• Singleton and Straits. 2009. Chapter 1.
• Becker, Howard. 1967. “Whose Side are we On?” Social Problems 14(3): 239-47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/799147
• Davis, M. S. (1971). That’s interesting: Towards a phenomenology of sociology and a sociology of phenomenology. Philosophy of Social Science, 1, 309-344. https://doi-org.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/10.1177/004839317100100211
• The Telegraph. 2005. “In the beginning there was the Flying Spaghetti Monster”
• Watch – http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/17/152913171/the-essence-of-science-explained-in-63-seconds
• Watch – https://www.cc.com/video/w6itwj/the-colbert-report-the-word-sink-or-swim (archive on Courseworks)

Recommended Readings: 

• Rittel, H. and Webber, M. (1973) Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning, Policy Sciences Vol.4, 155- 169.
• Siemiatycki, Matti. 2012. “The Role of the Planning Scholar: Research, Conflict, and Social Change.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 32: 147-159. http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AH-J7Q2212VPAG0409