write sociological biography or personal ethnography in which the student addresses how they have been effected by the socially constructed categories of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality, noting which of those categories has had the most pronounced influence and how they have interacted.

(2) Choose a particular institution (family, religion, education, economics, government, military, media, art, science, sports, recreation, and leisure) and describe the inequalities associated with it, and the extent to which it is or has been influenced by the categories of race, class, ethnicity, and gender. (3) Write a paper that addresses what you see as a constructive and effective public strategy for social change that may reduce inequality, bigotry, discrimination and inequality. (4) Summarize a book on the suggested readings list while noting its relevance to key concepts and research addressed in the class. (5) Analyze one of one of the suggested movies, in terms of concepts and research addressed in the class. All papers will be evaluated in terms of the extent to which a student can effectively grasp and apply concepts and materials from the class. A paper on a books or movie cannot be on a movie or book that was used for extra credit. Papers are due at the end of the semester. Plagiarism will result an in E for the assignment, so be sure to do your own work, and make proper citations following either ASA or APA guidelines.
summarize one of these books: ( however, you can choose any topics of theses you want to summarize)
Suggested Readings • Dark Ages Ahead, Jane Jacobs (coming decline of western civilization)• A Peoples History of the United States, Howard Zinn• White Like Me, Tim Wise*• Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat (naturalist, deep ecology, speciesm)• For Those I Loved, Martin Grey (holocaust autobiography, alienation, survival)• The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (imperialism, society, truth)• The Sane Society, Erich Fromm ( alienation, capitalism)• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan• The Subjection of Women, John Stewart Mills• Escape From Freedom, Erich Fromm (alienation, capitalism) • Of Wolves and Men, Barry Lopez (speciesism, wolf society)• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown (racism, imperialism)• Gorillas in the Mist, Diane Fossey (specieism)• The Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch (anomie, alienation in America)• On Being Human, Ashley Montagu (social interdependence and meaning)• Native Son, Richard Wright (racism)• Black Boy, Richard Wright (racism)• There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz (documentary on life in the ghetto) • The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (industrialization, exploitation, alienation)• The Clansman, Dixon (turn of the century racist novel, telling artifact)• Cry of the Kalahari, (overpopulation, ecology, animal rights) • Animal Rights, Peter Singer• The Acorn People, Ron Jones, (Life with disabled and terminally ill kids, stigma)• The Sword and the Dollar, M. J Parenti (imperialism)• The Conditions of the Working Class. Frederick Engels• The Hidden Injuries of Class, Sennet & Cobb (real people talk on stratification)• Body Politics, Nancy M. Henley (Social control under the skin, prejudice, discrimination, sexuality, gender)• The Abyss, Jack London (powerful ethnography of poverty in England, 1900.)• Democracy for the Few, Michael Parenti (radical view on elitism, class wars)• The Revolution Within, Gloria Steinem (sexism)• The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir (feminism, sexism)• Savage Inequalities, Johnathan Kozol (school inequalities) • The Pursuit of Attention, Charles Derber (identity , recognition, status)• Race Matters, Cornel West (racism)• Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl (holocaust, racism, survival)• Black Elk Speaks, John G. Neihardt (American Indian biography, racism)• The Lonely Crowd, David Riesman (modern alienation)• Why the Caged Bird Sings, (racism) Maya Angelou• A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollenscraft• Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (human nature, stratification, social order, poverty)• Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (stratification, human nature, social criticism)• The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills, (Elites)• White Collar, C. Wright Mills. (stratification, power, morality)• The Causes of World War Three, C. Wright Mills, (social criticism)• Human Nature and the Social Order, Charles Cooley.• Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen• Guyland, The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, Michael Kimmel, (male violence and socialization)*• Real boys: Rescuing Our Sons From The Myths of Boyhood. William Pollack (male socialization and violence) *• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris (human nature, naturalist, biology, sex)• Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman (classic on social interaction)• Mutant Message from Forever, Marlo Morgan (Aboriginal assimilation, persecution)• Working, Studs Terkel (work and class in America)• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, H. B. Stowe (racism)• Geronimo, Penn Muller (imperialism, racism, war, exploitation)• Crazy Horse, Larry McMurtry (imperialism, racism, war, exploitation)• The Nature of Prejudice, Gordon Allport (prejudice)• Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (Early Social Criticism, aristocracy, class, religion)• On Civil Disobedience, Thoreau (dissent, morality and society)• On Violence, Hannah Arendt (social psychology of violence)• Life is A Miracle, Wendell Berry (science, art, knowledge, morality)• In the Presence of Fear, Wendell Berry (globalization, class, and poverty, community)• Feminist Thought, A Comprehensive Introduction, Rosemarie Tong (feminism)• On the Future of the Planet, Edward O. Wilson (deep ecology)• Under The Banner of Heaven: A story of Violent Faith, John Krakauer • (faith based crime, deviance, authority)• The European Dream, Jeremy Rifkin (comparative analysis of the U.S and Europe)• Genome, Matt Ridley, (Genetics, Deep Sociobiology) • Souls of Black Folk, W.E. B. Du Bois (classic on race in America)• Anatomy of Peace, Arbinger Institute (Classic study on objectification of the other)• Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved, Frans De Waal• Gang Leader For a Day, Sudhir Venkatsh (ethnography of a gang)• Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin (racism)• The Fire Next Time, Games Baldwin (racism)• A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah (biography on child’s experience of war an degradation)• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Become Evil, Philip C. Zimbardo• The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Picket. (inequality, stratification)• A Women’s Intelligent Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, George Bernard Shaw • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt (Ideology, psychology, politics)• The Iron Heel, Jack London (Early Marxist critique of capitalism)• The New Jim Crow. Michelle Alexander and Cornel West (Study on mass imprisonment of blacks)*• On The Run, Fugitive Life in American City, Alice Goffman (Young Black Men * • A Little Gay History:Desire and Diversity Across the World, Columbia University Press. R. B. Parkinson,(Art history on same sex relationships)*• The Color of Water, James McBride• Working, Studs Terkel (stratification, occupation, income, well-being, first person)• Transbodies, Trans Selves, Edited by Laura Erikson-Schroth*• Shop Class as Soulcraft, Mathew B. Crawford (revaluing skilled labor in the modern age)• Guyland, The Perilouys World Where Boys Become Men. Michaelo Kimmel• Real Boys, Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, William Pollack• Reviving Ophilia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Pipher• Fiver and the Psychology of Rabbits, Dr. Frank J. Page (A novel about morality and modern world) (Available at Kings English, Sam Weller’s, The University Bookstore, and on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle)• * New releaseSUGGESTED MOVIES• Never Cry Wolf, Charles Martin Smith, Bryan Dennehy (speciesism, ecology)• Gabbi, (stigma, life among the physically challenged) • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Alan Arkin (anomie, alienation, drama about being deaf)• Black Like Me, James Whitmore (racism)• The Pawn Broker, Rod Steiger (alienation) • Gorillas in the Mist, Sigourney Weaver (speciesism) • Native Son, Victor Love, Oprah Winfrey, Matt Dillon (racism) • Matewan, (racism, class warfare)• Elephant Man, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, (deviance, labeling) • The Bear, (specieism) • Boyz in the Hood, (class/race/poverty) • El Norte, (stratification, ethnocentrism, exploitation) • The Last of His Tribe, John Voight Graham Greene (imperialism, scientific exploitation, racism)• A Light in the Jungle, Malcom McDowell (bio of Albert Schweitzer, globalization)• The Black Robe, (religious/cultural imperialism, racism) • Malcolm X, Denzel Washington (racism, Islam, social movements)• Frances, Jessica Lange (sexism)• Mississippi Burning, Gene Hackman, Willem Defoe (racism)• The Razors Edge, Murray (social change, ideology, class)• Me Familia, Jimmy Smits, Esa Morales, (Latino family)• Uncle Tom’s Cabin (racism, racist ideology)• Grapes of Wrath, Henry Fonda, (class conflict)• Bound for Glory, David Carradine (class conflict, labor movement, depression)• Bojangles, Gregory Hines (racism) • City of God, (Poverty and crime in South America, drugs, culture of poverty)• Amistad, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins (Racism)• The Accused, Jodi Foster (rape, sexism)• Hotel Rwanda, Don Cheadle (Racism, Genocide)• Twelve Angry Men, Any version (witness testimony, prejudice)• Maria Full of Grace, Catalina Sandino (drugs and the drug war)• Crash, Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock (alienation, racism, class)• Shadrack, Harvey Keitel (family, class, ageism, death)• Iron and Silk, Shirley Sun, Mark Salzman (Modern Chinese Family)• My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos, John Corbet (mixed Greek American marriage)• Salt of the Earth, (Mexican American families fighting exploitation, black-listed in 50’s)• Monsoon Wedding, Naseeruddin Shah (arranged eastern Indian wedding)• The Beautiful Country, (orphans, mixed marriage and family in Vietnam and the U.S.)