Karl Spitzweg, "The Bookworm,"

Introduction to Sociology - Online
Reading Assignments, Lecture Notes, Videos & Web Sites

Unit 2: What is Sociology? The Search for Social Patterns

Reading Assignments: (these may seem like a lot to read, but each is only a few pages and together they amount to the equivalent of one complete chapter in a textbook)

Larry Stern, Lecture Notes: What is Sociology?

Peter Kaufman, “I Am a Sociologist Because . . .”

Peter Kaufman, "The Compassionate Sociologist," Everyday Sociology, June 6, 2016

Peter Kaufman, "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train," Everyday Sociology, May 15, 2017

Peter Kaufman, "Sociology for the Masses!,"Everyday Sociology, April 4, 2016

Peter Berger, "Sociology as a Form of Consciousness"

C. Wright Mills, "The Promise" (The Sociological Imagination)

Colby King, "Place, the Sociological Imagination, and Western Pennsylvania," Everyday Sociology, August 14, 2017

Textbook Reading: Macionis, Society: The Basics, chapter 1, pp. 1 - 10.