07/03/19 Social Theory | University of Glasgow Social Theory (Semester One 2018/19) What is social theory? How has it developed from the nineteenth century up to the present day? Why should we read ‘classical social theory’ today? What are some of the different theoretical perspectives that contemporary sociologists and social anthropologists have developed in order to understand society? These are some of the (vast!) questions that we will be considering in this course. We will take a more or less chronological approach, examining in turn social theories grouped together under the following three broad headings: (a) Classical and Inter-War Social Theories; (b) Post-War Social Theories; and (c) Current Issues in Social Theory. While a comprehensive account of the development of social theory since 1840 is obviously impossible in a ten-week course, the aim is nevertheless to provide an introduction to a wide range of social theories. The course will cover not only the work of social theorists generally regarded as forming part of the sociological and anthropological ‘canon’ (to the extent that this can be said to exist) – such as Boas, Goffman and Bourdieu – but also the theoretical contributions of thinkers who tend not to be accorded the kind of attention which they arguably merit (e.g. Proudhon, Martineau, Du Bois and Nisbet). The course is compulsory for Single Honours Sociology and Principal Honours with Quantitative Methods students. I hope that you will enjoy it, whichever your degree programme is! View Online 305 items Course Texts (11 items) As with other courses, it is important that you read widely in order to prepare your assessed work (in this case, the exam). The best answers, even to the most specific questions, will show a wider awareness of the issues under discussion in this course. Keep reading, therefore, as the course progress; read a little every week in preparation for a given topic. Contemporary sociological theory - Craig J. Calhoun, 2012 Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | There is no one ‘textbook’ for this course, but 1/30
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07/03/19 Social Theory | University of Glasgow
Social Theory (Semester One 2018/19)
What is social theory? How has it developed from thenineteenth century up to the present day? Why shouldwe read ‘classical social theory’ today? What are someof the different theoretical perspectives thatcontemporary sociologists and social anthropologistshave developed in order to understand society? Theseare some of the (vast!) questions that we will beconsidering in this course.
We will take a more or less chronological approach,examining in turn social theories grouped togetherunder the following three broad headings: (a) Classicaland Inter-War Social Theories; (b) Post-War SocialTheories; and (c) Current Issues in Social Theory. Whilea comprehensive account of the development of socialtheory since 1840 is obviously impossible in a ten-weekcourse, the aim is nevertheless to provide anintroduction to a wide range of social theories. Thecourse will cover not only the work of social theoristsgenerally regarded as forming part of the sociologicaland anthropological ‘canon’ (to the extent that this canbe said to exist) – such as Boas, Goffman and Bourdieu –but also the theoretical contributions of thinkers whotend not to be accorded the kind of attention which theyarguably merit (e.g. Proudhon, Martineau, Du Bois andNisbet). The course is compulsory for Single HonoursSociology and Principal Honours with QuantitativeMethods students. I hope that you will enjoy it,whichever your degree programme is!
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Course Texts (11 items)
As with other courses, it is important that you read widely in order to prepare yourassessed work (in this case, the exam). The best answers, even to the most specificquestions, will show a wider awareness of the issues under discussion in this course. Keepreading, therefore, as the course progress; read a little every week in preparation for agiven topic.
Contemporary sociological theory - Craig J. Calhoun, 2012Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | There is no one ‘textbook’ for this course, but
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you may wish to consider buying, either on your own or together with another member ofthe class, the above ‘reader’ which contains extracts from the work of many (but not all) ofthe social theorists we will be discussing.
The readings from the book above, recommended for the course are also contained in the second edition, so if the most recent edition is not available, please use the earlier oneinstead.
As well as the 'reader' above, you may wish to consider buying one of the (numerous)'textbooks' on social theory that are currently available. The texts below are ones whichare included on the reading lists for this course.
Again, however, please be aware that none of these books covers all the social theoristswhose work we will be examining in this particular course.
Social theory in the twentieth century and beyond - Baert, Patrick, Silva, Filipe Carreira da,c2010
Book
Social theory: a historical introduction - Callinicos, Alex, 1999Book
An invitation to social theory - Inglis, David, Thorpe, Christopher, 2012Book
Understanding social theory - Layder, Derek, 2006Book | This text is available as an e-book: http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2984304.
