Syllabus - Sociological Theory - Davidson College

November
6, 8
November
13, 15
Erving Goffman
Impression Management
Front Stage vs. Back Stage
Structured Social Roles
Agency vs. Determinism in
Everyday Life
Alfred Schutz and Social
Phenomenology
Peter Berger and Thomas
Luckmann and Social
Contructionism
Edmund Husserl and Radical
Empiricism
Weber and the Nature of
Human Action
Lifeworld
Multiple Realities.
Consociates
Social Recipes
The Problem of
Intersubjectivity
Institutionalization
Plausibility Structures
Secondary Socialization and
Resocialization
Immersion of Roles
Collins and Makowsky, Ch. 14: Erving Goffman and the Theater of
Social Encounters, pp. 246-259. (R)
Erving Goffman, Charles Lemert and Ann Branaman (eds). 1997. The
Goffman Reader. Blackwell Publishers. Readings 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10,
11, 12.
Student Course Reserve Selection.
Book Report (option 1): Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.
Book Report (option 2): Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled
Identity.
Book Report (option 3): Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental
Patients and Other Inmates.
Recommended:
Erving Goffman, Asylums.
From JeffreyAlexander, “Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory Since
World War II,” Lecture Thirteen, pp. 230-237. (R)
Randall Collins, 2004, Interaction Ritual Chains, Princeton University
Press.
Berger and Luckmann, 1967, Social Construction of Everyday Life,
Anchor. Pp. 1-128; you may skim 129-189.
Student Course Reserve Selection.
Book Report (option 1): Phenomenology of the Social World.
Book Report (option 2): Selections, Collected Papers.
Book Report (option 3): The Homeless Mind.
Book Report (option 4): The Sacred Canopy.
Recommended:
Alfred Schutz (edited by Helmut R. Wagner). 1999. Alfred Schutz on
Phenomenology and Social Relations. University of Chicago Press. Pp.
72-76, 79-95, 111-122, 137-142, 163-166, 218-222, 231-235, 236-242, 252-262,
265-278. (R)
Alfred Schutz. 19xx. Collected Papers, Vol 1, 2, 3, & 4. University of
Chicago Press. Selections.
Alfred Schutz. 1973. Structures of the Lifeworld. Northwestern
University Press.
Alfred Schutz, Richard M. Zaner (Ed). 1970. Reflections on the Problem
of Relevance. Yale University Press.
Robert Wood, An Introduction to Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions (http://camden-nt1.rutgers.edu/wood/kuhn.htm)
From Peter Berger, “A Sacred Canopy” Ch. 1, 2. (R)
Analytic Papers
Set 2.
Present Draft Set
of Thematic
Possibilities for
Theorist Paper.
Analytic Papers
Set 2.
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