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Pedophilia is not a crime. Pedophilia means attraction to prepubescsent children. Most pedophiles are not child molesters, and this is an important distinction to make:

"The term paedophilia is often used interchangeably with sexual offending against children, although research clearly shows that they cannot be used synonymously." https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henrik_Walter/publication/264796925_Brain_alterations_in_paedophilia_A_critical_review/links/54e9cfb20cf2f7aa4d54122b.pdf

Most pedophiles discover their attraction when they are teenagers, and most also feel romantic feelings towards children. Think of it like sexual orientation.

Just found the context: http://genius.com/Troubles-wthes-troubles-wthes-annotated

Yes, this seems to be the case. He actually means ruling class quite specifically in this case.

>For a popular revolution and the emancipation of a particular class of civil society to coincide, for one class to represent the whole of society, another class must concentrate in itself all the evils of society, a particular class must embody and represent a general obstacle and limitation. A particular social sphere must be regarded as the notorious crime of the whole society, so that emancipation from this sphere appears as a general emancipation. For one class to be the liberating class par excellence, it is necessary that another class should be openly the oppressing class. The negative significance of the French nobility and clergy [here is where Mar explicitly identifies a 'ruling class' with a 'negative class] produced the positive significance of the bourgeoisie, the class which stood next to them and opposed them.

>But in Germany every class lacks the logic, insight, courage and clarity which would make it a negative representative [i.e. a ruling class that represents the 'notorious crime'] of society.

I think he is overrated, yes. His themes are definitely interesting: the changing definition of madness, the self-policing of one's actions in Discipline and Punish. But he clouds any potential insight in a haze of obscure prose. Here is what John Searle, the philosopher, quoted Foucault as saying about his obscurantism: 'In France, you gotta have ten percent incomprehensible, otherwise people won’t think it’s deep–they won’t think you’re a profound thinker.'

http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/jean_searle_on_foucault_and_the_obscurantism_in_french_philosophy.html

Academia does not share my aversion to Foucault, however. According to this list at least,he is the most cited author of books in the social sciences: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/most-cited-authors-of-books-in-the-humanities-2007/405956.article

Steven Seidman, "Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today."

This is the book I recently used for a student's independent study of sociological theory.

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In the sixth edition of Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory and addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates.

• Responds to current issues, debates, and new social movements 
• Reviews sociological theory from a contemporary perspective 
• Reveals how the universal theorist and the era of rival schools has been replaced by networks of clustered debates that are relatively 'autonomous' and interdisciplinary 
• Features updates and in-depth discussions of the newest clustered debates in social theory―intimacy, postcolonial nationalism, and the concept of 'the other' 
• Challenges social scientists to renew their commitment to the important moral and political role social knowledge plays in public life 

https://smile.amazon.com/Contested-Knowledge-Social-Theory-Today/dp/1119167582/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JSVVZJSYKQDA&dchild=1&keywords=contested+knowledge+social+theory+today+by+steven+seidman&qid=1608309591&sprefix=contested+kno%2Caps%2C240&sr=8-1

Weiss's Learning from Strangers

https://smile.amazon.com/Learning-Strangers-Qualitative-Interview-Studies/dp/0684823128/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=book+learning+from+strangers&qid=1605584778&sr=8-1

The gardener and the carpenter is an excellent read. More focusing on education, but that in itself transitions into these other topics. amazon link

I can't remember the specific paper bit I believe it's from this book: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=TtWE8SjXnZYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=molotch+toilet&ots=z5vcA4oDCD&sig=YZ8zZdrkyOEtoSMUftvEGIg6Xc8#v=onepage&q=molotch%20toilet&f=false

Looking through the table of contents I'm no longer sure if it's his paper specifically. I read it my freshman year of college so it's been awhile, sorry!

Google Scholar is your friend.

Not an area I've read much about, so unfortunately I can't contribute much else to the conversation, but taking a look at some of these studies will be a good place to start if you're interested in looking further into this. :)

Relevant: The Bridge

A documentary about suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge. Fascinating to watch, although some feel it is a bit morbid. You may have to log in to see the film but it can be seen online for free.

I read an article by one of the authors fairly recently. The article goes into some detail about the original study:

Ross & Ward (1995). Psychological Barriers to Dispute Resolution. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 27, 255-304. Available here.

