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Created: December 26, 2000
Curran or Takata.

Lecture Guides:

• Lecture Topics By Week
• Basic Theory Concepts and Theorists
• Issues in Theory
• Critical Thinking in Theory

Study Aids:

• Self-Test Quizzes
  • Sociology Online Quiz
• Discussion Questions

Participation:

• Academic Discourse Forum
• Who's Who in Academic Discourse

Reference Section:

• Articles Online
• Books Online
• Data
• Dictionaries
• Useful Sites

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Lecture Guides:

Lecture Topics:

• Week 1:
  • Paradigm shift from adversarialism towards mutuality. Rambo and the Dalai Lama: Adversarialism as a Paradigm
  • Classical theory: Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Re-Interpreting them for the Twenty-First Century. Farganis Introduction.
  • Dear Habermas Why Habermas? Who Is Habermas? Arguably the greatest thinker of the 20th Century, a sociologist to whom Anthony Giddens would give a B on his interpretation of Weber.
• Week 2:
  • Peacemaking Theory
  • Constitutive Theory: TR Young on Constitutive Theory
  • Agency and Structural Context: Henry and Milovanovic
    
• Week 3:
  • The logic of social inquiry - Habermas.
• Week 4:
  • Theory, Policy, Practice
    • Link to theory, policy, practice exercises.
    • Add new theory, methods, analysis exercises. Goal for this week will be to learn how to access sources to help with theory, with methods, with anlysis.
    • Evaluating resources: left/right and resources to identify.
• Week 5:
• Week 6:
• Week 7:
• Week 8:
• Week 9:
• Week 10:
• Week 11:
• Week 12:
• Week 13:
• Week 14:
• Week 15:
• Week 16: Exam Week

Basic Theory Concepts and Theorists:

• Constitutive Theory
  • Mazur's Dictionary of Critical Sociology: constitutive theory
  • International Politics in the Global Age by Ken Booth. Scroll down about two inches to "2 From positivism to constitutive theory" for a crief definition of constitutive theory.
  • TR Young on Constitutive Theory
  • Agency and Structural Context: Henry and Milovanovic
    
• Critical Theory:
  • Habermas
  • What Is Critical Psychology? Link to "Learning Materials" under Resources in the right-most frame, then link to Critical Psychology.
• Durkheim
  • Durkheim's General Approach to Theory Social-structural, social facts.
  • What Is a Social Fact?
  • Egoistic and Anomic Suicide
  • The Sacred and the Profance

Issues in Theory:

• Women's Issues
  Faludi's quotes from Backlash Consider the investment made in certain theories, in particular that of pharmaceutical companies in cure for life-threatening diseases, and research from the dominant discourse perspective that privileges the subjectivity of those with authority and power.
• Postmodernism and Critical Theory
• Postcolonial Theory
• Available Social Data
• Qualitative and Quantitative Issues
• Dummy Tables
• Software Issues SPSS? or SDA?
• Issues in Inference
• Sampling Issues
• Careers that Need Theory

Critical Thinking in Theory:

Study Aids:

Self-Test Quizzes:

• On What a Sociology Major Ought to Know About Theory
• Farganis' Interpretation of Durkheim
• "Academic Dishonesty and Low Self-Control: An Empirical Test of General Theory of Crime."

Discussion Questions:

• The Significant Part of Social Theory that Durkheim Saw

Participation:

Academic Discourse Forum:

• Agency and Structural Context: Henry and Milovanovic

Who's Who in Academic Discourse:

• Proud of Us

Reference Section:

Articles:

• Constitutive Theory:
  • A Constitutive Theory of Justice: Architecture and Content
    by T. R. Young
  • Imam Khomeini's political thought and the "constitutive theory of individuality"

• Marx, Re-Interpreting:
  • Labor, Nature, and Value Theory by Nancy Brumback

• Postmodern Theory:
  • Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodernist Thought by Dragan Milovanovic. (Revised version from Humanity and Society (19(1): 1-22, 1995; and revised in Dragan Milovanovic, Postmodern Criminology. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997)

• Post-Social Relations:
  The Market as an Object of Attachment: Exploring Postsocial Relations in Financial Markets by Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger. Canadian Journal of Sociology 25, 2 (2000): 141-168.

• Research, The Logic of : Theory, Methods, Statistics:
  • Statistical Methods in Psychology Journals: Guidelines and Explanations
    Leland Wilkinson and Task Force on Statistical Inference
    APA Board of Scientific Affairs

• Social Constructionism:
  • The discourse of Mind: A Social Constructionist Linguistics Outlookby Shi-xu. Dialogues in Psychology, 12.0, July 18, 1999, Revised August 23, 1999. School of Psychology & Communication, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Books Online

• Syllabus:Theories of Crime
• Review: Jeffrey Ian Ross, ed. Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1998. $59.95 cloth.
• Theory, Policy, Practice of a Career
  Takata, Susan R. and Curran, Jeanne. Available online.
  Copyright on Revised Text: Summer 1999. "Fair Use" encouraged.
  

Data Sources:

• FedStats The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

Dictionaries:

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
  
• TR Young's Dictionary of Critical Sociology
  
• Netlingo
  Explanations of terms and information that will help you with surviving on the Net. This is a little like the codebook we need to get a since of the "situatedness" on the Internet. (Hockenberry)
• Landow's Postcolonial Terms
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online Free.

Useful Sites:

• Sociologists Excerpts online.
• SociologyOnline
• Ben Austin's Sociology Corner
• SocioRealm
  Sites are ranked by difficulty level. Links cover many sociologists. Be sure you pay attention to the horizontal scroll bar. On my machine the Durkheim page is blank until you scroll way over to the right. jeanne january 18, 2001.
• The Value of Knowledge: a Miniature Library of Philosophy Andy Blunden. Excellent source with excerpts from texts. Link added January 11, 2001.
• Habermas Links Antti Kauppinen. Another excellent source. Link added January 11, 2001.
  • Habermas List
• The Canadian Journal of Sociology (CJS) Some featured articles and abstracts online free.
• CJS Book Reviews
• Sociologists at Work

Hunt:

Crime, Shame, and Reintegration (1989), John Braithwaite

Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions of Doing Evil (1988), Jack Katz Imagining Crime: Textual Outlaws and Criminal Conversations (1996), Alison Young

sites: waiting for me to locate a permanent spot for them. jeanne, January 11, 2001.

The RightPages Links to conservative viewpoint. On the Heritage Foundation Site.
American Center for Law and Justice Conservative Site for News and Policy Issues.

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