Dr. Maria Martinez-Cosio
E-mail: mcosio@uta.edu
Voice: 817-272-3302

University of Texas at Arlington
Office: UH544
Office Hours: Mon 5-7 p.m. and by appt.

 
Class: URPA 5305
Theories of Urban Society
 

URPA 5305 web based readings*

Syllabus

Fraser, Nancy. 1985. What’s critical about critical theory? The case of Habermas and Gender. New German Critique, Spring/Summer 1985. Issue 35.

Agger, Ben. 1991. Critical Theory: Postructuralism, Postmodernism: Their sociological relevance. Annual Review of Sociology, 17:105-31.3/3 Week #7

Dahl, Robert. 1958. A critique of the ruling elite model. The American Political Science Review, 52:2, pp 463-469.

Rose, Peter. 1993. "Of every hue and caste:" Race, Immigration and Perceptions of Pluralism. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Vol. 530, Interminority Affairs in the U.S.: Pluralism at the Crossroads. Nov. 1993, pp 187-202.

Bachrach, Peter and Morton Baratz. 1962. The two faces of power. The American Political Science review. 56:4 pps 947-952.

Valentine, Gill and Tracey Skelton. 2003. Finding oneself, losing oneself: the lesbian and gay "scene" as a paradoxical space. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 27:4.

Dinesh D’Souza and Walter Williams. 1997. Deliberations on the End of Racism. Academic Questions, 96:9. P 69

Putnam, et al. 2004. Using Social Capital to integrate planning theory, research and practice. Journal of the American Planning Association. 70:2.

Brown, Khari and Ronald Brown. 2003. Faith and Works: Church-based social capital resources and African American political activism. Social Forces, 82:2. Pp 617-641

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