Textbook

  1. Buy the main text: Theories of Social Order: A Reader. Edited by M. Hechter and Christine Horne. 2009. Stanford University Press.
  2. For Tuesday, read pages 1-11 of H&H and Collins, "The Nonrational Foundations of Rationality"

Twitter

  1. Get a Twitter account
    1. Follow soc116
    2. Tweet with hashtag #soc116 that you have set up a twitter account

Wikipedia

  1. Create an account on Wikipedia
  2. Tweet your wikipedia user name with #soc116
  3. Read the article Citing Wikipedia. American Sociological Association style is close to Chicago. For more on ASA style, look at the ASA Style Guide or Quick Style Guide
  4. Read the articles on Sociological Theory and Sociology and Subfields of sociology
  5. For the subfield closest alphabetically to your first name, using only Wikipedia and things it points you to, identify three things that subfield tries to explain and write a coherent, properly referenced paragraph about it. The topic sentence should be something like "The sociological subfield of X develops theories that explain A, B, and C." The "paper's" title should be "Theory in X" and you should write you name below the title like this:

Theory in X
I. Ama Student

The sociological subfield of X develops theories that explain A, B, and C. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah about A. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah about B. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah about C.

References