Aesthetics On-Line

• Julie van Camp's Aesthetics Course at CSULB
• Teaching Non-Western Aesthetics, Teaching Popular Art
  Crispin Sartwell
  Great article. Written in real English. Relates to our study of art and theory and peacemaking. Will do a pass or prepared in a few days. jeanne, july 12, 2000

Radical Philiosopy On the Web African American Theoretical Perspectives

• The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
• The John Henrik Clarke Africana Library at Cornell

Taylor and Francis Group: Journals On-Line

• From the Table of Contents of Deviant Behavior:

  • "Academic Dishonesty and Low Self-Control: An Empirical Test of General Theory of Crime," John K. Cochran, Peter B. Wood, Christine S. Sellers, Wendy Wilkerson, and Mitchell B. Chamlin, pp. 227-256. Deviant Behavior Volume 19, Issue 3, Publication Date: July-September, 1998.

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  Theory and Theory Building

  • Mind Candy: Love Slave to Theory
  • Theory The Necessary Evil
  • Stealing Theory from Philosphy and Art
  • Critical Inquiry
    A journal to follow on critical thought for a lifetime of learning.

  Feminist Social Theory

  • Peace Feminism in International Relations
    by Susan C. Coates. Online.
  • What's material about materialist feminism?: A Marxist Feminist critique
    Link to issues list, then to No. 101, May/June 2000, then to the article. Scroll down a little to find the article.

  Theorists

  • Baudrillard
    . . .Essay on Baudrillard
  • Becker, Howard
  • Comte, Auguste
  • Cooley, Horton
  • Coser
  • Critical Theory and the Franfurt School
  • Durkheim, Emile
  • Foucaut
  • Giddens, Anthony
  • Honneth, Alex
  • Lessnoff
  • Marx
  • Merton, Robert K.
  • Nietszche
    A Web Feature of a book on Nietszche
  • The Pirate Nietszche Page
  • Parsons, Talcott
  • Ricoeur, Paul
  • Rorty, Richard
    . . .More Rorty . . .
  • Weber, Max

  Issues

  • The Third Way

    Concept Index

    • Concept Index, Dear Habermas
    • Critical Sociology Dictionary
      Robert E. Mazur, Iowa State University. Very nicely done.
      For starters, look up "algorithm" and "Parsons." Think Gouldner would have complained about the mixture of order and disorder in Parson's work?

      Pass? or Prepared?

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      Additional References

      • The Dead Sociologists Society Good resource.
      • Linda Lambert's Theory Site Good resource.
      • CTheory Online Journal. Free.
      • JAC Online. Articles and reviews accessible free through archive. On theories of teaching composition and writing.
      • Marxist Feminism
      • Materialist Feminism

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      Social Practice

      Social Work Research as Knowledge/Power in Practice

      Identity Construction

      Graduate Student Workshop on Identity Construction
      Take a look at this as a model for a project that we might consider for Spring 2001.

      Peacemaking

      Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival
      by Gordon Fellman, Sociology, Brandeis University. Considering it for text in distributive justice.

      Sustainability and Survival in Globalization
      Covers issues on corporate domination, worker issues, native peoples, human rights. You'll have to link to the issues that interest you. This is the main page.

      Accountability, Charity, and Tzedekheit (Righteousness)

      This section relates to forgiveness, ethics, and balancing rights and responsibilities. Sociology considers the interdependence between the group and the individual. There is tesnion in balancing the collective needs with the individual needs. We will discuss Rozick, Rawls, Habermas, Rorty, and others to get a sense of this issue permeates so much of our normative perspective.

      Self Esteem Advisory Service SiteEducational Consultants offer help in balancing discipline and self esteem. A helping site, well done. Will fit into our discussions of accountability, what it is, how we use it.

      "Money for nothing"?: Understanding Giving to Beggars

      Reflexivity and Sociological Practice
      "reification," 2.1

      Labelling Theory
      This is intended as a reading, not as a project. Please do not do this exercise! We will do a modified version of it, for which you cannot be arrested. jeanne

      Classical Social Theory

      Malthus

      Frank Elwell's Malthus Page

      Weber

      • Essays on Dear Habermas:

        • The Meaning of Verstehen
        • Modern Issues on Verstehen
        • The "Iron Cage" of Modernity

      • Contemporary Social Theory Parallel Readings:

        • p. 8 of the Introduction discusses Weber's "iron cage" of modernity
        • p. . . .
        • p . . .

      • Additional Resources:

      • Pass? or Prepared?
      • Modern Issues on Verstehen

      The Dialogical Challenge to Verstehen See especially the five points of conclusion on Verstehen.

      Max Weber: Basic Terms (The Fundamental Concepts of Sociology)
      Social Science Research, University of Chicago.

