Class meetings: 151 Hamilton Hall, Tues., 1:00-3:50 p.m., Aug. 21-Dec. 4, 2007
Office Hours: 227 Hamilton Hall, by appointment (919-962-1241, kurzman@unc.edu)

CLASS LIST

COURSE GOALS:

1) To acquaint students with the concept of sociological paradigms.
2) To introduce students to selected major works and big questions in social theory.
3) To convince students of the importance of social theory for sociological practice.
4) To train students in the application and testing of social theory.

1) Attendance and Participation (10% of final grade)
2) Weekly 2-3-page Reading Notes, due at the beginning of each week's class (30% of final grade)
3) Four 4-page essays, one each due in Sept., Oct., and Nov., and one by 1:00 p.m., Dec. 4, 2007 (60% of final grade)

   Text: (Choose one that you prefer; for use as reference; not assigned)

George Ritzer and Douglas  J. Goodman, Sociological Theory, 6th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004)
Jonathan Turner, The Structure of Sociological Theory, 7th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002)
Malcolm Waters, Modern Sociological Theory (London: Sage, 1994)

    Books:

Emile Durkheim, Division of Labour in Society (New York: Free Press, 1984)
Emile Durkheim, Suicide (New York: Free Press, 1966)
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (New York: Vintage, 1979). Foucault Action Figure optional.
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert C. Tucker, 2nd Edition (New York: Norton, 1978)
Immanuel Wallerstein, World System Analysis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004)
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Peter Baehr and Gordon C. Wells (New York: Penguin, 2002)
Max Weber, From Max Weber, ed. Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958)
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984)
Rosemarie Tong, Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, 2nd Edition (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998)
Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997)
Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Society (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1959)

    WEEK 1: INTRODUCTIONS

No readings.

Focus readings by Auguste Comte, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Matteo Motterlini

Emile Durkheim, Division of Labour in Society; Focus Reading by Adam Smith

Emile Durkheim, Suicide; Focus Readings by Emile Durkheim, John Levi Martin, and Clifford Geertz

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish; Focus Reading by Jean Baudrillard

Karl Marx, "The Communist Manifesto," "Estranged Labor," "The German Ideology"

Karl Marx, "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," "Capital, Vol. 1"

Immanuel Wallerstein, World System Analysis; Focus Reading by William Greider

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic; Focus Reading by Philip S. Gorski

Max Weber,"Bureaucracy," "Science as a Vocation"; Focus Readings by Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell; John Meyer et al.

Max Weber, "Class, Status, Party"; Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction; Focus Reading by Charles Kurzman et al.

Rosemarie Tong, Feminist Theory; Focus Readings by Donna Haraway and Patricia Hill Collins

Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters

Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self; Focus Readings by Georg Simmel, George Herbert Mead, and Charles Taylor

Focus Readings by Georg Simmel, Roger Gould