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Evaluation
and
Assignments:
-‐ Attendance
and
Participation
o Discussion
Questions
-‐ Two
take-‐home
exams
–
Essays
and
Short
Answer
Questions
Attendance
and
Participation:
This
class
is
discussion
based,
so
your
attendance
is
extremely
important
for
the
success
of
the
course.
Being
absent
more
than
three
times
this
semester
is
grounds
for
receiving
an
unsatisfactory
in
this
course.
I
expect
everyone
to
participate
in
all
of
the
discussions
and
activities.
If
you
often
experience
difficulties
expressing
yourself
in
public,
you
should
write
down
your
comments
prior
to
class
and
plan
to
read
them
during
the
discussions.
Discussion
Questions:
Each
of
you
should
post
one
questions
about
the
readings
we
are
going
to
cover
in
class
by
midnight
the
day
before
our
scheduled
class.
Your
questions
should
focus
on
an
issue
that
you
found
significant
and/or
difficult
to
understand
about
the
readings.
Your
questions
should
try
to
synthesize
the
insights
from
a
number
of
the
readings
assigned
in
a
particular
class.
We
will
not
cover
all
of
the
posted
questions
in
class;
instead,
we
will
look
a
few
of
the
questions
during
our
discussions.
You
should
post
your
questions
to
the
discussion
forum
on
the
Moodle
site.
Two
Exams:
You
will
have
two
take-‐home
exams,
which
will
consist
of
essays
and
short
answer
questions.
The
first
exam,
which
will
cover
all
of
the
material
prior
to
the
exam,
will
be
due
on
Thursday,
March
17,
2016
by
11:59
PM.
The
second
exam,
which
will
cover
all
of
the
material
after
the
midterm
exam,
will
be
due
on
Monday,
May
16,
2016.
***
All
of
your
written
work
should
be
submitted
via
links
on
Moodle.
You
should
used
12
pt.
font,
1-‐inch
margins,
and
double-‐space
all
of
your
papers.
I
prefer
you
to
submit
your
papers
as
word
documents
so
that
I
can
make
comments
directly
in
your
paper
using
track
changes.
If
this
is
going
to
be
a
problem
for
you,
please
let
me
know.
You
should
format
your
citations
according
to
the
American
Sociological
Association’s
(ASA)
style
guide.
***
Additional
Policies
and
Information:
Academic
Dishonesty
and
Plagiarism
Policies:
Any
suspected
instance
of
plagiarism
will
be
handled
in
accordance
with
the
College’s
policy
on
academic
dishonesty.
2
Students
with
Disabilities
Statement:
A
student
claiming
a
need
for
special
accommodations
because
of
a
disability
must
work
with
the
Counseling
and
Wellness
Center,
which
will
establish
the
need
for
specific
accommodations
and
communicate
them
to
the
instructor.
Please
visit
the
website
for
the
Counseling
and
Wellness
Center
(http://www.ncf.edu/cwc)
or
call
the
center
at
941-‐487-‐4254
for
more
information
about
this
policy.
Academic
Resource
Center:
The
Academic
Resources
Center,
located
on
the
first
floor
of
the
Jane
Bancroft
Cook
Library,
offers
a
number
of
academic
support
services,
including
individual
and
peer
tutoring.
Please
visit
their
website
for
more
information
about
this
great
resource
(http://www.ncf.edu/academic-‐resource-‐center)
and
the
services
they
provide.
Religious
Practices
Policy:
No
student
shall
be
compelled
to
attend
class
or
sit
for
an
examination
at
a
day
or
time
when
s/he
would
normally
be
engaged
in
a
religious
observance
or
on
a
day
or
time
prohibited
by
his
or
her
religious
beliefs.
Students
are
expected
to
notify
their
instructors
if
they
intend
to
be
absent
for
a
class
or
announced
examination,
in
accordance
with
this
policy,
prior
to
the
scheduled.
