Is there a privileged position for critical sociology?

October 7

The Metropolis

  • Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life. (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 4: 129-137)
  • Richard Sennett 1998, The Corrosion of Character. The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism. Chapter 4 to 6. (Reserve)
October 9

Culture industry

  • Marx: The Fetishism of Commodities (Source: Farganis, Chap. 1: 47-54)
  • Theodore W. Adorno, Culture industry reconsidered. (Source: Alexander/Seidman, Culture and Society -- Reserve).
  • Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man. (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 13: 400-413)
October 11

Critical Theory Today

  • Juergen Habermas, Three Normative Models of Democracy (Source, Farganis, Chapter 13: 413-422)
  • Dorothy Smith, Women's experience as a radical critique of sociology. (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in SocialTheory. Chapter 12:372-81 )

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