However, that article cites the study as an unpublished manuscript, and I can't find out whether it has since been published. Looks like there's an article on a similar/same topic, though, published 9 years later: here. I haven't read the article, but it might give you further sources leading back to the original study.

Edit: Oh, and to answer your question, the difference remained even in subsequent rounds of the game. They show an "overall co-operation" score that's virtually identical to the "first-round co-operation". And though it doesn't specifically mention separate rooms, that's how these sorts of prisoner dilemma paradigms are typically run, so I'd be willing to bet that they were indeed put in separate rooms.

So, I did a search for this guy and found this article that he published. http://issuu.com/salisburyreview/docs/sreview_autumn_2012_blue_linked

I didn't read through the whole thing but his ideas seem to hang on multiculturalism as being the actual issue. He says that "it protects group rights of non-Western peoples while simultaneously denying the host (Western) nation of any group rights of its own. The host culture is seen as a neutral site characterized by its provision of individual rights, which apply to everyone, and of group rights, which apply to non-whites." So multiculturalism is institutionalized reverse racism and because of that white Canadians can no longer draw on their culture and support it while others support theirs. Thus, Canada get's less white culturally because of this.

Thanks for this post, I'm going to let another MA student friend know about it because he's writing about current Chinese/Canadian relations and immigration.

For what it's worth, I think the multiculturalism as reverse racism idea isn't entirely wrong (needs a few caveats) but it also takes away from conversations about how to how to deal with the issues of multiculturalism. The idea that Canada can or should remain a white nation should probably be put to rest given that we have had so much immigration and multiculturalism as a policy over time. That version of Canada is basically dead and that's not all bad. In place of his idea we should probably develop ideas of what to do about immigrant integration that can actually reflect the experiences of immigrants. Also, his idea implicitly says that Canada was always (pretty much) a white nation. That, I think, is stupid and seriously racist.

Ive used olympus recorders before in lectures, and they worked great. Like this one, but probably even cheaper would be fine. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014658DHQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_MPB79DJC329NYYXZCTQ7

I sat in the first or second row, professor walking back and forth, and i got everything. This was maybe 15 years ago. They must be even better by now. Files saved to computer as mp3s i think, but playback and search from the player was so easy i could just transcribe stuff right off the player.

I would not recommend it if you need high quality audio as in to use with a documentary. But its clear.

Sony ICD-PX370 Mono Digital Voice Recorder with Built-In USB Voice Recorder,black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XFTWCBJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_GMPPY65ZC6FYDFZK03G8 This one is good (if you are able to offload to a laptop or other device every 48 or so hours) USB is still my device to device connectivity, not too sure if you need a USBC or not

> My sense is that they are using this to shore-up there own identity as a responsible, rule abiding citizen who performs her duty publically by masking, maintaining distance etc. I am also seeing that this is racialized (who the 'rule breakers' are is not only classed but also racialized)

I would start with M. P. Baumgartner's Moral Order of a Suburb (1988) which looks at middle class "harmony" in social relationships and both how this is constructed, but also the problems that arise. While not a central focus, race is discussed in the book as her field site is composed of (mostly) white upper middle class residents in a NYC suburb.

In terms of your wider inclination, there's a lot of work on people's performative actions. I would recommend Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and I would also see if you can get your hands on Studies on the Social Construction of Identities and Authenticity which is a great overview.

In short, what it sounds like you've hit on is the creation of moral 'virtuousness' as an identity for middle class participants who identify in-group/out-group by their adherence to the rules. We've noticed that certain groups (ethnic, racial, economic) are more or less like to adhere to the rules for a myriad of reasons and thus create a morally virtuous "in" for those who do and "out" for those who don't.

As other people have questioned, whether this is sociological or psychological is up for debate. I'm leaning towards this being psychological, but I think there are some important things to take away from sociology.

You mention racism. Soc and psych view racism differently, with psychologists typically following individual prejudice models (racism exists because people are racist) whereas sociologists are more likely to employ a structural model (society at large is racist, and this gets reflected in individual behavior). I'd recommend reading Bonilla-Silva's 1997 paper 'Rethinking Racism' or his 2015 paper 'More than Prejudice.' Both do a good job at separating the different levels/kinds of racism.

