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*These books are subject to change. The list will be updated as soon as changes are made. Please see "My Book List" on Route Y for information on whether books are required or optional.
Fall 2009
Soc 111 (Brown)
- Hard Times. Charles Dickens. ISBN: 9780553210163.
- The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology. Lisa J. McIntyre. ISBN: 9780073404158.
- The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. George Saunders and Lane Smith. ISBN: 9781932416374.
- Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy. Benjamin R. Barber. ISBN: 9780552151290.
- Consuming Life. Zygmunt Bauman. ISBN: 9780745640020.
- The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. David Herlihy and Samuel K. Cohen, Jr. ISBN: 9780674076136.
- Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class. Robert H. Frank. ISBN: 9780520252523.
Soc 111 (Erickson)
- Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach. James M. Henslin. ISBN: 9780205496587.
Soc 111 (Forste)
- Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach. James M. Henslin. ISBN: 9780205496587.
- The Boy Who Dared. Susan Campbell Bartoletti. ISBN: 9780545155052.
Soc 112 (Gibbs)
- Social Problems. John J. Macionis. ISBN: 9780132433396.
Soc 112 (Holland)
- Social Problems. John J. Macionis. ISBN: 9780132433396.
- Black Like Me. John Howard Griffin. ISBN: 9786451192037.
- The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. William Julius Wilson. ISBN: 9786226901314.
Soc 112 (Lapray)
- Social Problems. John J. Macionis. ISBN: 9780132433396.
Soc 113 (Morgan)
- Understanding Diversity: An Introduction to Class, Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation. Fred L. Pincus. ISBN: 9781588264022.
- A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Ronald Takaki. ISBN: 9780316831116.
Soc 113 (Phillips)
- American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination. Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. and Jonathan H. Turner. ISBN: 97800731315779.
- Lakota Woman. Mary Crow Dog. ISBN: 9780060973896.
- Black Like Me. John Howard Griffin. ISBN: 9780451192035.
- Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family. Yoshiko Uchida. ISBN: 9780295961903.
- Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border. Luis Alberto Urrea. ISBN: 9780385425308.
- A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Ronald Takaki. ISBN: 9780316022361.
Soc 300 (Call)
- Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation. Daniel F. Chambliss and Russell K. Schutt. ISBN: 9781412969390.
Soc 307 (Hoffmann)
- The Craft of Research. Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Williams, and Gregory G. Colomb. ISBN: 9780226065687.
- An Intermediate Guide to SPSS Programming: Using Syntax for Data Management. Sarah Boslaugh. ISBN: 9780761931850.
- A Gentle Introduction to Stata. Alan C. Acock. ISBN: 9781597180436.
Soc 307 (Burraston)
- The Craft of Research. Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Williams, and Gregory G. Colomb. ISBN: 9780226065687.
- Data Analysis with SPSS. Stephen A. Sweet and Karen Grace-Martin. ISBN: 9780205483877.
Soc 310 (Knapp)
- Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings. Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor. ISBN: 9780761927938.
- Ideas of Human Nature: An Historical Introduction. Roger Trigg. ISBN: 9780631214069.
Soc 311 (Goodsell)
- How to Read a Book. Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren. ISBN: 9780671212094.
- Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings. Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor. ISBN: 9780761927938.
- The Craftsman. Richard Sennett. ISBN: 9780300151190.
- Talk of Love: How Culture Matters. Ann Swidler. ISBN: 9780226786979.
Soc 322 (Heaton)
- Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences. Charles E. Hurst. ISBN: 9780205484362.
Soc 323 (Bahr)
- The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin. ISBN: 9780679744726.
- The Hidden Wound. Wendell Berry. ISBN:9780865473584.
- Bighorse the Warrior. Tiana Bighorse. ISBN: 9780816514441.
- Savages and Civilization. Jack Weatherford. ISBN: 9780449909577.
- Modernity and the Holocaust. Zygmunt Bauman. ISBN: 9780801480324.
