Calendar

Course Calendar (subject to change with advance notice)

NOTE: See course-part-two for revised syllabus schedule

WHEN WHAT TEXTS
8.26 Map 1: The Course in a Nutshell
8.31 Map 2: What makes a theory good? I
9.2 Map 3: The Problem of Order and the "Pre-Sociologists

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9.7 How to do a "theory sampler" The Social Self
9.9 Auguste Comte as "Father of Sociology" Getting Started
9.10 Due Friday 5 p.m. Sampler Choice
9.14 Marx: Background Marx Overview
  • Rius, Marx for Beginners Biographical Background pp.1-35
  • Rius, Marx for Beginners Philosophical Background pp. 36-66
  • Rius, Marx for Beginners Idealism, Materialism, Dialectics pp.67-77
9.16 Marx: Alienation and Revolution Earlier Marx
9.18 DUE Friday midnight Sampler Annotation #1
9.21 Marx: Capital Later Marx
  • Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. 1848. "The Manifesto of Class Struggle" (39-43)
  • Marx, K. 1867. “Labour-Power and Capital," from Capital, Vol. I. (62-67)
  • Marx, K. 1867. "Capital and the Fetishism of Commodities," from Capital, Vol. I. (60-62)

Optional

  • Marx, K. 1867. "Capital and the Value of Commodities," from Capital, Vol. I. (51-60)
  • Engels, F. 1884. "The Patriarchal Family," from The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State. (67-69)
9.23 EXAM. DJR not here. Identifications and Explications
9.25 DUE Friday midnight Sampler Annotation #2
9.28 From Marx to Weber
9.30 Weber: Organizations and Politics
10.1 DUE Friday midnight Sampler Annotation #3
10.5 Weber: Power
10.7 Durkheim: Solidarity Durkheim: Introduction and Overview
10.8 DUE Friday midnight Remaining Sampler Annotations should be complete. Turn in outline for presentation.
10.12 DJR NOT HERE Dry runs for sampler presentations
10.14 Durkheim: Facts
10.15 DUE Friday midnight Background bibliography for Samplers
10.19 Durkheim: God
10.21 Exam Weber & Durkheim No Reading
10.22 DUE Friday midnight Exercise
10.26 Other Turn of the Century Theorists
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1898. "Women and Economics" (174-178)
  • Simmel, Georg. 1908. "The Stranger" (185-188)
10.28 Other Turn of the Century Theorists
  • Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.). 1903. "Double-Consciousness and the Veil" (167-172)
  • Mannheim, Karl. 1936, 1929. "The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology" (217-221)
10.29 DUE Friday midnight Exercise
11.2 A New Fundamental Antimony: Liberalism and Conservatism
  • Keynes, John Maynard. 1920. "The Psychology of Modern Society" (203-205)
  • Keynes, John Maynard. 1925. "The New Liberalism" (205-206)
  • Hayek, Friederich. 19xx. Selections TBA
11.4 Midcentury Consensus
  • Merton, Robert K. 1938. "Social Structure and Anomie" (229-242)
  • Parsons, Talcott. 1937. "The Unit Act of Action Systems" (213-215)
  • Parsons, Talcott. 1961-71. "Action Systems and Social Systems" (301-303)
  • Parsons, Talcott. 1943. "Sex Roles in the American Kinship System" (304-307)
  • Functionalism TBA
11.5 DUE Friday midnight Exercise
11.9 Midcentury Critique: Society as Social Problem
  • Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. 1944. "The Culture Industry as Deception" (325-329)
  • Mills, C. Wright. 1959. "The Sociological Imagination" (355-358)
  • Niebuhr, Reinhold. 1932. "Moral Man and Immoral Society" (247-249)
  • Césaire, Aimé. 1955. "Between Colonizer and Colonized" (348-350)
11.11 Midcentury Critique: Race and Gender
  • Myrdal, Gunnar. 1944. "The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue" (249-251)
  • Fanon, Frantz. 1961. "Decolonizing, National Culture, and the Negro Intellectual" (364-369)
  • Beauvoir, Simone de. 1949. "Woman as Other" (345-347)
  • Friedan, Betty. 1963. "The Problem That Has No Name" (361-364)
11.12 DUE Friday midnight Exercise
11.16 Roots of Contemporary Theory : POMO
  • Ferdinand de Saussure, "Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign," L152-160
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1958. "The Structural Study of Myth" ((313-317)
  • Barthes,Roland. 1964. "Semiological Prospects" (318-320)
  • Lacan, Jacques. 1949. "The Mirror Stage" (343-344)
11.18 Roots of Contemporary Theory: Structure and Rationality
  • (Tentative)
  • Milgram, Small World Experiment
  • Olson, Mancur. 19cc. Selection from The Logic of Collective Action. Harvard University Press, 1st ed. 1965, 2nd ed. 1971.
  • Coleman, James S. 1990. "The New Social Structure and the New Social Science" (506-510)
11.19 DUE Friday midnight Exercise
11.23 Must-Reads of the Last Quarter of the Century
11.30 Synthesizing an Explanatory Theory
  • Collins, "Why is Sociology Not a Science?"
12.2 Synthesizing an Explanatory Theory
  • Collins, "Love and Property" [SI 119-154]
12.3 DUE Friday midnight Exercise
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