Social theory: central issues in sociology - John Scott, c2006Book
Contested knowledge: social theory today - Seidman, Steven, 2008Book
The following 'Handbook' is also highly recommended although, again, it does not includearticles on the work of several social theorists we will be discussing in this course
Handbook of social theory - Ritzer, George, Smart, Barry, 2001Book | This text is available as an e-book: http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2876206.
Lecture Readings
Lecture 1: What is Social Theory? (22 items)
Key Readings (4 items)
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Contemporary sociological theory - Calhoun, Craig J., 2012Book | Essential | See: Calhoun, C. et al. 2012. Introduction pp. 1-24, available online.
See also note below
The 'General Introduction' in the 2nd edition of the book above is effectively the same, soit could be read instead.
The American Sociologist - Arthur L. Stinchcombe, 1982Journal | Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1982. Should Sociologists Forget Their Mothers and
Fathers. The American Sociologist 17 (1), 2-11.
Engendering the social: feminist encounters with sociological theory - Marshall, Barbara L.,Witz, Anne, 2004
Book | See: Witz, Anne and Barbara L. Marshall. 2004. Introduction: Feminist Encounterswith Sociological Theory.
Additional Recommended Readings (18 items)
Destabilizing theory: contemporary feminist debates - Barrett, Micháele, Phillips, Anne,1992
Book | See: Barrett, Michèle and Anne Phillips. 1992. Introduction
The Monstrous ‘White Theory Boy’: Symbolic Capital, Pedagogy and the Politics ofKnowledge - Sarah Burton, 2015
Article
Social theory: a historical introduction - Callinicos, Alex, 1999Book | See: especially ‘Introduction’ and Chapter 12, pp. 1-9, 296-318. Chapter 12
available online.
Why do we read the classics? - Giovanni da Col, Claudio Sopranzetti, Fred Myers, AnastasiaPiliavsky, John L. Jackson, Yarimar Bonilla, Adia Benton, Paul Stoller, 2017-12
Article
Positioning theory: An introduction - Nina Glick Schiller, 2016-09Article
For sociology: renewal and critique in sociology today - Gouldner, Alvin W., c1973Book | See: Gouldner, A. W. 1975 (1973). The Politics of the Mind.
Possibilities: essays on hierarchy, rebellion, and desire - Graeber, David, 2007Book | See: Graeber, David. 2007. Social Theory as Science and Utopia: Or, Does the
Prospect of a General Sociological Theory Still Mean Anything in an Age of Globalization?
Racism, sexism, power and ideology - Colette Guillaumin, 1995Book | Chapter entitled 'Women and theories about society: the effects on theory of the
anger of the oppressed (1981)'. This book is also available as an e-book.
Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology of liberation - Harrison,
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Faye Venetia, Association of Black Anthropologists, c1997Book | See: Harrison, Faye V. 1997. Anthropology as an Agent of Transformation:
Introductory Comments and Queries
Hermeneutics and the 'classic' problem in the human sciences - A. R. How, 2011-05-11Article
An invitation to social theory - Inglis, David, Thorpe, Christopher, 2012Book | See: Chapter 1: Introduction: Extending an Invitation
Contemporary feminist theories - Jackson, Stevi, Jones, Jackie, c1998Book | See: Chapters 1 and 2
The sociological imagination - Mills, C. Wright, MyiLibrary, c2000Book | See: Chapter 2
Feminism without borders: decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity - Mohanty, ChandraTalpade, c2003
Book | See: especially Chapters 1 and 9, See also note below
The first of the chapters above was originally published as Under Western Eyes: FeministScholarship and Colonial Discourses. Feminist Review 30, 61-88, 1988.)
