Sociology 420: Social Welfare Practices

Winter 2006

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Reading schedule

 

Required texts:

  • David Wagner. 1993. Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  • Robert Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster.

    We'll have a few other readings on reserve.

Readings

week
topic(s)
Introduction, planning, homelessness Wagner, Chp 1 (1 - 20), Eigner
Homelessness: work, family, control Wagner, Chps 2 - 5 (21 - 117)
The homeless counterculture Wagner, Chps 6 - 8 (119 - 87)
Bureaucracy, community models Perrow
hunger project, social capital Haven from Hunger materials, Putnam, Chp 1
community Adams and Nelson, Putnam, Chps 3 & 4
community

Putnam, Chps 6, 7, 15 & 16

community Putnam, Chps 21 & 22
community Putnam, Chps 23 - 24
Presentations
11 (3/14 - 3/18)
final exam week

 

Week 1   Course planning, homelessness

  • David Wagner. 1993. Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (chp 1, pp 1-20).
  • Lars Eighner. 2004. On dumpster diving. Pp 477-85 in Lieberman and Lester (eds) Social Work Practice with a Difference. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

 

 


 

Week 2  Homelessness: work, family, control

  • David Wagner. 1993. Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (chps 2 - 5, pp 21 - 117).

 

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Week 3  A homless counterculture

  • David Wagner. 1993. Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (chps 6 - 8, pp 119 - 187)

 

Week 4   Bureaucracy

  • Charles Perrow. 1986. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay. New York: McGraw-Hill (chapter 1, 'Why Bureaucracy?' pp 1 - 48). Available on electronic reserve (or you can copy it in the library)

 

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Week 5   Hunger project, social capital

  • Robert Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster (chp 1, pp 15 - 28).
  • I'll have put together materials on the Haven from Hunger project for you to read.

 


 

Week 6   Community model, community dynamics

  • Kristine Nelson and Paul Adams. 1995. Introduction. Pp 1 - 11 in Nelson and Adams (eds) Reinventing Human Services: Community- and Family-Centered Practice. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
  • Robert Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster (chps 3 & 4, pp 48 - 79)

 

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Week 7   Social capital, social change

  • Robert Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster (chps 6 & 7, pp 93 - 133; chp 15, pp 277 - 84. & 16, pp 277 - 95)

 

 

 


 

Week 8   Economy, democracy, and social capital's dark side

  • Robert Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster (chp 16, pp 287 - 95; chps 21 & 22, pp 336 - 63).

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Week 9   future of social capital

  • Robert Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster (chps 21& 22, pp 367 - 414).

 


 

Week 10  Hunger project presentations

 

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