Sexual
Assault
Resources
and
Support:
New
College
has
a
number
of
resources
available
to
prevent
sexual
assault
and
support
survivors
of
assault.
If
you
need
more
information
about
these
resources,
please
see
the
following
website
for
resources
at
New
College
and
in
the
larger
Sarasota
community:
https://www.ncf.edu/sexual-‐assault-‐awareness
Counseling
and
Wellness
Center:
The
counseling
and
wellness
center
on
campus
offers
a
number
of
support
services,
programs,
and
workshops
emphasizing
emotional
and
physical
wellbeing
as
well
as
academic
performance.
Please
visit
the
following
website
if
you
need
more
information
about
the
center:
https://www.ncf.edu/cwc
Tentative
Course
Calendar:
Week
1:
Monday,
February
1,
2016
–
Introduction
to
the
Course
“Systems
of
Power
and
Inequality”
by
Margaret
Anderson
and
Patricia
Hill
Collins
Thursday,
February
4,
2016
–
Understanding
Social
Inequality
“Inequality
and
Society:
An
Introduction”
by
Jeff
Manza
(M)
“Inequalities”
by
Robert
Max
Jackson
(M)
“Rethinking
Inequality”
by
Charles
Tilly
(M)
Week
2:
Monday,
February
8,
2016
–
Understanding
Inequality:
Relations,
Mechanisms,
and
Processes
3
“Relational
Origins
of
Inequality”
by
Charles
Tilly
(M)
“The
Psychology
of
Social
Stratification”
by
Douglas
Massey
(M)
“
Open
and
Closed
Relationships”
by
Max
Weber
(M)
Thursday,
February
11,
2016
-‐
Relational
Power
“Domination
and
Subordination”
by
Jean
Baker
Miller
(M)
“The
German
Ideology”
by
Karl
Marx
and
Friedrich
Engels
(M)
“Power:
A
Radical
View”
by
Steven
Lukes
(M)
Week
3:
Monday
February
15,
2016
–
-‐
Structural
Power
“Power”
by
G.
William
Domhoff
(M)
“Power
Elite”
by
C.
Wright
Mills
(M)
“Patriarchy”
by
Allan
G.
Johnson
(M)
Thursday,
February
18,
2016
–
Symbolic
Power
“Language
and
Symbolic
Power”
by
Pierre
Bourdieu
(M)
“Mammies,
Matriarchs,
and
Other
Controlling
Images”
by
Patricia
Hill
Collins
(M)
“Selling
Hot
Pussy”
by
bell
hooks
(M)
Week
4:
Monday,
February
22,
2016
–
The
Body/
Bio
–
Power
“Body/Power”
by
Michel
Foucault
(M)
“Docile
Bodies”
by
Michel
Foucault
(M)
“Introduction:
Killing
the
Black
Body”
by
Dorothy
Roberts
(M)
Thursday,
February
25,
2016
-‐
Presentation
about
Local
Inequality
by
SCOPE
(Tentative)
Week
5:
Monday,
February
29,
2016
–
Income
Inequality
“Income
Inequality:
New
Trends
and
Research
Directions”
by
Leslie
McCall
and
Christine
Percheski
(M)
“Class
in
America-‐
2012”
by
Gregory
Mantsios
(M)
“The
Many
Ways
to
Measure
Economic
Inequality”
by
Drew
Desilver
(M)
Unequal
we
stand:
An
empirical
analysis
of
economic
inequality
in
the
United
States,
1967–2006
by
Jonathan
Heathcotea,
Fabrizio
Perrib,
and
Giovanni
L.
Violantec
(M)
Thursday,
March
3,
2016
–
Structural
Power
and
the
Power
Elite
Domhoff,
William
G.
2014.
Who
Rules
America?
The
Triumph
of
the
Corporate
Rich
–
Chapters
1-‐5
Week
6:
Monday,
March
7,
2016
–
Structural
Power
and
the
Power
Elite
4
Domhoff,
William
G.
