SOCIOLOGY

Happy Thanksgiving!

If you have any interest in graduate school, or a career in academic research, that is. For better or worse, I am the founder and manager of the "Research Wing" of Legends Hall: http://housing.unt.edu/housing/real.php?real=Intercollegiate%20Research&cat=communities   It provides a great chance for social networking, and for getting some of the advantages of a small liberal arts college here at a large public university.

There's a new link on the side of this page with advice on how to study for my classes (or for any class, for that matter). Also, you can just click here: http://gignatow.googlepages.com/adviceforundergrads

http://gignatow.googlepages.com/classreadings This is for those of you who did not receive the emails with the class readings. If anything is missing from this page, please let me know. Of course most of the readings are in the Spillman and Smith books.

Sociology of Culture Prof. Gabe Ignatow   Review Sheet for Mid-term Exam II: Weber on Islam, Neo-Weberians, Cultural Anthropology (November 7 in class)   The format of the 2 nd mid-term exam will be similar to that of the first mid-term.  The exam will cover the following readings:  Bryan Turner, Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses (email) Samuel Huntington, Cultures Count   and    Lawrence Harrison, Why Culture Matters (handout) Ruth Benedict, “The Diversity of Cultures” (Spillman) Clifford Geertz, Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture (Spillman) Richard Shweder, Moral Maps, "First World" Conceits, and the New Evangelists (email) Philip Smith, 9-13, 74-96 (Smith) Film: "Warriors of the Amazon" Emile Durkheim, from  The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (email) Lynn Hunt, "Hercules and the Radical Image in the French Revolution" (email) Jeffrey Alex