• Upside Down, Fred Astaire (ageism, aging, and death• Hedda Gabler, Jane Fonda, (patriarchy and sexism in family)• The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke (anomie, alienation, class)• The Mission, (religion and colonial exploitation), Robert De Niro• The Hurricane, Denzel Washington (criminal justice system, racism)• Nineteen Hundred, Robert De Niro, Burk Lancaster (fascism, capitalism, class conflict)• Burn, Marlon Brando, Imperialism in the raw.• A Better Life, (immigration, class, stratification, globalization)• A Light in the Jungle, (Albert Schweitzer) (globalization, international stratification, modernity)• The Ballad of Narajama (power of culture and socialization in the extreme) x rated• Caterpillar (nationalism, machismo, and sexism) x rated• Twelve Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiorf, Michael K. William, Michael Fassbender (racism, class, power)• The Butler, (Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack (class, racism)• The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, (racism)• Dallas Buyers Club. Michael McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, (aids and prejudice)• The Help, Emma Stone Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer (oppression, class, race)• Philadelphia (aids and prejudice)• Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto (apartheid, racism)• Gandhi, Ben Kingsley, Apartheid, racism)• Eyes Wide Open , Ran Danker, Sohar Strauss, (Religion and gay)• A Dry White Season, Marlon Brando, Donald Sutherland (apartheid)• Blue is the Warmest Color, Lea Seydoux, Adele Exarchopoulos (Lesbian identity development)• Kinsey, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Bio. of Alfred Kinsey, sex researcher.• Monster, Christina Ricci (sexism and the criminal justice system)• A Raisin in the Sun, Sidney Potier (racism)• To Kill a Mocking Bird, Gregory Peck, (racism)• In the Heat of the Night,Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger (racism)• Ghosts of Mississippi, Alec Baldwin, James Wood, Woopi Goldberg, (Murder of Medger Evers)• Cesar Chavez, Michael Perio, America Ferrerio, (migrant Labor organizer)• Biutiful, Javiar Bardem, (Poverty, inequality, up close and personal)• Heli, Armando Espitia, (Poverty, desperation, corruption in the social order, up close)Suggested Documentaries • Wolves at the Door (speciesism, naturalist view on wolves) • Forks Over Knifes. (economics and morality of meat consumption)• Roger and Me, (capitalism / exploitation) • Winged Migration, (speciesim, deep ecology, family)• The Corporation, (imperialism, capitalist predation)• Sicko, Michael Moore (health care in America)• Flow, How Do A Handful of Corporations Steal Our Water? (corporate hegemony)• Jesus Camp, (documentary on aggressive evangelicals)• The Unexamined Life (Modernity, Existentialism, Ethics)• Miss Representation (modern sexism)• The Invisible War (sexism in the military)• The World According to Monsanto (bio-engineering dangers, capitalist predation)• The End of the Line: (Death of the oceans due to over fishing)• Rulers of the Planet, Michael Parenti (Critical analysis of the state of the world, in terms of race, class and gender)• You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train. Howard Zinn (Critical analysis Power and Politics)• Ethos, A Time for Change. Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn• The Rulers of the World, Michael Parenti (class conflict)• For The Bible Tells Me So (Religion and gays, problems)• God and Gays (Religion and gays, problems)• Crime and Punishment In America. (Criminal Justice System, Prison)• Burying the Past: Legacy of the Mountain Meadows Massacre• Constantine’s Sword. (Christianity, anti-Semitism, prejudice and politics)• Dolphins. (Robin Williams narrates on family and communication in dolphins)• People Like Us. Social Class in America. American Stratification• Ethnic Notions (Racism, language, and class)• The Gate Keepers. (Israeli Palestinian conflict)• Five Broken Cameras (Israeli Palestinian conflict)• March of the Penguins (Socio-biology, specieism)• Global Village or Global Pillage, (global inequality and corporations)• Freedom of Mind, Civil Rights Movement (History of Civil Rights Movement)• A Filmed Record: Montgomery to Memphis (bio on Martin Luther King Jr.)• The Untold History of the United States, Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick, (class warfare, racism, sexism, in U.S. history)• Freedom On My Mind, Documentary registering black voters in the 1960’s in the south.• Mickey Mouse Monopoly (Disney, corporate racism, sexism child exploitation)• White Like Me (white privilege)• Tough Guise 2, (male socialization and violence)• The Loving Story, (docmumentary about a couple who challenged interracial marriage laws and set the stage for a Supreme Court Case.