From what I've gathered, empathy is the best way to get some to challenge their own problematic thinking. So I wouldn't try and dismantle them with facts, because racism is about feelings and facts aren't very good at changing people's feelings. I'd ask them why they believe that and depending on their response, I'd just try to really humanize the experience of POC who have had structural barriers to their success for centuries in this country.

There are also books by POC that help you talk to folks who say racist stuff. I think this book is one of them. I haven't read it myself, but I've heard good things. Also, anything by Ibram X. Kendi is fabulous, interesting, heartbreaking, and motivating.

Macionis, John J & Plummer, Kenneth, (author.) 2012, Sociology : a global introduction, Fifth edition, Harlow, England Pearson/Prentice Hall. Amazon Link

.... This got me through my first year at university, covers everything you can think of :)

I cannot understate how powerful this text could be in the career arc of a physician. Below is an amazon link to the book "The Social Organization of Doctor-Patient Communication" by Sue Fisher and Alexandra Dundas Todd. It's also easy language, short, and extremely interesting -- particularly if you plan to work with women.

https://www.amazon.com/Social-Organization-Doctor-Patient-Communication/dp/087281310X

I would definitley agree with those who have suggested texts (C. Wright Mills is a good start!).

For a more basic overview of the discipline as a whole I recommend Haralambos & Holborn Sociology: Themes and Perspectives - here's an amazon link https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haralambos-Holborn-Sociology-Themes-Perspectives/dp/0007245955

This book is used in the UK on most Sociology intro courses - it's often referred to as 'The Blue Bible'. It is the one book I tell my students they absolutely have to have because it contains at least a brief overview of almost everything we cover.

Once you find some areas/theories/sociologists you like, buy their original texts and work from there.

Good luck! :)

Edit: Giddens Sociology is another very comprehensive textbook, although it is aimed more towards undergrad level. Heres a link to it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sociology-Anthony-Giddens/dp/0745643582

Do you mean this book? https://www.amazon.com/Anarchism-other-essays-Illustrated-Goldman-ebook/dp/B00H8Q736S/ref=pd_aw_di_ci_mcx_2l_mi_ca_mcx_picks_views_0?pd_rd_w=ITdme&content-id=amzn1.sym.1e721a5b-0a78-40a9-8817-37c730ea5302&pf_rd_p=1e721a5b-0a78-40a9-8817-37...

I suppose this book by Favret-Saada (https://www.amazon.fr/mots-mort-sorts-Jeanne-Favret-Saada/dp/2070322815/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1670872336&refinements=p_27%3AJeanne+Favret-Saada&s=books&sr=1-1 ; in french) where the ethnologist Favret-Saada lived for YEARS in small french villages to study local SORCERY (without saying what she was doing) and ended up so heavily invested in it personally while studying it that she had to cut loose from it all at some point.

The level of investment and time it took for a lone ethnologist. The fact there are many sorcery believers in entire villages in a western european country. Everything was just incredible and poignant.

The Maid's Daughter by Mary Romero, for a qualitativ look at racism, xenòfobia, class issues, immigrant experience. And anything else by Mary Romero.

Actually I find O povo brasileiro (the Brazilian people) on Amazon, there are some versions (they are kinda expensive and that's why I think those translations of his works are rare), unfortunately I couldn't find a PDF of any of his works until now, but if I find it I'll post it here. The Brazilian people translated

I highly recommend Giddens' <em>Capitalism and Modern Social Theory</em> as a primer on Marx, Durkheim, Weber. Indispensible for those new to Soc. theory, imo.

Some sociologists hate it, but I think Gang Leader for a Day is an entertaining read that gives a nice introduction to sociology and being a being a sociologist, especially the research and fieldwork aspects. And audiobook is available if that's your preference.

https://www.amazon.com/Gang-Leader-Day-Sociologist-Streets/dp/014311493X

Pushout by Monique Morris discusses the criminalization of disadvantaged Black girls (re: school to prison pipeline). Interesting and informative if you’d like to know more about how schools contribute to mass incarceration of children and youth.

https://www.amazon.com/Pushout-Criminalization-Black-Girls-Schools/dp/1620970945/ref=nodl_

I found the article in here about Egyptians and their connection to technology and the internet. These are people that actually went through a brief period without internet. The people they interviewed (only 5) were very adamant about there need for the internet and put themselves through difficult times to afford the technology. I think some interesting work can be done on both of the isolated instances.

