SOCIOLOGY 100 WINTER 03 QUARTER SCHEDULE

Last updated Thursday, 03-Feb-03 (edit 8/22/05ADA)

1. Carefully read the syllabus and be prepared to ask for clarification of anything you do not understand
2. See Trading Places (we will show in class for campus CSUB students), a bit old but still available at most video stores, and be prepared for a quiz and discussion first day week 2.
3. Read The Human Zoo, located in the Sociology Workbook, and be prepared for a quiz and discussion first day week 2.
4. Complete assignment A00 and turn in first day of week 2. Click below to see the assignment. (ITV participants should bring a printed copy to class and submit the assignment after class as an email attachment)
5. Obtain accounts and learn how to use your RunnerMail and AOL Instant messenger and add you email and yahoo address to the class list
6. View the other web links listed below

A00 Diagnostic Assignment
Introduction to Runner Mail
Introduction to AOL Instant messenger
Add your Runner Mail and Yahoo address to class list
Scalping like commodities and bookmaking but somewhere in the middle as to legality
A SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY:NATURE V. NURTURE
A Little Evolution Humor

1. Read: "Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis" Sociology 100 Workbook.
2. Assignment: No written assignment but be prepared for class quizzes on readings and class discussion.
3. Check out these links:

Your Chinese Horoscopes
Another Chinese Horoscope with some perspective
Us horoscopes: one source, another  US horoscope source and more [for fun compare the sources]
The CSUB Trees
The sage of Aquarius

1. Read: Chapter 1, 2 in Gelles and Levine text. We will begin discussion next thursday on Chapter 1. Be prepared for quiz.
2. Complete assignment A01 and turn in first class week 4. Click here to see the assignment.
3. A01 First Graded Assignment Check back here after the due date for an  outline for A01
4. Check out these links:

A SOCIOLOGICAL TOUR THROUGH CYBERSPACE

1. Read: No new reading assignment
2. Complete assignment A02 before week 5, Tuesdays class. Click here to see the assignment.
3. A02 Second Graded Assignment
4. Check out these links

1. Read: Chapter 3, 4 in Gelles and Levine text. We will begin discussion Tuesday on these Chapters. Be prepared for a quiz on Chapter 3 and 4
2. Assignment: A03 Third Graded Assignment due Tuesday
3. Check out this link for a review of  Chinese_Norms
4. Check this link:Great Ape Culture

1. Read: Chapter 5, 6 in Gelles and Levine text. We will begin discussion after the midterm on these Chapters. Be prepared for a quiz on these Chapters. Next Tuesday for Chapter 5 and Thursday for Chapter 6
2. No written assignment (We will view a selection from the movie The Gods Must be Crazy after the midterm.  It is suggested that you rent and see this movie. Its a funny movie.)
3. Check out these links

Sample Midterm Questions

1. Read: Chapter 7and browse chapter 17 in Gelles and Levine text. The topic is Deviance: Individual and Collective. We will begin discussion first class of week 8. Be prepared for a quiz on these Chapters, Tuesday of week 8 for Chapter 17 and Thursday of week 8 for Chapter 17.
2. Assignment: A04, Using The Sociological Imagination: A personal time line. The workbook contains the original non-web version which is very similar to the web version.
3. Class will view "A Class Divided" on Thursday.
4. Web Links

Robert K. Merton's Obituary
A04 Fourth Graded Assignment
White Collar Crime or Terriorism?
Teen drinking a U.S. epidemic!

1. Read: Chapter 8, 9 in Gilles and Levine
2. Check out these links:
3. Assignment:
4. Start A05 and A06 Last GradedAssignments

This will also count for discussion points on the final due
A04 Fourth Graded Assignment due
5. Check out these links:

Play Parade magazines Salary GameGo to this page and click Salary Gane (may not work after 3/8/03)
How much is Bill Gates Worth
Interesting techniques of the Civil Rights Movement
Hip Hop: Today's Civil Rights Movement?
Class discussion questions for Chapter 8, 9

1. Read: Chapter 10 in Gelles and Levine
2. Assignment:
3. Check out these links:

Gender Roles Personality Attributes
The Maso: A diffirent way of treating women and sex
Class discussion questions for Chapter 10

1. Read: Chapter 12 in Gelles and Levine
2. Assignment: A05 must be turned on the last class day--sorry no lates on this one. A06 must be completed and posted before the last class.
3. Check out these links:

Testing in Texas: An evaluation
What do standard tests predict?
Class discussion questions for Chapter 12,-click here
Sample Questions and Study Suggestions for Final Exam