Objectives: After completing weeks 2-5 of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand, explain and give examples of contemporary applications of the social concepts (constructs) developed by the classic or seminal theorists
• Analyze how the ideas of the early theorists build on each other, differ, and evolve to create the major theoretical perspectives that we use to understand social phenomena today
• Apply the ideas of the early theorists to identify, explain and respond to the needs, issues and problems that face communities today

Allan

Pp. 169-196 Second Ed.; 137-166 First Ed.

Blackshaw

None

Other Class Preparation

You have been a member of a team of two people whose task has been to be our class experts about one of the seminal social theorists. One of you should visit each of the communities listed below for no more than 30 minutes during daylight hours. Only one of you should visit each community. Walk or drive through the community, observing carefully. Your objective is to see this community through the "lens" or eyes of "your" theorist. For example, if you are a member of our Gilman team, try to see what would catch Gilman's eye if she could visit this community. Take two or three pictures that capture what you think your theorist would find most telling about the community. Bring your pictures to class on a thumb drive. Please do not look up any information about the community -- just visit briefly, observe, and take the "telling" pictures.

North Lincoln Heights -- bounded on the west by SE 11th St., on the north by SE 1st Ave., on the east by SE15th St. and on the south by SE 7th Ave.

Haile Plantation -- west of Gainesville. You can go west on Archer Road to SW 91st St. and turn north to get into this community. Or you can travel west on SW 24th Ave. and turn south on SW 91st St.

Sugarfoot -- this community starts right past the junction where University Avenue West "breaks off" from W. Newberry Road. It is bounded on the north by W. University Avenue (NOT Newberry Road), on the east by SW 37th St., on the south by SW 6th Pl., and on the west by SW 43rd Terrace.

If you have trouble finding any of these you can get a Google map of any of them.

Additional Materials

Balfour, L. (2005). Representative women: Slavery, citizenship, and feminist theory in Du Bois's "Damnation of Women." Hypatia, 20(3), 128-148.

Baptist, J.A. & Allen, K.R. (2008). A family's coming out process: Systemic change and multiple realities. Contemporary Family Therapy 30(2), 92-110.

Carbonella, A. & Kasmir, S. (2008). W.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater and an anti-colonial, internationalist anthropology. Dialectial Anthropology 32 (1-2), 113-121.

Edmonds-Cady, C. (2009). Getting to the grassroots: Feminist standpoints within the welfare rights movement. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare 36(2), 11-33.

Genat, B. (2009). Building emergent situated knowledges in participatory action research. Action Research 7(1), 101-115.

Grasswick, H.E. (2008). From feminist thinking to ecological thinking: Determining the bounds of community. Hypatia 23(1), 150-160.

Lee, J. & Bean, F.D. (2007). Redrawing the color line? City & Community, 6(1), 49-62.

Morales, M.C. & Bejarano, C. (2009). Transnational sexual and gendered violence: An applicatin of border sexual conquest at a Mexico-US border. Global Networks, 9 (3), 420-439.

Rabaka, R. (2007). "The Souls of White Folk": W.E.B. Du Bois's critique of white supremacy and contributions to critical white studies. Journal of African American Studies 11 (1), 1-15.

Reid, L.W., Adelman, R.M. & Jaret, C. (2007). Women, race and ethnicity: Exploring earnings differentials in metropolitan America. City & Communithy 6(2), 137-156.

Skeggs, B. (2008). The dirty history of feminism and sociology: Or the war of conceptual attrition. Sociological Review 56 (4), 670-690.

Twine, F.W. & Gallagher, C. (2007). The future of whiteness: A map of the "third wave." Ethnic & Racial Studies, 31 (1), 4-24.

Wortham, R.A. (2009). W.E.B. Du Bois, the black church, and the sociological study of religion. Sociological Spectrum 29 (2), 144-172.

Wortham, R.A. (2005) DuBois and the sociology of religion: Rediscovering a founding figure. Sociological Inquiry 75 (4), 433-452.