Here's the Article http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/10/distro-explores-tech-in-post-muba/

Looks interesting, try looking at the works that cited it I've found a lot of useful sources that way in the past before. Good luck

How to Read a Book is an excellent guide on analytical book reading. One of the steps is to read the book as fast as you can once, and then go back to the parts you didn't understand, then determine their meaning from the surrounding context you do understand.

Many suggestions here are classics but a bit advanced since they might be more theoretical and/or older. I'd start with something easier to comprehend.

On my first year we had a course that went through Sociology by Anthony Giddens. It lasted the whole academic year and was a good intro to the different themes related to sociology.

I return to it quite frequently to, for example, look up different studies. I think this is the latest edition: https://www.amazon.com/Sociology-Philip-Sutton-Anthony-Giddens/dp/0745696686

An MBA or a marketing thing would be a radical and unnecessary change if you just want to get better with quantitative methods. If your university really doesn't have anything then I would suggest self-learning. The Kahn Academy has great statistics videos and this book is the bible of survey methodology.

The key thing would be to mix good solid theory (the focus of your university) with decent quantitative methods. This would open many doors to you.

I'm in the same boat as you, except I only minored in Sociology, but i took a medical sociology class. This book was part of the reading list, it had a lot of helpful examples of stuff you might be looking for. maybe!? go to a barnes and noble and just skim through the book? I assume if your writing your letter now you arent applying until June, so plenty of time!

Seconding the Researcher app and checking out the different Society Pages blogs. I also really like Semantic Scholar (https://www.semanticscholar.org/). I like that you can save articles to your library and add tags, and that you can see what the papers cite and who cites the paper, and then being able to go straight to those papers.

Non-random non-response leads to a non-random sample. Not "bad data" or "hurt validity". James Heckman developed a method to deal with sample selection bias that's been cited over 14,000 times. This is not a minor issue.

If anyone wants to get a taste of Mears' upcoming book, she recently had an op-ed called &quot;Poor Models. Seriously.&quot; published in the NY Times (during Fashion Week, no less).

Education, number of books in household and, of course, occupation:

• ISEI https://pure.uvt.nl/portal/files/856435/Standard.pdf
  • class schemata like the Goldthorpe class scheme: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-Goldthorpeclassscheme.html

... you really should take a look into the respective literature. And don't waste your time with Bourdieu like Dohzan suggested.

I was was referring to this [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hunter-Gatherers_and_Play]. Granted I'm not sure where the 16 hour number came from, but they did only 'work' 2 or 3 hours most days to fulfill their needs. The goal of the hierarchy is the question, I'm not trying to suggest hierarchy or taxes are innately bad. But most resources get consumed by the top 10%, and the share going to the top keeps increasing. Relative poverty is baked into any private property hierarchy, and is primarily a matter of just world hypothesis, not scarcity or technology.

I just want to share you this piece of commentary about rape because I can relate to it, though not specifically about rape, about how people convince themselves that their deviant actions are okay. I recently read Elliot Aronson's book, Social Animal. There, he states that when people have cognitive dissonance, they either try to change their behavior or attitude. In this case, I think rapists tell themselves that all men, or women, have a tendency to rape, if they haven't already. To me, it's smoking. Even though I clearly know that smoking is bad, I still smoke and tell myself that I like, thus I convinced myself that smoking has a high utility to me. Plus, I've been taking a coursera course about Irrational Behavior link here, so all of it seems so relevant.

How about you? What behavior do you need to justify to yourself?

A short thought, perhaps a little bit far-fetched thought:

Nietzsche wrote in "Human, All to Human", that with the end of the French Revolution the typical men's fashion was born. He describes, that the suit is a sign of suitability and functionality that indivitualizes the wearer, since it forces the beholder to focus on a mans face, as suitar are similar in shape and color. Furthermore they represent a distinction to the fashion of the nobility and he egalizes the citizens. (If I remember correctly)

In this context, the same could also be stated about hairstyles. Short hair is useful and functional, long hair must be taken care of and would interfere with work. Caretaking on the other hand was not considered work at the time, that's why women tend to have long hair, whilst men ware shorter hair.

But maybe someone with more knowlede on fashion sociology could elaborate.

On an interessting side-note, the egyptinas (male and female) whore mostly no hair IOW they shaved their heads and wore wigs. What could be interpreted as, hair fashion beeing an social construct.

