Sociology 571 - Assignments, Spring 2005

In addition to the weekly readings, assignments will be posted here a few weeks
in advance, depending on the pace of the course. The assignments will be the 
basis of the short papers. However, even though you do not do a short paper for
that week, you MUST DO THE ASSIGNMENTS.

The presentation list and topics can be found  here.

Each week, presenters and/or the instructor will add SHORT readings
to the list, either handed out a week before or presented as URLS
a week before.

JANUARY   

19  --RITZER: Read Chapter 1 and skim Chapter 2
--Thomas Kuhn - Structure of Scientific Revolutions (short)
--How to read the material


26 --RITZER: READ Chapters 1 and 2 thoroughly
--Library Resources
--Ideology material

FEBRUARY

 2 Foucault: Archeology of Knoweldge (Thomas)
--Abduction and such
--Darren Hynes on Foucault
--Wikipidia on Foucault (summary)
--Gary Shank on Abduction
--Outline for Archeology of Knowlege"

 9 Foucault: Archeology of Knowlege (con't)
 
16 Chapter 3: Functionalism 
--James Inverarity/Durkheim/Lynching
--Functionalism to neofunctionalism
--Neo-functionalism today (J Alexander)
--Airport security after the event
--Functions of Poverty (Herbert Gans)
--Functions of Crime
--Populism and Lynching (James Inverarity)
--Deviance/Functionalism (James Inverarity)

23 Chapter 4: Marx (varieties - to 1980))
--Neo-functionalism today (J Alexander)
-- Lukacs, class, history and suchi

MARCH

 2 Chapter 4-5: Marx (varieties, post-1980) and Structuralism
--Soja: Socio-spatial dealiectic
--Henri Lefebvre: A Marx for our time
--Crisis and Continuity
--Habermas
 
 9 Chapter 5: Symbolic Interaction (Dewey-Mead / Maines)
--Chance in Human Affairs
--Mead and Blumer
--Blumer - SI Note
--Sheldon Striker
--Pragmatism/Dewey
--Abduction--re-read

23 Chapter 5: SI - Goffman/Presentation of Self
   --(TEXT): Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (read the book)

30 Chapter 7: Ethnomethodology
--Husserl: Pure Phenomenology & methods of Investigation
--Schutz: Common sense and Intepretative Interaction
--Mary Rogers: Everyday life as text
--Garfinkel: Routine Activies/everyday life
--Garfinkel: Agnes
--Maynard: Goffman, Garfinkel, Games
--Lyman/Scott: Accounts

APRIL

 6 Chapter 8: Exchange theory
--Patrick Spread: Blau's Exchange Theory
--Cook/Wittmeyer: Two approaches to structure
--Emerson Power Dependence Relations
--Zirovsky: Some Amendments to Social Exchange Theory 

13 Chapter 9: Feminist Theory
--Collins: Matrix of Domination
--Frederick: Breaking the Waves
--Searles: Feminist self-defense movement
--Daly/Chesney-Lind: Feminism/criminology
--Courtney: Feminism
--Violence against Women Act (1998)

20 Chapter 10: Micro/macro issues
--R. Collins: Microfoundations of  Macrosociology  
--Coleman: Social Theory, Social Resarch and a Theory of Action
--Gonos: Goffman/Structuralism
--Rawls: Agency/Structure

27 Chapter 11: Agency vs. Structure
--Revisit Gonos: Goffman/Structuralism
--Revisit Rawls: Agency/Structure
--Bourdieu: Social space and symbolic power
--Fuchs: Beyond Agency
--Sewell: A theory of structure
--Dietz & Burns: Human Agency

MAY

 4 Chapter 12-13: Modernity
--Bauman: Sociology after the Holocaust
--Giddens on modernity (read them all)
--POMO Summary
--Defining Postmodernism
--READ THIS EXAMPLE!!
--Hoaxing pomo

11  NO READINGS!!! REVIEW AND COURSE SUMMARY