, Marlene.  Constructing Women & Men:  Gender Socialization.  Toronto:  Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1987.

Maclean, Brian D. (ed.). The Political Economy of Crime: Readings for a Critical Criminology.  Scarborough, Ontario:  Prentice-Hall, 1986.
 
Mannette, Joy. (ed.).  Elusive Justice:  Beyond the Marshall Inquiry.  Halifax:  Fernwood Publishing, 1992.

Marshall, Victor (ed.). Aging in Canada: Social Perspectives. Ontario. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1987.

Matthews, Ralph. "The Significance and Explanation of Regional Divisions in Canada, Toward a Canadian Sociology," Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1980, pp. 43-61.

	.  The Creation of Regional Dependency, University of Toronto Press, 1983.

McCaskell, Tim. Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2005.   

Miles, Robert.  Racism.  London: Routledge, 1989.  

Naiman, Joanne.  How Societies Work: Class, Power and Change in a Canadian  Context.  Concord:  Irwin Publishing, 1997.

Nelsen, Randle W.  Miseducating:  Death of the Sensible.  Kingston, Ontario:  Cedarcreek Publications, 1991.

Nelsen, W.  Randle. Schooling as Entertainmemt: Corporate Education Meets Popular Culture. Kingston: Cedarcreek Publications, 2002.  

Niosi, J.  Canadian Capitalism.  J. Lorimer & Company Publishers, 1980.

Nock, David A.   Star Wars in Canadian Sociology: Exploring the Social Construction of Knowledge.  Halifax:  Fernwood Publishing, 1993.  

Ossenberg, Richard J. (ed.).  Power and Change in Canada, McClelland & Stewart, 1980.

Postman, Neil.  The Disappearance of Childhood.  New York:  Dell, 1982.

Provenzo, Eugene F. Jr.  Video Kids:  Making Sense of Nintendo.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 1991.

Rienhart, James W. The Tyranny of Work, 2nd ed.  Toronto:  H.B. Jovanovich, 1987.

Ryan, William. Blaming the Victim. New York: Vintage Books, 1971.

Saccouman, R. James. "Semi-Proletarianization and Rural Underdevelopment in the Maritimes," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 17:232-45, 1980.

Said, Edwared.  Culture and Imperialism.  New York, Vintage books, 1993.  

Satzewich, Vic. Racism and Social Inequality in Canada: Concepts, Controversies & Strategies of Resistance.  Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc.1998.

Satzewich, Vic and Terry Wotherspoon.  First Nations:  Race, Class, and Gender Relations.  Scarborough, Ontario:  Nelson Canada, 1993.

Schissel, Bernard.  Blaming Children: Youth Crime, Moral Panics and the Politics of Hate.  Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1997.

Schissel, Bernard and Terry Wotherspoon. The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Scott, B.M., M.A.  Shwartz and M. VanderPlaat.  Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World.  Toronto: A & B Pearson, 2000.  

Scott-Dixon, Krista. Doing It: Women Working in Information Technology. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004.

Smith, Dorothy E. Women, Class and Family.  Toronto:  Garamond Press, 1985.

Snider, L.  Bad Business: Corporate Crime in Canada. Scarborough:Nelson Canada,1993.

Southcott, Chris (ed.). Provincial Hinterland: Inequality in Northern Ontario.  Halifax:  Fernwood. 1993.

Swift Jamie, Jacqueline M. Davies, Robert G. Clarke & Michael Czerny S. J.  Getting Started on Social Analysis. 4th edition. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2003.

Teeple, G. (ed.). Capitalism and the National Question in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1972.

Teppermann, Lorne, James Curtis, Susannah J. Wilson and Allan Wain (eds.). Small World:  International Readings in Sociology.  Scarborough, Ontario:  Prentice Hall Canada Inc. 1994.

Teppermann, Lorne and Curtis, James. (eds.).  Understanding Canadian Society.  Toronto:  McGraw Hill & Ryerson Ltd., 1988.

Veltmeyer, Henry.  Canadian Class Structure, Toronto:  Garamond Press, 1986.

Wallerstein, Immanuel.  The Modern World System.  New York:  Academic Press, 1974.
Wolfe, Morris.  Jolts:  The TV Wasteland and the Canadian Oasis.  Toronto:  James Lorimer & Company Publishers, 1985.

Wotherspoon, Terry (ed.). The Political Economy of Canadian Schooling. Toronto:  Methuen, 1987.

----- (ed.). Hitting the Books: The Politics of Educational Retrenchment. Toronto:  Garamond Press, 1991.