Sociology 3701: Social Psychology
Schedule: Spring 2005
Subject to change (It is your reponsibility to check the internet schedule
if you miss class.)
| Week/date | Topics | Reading Assignment |
| Week One: Jan 19 | Introduction. Culture and socialization. Ethnomethodology. Who will Teach for America? | UMD Library Electronic Reserve: McGrane, Warning: Studying Sociology Can be Harmful to Your Ego |
| Week Two: Jan 26 | Human nature. Social science and truth. Video: "Baby Talk" |
O&K, Preface & 1-14, 25-28, 35-59. |
| Week Three: Feb 2 | Symbolic Interactionism. Deaf culture. | O&K, 61-85, 288-295. |
| Week Four: Feb 9 | Video: "Waasa Inaabidaa: Ojibwe Oral Tradition" Language and Reality. Review 1 | .O&K, 86-96, 135-152. |
| Week Five: Feb 16 | Exam one. Video: "I Heard the Owl Call My Name" | O&K, 179-186. |
| Week Six: Feb 23 |
Meaning, self, interaction. Goffman: "The Presentation of Self
in Everyday Life" Groups.
|
O&K, 187-205, 309-313, 226-243. |
| Week Seven: Mar 2 | Producing Selves in Personal Relationships. Deviance and stigma. Video: "Mask" Noises Off | O&K., 296-308, 314-329, 215-217, 244-246. |
| Week Eight: Mar 9 |
Cognitive Dissonance |
O&K,
206-214, 247-253. Aronson, Self-Justification, part I (Library electronic reserve) |
| Week Nine: Mar 16 | Personal Change: Building a New Self or Being Brainwashed | Aronson,
Self-Justification, part II (Library Electronic Reserve) . O&K, 330-345 |
| Week Ten: Mar 30 | "Being There," part II. "Knowing" other people. Review 2 | O&K, 424-442, 393-406 |
| Week Eleven: April 6 | Exam Two | |
| Week Twelve: April 13 | Corporations, mass media, and the social construction of self. Video: "Merchants of Cool" | |
| Week Thirteen:
April 20 |
Mass media and self. Social psychology of prejudice. Video: "Race: the Power of an Illusion. Part 3: the Difference Between Us" | O&K, 483-509; McGrane, You Are What You Watch (Library Electronic Reserve) |
| Week Fourteen: April 27 | Video:."After Stonewall" | .O&K: 510-518. 524-531, 537-565 |
| Week Fifteen: May 4 | Video: "The
Color of Your Skin" Overcoming prejudice and discrimination.Groups:
Stratification and prejudice
on campus Constructing meaning in a postmodern World. Review 3 |
O&K:566-573, 575-586 |
The final exam is scheduled for Tuesday, May 11, at our regular time and place.