Introduction to Sociology
Professor Larry Stern
Reading Assignments, Lecture Notes & Web Sites

Unit 4: The Study of Culture

Readings:

Macionis, Society: The Basics (15th ed),  Chapter 2: Culture

Karen Sternheimer, "Applying the Sociological Imagination to COVID-19," Everyday Sociology, March 12, 2020

 Yasmeen Serhan and Timothy McLaughlin, "Xenophobia: The Other Problematic Outbreak: As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, so too does racism," The Atlantic, March 13, 2020

Karen Musalo, "When Rights and Culture Collide."

Christopher Petrella, "The Ugly History of the Pledge of Allegiance - and Why it Matters," The Washington Post, November 3, 2017

"Views of US Moral Values Slip to Seven-Year Lows," Gallup Poll, Politics, May 22, 2017

Karen Sternheimer, “Our Subcultures: Making the Familiar Strange,” Everyday Sociology, March 4, 2016

Anna Spinner, "Peace, Love and Social Security: Baby Boomers retire to the Commune,"  The Atlantic, November 21, 2011.  

Listen to David Sedaris' humorous "Six to Eight Black Men" as an example of ethnocentrism and cultural relativity

Watch this short video on "cultural diversity" in New York City - and visit Humans of New York

Watch this video on "Datings's Do's and Don'ts" from 1949.

Watch these next two short videos on "The Trolley Problem"

 

 

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