• SECTION I. WHERE TO BEGINComparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology (2006) - Troy DusterGreat Divides: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Social Bases of the Global Subordination of Women (2007) - Cynthia Fuchs EpsteinThe Positive Functions of Poverty (1975) - Herbert J. GansTheodicy and Life Satisfaction Among Black and White Americans (2000) - Marc A. MusickSECTION II. RESEARCH DESIGNConceptualizing Urban Poverty (1995) - Ellen WrattenConceptualizing Work-Family Balance: Implications for Practice and Research (2007) - Joseph G. Grzywacz and Dawn S. CarlsonThe Violence of Adolescent Life: Experiencing and Managing Everyday Threats (2004) - Katherine IrwinSECTION III. ETHICS IN SOCIAL RESEARCHCode of Ethics Policies and Procedures of the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics (1997) - American Sociological AssociationPolicies and Procedures (1997) - Committee on Professional Ethics, American Sociological AssociationProject Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution: Rethinking the Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus (2001) - Mark SoloveySECTION IV. QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTIONMapping Global Values (2006) - Ronald InglehartMeasuring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): You May Only Get What You Ask For (2005) - Eve WaltermaurerEthnicity, Gender, and Perceptions of Task Competence (1990) - Martha Foschi and Shari BuchanSECTION V. QUALITATIVE DATA COLLECTIONReligion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Catholic and Evangelical Salvadorans in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix (2004) - Cecilia MenjivarA Focus Group Study of the Motivation to Invest: "Ethical/Green" and "Ordinary" Investors Compared (2001) - Alan LewisThe Pub and the People [Excerpt] (1942) - Mass Observation"Afterword" From Sidewalk by Mitch Duneier (2000) - Hakim HasanSECTION VI. QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSISGender Bias in the 1996 Olympic Games: A Comparative Analysis (2003) - Catriona T. Higgs, Karen H. Weiller, and Scott B. MartinResidential Segregation on the Island: The Role of Race and Class in Puerto Rican Neighborhoods (2007) - Nancy A. Denton and Jacqueline VillarrubiaSECTION VII. QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSISWeathering the Storm: Nonprofit Organization Survival Strategies in a Hostile Climate (2002) - Howard LuneSocial Context and Musical Content of Rap Music, 1979-1995 (2006) - Jennifer C. LenaThe Changing Culture of Fatherhood in Comic-Strip Families: A Six-Decade Analysis (2000) - Raph LaRossa, Charles Jaret, Malati Gadgil, and G. Robert WynnSECTION VIII. MIXED METHODSTheorizing Disaster: Analogy, Historical Ethnography, and the Challenger Accident (2004) - Diane VaughanMen and Women′s Experiences with Hazing in a Male-Dominated Elite Military Institution (2006) - Jana L. PershingThe World-System After the Cold War (1993) - Immanuel WallersteinSECTION IX. LAST WORDGLOSSARY

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• SECTION I. WHERE TO BEGINComparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology (2006) - Troy DusterGreat Divides: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Social Bases of the Global Subordination of Women (2007) - Cynthia Fuchs EpsteinThe Positive Functions of Poverty (1975) - Herbert J. GansTheodicy and Life Satisfaction Among Black and White Americans (2000) - Marc A. MusickSECTION II. RESEARCH DESIGNConceptualizing Urban Poverty (1995) - Ellen WrattenConceptualizing Work-Family Balance: Implications for Practice and Research (2007) - Joseph G. Grzywacz and Dawn S. CarlsonThe Violence of Adolescent Life: Experiencing and Managing Everyday Threats (2004) - Katherine IrwinSECTION III. ETHICS IN SOCIAL RESEARCHCode of Ethics Policies and Procedures of the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics (1997) - American Sociological AssociationPolicies and Procedures (1997) - Committee on Professional Ethics, American Sociological AssociationProject Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution: Rethinking the Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus (2001) - Mark SoloveySECTION IV. QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTIONMapping Global Values (2006) - Ronald InglehartMeasuring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): You May Only Get What You Ask For (2005) - Eve WaltermaurerEthnicity, Gender, and Perceptions of Task Competence (1990) - Martha Foschi and Shari BuchanSECTION V. QUALITATIVE DATA COLLECTIONReligion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Catholic and Evangelical Salvadorans in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix (2004) - Cecilia MenjivarA Focus Group Study of the Motivation to Invest: "Ethical/Green" and "Ordinary" Investors Compared (2001) - Alan LewisThe Pub and the People [Excerpt] (1942) - Mass Observation"Afterword" From Sidewalk by Mitch Duneier (2000) - Hakim HasanSECTION VI. QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSISGender Bias in the 1996 Olympic Games: A Comparative Analysis (2003) - Catriona T. Higgs, Karen H. Weiller, and Scott B. MartinResidential Segregation on the Island: The Role of Race and Class in Puerto Rican Neighborhoods (2007) - Nancy A. Denton and Jacqueline VillarrubiaSECTION VII. QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSISWeathering the Storm: Nonprofit Organization Survival Strategies in a Hostile Climate (2002) - Howard LuneSocial Context and Musical Content of Rap Music, 1979-1995 (2006) - Jennifer C. LenaThe Changing Culture of Fatherhood in Comic-Strip Families: A Six-Decade Analysis (2000) - Raph LaRossa, Charles Jaret, Malati Gadgil, and G. Robert WynnSECTION VIII. MIXED METHODSTheorizing Disaster: Analogy, Historical Ethnography, and the Challenger Accident (2004) - Diane VaughanMen and Women′s Experiences with Hazing in a Male-Dominated Elite Military Institution (2006) - Jana L. PershingThe World-System After the Cold War (1993) - Immanuel WallersteinSECTION IX. LAST WORDGLOSSARY

