SOC 8735 is also offered in Fall 2024
SOC 8735 is also offered in Fall 2022
Spring 2021 | SOC 8735 Section 001: Sociology of Culture (63649)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Definition/importance of culture as dimension of social life. Structural/Durkheimian approaches, cultural Marxism, practice theory. Cultural creation/reception. Identities as cultural formations. Culture/social inequality. Culture and race. Cultural construction of social problems. Culture and globalization.
- Class Notes:
- 4 seats reserved for Sociology graduate students. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times. Click on this link for more information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?hull+SOC8735+Spring2021
- Class Description:
- This course provides a general overview of the rapidly expanding field of the sociology of culture. Culture can be broadly conceived as the symbolic/expressive dimension of social life, but there are ongoing theoretical debates about how to define culture and how to use culture in sociological analysis. We begin with the basic conceptual question about the definition and importance of culture as a dimension of social life. We will then explore a series of theoretical and empirical works that address various aspects of the role of culture in social life. We will examine several distinct approaches to investigating and explaining culture, including structural/Durkheimian approaches, cultural Marxism, and practice theory. We will also devote several weeks to processes of cultural creation and reception, and the relationship between culture and social inequality, among other topics. Throughout the course, we will cast a critical eye on the relationship between theories of culture, empirical evidence on cultural processes, and methods of investigating culture. We will also try to think about the sociology of culture in relation to other fields within the discipline, to consider how cultural theories, methods, and findings can contribute to our understanding of diverse social domains such as education, employment, politics, personal relationships, sexuality, morality, race, and urban life.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/63649/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 September 2020
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2021 Sociology Classes