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No, it's just an undergrad thesis, and poorly written at that. But you're more than welcome to read it here. Sorry about the wonky page numbering. I'd be happy to talk about it in-depth if you like--now that I don't have a deadline or a page requirement hanging over my head I'm sure I'll be better able to communicate my conclusions.

A really good read which might help to clear up the differences between sociology and psychology is "The Pathological Approach to Crime: Individually Based Crime Theories" It is written by Dr. Heidi Rimke, it is a chapter in a criminology text book. It exposes the way that crime is made to be individually based and is linked to psychology and psychological problems. She shows the problems with these approaches to crime and tries to point to a social root to criminal behavior.

https://www.academia.edu/369087/The_Pathological_Approach_to_Crime_Individually_Based_Theories

That's a link to the paper

Hi! This might not be useful, but have you considered tumblr? It's pretty expansive and has a lot of blogs that I would consider "oddly specific". I went and searched tumblr for you and found a few that might be what you're looking for. Mainly, it seems like students and researchers doing field observations and writing ethnographic field notes.

Tumblr Search Results and this website that I found through googling just now Everyday Sociology. Hope I was somewhat useful!

Do you want notes together with literature? If so, look into software for managing literature, e.g. Zotero, Endnote, Mendeley etc. With Zotero, for example, you can extract annotations and notes from PDFs using Zotfile. You can full text search those.

If you want standalone notes, I can highly recommend Joplin. It's free and open source notebook software which stores text in easy to read and export/import files. You can search all your notes, add tags and create subcollections. It is pretty basic which imho is great because you don't get distracted as easily and learn it quickly. Because of its open source design and focus on plain markdown, you can easily move your notes to different applications later. This (and free cost) is an advantage over commercial products like Evernote or OneNote.

There's been some great leaps since Polanyi. Bas von Bavel shows many more examples or &quot;cycles of market economies&quot; going back to 500 AD.

This is a solid read on the foundations of Islamic terrorism: https://www.amazon.com/Sayyid-Qutb-Reader-Selected-Writings/dp/0415954258/

It was created for his class on the "sociology of terrorism"

The start of The Looming Tower (another good read) also covers Qutb (pronounced coat tub) which is a little more accessible.

It's more political science, but The Reactionary Mind was compelling when I read it. It explained to me why people would storm the Capitol for him while also being vociferous about their personal freedom.

There are excellent resources online like people have mentioned but I would like to mention Sheldon Ross' book on introductory statistics. Don't be put off by the title, it is not a hard book to read for non STEM people, and is a well written introduction. The price tag is ... bad but google gives me PDFs to an older edition if I search for it so I'm guessing that is not too hard to find.

If you're in the US, though it might extend to other western nations, individualism is a value that's been instilled in people for the last 40-50 years or so. My students read a chapter from this book that addresses the origins and outcomes of individualism in the US.

Between ideological apparatuses and neoliberal capital seeking to justify its lack of social safety nets, individualism and it's proclaimed merits have become more and more common.

SS: Some required viewing for my Intro to SOCI class. Interesting short video created by Mike Sosteric. His book Rocket Scientist's Guide to Money and the Economy was also required reading, which I found to be insightful and well written. Has anyone else watched, or read anything from Mike Sosteric?

Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies https://www.amazon.com/Modernity-Introduction-Societies-Stuart-Hall/dp/155786716X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=modernity+an+introduction+to+modern+societies&amp;qid=1603988502&amp;sprefix=modernity%3A+an+&amp;sr=8-1

If you need a endless reference for theory, I bought this in my sophomore year. It will crack open an endless world for you. Promise. Handbook of Sociological Theory

I recommend getting it used. Cheaper, and highlights ready

Cockerham's "Medical Sociology" LINK is highly considered by many. Most large university libraries have a copy or use inter-library loan.

In terms of a Ph.D., your supervisor is more important than the institution. Though both should be considered.

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We had to have this in the first Smester of sociology. A good read giving a great overview over the most basics on sociology.

Dillon, Michelle: Intorduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-Frist Century

https://www.amazon.de/Introduction-Sociological-Theory-Applicability-Twenty-First/dp/111847192X

I remember around my third year I was thinking about the exact same thing. How I wasn’t paying attention to content and how far behind I felt because I was so mentally distracted. After I got over those hurdles I was able to get lost in the material and started to do a lot better.

