In all likelihood, we will have a quiz every week. These quizzes will cover articles that are on reserve in the library or in the reserve room on the web. I will notify you at least one class period before an upcoming quiz. You cannot make up quizzes unless you have a valid excuse issued by the University. See your syllabus for a further discussion about the quiz requirements. I based the scheduling of your quizzes on our exam schedule. This schedule is tentative.

Quizzes before the first exam

"The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot." John Colvin, 1982, Social Problems, Vol. 29:449-63.

Quiz on newspaper articles "General News"

"The Cultural Components of Pain." Mark Zborowski, pgs. 38-47 in Down to Earth Sociology, ed. James M. Henslin, The Free Press, New York, 1988.

Quizzes after the first exam and before the second exam

"Extreme Isolation." Kingsley Davis, pgs. 72-80 in Down to Earth Sociology, ed. James M. Henslin, The Free Press, New York, 1988.

"The World as Our Mirror," Shakti Gawain

Quiz on newspaper articles "The Family"

Families and Family Therapy. Salvador Minuchin, 1974, Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press.

"Parental Conflict and Martial Disruption: Do Children Benefit when High-Conflict Marriages are Dissolved." 1999, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 61: 626-637.

"The Crisis," John Bradshaw, 1995, The Family

Quizzes after the second exam and before the third exam

Quiz on newspaper articles "Race and Gender"

Selected excerpts from Prejudice and Racism by James M. Jones 1997 McGraw-Hill.

"Where Bias Begins: The Truth about Stereotypes" by Annie Paul 1998 Psychology Today May/June 1998


Quizzes after the third exam and before the final exam

Quiz on newspaper articles "On Education" and "On the Economy"

You will have two quizzes on Kozol's Amazing Grace. The first quiz covers chapters one through four and your second quiz on this book covers chapters 5 through to the Epilogue.

"Schooling and the Reproduction of Inequality," Samuel Bowles, pages 315-329 in The Capitalist System. eds. Richard C. Edwards Michael Reich, and Thomas E. Weisskopf, 2nd edition, 1978, Prentice-Hall, Inc. NJ.

"Where Do Profits Come From?" Institute for Labor Research, 1982, pages 38-57, in What's Wrong with the U.S. Economy. South End Press, MA.