You will need a bluebook and a scantron form for this midterm. There will be an in-class essay.
There are no changes to your syllabus, and as indicated on your syllabus, here is the material that will be covered on the exam:
In Giddens et al.: Chapter 1. What is Sociology?
In Massey: 27. “Upward Mobility Through Sport?” by D. Stanley Eitzen
In Massey: 36. MICHAEL POLLAN, America’s National Eating Disorder (from
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals)
In Massey: 50. JENIFER FLURI AND LORRAINE DOWLER, House Bound: Women’s
Agency in White Separatist Movements
In Massey: 4. “Public Sociologies” by Michael Burawoy
In Massey: 2. From The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
In Massey: 3. “What Makes Sociology Different?” by Emile Durkheim
In Massey: 37. “Size Does Count, at Least for French Fries” by Robert Glennon
In Massey: 31. “Uses of the Underclass in America” by Herbert J. Gans
In Massey: 23. “Manifesto of the Communist Party” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
In Massey: 38. “The Foundations of Third World Poverty” by John Isbister
In Massey: 29. “The Saints and the Roughnecks” by William J. Chambliss
In Massey: 15. JULIA TWIGG, The Body and Bathing: Help with Personal Care at
Also, you are responsible for all lecture material.
