Sociology 4350: Corporate and Governmental
Deviance
Spring 2008
Subject to change: check web schedule if you miss class!!
| Week One: |
Topics/Activities
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Assignment
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| Jan 23 | Introductions. Video : "The Corporation" (29 minute clip) | |
| Jan 25 | Video: "The Corporation" (14 minutes clip) Review of theories of deviance | Theories of Deviance: A Review |
| Week Two:Jan 28 | Corporate and governmental deviance: an overview | E&L, 3-49 |
| Jan 30 | Video: "Taken for a Ride " | |
| Feb 1 | Scholarly foundations | E&L, 53-66 |
| Week Three: Feb 4 | Video: "Rollover" | E&L, 67-81 |
| Feb 6 | Discussion: Rollover. Enron extra credit: "The Smartest Guys in the Room" (library reserve) . Democracy Now excerpt. Walmart Class Action Lawsuit. | E&L, 82-94 |
| Feb 8 | Sutherland, Clinard and Yeager. Government contracts: The buck stops where? | E&L, 146-166. Bring two discussion questions on the reading. |
| Week Four:Feb 11 | The battle over government regulation (NHTSA--Rollover; FDA--"Nicotine Wars") Mills and Lowi on cycles of power | E&L, 107-130. Bring two discussion questions on the reading. |
| Feb 13 | Video: "Trade Secrets," part I |
"The Chain Never Stops" |
| Feb 15 | Video: "Trade Secrets," part II | E&L, 262-276 |
| Week Five: Feb 18 | Groups: Whistleblowers. | E&L, 229-249. Whistleblowers |
| Feb 20 | Video: "Where Do You Stand?" | |
| Feb 22 | Brainstorming topics for paper/presentation | |
| Week Six:Feb 25 | Searching library data bases | E&L, 195-222. Bring two discussion questions, E&L, 195-222 |
| Feb 27 | . Government deviance. Video: "The Fog of War" | UMD Library Electronic Reserve: Bogira, Courtroom 302, chapter 9 , print 4-23 |
| Feb 29 | Discussion. Study Guide 1. | UMD Electronic Reserve, Bogira, chapter ten, print 4-17 UMD Electronic Reserve, Bogira, chapter 17 , print 4-6
Bring 1 discussion question on each of the two Bogira readings (for Feb 27 and for today) |
| Week Seven: Mar 3 | Exam One | |
| Mar 5 | Video: "Unfinished Business" | Bring a prioritzed list of your top 5 ideas for the group presentation/paper
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| Mar 7 | State deviance and race/ethnicity: the social construction of difference. | State Violence and Ethnicity: An Introduction by Pierre VandenBerghe |
| Week Eight: Mar 10 | Video: "Out of the Silence: Fighting for Human Rights" | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| Mar 12 | Groups. Sociology of law. |
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| Mar 14 | Guatemala: the Ixil | As above, this time read ch. 9, The Ixil Triangle. Take notes. |
| Week Nine: Mar 24 | Video: "Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins" | SOA Watch Evangelicals Against Torture |
| Marc 26 | Groups: Video. Groups: working on presentations | |
| Mar 28 | American Foreign Policy: "the enemies of our enemies" Video: "American Experience: the Nuremberg Trials" | |
| Week Ten: Mar 31 | Groups. | E&L, 167-188 |
| April 2 | Time in class for presentation groups to meet. | Search for resources, on the web and through the UMD library data bases, relating to your presentation topic |
| April 4 | Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota? | Power, chapter 1-3. Bring a discussion question on each chapter. |
| Week Eleven: April 7 | Power, chapters 4-5. Bring a discussion question on each chapter. | |
| April 9 | Video: "America and the Holocaust" | Power, chapter 7 |
| April 11 | No class--snow day | |
| Week Twelve: April 14 | "America and the Holocaust, part II" | |
| April 16 | Senator Proxmire and the campaign for U.S. endorsement of the United Nations Convention on genocide. Time for groups to work on presentations. |
Read one of the following chapters: 6,8, 9, 11 |
| April 18 | Power, chapter 12 | |
| Week Thirteen: April 21 | Video: "Ghosts of Rwanda"Study Guide II | Power, chapters 13-14 |
| April 23 | ||
| April 25 | .Exam 2. Draw to determine order of presentations. |
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| Week Fourteen: April 28 | Class time for final planning of presentations. | |
| April 30 | Presentations: 1. Police Brutality; 2. Medical experiments (Tuskegee) 3. Whisteblower Laws | |
| May 2 | 1. Soviet Gulag 2. Darfur Genocide; 3. Armenian Genocide | |
| Week Fifteen: May 5 | 1. Enron 2. COINTELPRO; 3. Amnesty International | . |
| May 7 | 1. Animal Rights 2. Walmart 3. Tobacco | |
| May 9 | 1. World War II medical experiments Video: The Corporation | . |
Final paper due by noon on Wednesday, May 14, in my office (slip it under the door of Cina 203 if I'm not there).