IMO, if you’re ready to pay attention and really focus on the material I think you’ll catch up to speed, but this classical theory book has been one of my favorites for a refresh of some foundational stuff: https://www.amazon.ca/Classical-Sociological-Theory-Craig-Calhoun/dp/0470655674

(Libgen link if too expensive https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=504F0F54DAD53DBFE0529481C531F3F3 )

You know there are lots of fun reads when it comes to sociology. So it’s hard to pick a best one. But there is one that I still find myself in today’s times having to reference. It also was a fun and interesting read for me.

It’s called women of the klan. It’s a look at how the klan oddly shaped women’s rights but for all the wrong reasons. As well as showed why these women who thought they where fighting a good cause might fall for the klan at the time.

There is a reason the first state to allow women to vote was some fly over red state. It’s because the klan knew gets the woman’s vote meant keeping there klan loving politician in office.

I find myself having to reference it a lot lately because I see a lot of what the early klan did with bank rolling it’s politicians or straight up having the klan members win elections with what we are seeing today.

https://www.amazon.com/Women-Klan-Racism-Gender-1920s/dp/0520257871

There’s a field called conversation analysis which looks at this sort of stuff in more detail. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis. A nice introduction is Liz Stokoe’s book “talk” https://www.amazon.com/Talk-The-Science-of-Conversation/dp/1472140842

If you are interested in how other SF (science fiction or speculative fiction) authors have imagined Neanderthal civilization, then you should check out Robert Sawyer's <em>Hominids</em>.

While I do have problems with the book (and Robert Sawyer's writing in general), it is worth reading if you are interested in anthropological SF.

>Poverty: We still believe that God helps those who help themselves.

So, I looked on our institutions Library and it appears Psychology Today is available during weird time periods, like 1987-1989 and then 1992-on. I DM'd a friend who works in psych and he said the only way he knows is by finding the issue and buying it he said eBay and Amazon often have them.

Hello! I think this graphic guide could be a good resource for you. It’s very broad and goes over just the basics of sociology and theories, although it’s not the most academic source out there. It’s free if you have amazon prime (kindle app).

https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Sociology-Graphic-Guide-Guides/dp/1785780735/ref=nodl_

Sort of. Often defectors write a book about growing up and fleeing from the country.

There's one book The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, written by a journalist who wrote Escape From Camp 14 with a defector. He does a good job of giving the history. Of the forming of North Korea.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Leader-Fighter-Pilot-Tyranny/dp/0143108026

Escape from Camp 14 is about a man who was born inside a prison camp. It's pretty unpleasant but obviously gives a fairly good account of what goes on there. Apparently he fudged some of the dates and there was a bit of controversy there. North Korea tried pretty hard to discredit him and had videos of someone who claimed to be his dad.

I believe most of it is true.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-Camp-14-remarkable-odyssey/dp/0330519549/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1534756515&amp;sr=8-1&amp;pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&amp;keywords=escape+from+camp+14

I did a paper on the constitutionality of Public Universities prohibiting firearms on campus, in this paper I used both empirical and theory-based papers about how teachers, students, and campus police chiefs feel about having guns on campus. If you'd like, I can send you my bibliography and you can check out some of the research?

In summary, it turns out that when surveyed, teachers/support staff, students, and campuses police chiefs respond (at an overwhelming rate) that they do NOT want students or employee carrying weapons on their campuses. They respond that they would feel less safe.

I know that you're interested in the violence aspect of firearms research, but I find that going down the wormhole of investigating my sources' sources gets me to some good data, usually.

Last, there is a textbook I've used in the past that has a significant focus on gun violence. The book is called Violence: The Enduring Problem. It might be worth checking around for. I'm sure an older edition would be just as good. It is an EASY read.

Important to know given your other posts Catchafire is remote volunteering. You don't have to physically show up, it's all online.

The above on the stats is more than right. Work on your stats, but also be able to have other useful skills, strategy, marketing, budget analysis.

Learn to provide the right analysis to the right client. To help here are some more titles, I'm not going to link them:

Agendas, alternatives and public policies

Not well advised: the city as a client- an illuminating analysis of urban government and their consultants

Made to Stick

Hooked

Applications of heuristics and biases to social issues

Influence

Thanks. I'm trying to balance being able to do things that make for an interesting course and interesting assignments, with the ability to realistically grade all of the work. It's not particularly easy. I do remember my 101 course involved reading books outside of the textbook (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was one), and I enjoyed it.

