| October 28 |
Emile Durkheim & a Postmodernist on Modernity and Beyond
- Emile Durkheim, "Egoist Suicide" and "Anomic
Suicide". (Source: Farganis, Chapter 2, pp. 64-72)
- Anonymous: Postmodernism and Sociology: From the Epistemological
to the Empirical (Reserve)
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| October 30 |
Ulrich Beck: Individualization and subject-orientated Sociology
- Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, 1999: Individualization
and Precarious Freedoms: Perspectives and Controversies of Subject-orientated
Sociology. In: Anthony Elliott, Contemporary Social Theory.Malden
Mass., Blackwell. Pp. 156-168. (Reserve)
- Ulrich Beck, Individualization, Institutionalization and Standardization:
Life Situations and Biographical Patterns. P. 127-138 in: Beck,
Risk Society. Sage, 1992. (Reserve)
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November 1
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Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity
- Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and Society
in the Late Modern Age. Stanford University Press. (Reserve)
- Introduction
- Chapter VI: The Tribulation of the Self, pp.181-208
- Chapter VII: The Emergence of Life Politics, pp. 209-231
Second Paper Due
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