The following list represents suggested readings in support of the various courses offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels in this discipline. Books as well as periodicals are identified and provide a general overview of the topics in this subject area. The list is not meant to be comprehensive nor are all the items available either in-print or in one specific library or collection. The list, however, is meant to be a starting point for research and further information.
_____. Sociology . Prentice Hall, 1995.
_____. Sociology: A Down to Earth Approach . Allyn Bacon, 1995.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart (Fiction/A vision of global social change). NY: Anchor Books, 1994.
Anderson . Thinking About Women .
Aronson, Elliot, et.al. Social Psychology: Heart and Mind . Harper Collins College Pub., 1994.
Bahr. Native Americans Today: Sociological Perspectives .
Barrera. Race and Class in the Southwest .
Bethell, Leslie. Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth Century Latin America . Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Boswell, Terry and Albert, Bergesen, eds. America 's Changing Role in the World System . NY: Praeger, 1987.
Brooks and Cole. Women's Lives .
Brown, L. Carl. International Politics and the Middle East . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Bryjak, George. Sociology: Cultural Diversity in a Changing World . 1992.
Burton , Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Mainah and Meccah . NY: Dover , 1964.
Calhoun, Craig. Sociology . McGraw Hill, 1994.
Cantori, Louis and Steven Spiegel, ed. The International Politics of Regions . NJ: Prentice Hall, 1970.
Clarke, John Henrik. African World Revolution . NJ: Africa World Press, 1991.
Davidson, Basil. Africa in History. NY: The Macmillan Co., 1969.
Dinham, Barbara, and Colin Hines, ed. Agribusiness in Africa . NJ: Africa World Press, 1984.
Diop, Cheikh Anta. The African Origin of Civilization : Myth or Reality. NY: Lawrence Hill Publishers, 1974.
Dizard, Wilson. Old Media, New Media: Mass Communications in the Information Age . NY: Longman, 1997.
Donner, Fred M. The Early Islamic Conquests . NJ: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1981.
Drachler, Jacob. African Heritage . London : The Corwell-Collier Press, 1969.
Eickelman, Dale and James Piscatori. Muslim Politics . NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Eickelman, Dale F. The Middle East and Central Asia : An Anthropological Approach . 3rd ed. NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.
Eitzen, Stanley, et.al. In Conflict & Order: Understanding Society . Prentice Hall, 1991.
Ewen, Stuart. All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture . NY: Basic Books, 1999.
Fairbank, John, et.al. East Asia : Tradition and Transformation . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989.
Farley and Allen. The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America .
Ferrante, Joan. Sociology: A Global Perspective . Belmont , 1995.
Ferrante-Wallace, Joan. Sociology: A Global Perspective . 1992.
Foreign Affairs (periodical)
Foreign Policy (periodical)
Gernet, Jacques. A History of Chinese Civilization .Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Goldman, Shifra M. Dimensions of the Americas : Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States . Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Gurnah, Abjulrazak. Paradise (Fiction/A young African male child's coming of age story). NY: The New York Press, 1994.
Harris, Joseph. Africans and their History. NY: Penguin, 1987.
Harrison, Taylor, Sarah Projansky, Jent Ono, and Elyce Helford, eds. Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek . CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Henslin, James. Essentials of Sociology: Down to Earth Approach . Prentice Hall, 1996.
Hodgson, Marshall G.S. Venture of Islam . IL: University of Chicago Press, 1974.
Horton, Paul B. The Sociology of Human Problems . 1991.
Jackson, John G. Introduction to African Civilizations . NJ: The Citadel Press, 1970.
Jeffres, Leo. Mass Media Effects . Prospect Heights: Waveland press, 1997.
Jones, Sean M., ed. American's Strategy in a Changing World . Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1992.
Kamalu, Chukwunyere. Foundations of African Thought . London: Karnak House, 1990.
Keen, Benjamin ed. Latin American Civilization: History and Society, 1492 to the Present .
Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Lockhart, James and Schwartz, S.B. Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil .
Macionis, John. Society The Basics . 1994.
Magdoff, Harry. Imperialism . NY: Monthly Review Pres, 1978.
Mahdi, Mahdi. Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History . IL: University of Chicago Press, 1957.
Malson, Mudimbe-Boyi, O'Barr, and Wyer. Black Women in America .
Marger. The Force of Ethnicity: A Study of Urban Elites .
McClatchy. Four Anti-Japanese Pamphlets .
Merton, Robert K. and R.M. Nisbet. Contemporary Social Problems . NY: 1961.
Moore, Barrington Jr. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Modern World . Boston:Beacon Press, 1966.
Moore, Charles, ed. The Chinese Mind: Essentials of Chinese Philosophy and Culture . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1967.
Moore, Charles, ed. The Indian Mind: Essentials of Indian Philosophy and Culture . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1967.
Moore, Charles, ed. The Japanese Mind: Essentials of Chinese Philosophy and Culture . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1967.
Morris, Ivan. The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan . NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.
Naisbitt, John, et.al. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's . William Morrow & Co., 1990.
Nakamura, Hajime. Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India, China, Tibet, Japan . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1964.
Norwine, J. and A. Gonzales, ed. The Third World States of Mind and Being . Boston:Unwin Hyman, 1988.
Ollenburger, Jane C. Sociology of Women . Prentice Hall, 1992.
Oppenheimer, Andres. Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity . NY: Little Brown & Co., 1996.
Patterson, Philip and Lee Wilkins, eds. Media Ethics: Issues and Cases . IL: Brown & Benchmark, 1997.
Piscatori, James, ed. Islam in the Political Process . Cambridge and NY: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Ramazani, R.K. Revolutionary Iran: Challenge and Response in the Middle East Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Rolle. The Italian Americans: Trouble Roots .
Rossidies. Social Stratification .
Said, Edward. Orientalism . NY: Pantheon, 1978.
Sansom, G.B. Japan: A Short Cultural History . London: The Cresset Press, 1932.
Schaefer, Richard T. Sociology: A Brief Introduction . 1994.
Shillington, Kevin. History of Africa . NY: St. Martins Press, 1995.
Stark, Steven. Glued to the Set: The 60 Television Shows and Events that Made Us Who We are Today . NY: Bantam Books, 1997.
Tesmer, Floyd S., et.al. Sociology of Development: A Study of Africa, Asia, and Latin America . 1995.
The Economist (magazine)
The International Migration Review .
The Journal of Third World Affairs (periodical)
The Middle East Journal (periodical)
The New Republic (magazine)
Thompson, Alvin O. The Haunting Past: Politics, Economics and Race in Caribbean Life Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean . M.E. Sharpe, 1997.
Trimberger, Ellen Kay. Revolution From Above: Military Bureaucrats and Development in Japan, Turkey, Egypt, and Peru . NJ: Transaction Books, 1978.
Winn, Peter. Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Woloch. Women and the American Experience . |