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• SECTION I. WHERE TO BEGINComparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology (2006) - Troy DusterGreat Divides: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Social Bases of the Global Subordination of Women (2007) - Cynthia Fuchs EpsteinThe Positive Functions of Poverty (1975) - Herbert J. GansTheodicy and Life Satisfaction Among Black and White Americans (2000) - Marc A. MusickSECTION II. RESEARCH DESIGNConceptualizing Urban Poverty (1995) - Ellen WrattenConceptualizing Work-Family Balance: Implications for Practice and Research (2007) - Joseph G. Grzywacz and Dawn S. CarlsonThe Violence of Adolescent Life: Experiencing and Managing Everyday Threats (2004) - Katherine IrwinSECTION III. ETHICS IN SOCIAL RESEARCHCode of Ethics Policies and Procedures of the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics (1997) - American Sociological AssociationPolicies and Procedures (1997) - Committee on Professional Ethics, American Sociological AssociationProject Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution: Rethinking the Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus (2001) - Mark SoloveySECTION IV. QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTIONMapping Global Values (2006) - Ronald InglehartMeasuring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): You May Only Get What You Ask For (2005) - Eve WaltermaurerEthnicity, Gender, and Perceptions of Task Competence (1990) - Martha Foschi and Shari BuchanSECTION V. QUALITATIVE DATA COLLECTIONReligion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Catholic and Evangelical Salvadorans in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix (2004) - Cecilia MenjivarA Focus Group Study of the Motivation to Invest: "Ethical/Green" and "Ordinary" Investors Compared (2001) - Alan LewisThe Pub and the People [Excerpt] (1942) - Mass Observation"Afterword" From Sidewalk by Mitch Duneier (2000) - Hakim HasanSECTION VI. QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSISGender Bias in the 1996 Olympic Games: A Comparative Analysis (2003) - Catriona T. Higgs, Karen H. Weiller, and Scott B. MartinResidential Segregation on the Island: The Role of Race and Class in Puerto Rican Neighborhoods (2007) - Nancy A. Denton and Jacqueline VillarrubiaSECTION VII. QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSISWeathering the Storm: Nonprofit Organization Survival Strategies in a Hostile Climate (2002) - Howard LuneSocial Context and Musical Content of Rap Music, 1979-1995 (2006) - Jennifer C. LenaThe Changing Culture of Fatherhood in Comic-Strip Families: A Six-Decade Analysis (2000) - Raph LaRossa, Charles Jaret, Malati Gadgil, and G. Robert WynnSECTION VIII. MIXED METHODSTheorizing Disaster: Analogy, Historical Ethnography, and the Challenger Accident (2004) - Diane VaughanMen and Women′s Experiences with Hazing in a Male-Dominated Elite Military Institution (2006) - Jana L. PershingThe World-System After the Cold War (1993) - Immanuel WallersteinSECTION IX. LAST WORDGLOSSARY

This text does not fit well with the way the course is structured and the level of ability of my students.