SP Work and leisure represent two of the central coordinates of life experience and personal identity. Topics may include men's and women's work, historical transformations in work and leisure, workplace subcultures and workplace resistance, popular culture and the construction of masculinity and feminity, sports, the mass media and the sociology of taste. Four brief papers on assigned topics and a research paper. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will dropped from the class list.
Readings are subject to change.