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

Unit 1A: Perspectives: Ways of Seeing, Not Seeing, and Being Deceived

Class Lecture Notes*: Perspectives: Ways of Seeing, Not Seeing, and Being Deceived

David Leonhardt, "A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving," New York Times, July 2, 2015

YouTube Video: Watch David Foster Wallace's Commencement Speech, "This is Water"

Issie Lapowski, "Is the U.S. Leaning Red or Blue? It All Depends on Your Map,"Wired, July 26, 2018

*Note: For some units - not all of them - I will provide a transcript - with images - of a class lecture that covers materials that will not be found in the textbook. Sometimes - as in this instance - it will replace a text reading assignment, in other instances it will provide materials that will supplement the text and other readings. By clicking on the link above, you will be taken to a web page where you simply scroll down to view the materials.