Westview Press, 1998. Each text serves a specific purpose in assisting students to meet the course goals identified above in the Course Description. The Ritzer text provides a general overview of each theorist and discusses the major questions posed by the theorist. The Lemert text allows students to read the actual discussions presented by each theorist. These texts and the essays combine to contribute to a rigorous learning experience for the student.
Textbooks are available from Iowa Book and Supply in Iowa City.
Each lesson in the study guide contains an extended discussion meant to guide your completion of the reading assignments. Each written assignment requires a thoughtful response of a minimum of four typed, double-spaced pages . Since instructor feedback is important to the learning process in the course, only one assignment is accepted at a time. You may begin working on the next lesson once one is submitted, but wait to submit it until you have received the previous graded response. This will allow you to build future work on the feedback your instructor provides.