Weekly Readings for Sociology 416/516

Week 1
Lerman, Robert I.  2000.  “Are Teens in Low Income  and Welfare Families
Working Too Much?”  Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/anf_b25.pdf
(Accessed January 3, 2004.)

Available on Blackboard as well.

Week 2
Hecker, Daniel.  1998.  “How Hours of Work Affect Occupational Earnings.”
Monthly Labor Review 121(10):8-18.

Available on Blackboard.

Week 3
Anderson Moore, Kristin, Sharon Vandivere, and Jennifer Ehrle.  2000.
“Turbulence and Child Well-Being.” Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/anf_b16.pdf
(Accessed January 3, 2004.)

Available on Blackboard.

Week 4
Schuman, Howard, Edward Walsh, Camille Olson, and Barbara Etheridge.  1985.
“Effort and Reward:  The Assumption that College Grades Are Affected by
Quantity of Study.”  Social Forces 63(4): 945-966.

Available on Blackboard.  Caution: a large file, although the article is only
22 pages long

Week 5
 No new readings this week.

Week 6
 No new readings this week.

Week 7
 Please skim assigned paper in preparation for discussion
 on Thursday.  Details to be announced.

Week 8 +
 To be announced