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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: May 5, 2005
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CRMJ/SOCA 352: Law and Social Change

You will be held accountable for purposes of grading for the readings and exercises listed here. There will be no "testing." That means that you will not have to live in anxious anticipation of what we will ask and how much you will have to know. Instead, we will provide weekly discussion questions, lectures, essays, and concepts we feel that you should know as a result of having taken this course. You will assure us of that learning and receive your grade for the questions and concepts about which you choose to write and talk with us. In addition you will find detailed explanations and examples on our grading policies in the first week's reading.

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Week 17: Week of May 8, 2005 and through the Summer

Topic:Summer 2005

Special Announcements: Congratulations to our May and August graduates!


Have a great summer!



Preparatory Readings:

• See Summer Reading List (below)

• Arrigo. Social Justice/Criminal Justice, entirety.
• Mann and Zatz. Images of Color, Images of Crime, entirety .
• Video: "---" (to be shown in class).
  
  

  Lecture related links:
  
  

• W.I. Thomas "Definition of the Situation
• Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law. Check out this link Martha Minow on the Dear Habermas site.
  
  

  Concepts to be covered:
  

• the aesthetic process of answerability
• taxonomy of learning
• external motivation vs. internal motivation
• interrelationship between "theory, policy, practice"
• tension between "facts" and "norms"
• difference
• the Other
  

  Questions to relate to your Creative Measures:

  
  
  
  1. What was the most interesting creative measure that you worked on this semester? Why.
  2. What is the most important thing you learned in this course? Why.
  3. What advice would you give to students new to this teaching/learning model? Why.
  4. What ideas and suggestions do you have to improve on this teaching/learning model? Why.
  
  

  Suggested Creative Measures:

  
  
  • Examine how writers from a diversity of disciplines and fields discuss the future. Are they optimistic or pessimistic? Why.
  • What are the mass media images of the future? Do you agree or disagree with these images? Why.
  • Read one of the recommended books listed below on the future.
    
    
  • Note: All creative measures: 1) Must relate to "law and social change." 2) Must be pre-approved. 3) Cannot be something that you are doing for another course. 4) Research cannot be 100% online (i.e., google, askjeeves). Must conduct library research using scholarly works, (not the popular press -- Time Magazine, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated).
  
  

  Recommended Readings:

  • Cornel West. Democracy Matters.
  • Paul Loeb. The Impossible Will Take a LIttle While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear.
  • MoveOn. MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country.
  • Carl Honore. In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed.
  • Stephen Covey. The 8th Habit: From Effectivness to Greatness.
  • Thomas Friedman. Longitudes and Latitudes: Exploring the World after September 11.
  • Thomas Friedman. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.
  • Steven Leavitt and Stephen Duber. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.
  • Howard Zinn. A People's History of the United States.
  • Howard Zinn. Voices of a People's History of the United States.
    

  • Alfie Kohn.Beyond Discipline.
  • Alfie Kohn. No Contest.
  • Alfie Kohn. Punished by Reward.
  • Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
  • Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of Freedom.
  • Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of Hope.
  • Peter McLaren. Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolution.
    
    
  • George Ritzer. The McDonaldization of Society.
  • Gordon Fellman. . Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival.
  • Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
  • Charles Derber. People Before Profit.
  • Paul Krugman. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century.
  • Michael Moore. Dude, Where's My Country?
    
    
  • Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
  • Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion and American Law.

• Course Syllabus
  
  
• Links to the Sociology of Law Handbook readings
  -- Introduction
  -- Chapter 1, part 1
  -- Chapter 1, part 2
  -- Chapter 2

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