David MacGregor, PhD

Survey of Sociological Thought - Soc 240E

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Format: 3 hour lectures.

Students are required to write a midterm (end of November), and take-home final exam (due in mid-April). The midterm will be 50% multiple choice, and 50% short-answer essays. The final will consist of two or three short-answer essays. Regular attendance is important. Attendance will be taken at random five times each term. More than two recorded absences per term will result in a deduction of up to five percent on the final grade.  In addition, there is a major course essay, due mid-semester.  Late essays will be deducted 5% per day.

Grading Structure:

• Participation - 5%
• Mid-term - 30%
• Course Essay - 25%
• Final Exam - 40%

Required Reading:

• David Ashley and David Orenstein, Sociological Theory: Classical Statements, Fourth Edition, Allyn and Bacon, 1998. (CS)
• Noam Chomsky, Profit Over People, Seven Stories Press, 1999
• Richard Gruneau and David Whitson, Hockey Night in Canada: Sports, Identities and Cultural Politics, (Garamond Press, 1993). (HNIC)
• Charles Lemert and Ann Branaman, The Goffman Reader, (Blackwell Publishers Limited, 1997).
• Rosemarie Tong, Feminist Thought: Toward a More comprehensive Introduction, Second Edition, Westview Press, l998. (FT)
• Ruth A. Wallace and Alison Wolf, Contemporary Sociological Theory: Expanding the Classical
• Tradition, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, 1998. (CST)

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