Sociology 2111: Class schedule and assignments--Spring 2010
(Subject to change)
| Week One: |
WEBSITES AND LINKS IN THIS COLUMN ARE OPTIONAL | ASSIGNMENT |
| Jan 19 | Introductions. Science, Theory, Explanation. Groups: Inequality and college attendance. Password to access readings | |
| Jan 21 | Groups. The beginnings of sociological thought. | Lemert, "Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures L&N, 1-21
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| Week
Two: Jan 26 |
The Emergence of the Social Sciences. . (If you have time, read about the French Revolution in Wikipedia) |
Democracy in America Home Page . Look over the page as a whole, but read Tocqueville's essay: "How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendencies." Click on "American Religion in 1831;" click on "Tocqueville and Religion;" click on "How Religion..." |
| Jan 28 | The Women Founders: Martineau. | L&N: 22-63 (Pick at least two of the readings by Martineau at the end of the chapter and reflect on them in your "journals"... we'll do the same with some of the other readings) |
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Three: Feb 2 |
Karl Marx. Video : "Roger and Me". |
Marx the Person(DSS Marx: A Summary of Ideas(DSS) |
| Feb 4 | Groups. Karl Marx II. (If you have time, read about the Russian Revolution in the Wikipedia) |
The Communist Manifesto: Bourgeois and Proletarians: |
| Week Four (Feb 9) |
Video: "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Fighting Back" | L&N, 149-176 (Journal: 2 readings from Cooper) |
| Feb 11 | Video: "W.E.B. DuBois: a Biography in Four Voices." |
DuBois: the Philadelphia Negro: ch 18 "Strivings of the Negro People" |
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Five: Feb 16 |
Max Weber | |
| Feb 18 | Video:
"The American Dream at Groton" T he Groton School |
Weber: "The Spirit of Capitalism" |
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Six: Feb 23 |
Bureaucracy, Patrimonialism, and Charismatic leadership. Read about the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Wikipedia |
Weber: "Bureaucracy." |
| Feb 25 | Exam One | Glossary and other course materials Study Guide I |
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Seven: Mar 2 |
The beginnings of feminist sociology. Video: "North Country"
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L&N, 105-130 (Journal: 2 readings from Gilman)
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| Mar 4 | Jane Addams | L&N, 65-89 (Journal: 2 readings from Jane Addams) |
| Week Eight: Mar 9 |
The Battle for the Sociological Canon: Robert Park vs. Jane Addam |
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| The Chicago Women's School of Sociology Video: "Women of Hull House" |
L&N, 229-256(Journal: two readings from"The Chicago Women's School" | |
| Week 9: March 23 | Emile Durkheim Kai Erikson |
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| March 25 | . Video: "In a Dark time" Wikipedia: 1960s |
Durkheim: the Normality of Crime |
Week 10: |
Social Reproduction Theory Ain't No Makin' It |
Martin Luther King, Jr.Beyond Vietnam (King was a sociology major as an undergraduate at Morehouse College.) |
| April 1 | Video: "Taking Back the Schools" | Bourdieu |
| Week 11 April 6 |
C. Wright Mills Wallerstein. Video: "China Blue" |
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| April 8 | Exam Two | Study Guide 2 |
| Week 12: April 13 | Micro-sociology: symbolic interactionism | |
| April 15 | Ethnomethodology. Harold Garfinkel Video: "Inside the Jury Room" Erving Goffman: Total Institutions |
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| Week 13: April 20 |
Erving Goffman: Dramaturgy Functionalism: Talcott Parsons |
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| April 22 | Video: "Who Will Teach for America? | Talcott Parsons |
| Week 14: April 26 |
Functionalism Subverted? Robert Merton. Homans: "Bringing Men Back In"(Rational choice theory). | |
| April 28 | Contemporary sociological theory and its classic roots | W.I. Thomas: the Life W.I. Thomas: the Work |
| Week 15: May 4 |
Rational choice theory: The Rise of Christiantiy |
Rodney Stark, "A Double Take on Early Christianity" |
| May 6 | Political process theory: the American Civil Rights movement. Video: "No Easy Walk" |
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