Business and Society

I. HISTORY 1: A Parable to Begin With Daniel Lerner:"The Grocer and the Chief" 2: Opportnity and Dislocation Oscar Handlin: "Peasant Origins" The New York Times: "East Side Street Vendors" Morris Rosenfeld: "Sweat Shop" Pedro Pietri: "Puerto Rican Obituary" Stephen Meyer III: "Assembly-Line Americanization" 3: Business: Culture and Technology Anthony Giddens: "The Themes of the Protestant Ethic" Clifford Geertz: "Economic Development in Modjokuto" Alfred D. Chandler: "The Role of Business in the United States: A Historical Survey" 4: Capital Accumulation John Maynard Keynes: "On Late Nineteenth-Century Capitalism" Steven F. Cohen: Selections 5: Community Wendell Berry: "Does Community Have a Value?" 6: Bringing It back Home Barry Castro: "Socrates in Dallas: Managing the Facilities" II. Sociology 7: A Poem to Begin With Robert Frost: "Two Tramps in Mudtime" 8: Workers and Managers Simone Weill: "The Experience of Factory Life" Robert Jackall: "The Social Structure of Managerial Work" George Orwell: "Shooting an Elephant" 9: The Marginalized William Langer: "The Black Masses" Herbert George Gutman (Selections) Cornell West (Selections) John Tierney: "Harlem Teenagers Checkmate a Stereotype" R.B. "If Yo Go..." 10: Power and Culture T.S. Eliot (Selections) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Selections) 11: Power, Culture, and Media Ben H. Bagdidkian: "The Wrong Kind of Readers: The Fall and Rise of the New Yorker" Gloria Steinem: "Sex, Lies, and Advertising" 12: Bringing It Back Home Barry Castro: "Learning about Education at the Workplace" III. Ethics 13: A Dilemma To Begin With Douglas Hofstadter: "The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Evolution of Cooperation" 14: Conscience Robert Solomon: "The Corporation As Community" Roger Rosenblatt: "How Do They Live With Themselves?" 15: Law Montesquieu: "On Commerce" 16: Environment Garrett Hardin: "The Tragedy of the Commons" Max Oelschaeger: "The Idea of Wilderness" Lynn White: "The Historical Roots of Or Ecological Crisis" 17: An Overview Albert O. Hirshman: "Rival Interpretation of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?" 18: Bringing It Back Home Barry Castro: "Business Ethics: Knowing Ourselves"