2014.
Who
Rules
America?
The
Triumph
of
the
Corporate
Rich
–
Chapters
6-‐9
Look
at
resources
on
his
website:
whorulesamerica.net
Thursday,
March
10,
2016
–
Discussion
about
Economic
Inequality
No
reading
for
this
class
–
You
should
just
post
your
lingering
questions
about
the
course
material
in
the
discussion
forum.
***
Take-‐home
midterm
exam
given
out
at
the
end
of
class
and
it
is
due
on
Thursday,
March
17,
2016
before
11:59
PM.
You
should
submit
your
exam
via
a
link
on
the
Moodle
site.
***
Week
7:
Monday,
March
14,
2016
–
Class,
Education,
and
Inequality
“Forms
of
Capital”
by
Pierre
Bourdieu
(M)
“Unequal
Childhoods”
by
Annett
Lareau
(M)
“Class,
Capital,
and
Education
in
this
Neoliberal
and
Neoconservative
Period”
by
Dave
Hill
(M)
Skim:
“Creating
a
Class”
by
Mitchell
Stevens
(M)
Thursday,
March
17,
2016
–
Racial
Inequality
“Whiteness
as
Property”
by
Cheryl
I.
Harris
(M)
“Mapping
the
Geographies
of
Social
Inequality:
Patricia
Hill
Collins's
Intersectional
Critical
Theory”
by
Eduardo
Mendieta
(M)
“White
Supremacy
as
Sociopolitical
System:
A
Philosophical
Perspective”
by
Charles
W.
Mills
(M)
Skim:
“Embedding
the
Color
Line:
The
Accumulation
of
Racial
Advantage
and
the
Dissaccumulation
of
Oppression
in
Post-‐Civil
Rights
America
”
by
Michael
K
Brown
and
David
Wellman.
(M)
Week
8:
Spring
Break
–
Monday
–
Friday,
March
21-‐25,
2016
–
No
Classes
Week
9:
Monday,
March
28,
2016
–
Racial
Inequality
and
Diversity
Berry,
Ellen.
2015.
The
Enigma
of
Diversity:
The
Language
of
Race
and
the
Limits
of
Racial
Justice.
Chapters
1-‐3
Thursday
March
31,
2016
–Racial
Inequality
and
Diversity
Berry,
Ellen.
2015.
The
Enigma
of
Diversity:
The
Language
of
Race
and
the
Limits
of
Racial
Justice.
-‐
Chapters
6,
7,
and
Conclusion
5
Week
10:
Monday,
April
4,
2016
–
No
Class
Day
of
Dialogue
Thursday,
April
7,
2016
–
Housing
and
Inequality
Berry,
Ellen.
2015.
The
Enigma
of
Diversity:
The
Language
of
Race
and
the
Limits
of
Racial
Justice.
-‐
Chapters
4
and
5
Excerpt
from
Black
on
the
Block
by
Mary
Pattillo
(M)
Week
11:
Monday,
April
11,
2016
–
Health
and
Inequality
“Social
Determinants
of
Health”
from
CDC
Health
Disparities
and
Inequalities
Report
(M)
On
Race,
Medicine,
and
Reproduction:
An
Interview
with
Dorothy
Roberts
(M)
“Is
Segregation
Bad
for
your
Health?”
by
Michael
Cramer
and
Carol
Hogue
(M)
Watch
excerpt
from:
When
the
Bough
Breaks
from
documentary
UnNatural
Causes
Thursday,
April
14-‐
The
Environment
and
Inequality
“Race,
Class
and
the
Global
Politics
of
Environmental
Inequality”
by
Peter
Newell
(M)
“Corporate
Characteristics,
Political
Embeddedness
and
Environmental
Pollution
by
Large
U.S.