The ISA handbook of diverse sociological traditions - Patel, Sujata, 2010Book
Social theory: central issues in sociology - John Scott, c2006Book | See: Chapters 1 and 2
Queer theory/sociology - Seidman, Steven, 1996Book | See: Stein, Arlene and Ken Plummer. 1996. “I Can’t Even Think Straight: “Queer”
Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology
Part 1: Classical and Inter-War Social Theories (61 items)
Lecture 2: Anarchist Theories (Proudhon and Kropotkin) (17 items)
Key Readings (2 items)
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Mutual aid: a factor of evolution - Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, 1908Book | See: especially Introduction and Chapter VIII: Mutual Aid Amongst Ourselves
[continued]. The full text of the above book is also available online at:http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4341/pg4341.html.
Property is theft!: a Pierre-Joseph Proudhon anthology - Proudhon, P.-J., McKay, Iain, 2010Book | See: Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. 2011 (1840). What is Property? Or, An Inquiry into
the Principle of Right and Government.
Additional Recommended Readings (15 items)
Socialism: ideals, ideologies, and local practice - C. M. Hann, 1993Book | Chapter by Alan Barnard 'Primitive Communism and Mutual Aid: Kropotkin Visits
the Bushmen'.
Mutual Aid and the Foraging Mode of Thought: Re-reading Kropotkin on the Khoisan - AlanBarnard, March 2004
Article
For anarchism: history, theory, and practice - Goodway, David, 1989Book | See: Guérin, Daniel. 1989. Marxism and Anarchism
The Sociological Ideas of Prince Peter Kropotkin. - M. Jourdain, July 1920Article | Please note first two pages of PDF are blank
Kropotkin's Theory of Mutual Aid in Historical Context - Ruth Kinna, 1995-8Article
Anarchism: a beginner's guide - Ruth Kinna, ProQuest (Firm), 2005Book | Chapter 1.
Kropotkin: reviewing the classical anarchist tradition - Ruth Kinna, 2018Book
Demanding the impossible: a history of anarchism : be realistic! Demand the impossible! -Marshall, Peter H., Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2009
Book | See: Chapters 17 and 19 on Proudhon and Kropotkin respectively)
Property is theft!: a Pierre-Joseph Proudhon anthology - Proudhon, P.-J., McKay, Iain, 2010Book | See: ‘Proudhon: A Biographical Sketch’
Where Is Kropotkin When We Really Need Him? - David Morris, 2012-02-10Webpage | The Huffington Post 10/02/12
The Reception of Peter Kropotkin in Britain, 1886-1917 - Haia Shpayer-Makov, 1987Article
Anarchy and society: reflections on anarchist sociology - Jeff Shantz, Dana M. Williams,Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2013
Book
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Anarchism: a very short introduction - Ward, Colin, 2004Book
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: a biography - Woodcock, George, 1956Book
Anarchism: a history of libertarian ideas and movements - Woodcock, George, 1963Book | See: Chapter 7: The Explorer [on Kropotkin]
Lecture 3: Feminist Theories (Martineau and d’Héricourt) (22 items)
Key Readings (8 items)
A woman's philosophy of woman: or, Woman affranchised : an answer to Michelet,Proudhon, Girardin, Legouvé, Comte, and other modern innovators - Héricourt, [2013?
Book | See: Part II, but also Chapter II: Proudhon. The full text of the book above is alsoavailable online at: http://archive.org/details/awomansphilosop00hrgoog.
Society in America: Volume 1 - Harriet Martineau, 1837Book | Introduction.
Society in America: Volume 2 - Harriet Martineau, 1837Book | Chapter 5, Section 11 - Morals of Slavery.
Society in America: Volume 3 - Harriet Martineau, 1837Book | Chapter 2: Woman.
A two-volume edition of Society in America is available online at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=52621(Volume 1,'Introduction' and 'Morals of Slavery) and http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=52685(Volume 2,Chapter on 'Woman')
See also:
How to observe: morals and manners - Martineau, Harriet, [2009]Book | See: especially Chapter II: General Moral Notions. The full text of the above book
is also available online at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33944/33944.txt.
A more complete list of Martineau's publications available online can be found here.