Soc 326 (Gibbs)
- Schools and Societies. Steven Brint. ISBN: 9780804750738.
Soc 328 (Dufur)
- Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies. Jay J. Coakley and Elizabeth Pike. ISBN: 9780077117443.
Soc 350 (Jacobson)
- Social Psychology. David Myers. ISBN: 9780073310268.
- Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. Lauren Slater. ISBN: 9780393326550.
Soc 367 (Frederico)
- The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research. Amy S. Wharton. ISBN: 9781405101240.
- Gender Play: Boys and Girls in School. Barrie Thorne. ISBN: 9780813519234.
- Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It. Joan Williams. ISBN: 9780195147148.
Soc 383 (Cox)
- There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. Alex Kotlowitz. ISBN: 9780385265560.
- Juvenile Justice: Redeeming Our Children. Barry Krisberg. ISBN: 9780761925019.
- Delinquency in Society: Youth Crime in the 21st Century. Robert Regoli, John Hewitt, Matt DeLisi. ISBN: 9780073401546.
Soc 399R (Cornwall)
- Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life. Robin Leidnet. ISBN: 9780520085008.
Soc 404 (Morgan)
- Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis. John Lofland, David A. Snow, Leon Anderson, and Lyn H. Lofland. ISBN: 9780534528614.
- Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. Herbert J. Rubin and Irene S. Rubin. ISBN: 9780761920755.
Soc 405 (Heaton)
Soc 405 (Burraston)
- Data Analysis with SPSS. Stephen A. Sweet and Karen Grace-Martin. ISBN: 9780205483877.
Soc 420 (Dufur)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Jared M. Diamond. ISBN: 9780393317558.
- Adventures in a TV Nation. Michael Moore and Kathleen Glynn. ISBN: 9780060988098.
- We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. Philip Gourevitch. ISBN: 9780312243357.
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Barbara Ehrenreich. ISBN: 978085063899.
Soc 422 (Phillips)
Soc 426 (Dufur)
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Barbara Ehrenreich. ISBN: 9780805063899.
Soc 460 (Erickson)
- Consuming Life. Zygmunt Bauman. ISBN: 9780745640020.
- Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health System. David M. Cutler. ISBN: 9780195181326.
- The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream. Jacob S. Hacker. ISBN: 9780195335347.
- Pension Puzzles: Social Security and the Great Debate. Melissa A. Hardy and Lawrence Hazelrigg. ISBN: 9780871543332.
- Postindustrial Peasants: The Illusion of Middle-Class Prosperity. Kevin Leicht and Scott Fitzgerald. ISBN: 9780716757658.
Soc 481 (Bahr)
- Criminal Justice: The Essentials. Steven P. Lab, Marian R. Williams, Jefferson E. Holcomb, and Melissa W. Burek. ISBN: 9780195332490.
Soc 600 (Cornwall)
- Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction. Samir Okasha. ISBN: 9780192802835.
- Social Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. W. Lawrence Neuman. ISBN: 9780205457939.
- Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. John W. Creswell. ISBN: 9781412965576.
Soc 606 (Hoffmann)
- Generalized Linear Models. John P. Hoffmann. ISBN: 9780205377930.
- Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling. Rex B. Kline. ISBN: 9781572306905.
- An Easy Guide to Factor Analysis. Paul Kline. ISBN: 9780415094900.
Soc 610 (Bahr)
- The Discovery of Society. Randall Collins and Michael Makowsky. ISBN: 9780072507362.
- Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context. Lewis A. Coser. ISBN: 9781577663072.
- The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli. ISBN: 9780553212785.
Soc 623 (Ward)
- Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World. Stephen Cornell and Douglas Hartmann. ISBN: 9781412941105.
- Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society. Michael Brown et al. ISBN: 9780520244757.
Soc 650 (Jacobson)
- Within the Social World: Essays in Social Psychology. Jeffrey C. Chin and Cardell K. Jacobson. ISBN: 9780205498888.
