Calendar and Readings

Course calendar for introduction to social psychology

Course Schedule Information

Class	Topic	Reading
1	Introduction	No reading
2	Sociological Social Psychology	Selection from Berger, Peter. 1963. An Invitation to Sociology. New York: Anchor Books. LaBeff, Emily E., Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Diekhoff. 1990. "Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating." Sociological Inquiry 60:190-197. [abstract]
3	The Three Faces of Social Psychology	Selection from Thorne, Barrie. 1986. "Girls and Boys Together... But Mostly Apart." Pp 167-184 in Relationships and Development, edited by Willard W. Hartup and Zack Rubin. Hillsdale, N.J.: L.Erlbaum Associates.
4	Social Construction of Reality	Selections from Zerubavel, Eviatar. 1991. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
5	Critical Thinking	Selection from Reinarman, Craig and Harry G. Levine. 1997. Crack in America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
6	Research Methods	Selection from Lovaglia, Michael J. "From Summer Camps to Glass Ceilings: The Power of Experiments." Contexts 2:42-49. [link] Selection from Schuman, Howard. 2002. "Sense and Nonsense about Surveys." Contexts 1:40-47. [link] Selection from Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 1985. "The Promise and Pitfalls of Going into the Field." Pp. 11-28 in Wheeling and Dealing, edited by Patricia Adler. New York: Columbia University Press.
7	Social Construction of Self	Selection from Cooley, Charles Horton. 1902. "The Looking-Glass Self." Human Nature and the Social Order. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Selection from Van Ausdale, Debra and Joe R. Feagin. The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
8	Childhood Socialization	Selection from Cahill, Spencer E. "Fashioning Males and Females: Appearance Management and the Social Reproduction of Gender." Symbolic Interaction, 12: 281-298. [abstract]
9	Ongoing Socialization	Selection from Dyer, Gwynne. 1987. War. New York: Crown Publishing.
10	Identity and Self Concept	Selection from Mead, George Herbert. 1934. Mind, Self, and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11	Self-Esteem	Selection from Milkie, Melissa. 1999. "Social Comparisons, Reflected Appraisals, and Mass Media: The Impact of Pervasive Beauty Images on Black and White Girls' Self-Concepts." Social Psychology Quarterly. 67:190-210. [link]
12	Exam I	No Assigned Reading
13	Definition of the Situation	Hollander, Jocelyn. 1998. "Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television." Pp. 43-71 in Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries, edited by Jodi O'Brien and Judith A. Howard. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.
14	Impression Management	Selection from Cahill, Spencer E., et al. 1985. Meanwhile Backstage. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 14:33-58. [Abstract]
15	Schemas and Stereotypes	Rosenhan, D. L. 1973. "On Being Sane in Insane Places." Science 179:250-258. [abstract]
16	Attributions	Guimond, Serge, Guy Begin and Douglas L. Palmer. 1989. "Education and Causal Attributions: The Development of "Person-Blame" and "System-Blame" Ideology." Social Psychology Quarterly 52:126-140. [link]
17	Embarrassment	Selection from Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. New York, NY: Anchor Books.
18	Conversational Structure	Selection from Tannen, Deborah. 1990. You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in Conversation. New York: Ballantine Books. Holtgraves, Thomas. 2004. "Conversational Structure." Pp. 190-201 in Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology, edited by Spencer E. Cahill. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company.
19	Nonverbal Communication	Selection from Hall, Edward T. and Mildred R. Hall. 2003. "The Sounds of Silence" Pp. 100-109 in Down to Earth Sociology, edited by James M. Henslin. New York: Free Press.
20	Attraction and Relationships	Selection from Michael, Robert T., John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata. 1994. Sex in America: A Definitive Survey. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
21	Exam II	No Assigned Reading
22	Childhood	Selection from Chambliss, William J. 1973. "The Saints and the Roughnecks." Society 11:24-31. [link] Eder, Donna. 2003. "On Becoming Female: Lessons Learned in School." Pp. 155-161 in Down to Earth Sociology, edited by James M. Henslin. New York: Free Press.
23	Growing Up	Selection from Schor, Juliet B. 2004. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. New York, NY: Scribner.
24	Social Groups	Selection from Adler, Patricia and Peter Adler. 1998. Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity. Pp. 56-69. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Selection from Simmel, Georg. 1950. The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Translated and Edited by Kurt H. Wolff. New York: The Free Press. Selection from Milgram, Stanley. 1963. "Behavioral Study of Obedience." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 67:371-378. [link]
25	College	Selection from Karp, David, Lynda Lytle Holstrom and Paul S. Gray. 1998. "Leaving Home for College: Expectations for Selective Reconstruction of Self." Symbolic Interaction 21:253-265. [abstract]
26	Working	Selection from Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1983. The Managed Heart: Performing Emotional Labor in the Modern Economy. Pp. 3-23. Berkeley: University of California Press.
27	Family	Collett, Jessica L. 2005. "What Kind of Mother Am I? Impression Management and the Social Construction of Motherhood." Symbolic Interaction 28:327-47. [abstract]
28	Exam III	No Assigned Readings

Citation: Collett, J. (2008, October 31). Calendar and Readings. Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/sociology/introduction-to-social-psychology/calendar.