(Soc 001)
University Of California, Riverside
Spring 2001, M,T,W 8:40-9:30am
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Elvia Ramirez
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This course covers the basic concepts of sociology and applies these concepts to the analysis of human societies. The first segment of the course explains the sociological perspective on human behavior and institutions utilizing key concepts such as socialization, stratification, forms of integration, and the social construction of reality. The second segment of the course presents an overview of human social evolution from foraging bands to the global political economy. The third segment focuses on contemporary social trends.
This is primarily a reading course. Lectures will be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:40am. Students are encouraged to attend a weekly Discussion Section to ask questions about ther readings and the lectures. Students should read the assignments prior to their Discussion Section meeting. The midterm and final are in-class short-answer essay exams. Study questions will be handed out the week prior to the exams. The midterm will be onMonday, April 30. A five page Exercise Report is due the week of Mar 14-18 in Section. Grading will be based as follows: Exercise = 30%, Midterm = 30%, Final = 40%. The following books are required reading and are available in the University Book Store:
Charles Lemert, Social Things
Stephen K. Sanderson, Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (4th ed.)
Stephen J. Rose,Social Stratification in the United States
W. Warren Wagar, A Short History of the Future
Photocopies of Thompson and Tunstall are available at the Printing and Reprographics Service in the Commons Complex. Readings marked with an asterisk (*) are required and should be read by the indicated dates. Others are recommended. Readings followed by a number in parentheses are in Thompson and Tunstall.
April
2: Overview of the course.
April 4: Explanations of human behavior and the study of societies.
* Gouldner (1)
* Lemert, Social Things (whole book, skim Chaps. 4-7)
* Sanderson, Macrosociology, Chapter 1
April 6, 9
I. SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION
A. Social creation of the self: certification and socialization
* Mead (10)
* Georg Simmel, Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations, pp. 138-63 (on reserve)
Jonathan H. Turner, On the Origins of Human Emotions, Stanford University Press, 2000.
April 11, 13
B. Social construction of reality: institutionalization
*Berger and Luckman (43)
*Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Part 1, Section 4, "The fetishism of commodities" (on reserve)
April 16
C. Statuses and roles
*Merton (14)
*Goffman (13)
April 18
D. Types of social regulation: sharing, reciprocity, coercion, market exchange
*Blau (15)
*Karl Polanyi, "Our obsolete market mentality" Pp. 59-77 in George Dalton (ed.) Primitive, Archaic and ModernEconomies: Essays of Karl Polanyi. Boston, Beacon Press, 1968 (on reserve).
April 20
E. The moral order: deviance and social control; norms and values
*Robert Merton, "Social structure and anomie" (on reserve)
*Durkheim (7b)
*Kingsley Davis, "Jealousy and sexual property" (on reserve)
Kai Erikson, The Wayward Puritans
April 23, 25
F. Social stratification: inequalities in small groups and in societies
*William F. Whyte, Street Corner Society, pp. 14-25 (on reserve)
*Marx and Engels (16a); Marx (16b)
*Weber (17)
*Erik Wright “Class counts: comparative studies in class analysis” (on reserve)
April 27
G. Modes of accumulation and world-systems
*Chase-Dunn and Hall, Rise and Demise, Chapter 2. (on reserve)
MIDTERM April 30
May 2
II. SOCIAL EVOLUTION: FROM SIMPLE TO COMPLEX SOCIETIES
*Sanderson, Chapters 2 and 3
Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1
May 4,7
A. Precapitalist socio-economic systems
*Sanderson, Chapters 4,5,6,11 and 15
*David Wilkinson, "Central Civilization" (on reserve)
May 9,11
B. Origins of the capitalist world-economy
*Sanderson, Chapter 7
*Immanuel Wallerstein, "Three paths to national development in l6th century Europe" (on reserve)
* Start reading, Wagar, A Short History of the Future. Finish by December 13
Fernand Braudel, The Perspective of the World, Volume 3 of Civilizations and Capitalism
Exercise Report Due the week of May 14-18 in Section
May 14,16
C. The core countries
*Sanderson, Chapters 8,10,12
C. Chase-Dunn, "The development of core capitalism in the ante-bellum United States: tariff politics and class struggle in an upwardly mobile semiperiphery," Pp. 189-230 in Albert Bergesen (ed.) Studies of the Modern World-System
Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century (London: Verso, 1994)
May 18,21
D. The underdeveloped periphery
* Andre Gunder Frank "The development of underdevelopment" (on reserve)
*Sanderson, Chapters 9,13
Volker Bornschier and Christopher
Chase-Dunn, Transnational Corporations and Underdevelopment
III. CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
A. Class structure in the USA
* Rose, Social Stratification
in the United States
* Sanderson, Chapter 10 (again)
May 28, Memorial Day Holiday
May 30, June 1
B. Globalization
Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change
William Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy
June 4
C. Family and Gender Roles
*Sanderson, Chapters 14
Scott Coltrane, Gender and Families (Pine Forge, 1998)
June 6,8
IV. PROGRESS?
*Wagar, A Short History of the Future, whole book
*Sanderson, Chapter 18
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Podobnik, "The next world war: world-system cycles and trends" in Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn, The Future of Global Conflict (Sage, 1999). http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html
Final Exam June 11, 11:30-2:30