Additional Recommended Readings (14 items)
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Assembling Harriet Martineau's gender and health jigsaw - Ellen Annandale, 2007-7Article
The Modernity of Women: Jenny P. d'Hericourt's Contribution to Social Theory (1809 1875)- C. Arni, C. Honegger, 2008-02-01
Article
Engendering the social: feminist encounters with sociological theory - Marshall, Barbara L.,Witz, Anne, Dawson Books, 2004
Book | See: Arni, Caroline and Charlotte Müller. 2004. More sociological than thesociologists? Undisciplined and undisciplinary thinking about society and modernity in thenineteenth century
Harriet Martineau: Gender, Disability and Liability - Susan F. Bohrer, 2003-03Article
Textbooks, the History of Sociology, and the Sociological Stock of Knowledge - Mary JoDeegan, 2003-09
Article
Banishing Panic: Harriet Martineau and the Popularization of Political Economy - ElaineFreedgood, 1995
Article
Harriet Martineau: theoretical and methodological perspectives - Hill, Michael R.,Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan, 2001
Book | See: Hill, Michael R. and Susan Hoecker-Drysdale. 2001: Taking HarrietMartineau Seriously in the Classroom and Beyond
The Blackwell companion to major classical social theorists - Ritzer, George, 2003Book | See: Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan 2003. Harriet Martineau.
Objects and Objectivity - Abigail Mann, Kathleen Béres Rogers, 2011-12Article
A Nineteenth-Century French Feminist Rediscovered: Jenny P. D'Héricourt, 1809-1875 -Karen Offen, 1987
Article
Women's History According to Jenny P. d'Héricourt (1809–1875), ‘Daughter of her Century’- Alice Primi, 2006-04
Article
Mediation and Expansion: Harriet Martineau’s travels in America - Lesa Scholl, 2009-11Article
Teaching Sociology - Jan E. Thomas and Annis Kukulan, 2004Journal | Thomas, Jan E. and Annis Kukulan. 2004. ‘Why Don't I Know about These
Women?’: The Integration of Early Women Sociologists in Classical Theory Courses.Teaching Sociology 32 (3), 252-263.
Harriet Martineau on the Theory and Practice of Democracy in America - Lisa Pace Vetter,
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2008-06Article
Lecture 4: Theories of 'Race' and Racism: Du Bois and Boas (22 items)
Key Readings (3 items)
The Philadelphia Negro: a social study - W. E. B. Du Bois, Elijah Anderson, Isabel Eaton,MyiLibrary, c1996
Book | Chapters 1, 2, 16-18.
Anthropology and modern life - Franz Boas, 1986, c1962Book | Chapters 1 and 2.
Cultural Anthropology - Julia E. Liss, W. E. B. Du Bois and Franz Boas, 1998Journal
Additional Recommended Readings (19 items)
Race and democratic society - Franz Boas, 1945], ©1945Book | Essential
A Franz Boas reader: the shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911 - Boas, Franz,Stocking, George W., 1982, c1974
Book
A new history of anthropology - Henrika Kuklick, 2008Book | Chapter by Regna Darnell 'North American traditions in Anthropology: The
Historiographic Baseline'.
Who Was Franz Boas? How Do We Know? And Why Should We Care? - Regna Darnell,2017-03
Article
Social theory for alternative societies - Matt Dawson, Askews & Holts Library Services,2016
Book | Chapter 4.
W.E.B. Du Bois: Intellectual Forefather of Intersectionality? - Ange-Marie Hancock, 2005-06Article
The rise of anthropological theory: a history of theories of culture - Marvin Harris, 1968Book | Chapter 9.
The Passion of Franz Boas - Herbert S. Lewis, 2001-06
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Article
Franz Boas: Boon or Bane? - HERBERT S. LEWIS, 2008-08-15Article
W.E.B. DuBois, Black radical democrat - Manning Marable, c1986Book
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Race Concept - Joel Olson, 2005-06Article
The scholar denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the birth of modern sociology - Aldon D. Morris,2015
Book
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Race Concept - Joel Olson, 2005-06Article
A social history of anthropology in the United States - Thomas C. Patterson, 2001Book | Chapter 2.
One discipline, four ways: British, German, French, and American anthropology - FredrikBarth, André Gingrich, Robert Parkin, Sydel Silverman, C. M. Hann, ProQuest (Firm), 2005
Book | Chapter by Sydel Silverman 'The United States'.
