For: Hawkes (22 April)

Tonight, we will discuss the following questions for about one
hour:


1. Hawkes gives us a definition of "structuralism." Drawing from
this, explain whether (and why) the following might or might not
be STRUCTURALISTS:

   a) Goffman b) Marx c) Parsons/Durkheim d) Heckman e) Foucault
   f) Mead


2. Hawkes links structuralism with semiotics. What are the
similarities and differences between each?


3. To what degree is Hawkes a SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST and how does
this affect his definition of structuralism?


4. How does structuralism differ from theories of rational choice
(see Wallace and Wolf, chapter 7), phenomenology, or symbolic
interaction?  Are these theories incompatitible, or is a
synthesis possible?


5. Can there be a "science of signs?"


6. What are the differences between structuralism,
post-structuralism, and post-modernism?


7. Is Lyotard (next week's reading) a structuralist, a
post-structuralist, or a postmodernist?

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