Vocabulary:

• hegemony in reponse to Jeanne Anderson's request. Online.
• alterity from Leitch on postmodernism. Online.

Art:

• Interactive Project on The Teacher Who Practiced Loving Online.
• Interactive Project on Day of the Dead Online.
• Gary's Response to Farmer and Snake Not up yet. Soon.

  Theory Class:

  • Theory Class Page Online.
  • Theory Multiple Choice Questions Online.
  • Erving Goffman for those who asked. Online.
  • Anthony Giddens so we have a better foundation to respond to IMF issues we read last week. Online.
    • "Elements of the Theory of Structuration," Anthony Giddens, Chapter 8, pp. 119-130 in Contemporary Social Theory, edited by Anthony Elliott, 1999. Hardcopy.
    • Globalization and the IMF
      Ecuador and Justice, left perspective. Writer addresses Anthony Giddens. Why Giddens?
      Last week's IMF article. Online.

    Theory: Reading Ahead Before jeanne's Notes Are Up:

  • Habermas and Foucault
    Graduate level. Notes up soon. I like the way Stuart Dalton writes; I like the pictures of his classes; explore the site. He's philosophy!
    Online. Stuart Dalton's Site.
    Check out the picture! Link added October 22, 2000. Online.

    The following series of online pieces relates to social constructivism, language games, understanding relationships, agency and structural context. Lois Shawver's explanations of these philosophers and social theorists is clear and helpful, so that I think you could effectively read ahead if you have the chance.

    I'm going to want you to compare Lois Shawver's building of important social work, like And The Flag Was Still There to Noam Chomsky's impatience with postmodernism as elite, but trivial knowledge.

  • An Introduction to Reading Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: The first 3 Aphorisms with Commentary by Lois Shawver Online.
  • On Wittgenstein's Concept of a Language Game by Lois Shawver Online.
  • Quotations selected and Annotated by Lois Shawver, text taken from John Shotter's Conversational Realities: Constructing Life through Language Sage Publications, 1993.

    "[For example, one of the things we do that is a violation of people is that we impose our meanings of terms on them.] Indeed, to insist words have pre-determined meanings is to attempt to rob people of their rights, both to participate in developing a conversational topic with others, and to their own individual way of making that contribution (p.28). [In sum, by insisting on the definition of terms we rob them of their way of accounting for things.]" Scroll about a quarter of the way down the file.

  • Notes on the Constructivist writing of Mataruna and Varela by Nick Drury
    On the difference between social constructivist and social constructionism. Online.
  • What is Activity Theory?Vygotsky and Martin Ryder. Will put up notes soon. Online.

  Distributive Justice Class:

  • Multiple Choice on White Boy Shuffle: Labeling and Deference Theory

  • And The Flag Was Still There By Lois Shawver.
    "Her explanation of why the ban [on homosexuality in the military] should be lifted takes us deep into the heart of human sexuality."

    I'm going to want you to compare Lois Shawver's building of important social work, like And The Flag Was Still There to Noam Chomsky's impatience with postmodernism as elite, but trivial knowledge.

  Love and Peace Class:

  • How Dominant Discourse Affects Loving

  Statistics Class:

  • Using the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
  • Interpretation of Graphs on Black Homicide rate.
    • The Violent Social World of Black Men, by William Oliver. Jossy-Bass Publishers, 1994. ISBN: 0-7879-4305-3. Hardcopy.
    • The Violent Social World of Black Men Reviews and essays. Online.
    • Race, Place, and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America, by Harold M. Rose and Paula McClain. State University of New York Press. 1990. Hardcopy.
    • Race, Place, and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America Reviews and essays. Online.
  • Interactive Project on Community Facts Online.
    • Community Facts on Compton First interactive project. Online.