SOC 189: Development of Sociological Theory-Honors Section
Winter 2024
The honors section meets in Haines 110 Mondays, 10:00-10:50 am.
Requirements for Honors Section
Seminar description: Concurrent enrollment in Sociology 101 required. Discussion in greater depth of course concepts, with supplementary readings to deepen our understanding of course topics. To be eligible for College Honors, both the lecture course and this seminar must be taken for letter grades.
Seminar program of study: Each week, students will discuss an additional reading that is not on the original course syllabus. Students must come to class having done the reading and ready to participate.
Seminar grading structure: The grading will be entirely based on class participation and one-page reactions to the readings each week.
Readings
Week 1
R. W. Connell,
"Why Is Classical Theory Classical?, "American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 102, No. 6 (May 1997), pp. 1511-1557
Week 2
Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital; The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998 [1973]), Chapters 1-3.
Optional:
Hobsbawm, Readings on the Industrial Revolution.
Week 3
Emile Durkheim, "What is a Social fact?"
Week 4
Karl Marx "Preface" to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
Week 5
Fouad Makki, "Development by Dispossession: Terra Nullius and the Social-Ecology of New Enclosures in Ethiopia, Rural Sociology 79(1), 2014, pp. 79–103.
Week 6
Zeitlin, "Frederich Engels on the Origins of Patriarchy" (from Zeitlin, IDST)
Week 7
Engels, The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State (Read pages 1- 53)
Week 8
Engels, The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State (Read pages 54-96)
Week 9
Rogers Brubaker, The Limits of Rationality: An Essay on the Social and Moral Thought of Max Weber (London: Routledge, 1984): Read pages 1-60.
Week 10
Rogers Brubaker, The Limits of Rationality: An Essay on the Social and Moral Thought of Max Weber (London: Routledge, 1984): Read pages 60-115.
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