Sociology 101 Internet Readings

Fall 2009

Borge, Caroline. 2007. “Basic Instincts: The Science of Evil.” Primetime, ABC News. January 3. (read article and view webcast)

Chambliss, William. 1993. “The Saints and the Roughnecks.” In Down To Earth Sociology, edited by James M. Henslin. New York: The Free Press.

Durkheim, Emile. 1982 “What is a social fact?” Pp. 50-59 in The Rules of Sociological Method, edited. by Steven Lukes; translated by W.D. Halls. New York: Free Press.

Goffman, Erving. 1956. “The Arts of Impression Management.” Chap. 6 in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York; Doubleday.

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. 1848. Manifesto Of The Communist Party, Part I: Bourgeois and Proletarians.

* McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew E. Brashears. 2006. “Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades.” American Sociological Review 71: 353 – 375.

Oracle of Bacon at Virginia. Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, University of Virginia.

Oracle of Baseball. Baseball-Reference.com.

Sociosite. Famous Sociologists.

Zimbardo, Philip. Stanford Prison Experiment website. (View slide show)

Notes:

* Available through the subscription database JSTOR, and needs to be accessed through Towson’s Cook Library home page at Albert S. Cook Library: Find It, Get It, Use It (select “off campus login” from left frame) or on campus.