Corporations”
by
Harland
Prechel
and
Lu
Zheng
(M)
“Race,
Income,
and
Environmental
Inequality
in
the
United
States”
by
Liam
Downey
and
Brian
Hawkins
(M)
Week
12:
Monday,
April
18,
2016
–
Gender,
Sexuality
and
Inequality
“Gender
As
a
Social
Structure:
Theory
Wrestling
with
Activism”
by
Barbara
Risman
(M)
“Masculinity
as
Homophobia:
Fear,
Shame,
and
Silence
in
the
Construction
of
Gender
Identity”
by
Michael
Kimmel
(M)
“Why
Transgender
Identity
Matters”
by
Rebecca
Juro
(M)
Skim
and
pull
out
striking
points
from
report:
“Engendered
Penalties:
Transgender
and
Transsexual
People’s
Experience
of
Inequality
and
Discrimination”
by
Stephen
Whittle,
Lewis
Turner
and
Maryam
Al-‐Alami
(Selections
from
Report)
(M)
Thursday,
April
21,
2016
–
Disability,
Race,
Class,
and
Gender
“Disability
and
the
Justification
of
Inequality
in
American
History”
by
Douglas
Baynton
(M)
6
“Race,
Poverty,
and
Disability:
Three
Strikes
and
You’re
Out!
Are
you?”
by
Pamela
Block,
Fabricio
E.
Balcazar,
and
Christopher
B.
Keys.
(M)
“On
the
Government
of
Disability”
by
Shelley
Tremain
(M)
Week
13:
Baccalaureate
Days
–
Monday
–
Wednesday,
April
25-‐27,
2016
–
No
Classes
Thursday,
April
28,
2016
-‐
Prisons,
Criminalization,
Mass
Incarceration
“Policing
the
National
Body:
Sex,
Race,
and
Criminalization”
by
Jael
Silliman
(M)
“Black
Women,
Male
Violence,
and
the
Build
Up
of
Prison
Nation”
by
Beth
Richie
(M)
Excerpt
from
The
New
Jim
Crow
by
Michelle
Alexander
(M)
Skim
and
pull
out
striking
points
for
class
discussion:
Reports
from
ACLU’s
Mass
Incarceration
page:
https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-‐incarceration
Week
14:
Monday,
May
2,
2016
–
Globalization
and
Immigration
History
“The
First
Americans:
American
Indians”
by
C.
Mathew
Shipp
(M)
“Immigration
and
the
American
Century”
by
Charles
Hershman
(M)
“Face
the
Nation:
Race,
Immigration,
and
the
Rise
of
Nativism
in
Late
Twentieth
Century
America”
George
J.
Sanchez
(M)
“Global
Cities
and
Survival
Circuits”
by
Saskia
Sassen
(M)
Thursday,
May
5,
2016
-‐
Immigration,
Neoliberalism,
and
Mass
Deportation
Golash-‐Boza,
Tanya
Maria.
2015.
Deported:
Immigrant
Policing,
Disposable
Labor
and
Global
Capitalism
–
Introduction,
Chapters
1-‐3
Week
15:
Monday,
May
9,
2016
-‐
Immigration,
Neoliberalism,
and
Mass
Deportation
Golash-‐Boza,
Tanya
Maria.
2015.
Deported:
Immigrant
Policing,
Disposable
Labor
and
Global
Capitalism.
Chapters
4-‐7
**
Take-‐home
exam
given
out
and
due
by
Monday,
May
16,
2016
before
11:59
PM.
You
should
submit
your
exam
via
a
link
on
the
Moodle
site.
**
Thursday,
May
12,
2016
-‐
Empowerment
and
Social
Change
(Make-‐up
Class)
“Can
Power
from
Below
Change
the
World?”
by
Frances
Fox
Piven
(M)
“Toward
a
Politics
of
Empowerment”
by
Patricia
Hill
Collins
(M)
“What
is
Social
Equality?
An
Analysis
of
Status
Equality
as
a
Strongly
Egalitarian
Ideal”
by
Carina
Fourie
(M)
Course
Conclusion
and
Evaluation
7