Fall 2014  |  SOC 8701 Section 001: Sociological Theory (11969)

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Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Tue, Thu 02:05PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 609
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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:
This course is designed to give students a foundation in classical social theory up to 1960, with a strong emphasis on the work of De Beauvoir, Du Bois, Fanon, Gramsci, Marx, and Max Weber. These authors' analyses of power and social control provide our infrastructure: from the brutality of primitive accumulation and feudalism to the architecture of empire and racial domination, urbanization, industrial capitalism and bureaucracy. Our central themes will be the changing structural and cultural formations of class, status, race, and patriachy, in the context of specific configurations of capitalism, modernity and empire. This 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. Without (much!) skipping ahead, we will prefigure the focus of contemporary theory by paying close attention to the blurring of objectification into subjectification, and in general the complex interplay between material and symbolic forms of domination.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/11969/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
16 April 2014

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