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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:
- Art as a Transformative Tool:
- Measures of Learning for Grades
- Discussion Topics
- Guided Essays
- Sociodrama Topics
- Painting/Drawing Topics
- 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
- 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.
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