Fall 2024  |  SOC 8735 Section 001: Sociology of Culture (32302)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 12 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:
5 seats reserved for Sociology graduate students through 08/23/24. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?edgell+SOC8735+Fall2024
Class Description:
This course provides an overview of cultural sociology. We will begin with central readings in theory and method to give students a background in the motivating questions and debates in the subfield. We will consider why the field has moved away from a focus on culture as ideas and ideals and toward a conception of culture as practice and institution, and we will engage with current debates about how best to conceptualize culture (as a deep or elaborated code or as a repertoire of action?), and related questions about culture's role in shaping cognition. We will also read empirical work that focuses on the relationship between culture and symbolic boundaries, and the role of embodiment and emotion in cultural analysis.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Sociology graduate students interested in working with cultural approaches (broadly defined). Students in other disciplines interested in theories of what culture is and how it "works" in the social world.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will:
- Understand the sociology of culture -- it's major questions and topics, themes, and forms of argumentation
- Understand how to apply concepts and theories from cultural sociology to frame their own research projects or to perform analyses of their own data
- Have improved capacity to think conceptually and critically engage with ongoing debates in the sociological literature
- Have developed competency in outlining and critically assessing authors' (complex, abstract, academic) arguments and developing their own critical assessment
Grading:
70% Reports/Papers
10% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
Class Format:
80% Discussion
20% Student Presentations
Workload:
60-90 Pages Reading Per Week
25 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32302/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
7 April 2024

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