American Anthropologist - George W. Stocking, Jr., 1960Journal | Stocking, George W., Jr. 1960. Franz Boas and the founding of the American
Anthropological Association. American Anthropologist 62 (1), 1–17.
Race, culture, and evolution: essays in the history of anthropology : with a new preface -George W. Stocking, 1982
Book
Rethinking race: Franz Boas and his contemporaries - Vernon J. Williams, ProQuest (Firm),1996
Book
The social theory of W.E.B. Du Bois - Du Bois, W. E. B., Zuckerman, Phil, c2004Book
Part 2: Post-War Social Theories (94 items)
Lecture 5: Conservative Social Theory? (Robert Nisbet) (26 items)
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Key Readings (5 items)
American Journal of Sociology - Robert A. Nisbet, 1952Journal | Nisbet, Robert A. 1952. Conservatism and Sociology. American Journal of
Sociology 58 (2),167-175.
The quest for community: a study in the ethics of order and freedom - Robert A. Nisbet,Ross Gregory Douthat, ProQuest (Firm), 2010
Book | Essential | See: Chapter 3.
Still Questing | Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Educating for LibertyWebpage | Nisbet, Robert. 1993. Still Questing. Intercollegiate Review 29 (1), 41-45.
See also:
Conservatism: dream and reality - Robert Nisbet, 1986Book
Additional Recommended Readings (21 items)
Sociology as an Art Form: One Facet of the Conservative Sociology of Robert Nisbet - JudithAdler, 2014-3
Article
Caritas and Community: Reflections on the Conservative Sociological Art of Robert Nisbet -Judith Adler, 2015-8
Article
The American Sociologist - Peter Baehr, 2014Journal | Baehr, Peter. 2014. Introduction. The American Sociologist 45 (1), 2-7.
Social Change and Progress in the Sociology of Robert Nisbet - Daniel Chernilo, 2015-8Article
History as the Decline of Community: Nisbet on Modernity - Gergely EgedyArticle
My Father, Robert Nisbet - Constance N. Field, 2015-8Article
The Voice of History within Sociology: Robert Nisbet on Structure, Change, and Autonomy -Daniel Gordon
Article
Robert Nisbet and the Present Age - Paul Gottfried, 2015-8Article
- Philosophy Documentation CenterWebpage | Harold, Philip. 2010. Robert Nisbet’s Visible and Invisible Communities. The
Catholic Social Science Review 15, 175-191.
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Is It Still Too Early to Tell? Rethinking Sociology’s Relations to the French Revolution -David Inglis
Article
Publius - Robert F. Nagel, 2004Journal | Nagel, Robert F. 2004. States and Localities: A Comment on Robert Nisbet's
Communitarianism. Publius 34 (4), 125-138.
Robert Nisbet and the Modern State | Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Educating forLiberty
Webpage
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society - Robert G. Perrin, 1999Journal | Perrin, Robert G. 1999. Robert Alexander Nisbet (30 September 1913-9
September 1996). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 143 (4), 694-710.
Unspeak: words are weapons - Steven Poole, 2007Book | Chapter 2.
The American Sociologist - Ronald Schwartz, 2014Journal | Schwartz, Ronald. 2014. Riverside Days: Recollection of Robert Nisbet as a
Teacher. The American Sociologist 45 (1), 34-49.
Ideas and think tanks in contemporary Britain - Michael Kandiah, Anthony Seldon, 1996-Book | Chapter: Seldon, Anthony and Anthony Giddens 'The Influence of Sociology in
Post-War Britain (Anthony Seldon interviews Anthony Giddens)'.
A True Sociologist: Robert Nisbet | Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Educating for LibertyWebpage
Robert Nisbet on conservative dogmatics - Brad Lowell Stone, 2000-3Article
The American Sociologist - Bryan S. Turner, 2014Journal | Turner, Bryan S. 2014. Robert Nisbet and the Problem of Community. The
American Sociologist 45 (1), 68-83.
