our grad school is better than your old grad school

dear friends,

have recently read the syllubi for two of my four courses. here is what i have to read for classical f'in theory:

Week 1: Introduction
Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty

Week 2: Founding Documents
Immanuel Kant, Political Writings
John Locke, Two Treatises on Government

Week 3: The Rise of Political Economy
Albert Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments

Week 4: The Grand Experiment
James Madison and Alexander Hamilton., The Federalist Papers
Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Week 5: English Liberalism
JS Mill, On Liberty and other selections

Week 6: Marx I
G.W. F. Hegel, The Philosophy of Right
Karl Marx German Ideology

Week 7: Marx II
Karl Marx, Capital

Weeks 8: Durkheim
Emile Durkheim, Division of Labor

Week 9: Simmel
Georg Simmel, Selections

Week 10: Weber I
The Protestant Ethic
Economy and Society, Selections

Week 11: Weber II
Economy and Society, Selections

Week 12: Central European Malaise
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment

in spite of the fact that i have already read 75% of this, i must do it again because none of this reading happened in a traditional grad course.

i am also doing the ethnographic sequence (a series of 4 mini courses over 2 semesters) that will give me (in theory) a MA in ethnography and make me part of the growing "princeton school" of contemporary ethnographers. it is really the best way for me to get the catholic women's project back on track.

for the first class we will be discussing the chicago school, so i have to read
in its entirety: The Social Order of the Slum (Suttles)in addition to:
Villa Victoria (Small) Preface, 2, 3--> done
Sidewalk (Duneier) Introduction, Part 3 and Part 4--> done
Black Picket Fences (Patillo-McCoy) Introduction, 4, 5, 6

some good things: i love what i do, i am grateful enough to have gotten in here to not mind doing the first year of gradschool hell over again, i loved reading ethnographies over the summer, and princeton is an incredibly boring place to live (comparatively)

some bad things: hegel. i hate f'in hegel.

going to pretend i am not in school for one more day and meet ms. p in the city for the clap your hands and say yeah show.