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Created: June 6, 2001
Latest update: June 6, 2001
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Lectures and Reading Summaries

These headings follow the text we are using for the bare minimum of sociological theory. James Farganis, Readings in Social Theory: The Classical Tradition to Post-Modernism. Third Edition. 2000. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. ISBN: 0-07-230600-4

The Classical Tradition

• Karl Marx

  Farganis' Readings

  • Farganis' Introduction to Marx - pp. 27-30

    Some of Marx's Key Concepts

    • Class dominance, class struggle, class consciousness
    • Production as key to social relationships
    • Surplus value
    • Commodification
    • Reification
  • The Manifesto of the Communist Party - pp. 31 - 43

Durkheim

Weber

Tools for Learning

Awareness and Consciousness Raising as Transformative Tools

• Pepinsky, Making Peace with Our Childhood External Site
  

Sociodrama as a Transformative Tool:

• Basquiat and Alterity
• Discussion Topic 4

Art as a Transformative Tool:

• The Statue of Liberty. Was She Conceived of as a Black Woman?
• Transforming Discourse with Our Art
• Transforming Discourse through School and Community Art
• Grafitti and the Issue of Public Art
• Graffiti Links Page

Measures of Learning for Grades

Discussion Topics

• Discussion Topics 1 and 2
• Discussion Topics 3 and 4

Guided Essays

• Guided Essay on Structural Violence and Education

Sociodrama Topics

• On Agency and Structural Context in a First Grade Class

Painting/Drawing Topics

• On Agency and Structural Context in a First Grade Class

Abstracts

• Abstracts: Use in Review of Literature
• Doris Lara's Notes on Goffman Creating summaries for sharing. To have the theory repeated in different words sometimes does the trick.

Trivia Quizzes

• Trivia Quiz on Agency and Structural Context in a First Grade Class

Research and Writing In Class Project

• I don't have one of these up yet, because I need to transfer them from earlier semesters. You will be asked to read a page of material, and then write a brief essay, citing the page of material for references. This is about a 40 minute exercise we'll do at the end of class.

Resources and References

• Peacemaking Primer by Hal Pepinsky.
• Rambo and the Dalai Lama, Gordon Fellman.

Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan Takata, May 2001. "Fair use" encouraged.