Silent citizens: reflections on community, habit, and the silent majority in political life -Bryan S. Turner, 2015-07-04
Article
The American Sociologist - Charles Turner, 2014Journal | Turner, Charles. 2014. The Sociological Tradition or Traditions? The American
Sociologist 45 (1), 22-33.
Lecture 6: Symbolic Interactionism (Erving Goffman) (36 items)
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Key Readings (8 items)
On Face-Work - Erving Goffman, 1955-08Article | Goffman, Erving. 1955. On Face-Work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social
Interaction. Psychiatry 18 (3), 213-131.
This article is reprinted in the following book:
Interaction ritual: essays in face-to-face behavior - Erving Goffman, c2005Book
The Interaction Order: American Sociological Association, 1982 Presidential Address -Erving Goffman, 1983
Article
Contemporary sociological theory - Craig J. Calhoun, 2012Book | See: Goffman - 'The presentation of self in everyday life'.
Extracts from Goffman's books can also be found in Lemert, Charles and Ann Branaman(eds.) 1997. The Goffman Reader. Malden, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell.
See also:
Asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates - Goffman,Erving, 1968
Book | See: Chapter entitled ‘On the Characteristics of Total Institutions’
Additional Recommended Readings (28 items)
From Total Institution to Status Bloodbath: Goffman as a Comparative Researcher andGrounded Theorist’
Document
Goffman's Dramaturgical Sociology: Developing a Meaningful Theoretical Context andExercise Involving "Embarrassment and Social Organization" - David K. Brown, 2003-07
Article
‘The presentation of self in the online world’: Goffman and the study of online identities -Liam Bullingham, Ana C. Vasconcelos, 2013-02
Article
Symbols, meaning, and action: The past, present, and future of symbolic interactionism -M. J. Carter, C. Fuller, 2016-10-01
Article
Erving Goffman - Burns, Tom, 1992Book
Interaction ritual chains - Randall Collins, c2004Book | Especially pp. 16-25.
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Goffman on Gender, Sexism, and Feminism: A Summary of Notes on a Conversation withErving Goffman and My Reflections Then and Now - Mary Jo Deegan, 2014-02
Article
Erving Goffman: exploring the interaction order - Drew, Paul, Wootton, Anthony, 1988Book | See: especially chapters by Kendon, Collins and Strong
Social theory and modern sociology - Giddens, Anthony, 1987Book | See: Chapter 5: ‘Erving Goffman as a systematic social theorist’ – this chapter is
also reproduced in the collection edited by Drew and Wootton listed above
The coming crisis of western sociology - Alvin W. Gouldner, 1971Book
Social identity - Jenkins, Richard, 2004Book | See: especially Chapter 7
Erving Goffman: A major theorist of power? - Richard Jenkins, 2008-08Article
Goffman, Growing Up, and Experienced Relationality - Peter Johnson, 2016-08Article
The Goffman reader - Goffman, Erving, Lemert, Charles C., Branaman, Ann, 1997Book | See: especially editors’ introductions and Part 1
Reconstructing the concept of face in cultural sociology: in Goffman’s footsteps, followingthe Chinese case - Xiaoying Qi, 2017-12
Article
The everyday life of the self: Reworking early Goffman - Stanley Raffel, 2013-02Article
The Interaction Order Sui Generis: Goffman's Contribution to Social Theory - Rawls, AnneWarfield, 1987
Article
Handbook of social theory - Ritzer, George, Smart, Barry, 2001Book | See: Sandstrom, Kent L., Daniel D. Martin and Gary Alan Fine. 2001. Symbolic
Interactionism at the End of the Century.
