Reading Questions UPP (Week Five)

by | Feb 19, 2014 | Reading Questions (UPP)

1.  The conventional view holds that teachers are supposed to transmit academic skills to children.  As in the case of police officers, however, they are also charged with other responsibilities.  What do public schoolteachers teach in addition to the academic...

Reading Questions CP (Week Four)

by | Feb 15, 2014 | Reading Questions (CP)

1. Both of this week's readings imply that democracy is distorted by either “hiding” or “submerging” the welfare state. Why do they make this claim? Do you disagree or agree with it? Why? 2. We ended last week's class with a discussion...

Reading Questions UPP (Week Four)

by | Feb 13, 2014 | Reading Questions (UPP)

1.  The police are portrayed on television as crime-fighters, yet they perform a variety of other functions as well. What are these other aspects of the job, and how might they affect the ability of the police to enforce the law against criminals? 2.  The videotaped...

Reading Questions CP (Week Three)

by | Feb 8, 2014 | Reading Questions (CP)

1. Last week we walked through a few different ways to think about democracy. How does this week's reading help think about the way class might work through these different ways? 2. Beard argues that the Constitution was the product of class interests. What...

Reading Questions UPP (Week Three)

by | Feb 5, 2014 | Reading Questions (UPP)

1.  In what sense (if any) would you regard crime as a distinctively urban problem?  Various readings (assigned and recommended) regard it as a product of social structure, a response to opportunity, a character flaw, a product of individual life-history.  How might...