Course Syllabus August, 2009.

PowerPoint Slides for each week
Week 1: August 26-28.
Week 2: August 31 - Sep 4.
Week 3: Sep 7-11.
Week 4: Sep 14-18.
Week 5: Sep 21-25.
Week 6: Sep 28.
Week 7: Oct 5 - Oct 9.
Week 8: Oct 12 - Oct 16.
Week 9: Oct 19- Oct 23.

Week 10: Oct 26 - Oct 30.

Week 13: Nov 16 - Nov 20 .

Week 15: Nov 30 - Dec 4 .

News

• Click Here to take the post-test survey. Please take this survey by 12 noon, November 30.
• The Financial Crisis: There are two videos to view online in preparation for next week:
  Frontline: The Warning Part 1. Which talks about derivatives, the power of the bank lobby, Fed collusion and the collapse of LTCM, one of the original hedge funds.
  and
  The Great American Bank Robbery, by William Black, a video of a lecture he did June 11th, 2009 at the Hammer Forum UCLA. Watch the the first hour though it runs nearly 2.

  THEN go to bspace and there will be a new wiki (as soon as I learn how to do what I want it to do) for submitting questions for Caleb Lawrence, our guest speaker, and the question(s) will be due Monday, November 2. You can hear Mr. Lawrence speak at 12 noon sharp on KPIG radio, 1510 AM.

• Download the newspaper assignment chart, an Excel file. The assignment is now due Oct. 26.
• We'll have a final exam review on December 7..

Other Readings

• Charles Perrow, Organizational or executive failures?
• David Mednicoff, Compromising toward confusion: the 9/11 Commission Report and American policy in the Middle East
• Kathleen Tierney, "The 9/11 commission and disaster management: Little depth, less context, not much guidance.

A Symposium on Morality Battles: In Contemporary Sociology, 2006 35(4) pp. 337-354.
Readings by Amitai Etzioni, Laura Grindstaff, John Dombrink.

Corporate Deviance

• Office hours are Wed 3-5 at 112A Survey Research Center (corner of Bowditch and Channing).
  You can also IM me at leora_lawton@yahoo.com on Thursdays from 8-9 PM.
• Moffitt has the textbooks on reserve.
• You will be signed to a listserv for the class for more announcements. Make sure I have your best email address.

• Applied Sociology PowerPoint

Contact Information:

• I have a mailbox on campus where you can leave documents, but you can also email me llawton at berkeley.edu.
• My cell phone number is 510 928-7272 but I prefer email..
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