Fall 2013  |  SOC 8701 Section 001: Sociological Theory (17678)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
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Course Catalog Description:
Traditions of social theory basic to sociological knowledge, their reflection and expansion in contemporary theory, their applications in selected areas of empirical research. Sample topics: social inequality, social organization and politics, family organization and social reproduction, social order and change, sociology of knowledge and religion.
Class Description:
As students will have further chances to study contemporary theory this course places primary weight on works published prior to 1955, most notably those by De Beauvoir, Du Bois, Fanon, Gramsci, Marx, and Max Weber. These authors' classical theorizations of power and social control will provide the infrastructure of the course: from the brutality of primitive accumulation and feudalism to the architecture of empire and racial domination, urbanization, industrial capitalism and bureaucracy. Central themes will be changing structural and cultural formations of class, status, race, and patriachy, in the context of specific configurations of capitalism, modernity and empire. The course's exploration of domination and conflict will be set in tension with a counterpoint of Durkheim, Mauss, and Douglas, bringing alive the alchemy of social connection, duty and desire through gift-giving and boundary-keeping, ritual and religion.
Workload:
150 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17678/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 June 2013

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