8.26 |
Map 1: The Course in a Nutshell |
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8.31 |
Map 2: What makes a theory good? I |
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9.2 |
Map 3: The Problem of Order and the "Pre-Sociologists |
- Wrong, Dennis. " The Problem of Order from Hobbes to the Present," ch. 2 (14-36) in The Problem of Order (Harvard University Press, 1994).
- T Hobbes (1588–1679), Chapter xiii in Leviathan (1651) (~4pp)
- J Rousseau (1712-1778), §§ 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 from Book 1 of The Social Contract (1762) (~8pp)
- A Smith (1723–1790), from The Wealth of Nations " Of the Division of Labour" and "Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour" (1776)
- OPTIONAL
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9.7 |
How to do a "theory sampler" |
The Social Self
- James, William. 1890. "The Self and Its Selves" (161-166)
- Cooley, Charles Horton. 1902. "The Looking-Glass Self" (189)
- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.). 1903. "Double-Consciousness and the Veil" (167-172)
- Saussure, Ferdinand de. 1906-11. "Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign" (152-160)
- Freud, Sigmund. 1900-39. "The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts" (130-133)
- Freud, Sigmund. 1930. "Civilization and the Individual" (149-151)
- Mead, George Herbert. ca.1929. "The Self, the I, and the Me" (224-229)
- Parsons, Talcott. 1937. "The Unit Act of Action Systems" (213-215)
- Erikson, Erik H. 1950. "Youth and American Identity" (334-337)
- Goffman, Erving. 1955. "On Face-Work" (338-343)
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9.9 |
Auguste Comte as "Father of Sociology" |
Getting Started
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9.10 |
Due Friday 5 p.m. |
Sampler Choice |
9.14 |
Marx: Background |
Marx Overview
- Rius, Marx for Beginners Biographical Background pp.1-35
- Rius, Marx for Beginners Philosophical Background pp. 36-66
- Rius, Marx for Beginners Idealism, Materialism, Dialectics pp.67-77
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9.16 |
Marx: Alienation and Revolution |
Earlier Marx
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9.18 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Sampler Annotation #1 |
9.21 |
Marx: Capital |
Later Marx
- Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. 1848. "The Manifesto of Class Struggle" (39-43)
- Marx, K. 1867. “Labour-Power and Capital," from Capital, Vol. I. (62-67)
- Marx, K. 1867. "Capital and the Fetishism of Commodities," from Capital, Vol. I. (60-62)
Optional
- Marx, K. 1867. "Capital and the Value of Commodities," from Capital, Vol. I. (51-60)
- Engels, F. 1884. "The Patriarchal Family," from The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State. (67-69)
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9.23 |
EXAM. DJR not here. |
Identifications and Explications |
9.25 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Sampler Annotation #2 |
9.28 |
From Marx to Weber |
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9.30 |
Weber: Organizations and Politics |
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10.1 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Sampler Annotation #3 |
10.5 |
Weber: Power |
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10.7 |
Durkheim: Solidarity |
Durkheim: Introduction and Overview
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10.8 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Remaining Sampler Annotations should be complete. Turn in outline for presentation. |
10.12 |
DJR NOT HERE |
Dry runs for sampler presentations |
10.14 |
Durkheim: Facts |
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10.15 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Background bibliography for Samplers |
10.19 |
Durkheim: God |
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10.21 |
Exam Weber & Durkheim |
No Reading |
10.22 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Exercise |
10.26 |
Other Turn of the Century Theorists |
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1898. "Women and Economics" (174-178)
- Simmel, Georg. 1908. "The Stranger" (185-188)
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10.28 |
Other Turn of the Century Theorists |
- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.). 1903. "Double-Consciousness and the Veil" (167-172)
- Mannheim, Karl. 1936, 1929. "The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology" (217-221)
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10.29 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Exercise |
11.2 |
A New Fundamental Antimony: Liberalism and Conservatism |
- Keynes, John Maynard. 1920. "The Psychology of Modern Society" (203-205)
- Keynes, John Maynard. 1925. "The New Liberalism" (205-206)
- Hayek, Friederich. 19xx. Selections TBA
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11.4 |
Midcentury Consensus |
- Merton, Robert K. 1938. "Social Structure and Anomie" (229-242)
- Parsons, Talcott. 1937. "The Unit Act of Action Systems" (213-215)
- Parsons, Talcott. 1961-71. "Action Systems and Social Systems" (301-303)
- Parsons, Talcott. 1943. "Sex Roles in the American Kinship System" (304-307)
- Functionalism TBA
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11.5 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Exercise |
11.9 |
Midcentury Critique: Society as Social Problem |
- Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. 1944. "The Culture Industry as Deception" (325-329)
- Mills, C. Wright. 1959. "The Sociological Imagination" (355-358)
- Niebuhr, Reinhold. 1932. "Moral Man and Immoral Society" (247-249)
- Césaire, Aimé. 1955. "Between Colonizer and Colonized" (348-350)
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11.11 |
Midcentury Critique: Race and Gender |
- Myrdal, Gunnar. 1944. "The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue" (249-251)
- Fanon, Frantz. 1961. "Decolonizing, National Culture, and the Negro Intellectual" (364-369)
- Beauvoir, Simone de. 1949. "Woman as Other" (345-347)
- Friedan, Betty. 1963. "The Problem That Has No Name" (361-364)
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11.12 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Exercise |
11.16 |
Roots of Contemporary Theory : POMO |
- Ferdinand de Saussure, "Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign," L152-160
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1958. "The Structural Study of Myth" ((313-317)
- Barthes,Roland. 1964. "Semiological Prospects" (318-320)
- Lacan, Jacques. 1949. "The Mirror Stage" (343-344)
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11.18 |
Roots of Contemporary Theory: Structure and Rationality |
- (Tentative)
- Milgram, Small World Experiment
- Olson, Mancur. 19cc. Selection from The Logic of Collective Action. Harvard University Press, 1st ed. 1965, 2nd ed. 1971.
- Coleman, James S. 1990. "The New Social Structure and the New Social Science" (506-510)
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11.19 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Exercise |
11.23 |
Must-Reads of the Last Quarter of the Century |
- Habermas, Jürgen. 1968. "Emancipatory Knowledge" (386-7)
- Habermas, Jürgen. 1970. "Social Analysis and Communicative Competence" (387-9)
- Foucault, Michel. 1976. "Power as Knowledge" (473-479)
- Giddens, Anthony. 1990. "Post-Modernity or Radicalized Modernity?" (485-491)
- Bourdieu, Pierre. 1974, 1980. "Structures, Habitus, Practices" (444-449)
- Collins, Patricia Hill. 1990. "Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination" (541-552)
- Butler, Judith. 1991. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination" (562-573)
- Beck, Ulrich. 1999. "World Risk Society" (636-640)
- Tilly, Charles. 19xx. "Future Social Science and the Invisible Elbow"
- Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckmann, Society as a Human Product" (390-4)
- Smith, Dorothy. 1974. "Knowing a Society from Within: A Woman’s Standpoint" (394-398)
- Wallerstein, ImmanuelThe Modern World-System" (399-405)
- Theda Skocpol. 1979. "The State as a Janus-Faced Structure" (405-408)
- Chodorow, Nancy. 1978. "Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering" (409-12)
- OPTIONAL
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11.30 |
Synthesizing an Explanatory Theory |
- Collins, "Why is Sociology Not a Science?"
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12.2 |
Synthesizing an Explanatory Theory |
- Collins, "Love and Property" [SI 119-154]
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12.3 |
DUE Friday midnight |
Exercise |