Nicholas Kristof, “An Idiot’s Guide to Inequality.” New York Times, July 23, 2014 Nicholas Kristof, “Is a Hard Life Inherited?” New York Times, August 9, 2014 Alex Tribou and Keith Collins. 2015. “This is How Fast America Changes its Mind.” Bloomberg Business, June 26, 2015. Robert Reich. 2014. “The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality.” May 5, 2014. Film: Robert Reich: Inequality for All, 2013 (85 mins) We’ll discuss the Reich movie in class. September 8th: [RU Monday: NO CLASS!] September 15th: Theory and Historical Context Joseph E. Stiglitz. 2013. The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Ch. 1: “America’s 1 Percent Problem” (pp. Sakai. Charles Tilly. 1998. Durable Inequality. Berkeley: University of California Press. Ch. 1: “Of Essences and Bonds” (pp. 1-40). Sakai Douglass S. Massey. 2007. Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Ch. 1: “How Stratification Works” (pp. 1-27). Sakai. Arne Kalleberg. 2011. Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s to 2000s. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Ch. 1: “Job Quality in the United States” (pp. 1-18) and Ch. 2: “Economic Transformations and the Decline of Institutional Protections” (pp. 21-39). Sakai Recommended: Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. 2001. “Income Inequality in the United States, NBER Working Paper Series. 8467. Sakai. http://www.nber.org/papers/w8467
Alexes Harris, Heather Evans, and Katherine Beckett. 2011. “Courtesy Stigma and Monetary Sanctions: Toward a Socio-Cultural Theory of Punishment.” American Sociological Review 76:234-64. Sakai. John Oliver, “Bail.” Last Week Tonight. June 7, 2015. Recommended: Alexes Harris. 2014. ‘Yes, America, We Have Returned to Debtor’s Prisons.” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2014. Timothy Williams. 2015. “A Psychologist as Warden? Jail and Mental Illness Intersect in Chicago. New York Times, July 30, 2015. October 27th: The Surveillance State Alice Goffman. 2015. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. New York: Picador. November 3rd: Meta Analysis: Rethinking Goffman’s Findings and Methods Alice Goffman, 2014. “Appendix: A Methodological Note.” Pp. 211-261 in On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Marc Parry. 2013. “The American Police State: A Sociologist Interrogates the Criminal-Justice System, and Tries to Stay Out of the Spotlight.” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 18, 2013. Christina Sharpe. 2014. “Black Life, Annotated.” The New Inquiry, August 8, 2014. Steven Lubet. 2015. “Ethics On The Run.” The New Rambler. n.d. Alice Goffman. 2015. “A Reply to Professor Lubet’s Critique.” Steven Lubet. 2015. “Alice Goffman’s Denial of Murder Conspiracy Raises Even More Questions.” New Republic. June 3, 2015.
Rosenfield, Sarah. "Some Things to Think About While Reading Papers." Sakai. 10 Top Writing Tips: http://withoutbullshit.com/blog/10-top-writing-tips-psychology/ Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. 2000. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Allyn & Bacon. American Sociological Association, "Writing an Informative Abstract." Sakai. And, for some humor: "How to Write Good." Sakai.