Brief Lecture Notes

NOTE: The following are VERY SKETCHY - they are the "talking points" I
use in class. Therefore, they are incomplete and there might be dramatic
differences between what's here and what I say.

• Chapter 8 - The Body and Beyond (post modermism)
  • Last Wednesday's summary of Pomo
  • Chapters 8 and 9 - Rediscovering the Body & Pomo
  • Postmodernism
  • Postmodernism and SI (Ethnography)
  • Poststructuralism

• Chapter 7 - Rational Choice Theories
  • Chapter 7 - Rational Choice

• Chapter 6 - Phenomenology
  • Phenomenology - Chapter 6

• Chapter 5 - Symbolic Interaction
  • Symbolic Interaction - W&W, Chapter 5
  • Supplemental material on Mead/Blumer
  • Manning: Semiotics of t-shirts
  • Overview of Goffman
  • Grounded Theory

• Chapter 4 - Macro sociology
  • Evolution and Modernity - W&W, Chapter 4

• Chapter 3 - Conflict theory
  • Conflict Theory (Lecture 1)
  • Conflict Theory (Lecture 2)

• Chapter 2 - Functionalism
  • Functionalsim (Lecture 1)
  • Functionalsim (Lecture 2)
• First week - Introduction
  • Paradigm Summary (Jan 28)
  • Weds, Jan 23 summary
    • Wed, Jan 16 summary
    • Outline logic, reliability, validity
  • Mon, Jan 14 summary

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