      Max Weber: Methodology of the Social Sciences
      Social Science Research, University of Chicago.

      The Types of Authority and Imperative Control/The Types of Legitimate Domination (depends on your translation)
      Social Science Research, University of Chicago.

      Marx and Weber: A Comparison of Views on Industrial Society
      Article by John Martin Chamberlain, May 1999, online.

      MAX WEBER: Methodology of the Social SciencesObjectivity in Social Science and Social Policy. Link added April 15, 2000.

      Frank Elwell's Verstehen: Max Weber's Home Page

      Emancipation of Students and Teachers
      See "Teaching Weber's "verstehen" about halfway down file.

      Habermas

      Kant's What Is Enlightenment?
      Or, in the alternative, go to Steve Robinson's Jurgen Habermas Web Resources Page, link to Sources, on Soursces, link to Foucault, and on that page link to What Is Enlightenment?

      Steve Robinon's Jurgen Habermas Web Resource Page

      Durkheim

      The Division of Labor

      Goffman

      The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
      Online. Adam Bernhart's essay on.

      Celebrating Erving Goffman
      by Eliot Feidson, 1983. Online.

      T.R. Young's The Work of Erving Goffman
      Lecture online.

      The Presentation of Self in WWW Home Pages

      The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life
      by Hugh Miller, 1995. Online.

      Merton

      Social Theory and Social Structure

      Toennies

      Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

      Mead

      The I and the Me and the Internalized Others

      Wittgenstein

      Lois Shawver's Piece on Wittgenstein and Langauge Games

      Howard Becker

      Howie's Home Page

      Sociologie, sociographie, Perec, et Passeron
      Scroll about a third of the way down the file to the section called "Je me souviens" (I remember). Section goes down to a little more than the halfway mark.

      Defining, constructing the self

      Re: Square Root of Eight Dead Children
      Scroll down to the "wishy washy" self.

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      the Prison Story

      JOURNAL OF PRISONERS ON PRISONS

      Labor Relations

      The Buffalo Activist Network
      Protests against sweatshops. College activism. See also Story of Protests at University of Toronto

      Public Art

      Women Artists of the American West
      course at Purdue University

      Two examples of art telling native american story
      Be sure to click on essay.

      Public Art and Policy

      Working Papers on Public Art

      GSS Survey Results on the Sociology of Culture

      John Haber's Art Reviews

      Criminology Theory

      Feminist theoretical work in criminology
      by Kathleen Daly, Division of Women and Crime Newsletter, ASC

      Gendered theory and single sex research
      by Sally Simpson, Division of Women and Crime Newsletter, ASC

      References

      • Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns
        Check out Project Warmth. Link to it in the left-most frame.
      • Social Research Update
      • The Qualitative Report
      • Forum: Qualitative Social Research
      • Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
        Here you'll find online summaries on all the theorists I talk about. jeanne
      • Philosophy 101, University of Alberta,
        resource links
      • Wealth and Poverty Online
        Includes sustainability.
      • Crossnational Variations in Distribution Justice Perception (CVDJP) Project
      • Greek Texts in TranslationTufts
      • The Internet Classics Archive
        MIT
      • English Server at Carnegie Mellon University
      • Index of Native American Electronic Text Resources on the Internet
      • Index of Native American Art Related Exhibits on the Internet
      • Technology, Postmodernism and Other Stuff
      • Postmodernism Links
      • The Economic Justice Network
      • Dead Sociologists Society
        • Daniel Bell
        • Erving Goffman
          Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
        • Ontological Foundations of Autopoietic Theory

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      Links to Theory Resource Sites (old)
      Old Theory File from 1999

      Illuminations: The Critical Theory Webstie

      Critical Links

      Postmodern/Poststructuralist

      Dilthey

      Good basic theory links

      Enlightenment stuff

      New URL for 18th Century Resources Rousseau

      Beccaria online

      The Enlightenment onlinne

      Good online definitions of enlightenment terms

      Carnegie Mellon's English Server on Eighteenth Century

      The Dead Sociologists Society

      Spencer

      Larry Ridener's readings

      Comte, the text that Founded sociolgy

      Critical Sociology

      Review of Social Theory of International Politics
      

      Center for Restorative Justice

      Restorative Justice, Mennonite central committee

      Tom Cavanaugh's Restorative Justice Site

      class on distributive justice in philosophy

      Distributive Justice Perceptions Project

      Boxill, Prof of philosophy. Publications on distributive justice

      St. Thomas Aquimas on distributive justice

      Distributive justice and marital relationships looks good

      distributive justice in interpersonal relationships goes to Love 1A

      summaries of projects

      putting the poor first Get this one on file soon. He's moved. And he's chancellor.

      where he moved to

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