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On Transforming Discourse
At Graduation 2001

You Gotta Read This:

• Ginger She reminds me of Donatello, my Yorkie.
  Check out the site while you're there. We'll be using it this Fall.
  Power Kills

• Eight Paintings of Graduation 2001

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  Graduation Day, 2001. jeanne
• Cuba and Social Justice Red Feather Institute Series on Cuban Sociology.
• Save Mumia Petition
• Perspectives: The Undergraduate Sociology Journal, Volume VII, No. 1. Spring 2001. Note particularly the article on Homelessness by Kimberly Winslow, and compare it to Henry and Milovanovic's Agency and Structural Context.
• What is a Moderate? Check out the Moderate Republican Site. There's a good report on Senator Jefford's leaving the Republican Party.

  Texts ordered for Fall Classes.

  • See also Fall 2001 Books I'll Be Teaching With for additional choices.

  • See also Texts for Your Choosing for additional choices.

  • Soc. 395: Special Topics: Transforming Discourse.
    • Peter McLaren. Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 0-84776-9533-6. Required.
    • Curran and Takata, Oppression and Revolution. Online. Free. Required.

  • Soc. 355: Modern Social Theory
    • Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. McGraw-Hill Book Co. ISBN:0-07-230060-4. Required.
    • Fellman. Rambo and the Dalai Lama. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 0-7914-3784-1. Required.
    • Curran and Takata, Oppression and Revolution. Online. Free. Required.

  • Soc. 555: Graduate Social Theory
    • Elliott, Contemporary Social Theory Blackwell Publishers. ISBN: 0-631-20650-7. Required.
    • Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. McGraw-Hill Book Co. ISBN:0-07-230060-4. Required. Review of major theorists.
    • Curran and Takata, Oppression and Revolution. Online. Free. Required.
    • Giddens and Turner, Social Theory Today. ISBN: 0-8047-1514-9. Recommended. Leading traditions and trends in theory. More difficult reading.

  • Soc. 367: Sociology of Law
    • Arrigo. Social Justice,/Criminal Justice. Thomson Learning. ISBN: 0-534-54558-0. Required.
    • Henry and Milovanovic. Constitutive Criminology at Work. ISBN: 0-791-44194-6. Required.
    • Minow. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness. Beacon Press. ISBN: 0-8070-4507-1. Required.
    • Curran and Takata, Oppression and Revolution. Online. Free. Required. Free.
    • Curran and Takata, Sociology of Law Handbook "There is tension between our expectations of fairness and legitimacy and the social facts embodied by the rules and law through which we govern our community." Online. Free. Required.

  Teaching Essays:

  • Revisions.
    Transforming Discourse Sociology 395-01, Fall 2001.
  • Graduate Theory for Fall 2001, up soon.
  • The Home Page for Cuban Social Sciences
  • The Chinese in California Nationa Parks Service site. Teaching essay not up yet. This file will be used in Transforming Discourse, as part of our study of the "Other."
  • On Transforming Discourse at Graduation 2001
  • New Material Added - Second Draft of On Transforming Discourse at Graduation 2001
  • Graduation, 2001 at CSUDH . . . it still smacks of structural violence. Nevertheless, I did participate, so . . . . By Malika Shakoor.
  • Eight Paintings of Graduation 2001 and a Project
  • Oppression and Revolution: Theory and Its Uses
  • Oppression and Revolution: Knowingness and Oppression
  • Oppression and Revolution: Learning Theories Numbers may be a little confusing in second half of file. Haven't finished it yet. jeanne May 30, 2001.
  • Beginning of weekly assignments for Transforming Discourse
  • Transforming Discourse: Cuba
  • Introduction to Habermas Sociology of Law Handbook.
  • The Unstated Assumptions of Privilege: Understanding Normative Expectations Sociology of Law Handbook.
  • The Fifth Unstated Assumption Sociology of Law Handbook.
  • Private Versus Public Autonomy Sociology of Law Handbook.
  • On the Relationship between the Individual and the Social Community Not yet formatted in html, meaning no white space added.
  • Habermas' Explanation for the Need for Law Not yet formatted in html, meaning no white space added.
  • Metatheory and Methodology This piece fits in nicely with our discussion of postcolonialism and alterity. Link up, but not essay. jeanne
  • Short Review of Marxian Concepts
  • Progress and Its Sustainability Professor John McCarthy says here: "This page and its satellites will contain references to articles, my own and by others, explaining how humanity is likely to advance in the near future. In particular, we argue that the whole world can reach and maintain American standards of living with a population of even 15 billion." This is an important discussion topic for Fall 2001. Can progress be sustained? Or are the costs greater than the rewards? Horkheimer and Adorno concluded that the Enlightenment contained

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