| Week One |
Introduction: Gender:
Performance or Structure? |
| August 26 |
Introduction to the course |
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Read the syllabus carefully, buy the textbook, and browse through the
reading
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| August 28 |
The fait social of Gender |
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Emile Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method. (Source: J.
Farganis, Readings
in Social Theory. Chapter 2)
Sherry B. Ortner, Is female to male as nature is to culture?
(Reserve)
Talcott Parsons, Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the
United States.
(Source: Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 7, pp. 191-200.)
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| August 30 |
Performing Gender |
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Judith Butler: Imitation and Gender Subordination (Reserve)
Harold Garfinkel: Passing and the managed achievement of sex
status (Reserve)
Tricia Rose, Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Black
Female Teenage
Sexuality in the Popular Imagination.pp. 185-202 in Elizbeth
Long (ed.),
From Sociology to Cultural Studies. Blackwell. (Reserve)
Recommended: Sharon Hays, "The Ideology of Intensive
Mothering,"
In Long, etc. (Reserve)
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| Week Two |
Race and the
"Other": Image
or Reality? |
| September 2 |
Labor Day |
| September 4 |
Racial identity and racial formation |
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Philadelphia Negro: A Social
Study. (Source:
Farganis,
Chapter 6, pp. 167-171)
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk. (Source: Farganis, Readings in
Social Theory. Chapter 6, pp. 171-178)
Anthony Appiah, Racial Identities. P.362-370 in
Seidman/Alexander, The New
Social Theory Reader. London. (Reserve)
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation. P. 371-384 in
Seidman/Alexander,
The New Social Theory
Reader. London (Reserve) |
| September 6 |
Constructing the "Other" |
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Edward Said, Orientalism. P. 384-387 in Seidman/Alexander,
The New Social
Theory Reader. London. (Reserve)
Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, Occidentalism. New York Book Review.
17 January 2002,http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15100 (Reserve)
Homi Bhabha, The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination
and the Discourse
of Colonialism. P. 388-402 in Seidman/Alexander, The New Social Theory
Reader. London. (Reserve)
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| Week Three |
Can we survive Alienation and the
Iron Cage? |
| September 9 |
Alienated Labor and Shop Floor Culture |
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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).
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| September 11 |
The iron cage and the carceral |
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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).
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| September 13 |
Goffman and D.L. Rosenhan: Total Institutions |
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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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| Week Four |
How can we distinguish
between ideology
and reality? |
| September 16 |
From basis to superstructure and back |
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Marx/Engels: The German Ideology. (Source: J. Farganis,
Readings in Social
Theory. Chapter 1, pp. 43-47)
Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. (Source:
J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 3, pp. 95-98)
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| September 18 |
Durkheim: The Elementary Forms of Religious
Life |
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Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
(Source: J. Farganis,
Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 2, pp. 73-81)
Robert Bellah, Civil religion in America. (Source: Alexander/Seidman,
Culture and Society. Contemporary Debates. Chapter22: 262-274
-- Reserve)
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| September 20 |
Objectivity and Individualism |
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Max Weber: 'Objectivity' in social science and social policy. (Source:
J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 3, pp. 109-115)
Georg Simmel: The Stranger. (Farganis, Chapter 4, pp. 138-141)
Durkheim, Individualism and the Intellectuals. (Farganis, Chapter 2,
pp. 81-90)
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| Week Five |
Why do we take things
for granted? |
| September 23 |
The social Self |
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George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society. (Source: J.
Farganis, Readings
in Social Theory. Chapter 5, pp. 145-163)
Herbert Blumer, Society as symbolic interactionism. (Source:
J. Farganis,
Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 11, pp. 351-358).
Howard Becker: Becoming a Marijuana User (Reserve)
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| September 25 |
The presentation of Self in everyday life |
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Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, Foundations of Knowledge in Everyday
Life. (Source: Farganis, Chapter 10, pp. 331-339)
Erving Goffman, The presentation of Self in everyday life. (Source: J.
Farganis, Chapter 11, pp. 359-368)
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| September 27 |
The Stigmatized Self |
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Erving Goffman, The Stigmatized Self. (Source:
Lemert/Branaman, The Goffman
Reader. Chapter 7: 73-80 -- Reserve)
C. Marshall, The Stigmatized Woman: The Professional Woman in
a Male Sex-typed
Career. (Reserve)
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| First Paper |
Deadline September
27 |
| Week Six |
Does
Meritocracy counter Inequality? |
| September 30 |
Class Struggle and the Structure of Power |
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party.
(Source: Farganis, Chapter 1, pp. 26-37)
C. Wright Mills, The Structure of Power in America. (Source: Farganis,
Chapter 8, pp. 241-249)
Zwiegenhaft & Domhoff: The Ironies of Diversity,
(Farganis, Chapter
8, pp. 250-262)
Recommended: Ralf Dahrendorf, Social Structure, Group Interests, and
Conflict Groups. (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social
Theory. Chapter
8, pp. 222-40)
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October
2
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Stratification |
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Max Weber, Class, Status, Party. (Source: J. Farganis,
Readings in Social
Theory. Chapter 3, pp. 116-125)
Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, Some Principles of Stratification.
(Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 7,
pp. 183-190)
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| October 4 |
Social Reproduction and Its Discontents |
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Robert K. Merton, Manifest and Latent Functions. (Source: J. Farganis,
Readings in Social Theory. Chapter7:201-218)
J. Anyon 1980, Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of
Work. (Reserve)
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| Week Seven |
Is there
a privileged position for critical sociology? |
| October 7 |
The Metropolis |
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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)
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| October 9 |
Culture industry |
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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)
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| October 11 |
Critical Theory Today |
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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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| Week Eight |
How
does a social system function and change? |
| October 14 |
Midterm recess |
| October 16 |
Functionalism and Systems Theory |
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Aberle et al., The Functional Prerequisites of a Society. (Source: J.
Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. 1993: P. 203-213 -- Reserve)
Talcott Parsons, The Social System. A Paradigm for the
Analysis of Social
Systems. (Source: J. Farganis,Readings in Social Theory.
1993: P. 213-220
- Reserve)
Herbert J. Gans: The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All (Reserve)
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| October 18 |
Social Differentiation |
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Niklas Luhman, The Differentiation of Society. P. 229-254 in Luhmann,
The Differentiation of Society. Columbia University Press,
1982. (Reserve) |
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| Week Nine |
How does society change ? |
| October 21 |
Elias: The Civilizing Process
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Gouldsblom, Johan/ Mennell, Stephen, 1998: The Norbert
Elias Reader. Oxford, Blackwell (Reserve by Individual Title)
Introduction, pp. 1-2
6 An Outline of The Civilizing
Prozess, pp.
39-45
7 Kultur and Civilization, pp. 46-50
8 The Rise of the Fork, pp. 51-54
10 Civilization and Rationalization, pp. 61-67
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| October 23 |
Michel Faucoult on Repression |
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Michel Faucoult, The Repressive Hypothesis. From Paul
Rabinow, The Foucault
Reader: 301-329 (Reserve).
Michel Foucoult, Sexual Discourse and Power. (Source: Alexander/Seidman,
Culture and Society. Chapter 18:199-204 - Reserve) |
| October 25 |
Niklas Luhmann on Semantics |
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Luhmann, Niklas, 1986: Love as
Passion.
Cambridge, Polity Press. P. 9-57 (Reserve) |
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| Week Ten |
How do Individualization and Modernization fit
together? |
| October 28 |
Emile Durkheim & a Postmodernist on
Modernity and Beyond |
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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 |
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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 |
Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity |
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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
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| Second Paper |
Deadline November 4 |
| Week Eleven |
How does practice re-create
structure? |
| November 4 |
Language and Symbolic Orders |
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Ferdinand de Saussure, Signs and
Language. (Source:
Alexander/Seidman, Culture and Society. ContemporaryDebates. Chapter 4:
55-66 - Reserve)
Roland Barthes, The world of wrestling. (Source:
Alexander/Seidman, Culture
and Society. Contemporary Debates. Chapter 7, Pp. 87-93 -- Reserve)
Marshall Sahlins, Food as symbolic code. (Source:
Alexander/Seidman, Culture
and Society. Contemporary Debates. Chapter 8, Pp. 94-104 --
Reserve) |
| November 6 |
Pierre Bourdieu: Structure, Habitus, Practices |
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Pierre Bourdieu, Structure, Habitus, Practices. From The
Logic of Practice.
Pp. 107-118 (Reserve)
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction. A Social Critique of the
Judgement of Taste.
Pp. 1-62 (Reserve).
Pirre Bourdieu, Artistic Taste and Cultural Capital. (Source:
Alexander/Seidman,
Culture and Society. Chapter 19 -- Reserve)
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| November 8 |
Pierre Bourdieu Continued |
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Articles TBA
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| Week Twelve |
Why do we
co-operate? |
| November 11 |
Phenomenology & Ethnomethodology |
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Alfred Schuetz, Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation
of Human Action.
In Collected Papers. (Source: Farganis, Chapter 10: 305-331)
Harold Garfinkel: Studies in the Routine Grounds of Everyday
Activities,
(Farganis, Chap. 10, pp. 340-348)
Recommended: Alfred Schuetz, Making Music Together: A Study in social
Relationship. P. 44-60 in: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Mainstream
and Critical
Social Theory, Vol. 7, London, Sage -- Reserve).
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| November 13 |
Exchange Theory and Rational Choice |
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Peter Blau, The Structure of Social Associations. (Source:
J. Farganis,
Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 9: 265-278)
George C. Homans: Social Behavior as Exchange (Farganis, Chap. 9, pp.
279-288)
James S. Coleman: Social Capital in the Creation of Human
Capital (Farganis,
Chap. 9, pp. 289-302)
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| November 15 |
Catch Up Day! |
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| Week Thirteen |
Is Individualism
culturally biased? |
| November 18 |
Games and Battles |
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Robert Axelrod, Live and Let Live: How to explain
cooperation
between antagonists. P. 187-200 in:
Boudon/Cherkaoui, Central Currents in Social Theory. Vol. 5.
Sage 2000. |
| November 20 |
The Self-Thematizaton of Society |
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Niklas Luhmann, The Self-Thematization of
Society. P. 229-254
in Luhmann, The Differentiation of Society. Columbia University
Press, 1982. |
| November 22 |
Bellah: Habits of the Hart |
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Robert N. Bellah et al.,
Individualism.
P. 87-107 in: Alexander et al. (ed.), The Classical Tradition
in Sociology.
The American Tradition. Vol.4. London 1997, Sage (Reserve).
Robert N. Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and
Commitment
in American Life. Berkeley, University of California Press,
1996 (Reserve). |
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| Week Fourteen |
Presentations and
Discussions |
| November 25 |
Presentation and Discussion of Papers |
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| November 27 |
Presentation and Discussion of Papers |
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| November 29 |
Thangsgiving recess |
| Week Fifteen |
Presentations and Discussions |
| December 2 |
Presentation and Discussion of Papers |
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| December 4 |
Presentation and Discussion of Papers |
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| December 6 |
Evalutations, Farewells |
| December 5 |
Final Paper due |
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