Looking-Glass Self: Goffman as Symbolic Interactionist - Thomas J. Scheff, 2005-05Article
Goffman on Emotions: The Pride-Shame System - Thomas Scheff, 2014-02Article
The presentation of self in contemporary social life - David Shulman, 2017Book
Appraising Goffman - Simon Johnson Williams, 1986Article
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Goffman's Interaction Order at the Margins: Stigma, Role, and Normalization in theOutreach Encounter - Robin James Smith, 2011-08
Article
Erving Goffman - Gregory W. H. Smith, Dawson Books, 2006Book | See: especially Chapter 3
Goffman's legacy - Treviäno, A. Javier, c2003Book
The selfie and the transformation of the public–private distinction - Michael James Walsh,Stephanie Alice Baker, 2017-08-03
Article
Goffman in Feminist Perspective - Candace West, 1996Article
The presentation of self in the classical ballet class: dancing with Erving Goffman -Bethany Whiteside, John Kelly, 2016-01-02
Article
Lecture 7: Bourdieusian Sociology and Anthropology (32 items)
Key Readings (11 items)
Ethnography - Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice and Loïc Wacquant, 2000Journal | Bourdieu, Pierre. 2000. Making the Economic Habitus: Algerian Workers
Revisited. Ethnography 1 (1), 17-41.
This article is reprinted in the following book:
Algerian sketches - Pierre Bourdieu, David Fernbach, 2013Book | Essential
Classical sociological theory - Calhoun, Craig J., 2012Book | See: Bourdieu, P. 2007 (1994). Structures, Habitus, Practices pp. 345-58 See
Also: Note below
The above reading is an extract from Book I, Chapter 3 of Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990 (1980). The Logic of Practice (translated by Richard Nice). Cambridge: Polity.
See also reading below
A concise genealogy and anatomy of habitus - Loïc Wacquant, 2016-02Article
See also:
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Algerian landing - Pierre Bourdieu, 2004-12Article
This article is reprinted as pp. 37-62 of the following book:
Sketch for a self-analysis - Pierre Bourdieu, 2007Book
Picturing Algeria - Pierre Bourdieu, 2012Book | Essential
Additional Recommended Readings (21 items)
Feminism after Bourdieu - Adkins, Lisa, Skeggs, Beverley, 2004Book | See: especially introductory chapters by Adkins and Skeggs
In other words: essays towards a reflexive sociology - Bourdieu, Pierre, 1990Book | Essential | See: Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990 (1987). ‘Fieldwork in Philosophy’, pp.
3-33, available online.
The weight of the world: social suffering in contemporary society - Pierre Bourdieu, PriscillaParkhurst Ferguson, 1999
Book
Colonialism and ethnography: Foreword to Pierre Bourdieu's Travail et travailleurs enAlgerie - Pierre Bourdieu, 2003-04
Article
Political interventions: social science and political action - Pierre Bourdieu, FranckPoupeau, Thierry Discepolo, 2008
Book
Pierre Bourdieu and Social Transformation: Lessons from Algeria - Craig Calhoun, 2006-11Article
Bourdieu in Algeria: colonial politics, ethnographic practices, theoretical developments -Jane E. Goodman, Paul A. Silverstein, MyiLibrary, c2009
Book | Chapter by Fanny Colonna and the 'Introduction' by Paul A. Silverstein and JaneE. Goodman.
Decolonizing Bourdieu - Julian Go, 2013-03Article
American Anthropologist - Jane E. Goodman, 2003Journal | Goodman, Jane E.. 2003. The Proverbial Bourdieu: Habitus and the Politics of
Representation in the Ethnography of Kabylia. American Anthropologist 105 (4), 782-793.
Bourdieu in the Field - Michael Grenfell, 2006-06Article | Grenfell, Michael. 2006. Bourdieu in the field: From the Béarn and to Algeria – A
Timely Response. French Cultural Studies 17 (2), 223-239.
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Pierre Bourdieu - Jenkins, Richard, 1992Book
Pierre Bourdieu: a critical introduction - Lane, Jeremy F., 2000Book
Understanding social theory - Layder, Derek, 2006Book | See: Chapter 9: Linking Agency and Structure and Macro and Micro. This text is
available as an e-book: http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2984304.
Anthropology and social theory: culture, power, and the acting subject - Ortner, Sherry B,2006
Book | See: Chapter 6: Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency, pp. 129-153. Thistext is available as an e-book: http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2984301.
Sensing a Post-Colonial Bourdieu: An Introduction - Nirmal Puwar, 2009-08Article
Can Peasants Make a Revolution? Colonialism, Labour, and Power Relations in PierreBourdieu’s Algerian Inquiries - Andrea Rapini, 2016-12
Article
Locating Bourdieu - Deborah Reed-Danahay, c2005Book | Especially Chapter 3.
