SOCIOLOGY 100: Introduction to Sociology

THE SYLLABUS

The most recent required booklist:

	Alani Apio, Kamau (This will be available for purchase on the first day of class.)
	Peter T. Manicas (ed.), Social Process in Hawai'i: A Reader, 2nd Ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997).
	C.S. Fischer, M. Hout, et al, Inequality by Design (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996).
	Francis Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Poor People's Movements (New York: Vintage, 1979).

Week 1:   Getting Started

     Read: Apio, Kamau (Since this is a very short play, it can be read in one sitting.) Blackboard: ‘Agency and Structure,’ ‘The Lottery of Life,’ ‘The Biggest Picture.’

Week 2: Colonization: Consequences for Hawaiians

     Read: Introduction, Social Process, pp. vii-xviii; Trask, ‘Hawaiians, American Colonization, the Quest for Independence,’ in Social Process, pp. 1-36. Blackboard:  ‘Power,’ ‘Race and Ethnicity,’  ‘Some Definitions.’ Optional: Blaisdell, Social Process, pp. 37-57.

First written assignment:  Topic: `How to Get Ahead in Hawai'i.' (See Blackboard for instructions.)

Week 3: Plantations and Immigration

     Read: Lind, ‘Immigration to Hawai'i,’ Social Process, pp. 58-69; Beechert, ‘The Political Economy of Hawai'i and Working Class Consciousness,’ Social Process, pp. 151-177; Blackboard: ‘Precapitalism to Capitalism,’ ‘Class,’ ‘Ideology and Gender, Race and Class Consciousness.’

     Read: Kawahara and Hatanaka, ‘The Impact of War on an Immigrant Culture,’ Social Process, pp. 82-91; Kawahara Lane and Ogata, ‘Change of Attitudes of Plantation Workers,’ Social Process, pp. 119-124; Ikeda, ‘Unionization and the Plantation,’ Social Process, pp. 125-137; Optional: Alegado, ‘The Filipino Community in Hawai'i's Development and Change,’ Social Process, pp. 92-118.

Week 4:   Statehood

     Read:  Handout:  Cooper and Dawes, ‘Land and Power;’   Stauffer, ‘The Tragic Maturing of Hawaii's Economy,' Social Process,  pp. 179-202; Blackboard:  'Problems in Quantification,' ‘Education in Hawai`i,’ ‘Work in Hawai`i,’ 'Oahu Neighborhoods,' 'Marginal Income for Additional Education by Sex and Ethnicity,' 'Opportunities for Work: A Historical Schema.'

Week 5: Contemporary Social Structure of Hawai'i

     Read: Aoude, ‘Tourist Attraction: Hawai'i's Locked-in Economy,’ Social Process, pp. 226-242; Yamamoto, ‘The Significance of Local,’ Social Process, pp. 138-150; Okamura, ‘Why There are no Asian-Americans in Hawai`i, The Continuing Significance of Local Identity,’ Social Process, pp. 243-258. Blackboard, 'Comparing Hawaii and New Hampshire,' ‘Sovereignty,’ ‘Nations, Nation States Assimilation and Local Culture.’ Optional: Blackboard, ‘The Los Angelesation of Hawai’i,’ 'Hawaii Politics.'

Second written assignment:  Topic: ‘Fundamental Features of Hawai'i's Social Structure.’ See Blackboard for instructions.

Week 6-8:  Explaining Inequality

     Read: Text: Inequality by Design, chapters 1-3; Blackboard, ‘Two ways to explain inequality;’ 'Flow Chart for Explaining Income Inequality,' 'Confusions Over Causality.'.

     Read: Inequality by Design, chapters 5, 6. Blackboard: ‘Jobs, Wages and Governments.’ 'Racism:How it Works.'

     Read: Inequality by Design, chs. 7, 8, 9.

Week 9: The Lottery of Life

     Blackboard: 'Explaining Crime,'  'How to Make a Fire,' 'Ideology of Crime.'

Third written assignment: Topics to be announced.

Week 10-15:  Effecting Change in a Democracy

     Read: Blackboard: “Effecting Change in a Democracy,” Democracy: A Conceptual History

     Piven and Cloward, Poor People's Movements, Introduction, ch.1.

     Poor People's Movements, chapter 2

     Poor Peoples Movements, chapter 4

     Poor People's Movements, chapter 5.

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