Economics lover here,

I have a fascination with the science and once you get into both economics and sociology, finding where the two mix can give you a huge new perspective on history and the people you see around you. For starters, Khan academy gives economics classes to learn the formal terminology(haven't seen any yet), and LearnLiberty's Youtube channel simplifies some modern issues. Next I'd read Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, or possibly The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. Not sure of your political ideologies but I'd suggest learning economics from a pro-capitalist point of view. It uses logic and examples to outline it's core beliefs which are economic centric rather than other economic systems who might use religion/emotions to persuade a point.

Would love to hear what you think about this, what else you've discovered helpful, or how you're starting! Have fun!

https://www.amazon.com/Sociology-Wholeness-Emile-Durkheim-Carl/dp/3843365091

I'm a big fan of Carl Jung, and this book does a pretty good job of integrating the psych discipline into sociology using some of his works.

Also, quick plug on a psych approach:

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Symbols-Carl-Gustav-Jung/dp/0440351839

I find the concept of Relative Deprivation to be more compelling than either of those two.

A recent book titled The End of Protest does provide a modern discussion of the J-Curve. I can scan the relevant pages if you're interested (I can't remember exactly what's there).

Provide a source that every issue deals with nature & nurture? Really!

Open a book and read guy! Why do you think there are vast prosperity differences between countries?

Here's one

I don't share your view because of the same concerns raised so far. In any way, it's and interesting topic. Have you heard about this book? I think he's making a similar suggestion to yours (epistocracy, the rule of the knowledgeable). I haven't had time yet to give it a deeper view though.

Another thing I've heard about recently and found interesting is the following implementation of direct democracy. Suppose there is a public decision coming up. Instead of letting everyone vote, 10000 people are selected randomly from the population. These people are divided into small groups and send on several weekends to workshops in the countryside, where they inform themselves about and discuss the issue. It is important that both sides (of the matter the referendum is about ) are present and able to explains their view in depth. After this process the 10000 sampled people make a vote and that's the final decision.

Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is supposed to be good (I've been meaning to read it). There's also the YouTube video Humans Need Not Apply by C.G.P Grey which sounds like exactly what you need and the description has links to most of his sources.

https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Miracle-Labor-Subordination-Industrialism/dp/0520065298

Try Federic Deyo's work on East Asian labour. I vaguely remember touching on it in class and there was a chapter with data comparing the number of strikes, industrial work stoppages etc amongst Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan from the 1960s onwards. You can try to track down his sources.

Really worth clarifying-- readdressing network theory on your own would be graduate school level work. It is a complex means for acquiring qualitative data. It's mostly appended to my post because it's relevant to the topic, but it is entirely unsuitable for a 10-15 page paper. I would really encourage you to blend CoP and Urban Tribes, as it provides a theoretical basis for collecting initial qualitative data, provides a lens capable of analyzing nebulous culture, and can be contained to a 10-15 page introductory paper.

Get yourself this text, if you don't want to buy it, there's a pdf of it floating around here somewhere, but it is a very lucid exploration into digital communities.

The problem with this study is more about how it was used. Regnerus was actually pretty explicit that there were no political ramifications that could be drawn and that it did not reflect on same-sex marriage. Others cited it for this.

The methods have their weaknesses, but not to an unprecedented extent. While I don't agree with him on everything, I think Christian Smith has argued well that this study was scrutinized for reasons that went far beyond scientific concerns (http://www.amazon.com/The-Sacred-Project-American-Sociology/dp/0199377138). While this study is a pariah in the field, I do not think it makes the case as strongly as the OP's professor would like.

William Sewell Jr.'s "A theory of structure: duality, agency, and transformation" (1992) covers some major topics, though it's a bit dated. His general outlook is illustrated in his book Logics of history (2005), which also has the 1992 article adapted and updated as a chapter.

Fair warning: Sewell believes in agency much more so than someone like Bourdieu (Outline of a Theory of Practice) or Skocpol (States and Social Revolutions) would, so his writing leans towards that. I don't know any theorists off the top of my head who explicitly engage in the structure vs. agency debate and lean towards structure, but I've never had to discuss the topic in-depth. I've always seen Marx, Foucault, and Bourdieu as typical structuralists, if you want to read them and see how they envision the ability of people to change social structures.

