Books and Courses, Thought Makers

Books I’ve Read

  • Asylums Erving Goffman Institutions as worlds with rules that reshape identity.
  • The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills Private trouble ↔ public issue: linking biography to structure.
  • The Power Elite C. Wright Mills How power concentrates, circulates, and protects itself.
  • On Suicide Émile Durkheim Social integration and regulation shape individual outcomes.

Courses I’ve Taken

  • Introduction to Criminology Algonquin College Crime, enforcement, and the social context behind rules.
  • Abnormal Psychology Algonquin College Diagnosis, distress, and the line between “normal” and “pathologized.”
  • Introduction to Psychology Algonquin College Perception, cognition, behavior—how people make meaning and act.
  • Introduction to Sociology Algonquin College Institutions, roles, and the systems that shape everyday life.

Why this matters: These works and courses give me a framework for reading power, institutions, and human behavior—especially in moments when life breaks and you have to rebuild with clarity.