Can we survive Alienation and the Iron Cage?

Part III: Sociological Paradigms
September 9

Alienated Labor and Shop Floor Culture
 

  • Karl Marx, Estranged Labour in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. (Source:. Farganis,. Chapter 1 pp. 37-43).
  • Paul Willis, Shop Floor Culture, Masculinity, and the Wage Form. P. 204-220 in: Jeffrey C. Alexander,Mainstream and Critical Social Theory, Vol. 5, London. (Reserve).
September 11

The iron cage and the carceral

  • Max Weber, Bureaucracy. (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 3, pp. 99-109)
  • Michel Faucoult, The Carceral (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 14, pp. 425-434)
  • Michel Faucoult, Panopticism. From Paul Rabinow, The Foucault Reader: 206-213 (Reserve).
  • Michel Faucoult, Right of Death and Power over Life. From Paul Rabinow, The Foucault Reader: 258-272 (Reserve).
September 13

Goffman and D.L. Rosenhan: Total Institutions

  • Erving Goffman, The Mortified Self. (Source: Lemert/Branaman, The Goffman Reader. Chapter 6: 55-72-- Reserve)
  • Erving Goffman, The Recalcitrant Self. (Source: Lemert/Branaman, The Goffman Reader. Chapter 8: 81-92 -- Reserve)
  • D.L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places. P. 14-30 in Branaman, Self and Society. Blackwell. (Reserve)

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