Reading List

Current reading:
  • Understanding Society (2005) - Margaret L. Andersen, Kim A. Logio, Howard F. Taylor (editors)

Anticipated reading:
  1. Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) - Barbara Ehrenreich
  2. God in Popular Culture (1988) - Andrew M. Greeley
  3. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) - Erving Goffman
  4. Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood (1995) - Jay MacLeod
  5. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2003) - Annette Lareau
  6. The Lonely Crowd (1961) - David Riesman

Desired reading:
  • The Sociological Imagination (1959) - C. Wright Mills
  • The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, Promise (1997) - Allan G. Johnson
  • Black Feminist Thought (1991) - Patricia Hill Collins 
  • The Power Elite (1956) - C. Wright Mills
  • Top Heavy (1996) - Edward N. Wolff
  • Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? (1998) - Richard Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
  • Generation Me (2006) - Jean M. Twenge

Completed reading:
  • None yet.