Sociology Assignment Paper

Sociology

Do the readings.

To “do” readings is to critically engage the material. To critically engage the material ask yourself the following questions as you read:

What is the author(s) research question(s)?
What are the methods used to answer that question?
What is their argument/answer?
What is the academic dialogue they are engaging in?
What are possible limitations?
How does their work relate to your interests/questions?

Come to class prepared and with questions.

My job is to facilitate classroom discussion through which we can engage the material as a group. So that this discussion is robust, I ask that each student circulate three questions to the class by noon the day before class by uploading the questions on courseworks [under the discussions tab]. Questions should prompt conversation and be deeply tied to the readings. They should cite specific passages or pages. “What is Durkheim’s theory?” is too broad of a question. But “what are the limitations to Durkheim’s concept of the social fact?” Is a good one. Questions that engage multiple of the week’s readings are encouraged. Your questions must directly engage the classical theorist, though they can also bring in the contemporary theorist we read that week.

9/20: Introducing Marx

From the Marx-Engels reader:
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, p.70-105 (start with “Estranged Labor”)
Theses on Feuerbach, p.143-145
The German Ideology. Part I. p. 146-175 (you can skim 150-153), Pp.197-200 (start with “the transformation, through the division of labor…”)
Burawoy, Michael. 1979. Manufacturing Consent. University of Chicago Press. Ch. 1, 2, 5*
Hocschild, Arlie. 1983 [2013]. The Managed Heart. University of California Press. Ch. 1, 2*

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