*edit: added date to Sewell's book so OP could see that the the theory of structure paper was updated in 2005

There is a video games studies lab/program of some kind at UC Davis that has some participation by sociologists, science and technology studies, and other humanities disciplines. One of the people there just released an edited volume on sexuality and video games. Rated M for Mature

I don't remember if touched upon your specific topics, but Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau is a pretty interesting look at how a child's environment affects their development.

This may be an exercise in intersubjectivity.

Most people in the world agree that it is Tuesday, yet objectively (in nature/ in the universe) there is nothing that says it is Tuesday, or Friday, etc.

And on the subjective end, a group can choose that today is Friday, and not Tuesday.

This question reminded me of the book by Eviatar Zerubavel (A sociology professor at Rutgers) called The Seven Day Circle. In it he explores the sociological origins of the seven day week. It's quite a fascinating read, although it may not even be remotely what your soc prof was looking for.

The Fine Line, by Eviatar Zerubavel.

It is a fascinating, short and easy book to read.

But just to clarify what kind of sociology this book is about, it is dealing with social-psychology, or how our understandings and interactions with the world change and influence how we see the world.

She uses the words "going solo" in the second sentence the article, yet she fails to give mention to Eric Klinenberg's book? Weak.

Scott Appelrouth has an introductory piece on the sociology of music and culture in Illuminating Social Life. Definitely an interesting read.

If you're into race studies

http://www.amazon.com/Racism-without-Racists-Color-Blind-Persistence/dp/1442220554/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1431878883&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=color+blind+racism

I found Peter Singer's book on Marx good for a beginner. I had found Marx utterly mystical and incomprehensible until Singer explains the Hegelian background to Marx's thought, and he does it in an accessible way which is rarely the case in my experience. From there everything else I had learned made more sense. If you want to get into the nuts and bolts of the Marxian economic system Understanding Capital. Marx's Economic Theory by Duncan K. Foley is the best book I have seen. I think it is meant to be a companion for reading Capital. But it does a pretty good job of summarising as well. There is very little of substance in the Communist Manifesto, it will not give you a good overview of Marxism, although there is also very little excuse not to read it given it's very short length.

Not sure what you're interested in but I read Among the Thugs by Buford in a sociology class and it's a great and interesting exploration of mob mentality/crowd psych through the lens of the life and activities of soccer/football hooligans.

http://www.amazon.com/Among-Thugs-Bill-Buford/dp/0679745351

I have used this: http://www.amazon.com/Sociology-as-Life-Death-Issue/dp/049560075X

Sociology as a Life or Death Issue

Surprised to see it is more than $40 new, but only about $15 for a used copy.

Highly recommended alternative is Sociology: a Very Short Introduction by Steve Bruce

http://www.amazon.com/Sociology-A-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/0192853805

Ten bucks, how can you go wrong?

Cool thanks.

I did some research if anyone is interested there is some info in these two books 1 and 2

Look up Steve Bruce's work on fundamentalism and religion more generally. I think he has a book on fundamentalism specifically. I've not read it, but it may have some answers for you.

http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentalism-Steve-Bruce/dp/0745640761

In my undergrad Contemporary Social Theory class, we used Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today by Steven Seidman as our main text.

It doesn't offer the articles themselves but a summary of the history of social theory all the way from Compte/Marx/Durkheim (some of the most basis Soc 101 stuff) to current social theorists such as queer theory, Negri, Mann, etc. It's approachable, interesting and academic without being inaccessible. It's a good starting point to be able to branch off and research individual theorists.

For social theory, I recommend Peter Kivisto. It's a reader with great selections from both classical and contemporary theorists.

I would refer you to Kerbo for a thorough and global account of current (published in 2008...) social stratification and inequality.

Agreed. Giddens also provides deep textual analysis of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber in Capitalism and Modern Social Theory.

Smelser and Swedberg's <em>The Handbook of Economic Sociology</em> is generally considered an authoritative summary of the discipline. many of the discipline's top scholars are among its contributors, so it's a great place to start.

if you have specific areas of economic sociology that you are interested in, let me know, and i'll try to point you in the right direction.