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: "Rollover" | |
| Feb 1 | Scholarly foundations | E&L, 53-66 |
| Week Three: Feb 4 | Video: "The Smartest Guys in the Room" | E&L, 67-81 |
| Feb 6 | Discussion: Enron | 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 | Sherman Anti-trust Act, National Labor Relations Law | E&L, 107-130. Bring two discussion questions on the reading. |
| Feb 13 | Video: "Trade Secrets," part I or "Where Do you Stand?" |
"The Chain Never Stops" |
| Feb 15 | Video: "Trade Secrets," part II | E&L, 262-276 |
| Week Five: Feb 18 | Government regulation and deregulation. Groups: Trade Secrets | E&L, 229-249. |
| Feb 20 | Video: "A Dangerous Business"Groups: Whistleblowers. | Whistleblowers |
| Feb 22 | Bring prioritized choice of presentation topics | |
| Week Six:Feb 25 | Mills and Lowi on cycles of power | E&L, 195-222. Bring two discussion questions, E&L, 195-222 |
| Feb 27 | . Government deviance. Video: "The Deadly Deception" | UMD Library Electronic Reserve: Bogira, Courtroom 302, chapter 9 (print 4-23) |
| Feb 29 | Discussion. "Tuskegee Syphilis experiment" Groups: My Lai Massacre |
Bring 1 discussion question on each of the two Bogira readings (for Feb 26 and for today) |
| Week Seven: Mar 3 | Exam One | |
| Mar 5 | State deviance and race/ethnicity: the social construction of difference. |
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| Week Eight: Mar 10 | Video: "Unfinished Business" | State Violence and Ethnicity: An Introduction by Pierre VandenBerghe: library electronic reserve for Soc 4395 Print pp. 9-26. |
| Mar 12 | Groups. Brief time for groups to coordinate genocide presentations. |
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| Mar 14 | Video: "Out of the Silence: Fighting for Human Rights" Extra credit: video will start five minutes early | |
| Week Nine: Mar 24 | Guatemala: the Ixil | |
| Mar 26 | Video: "Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins" or "Discovering Dominga" |
The Genocidal State: An Overview by Leo Kuper: library electron reserve for Soc 4395 Print pp. 4-36 |
| Mar 28 | Groups: preparing genocide presentations | Be sure you've read your presentation chapter in A Problem from Hell |
| Week Ten: Mar 31 | Video: "American Experience: the Nuremberg Trials" | |
| April 2 | Groups. | E&L, 167-188 |
| 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" | |
| April 11 | "America and the Holocaust, part II" | Power, chapters 6 or chapter 7) |
| Week Twelve: April 14 | Frontline World: Cambodia--Pol Pot's Shadow | Power, chapters 8 or chapter 9 ( |
| April 16 | Rwanda. Video: "Ghosts of Rwanda" "The Few Who Stayed" (American Radioworks) |
Power, chapter 11 or chapter 12 |
| April 18 | "Ghosts," part II. | Power, chapters 13-14 (optional) |
| Week Thirteen: April 21 | Exam 2 | |
| April 23 | Video Clip: "The Corporation: "Psychotherapies, Prognosis.": (19 minutes) | |
| April 25 | Class time for planning presentations |
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| Week Fourteen: April 28 | Presentations, now through week 15 | |
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| Week Fifteen: May 5 | . | |
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| May 9 | . |
Final exam due May 13, noon, in my office (slip it under the door of Cina 203 if I'm not there).