Anthropological Quarterly - Deborah Reed-Danahay, 2004Journal | Reed-Danahay, Deborah. 2004. ‘Tristes Paysans’: Bourdieu's Early Ethnography
in Béarn and Kabylia. Anthropological Quarterly 77 (1), 87-106. (NB: Reprinted as Chapter3 of the above book.)
Following Pierre Bourdieu into the field - Loïc Wacquant, 2004-12Article
Ethnography - Tassadit Yacine, Loïc Wacquant and James Ingram, 2004Journal | Yacine, Tassadit. 2004. Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria at War: Notes on the Birth of
an Engaged Ethnosociology (translated by Loïc Wacquant and James Ingram). Ethnography5 (4), 487–509.
Algerian sketches - Pierre Bourdieu, David Fernbach, 2013Book | Chapter by Tassadit Yacine 'Presentation'.
Part 3: Contemporary Social Theories (62 items)
Lecture 8: Intersectionality (24 items)
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Key Readings (3 items)
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique ofAndiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
Webpage
Intersectionality - Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge, 2016Book | Chapter 1 (available as an e-book).
Globalization and inequalities: complexities and contested modernities - Walby, Sylvia,2009
Book | Essential | See: especially Chapter 2
Additional Recommended Readings (21 items)
Intersectional what? Social divisions, intersectionality and levels of analysis - Floya Anthias, 2013-02
Article
Intersectionality and Marxism: A Critical Historiography - Ashley Bohrer, 2018-07-30Article
Ain't I a woman? Revisiting intersectionality - Avtar Brah, Ann Phoenix, May 2004Article
The intersectional turn in feminist theory: A dream of a common language? - M. Carbin, S.Edenheim, 2013-08-01
Article
It's All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation - Patricia Hill Collins, 1998Article
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women ofColor - Kimberle Crenshaw Crenshaw, 1991
Article
Intersectionality as buzzword: A sociology of science perspective on what makes a feministtheory successful - K. Davis, 2008-04-01
Article
Is the State Part of the Matrix of Domination and Intersectionality? An Anarchist Inquiry |Lawrence & Wishart
Webpage | Dupuis-Déri, Francis. 2016. Is the State Part of the Matrix of Domination andIntersectionality? An Anarchist Inquiry. Anarchist Studies 24 (1), 36-61.
‘Intersectionality’, Socialist Feminism and Contemporary Activism: Musings by aSecond-Wave Socialist Feminist - Linda Gordon, 2016-08
Article
Intersectionality: an intellectual history - Ange-Marie Hancock, 2016Book
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Introduction: (Re)constructing the categories of ‘race’ and ‘sex’: the work of a precursor -Danielle Juteau-Lee
Chapter | This chapter is from a book that is available as an e-book.
White like them: Whiteness and anachronistic space in representations of the Englishwhite working class - S. Lawler, 2012-08-01
Article
The Complexity of Intersectionality - Leslie McCall, 2005-03Article
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra TalpadeMohanty, 1988-25
Article
Intersectionality - A. Phoenix, 2006-08-01Article
Introducing intersectionality - Mary Romero, ProQuest (Firm), 2018Book | Essential
Intersectionality and its discontents: Intersectionality as traveling theory - Sara Salem,2016-04-22
Article
Multiple Inequalities, Intersectionality and the European Union - M. Verloo, 2006-08-01Article
Patriarchy at work: patriarchal and capitalist relations in employment - Walby, Sylvia, 1986Book
Everyday multiculturalism: Theorising the difference between 'intersectionality' and'multiple identities' - P. Werbner, 2013-08-01
Article
Intersectionality and Feminist Politics - N. Yuval-Davis, 2006-08-01Article
Lecture 9: Southern Theory and Connected/Global Sociologies (18 items)
Key Readings (3 items)
Southern theory: the global dynamics of knowledge in social science - Raewyn Connell,Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2007
Book | Especially Introduction and Chapter 10.
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Connected sociologies - Gurminder K. Bhambra, 2014Book | Chapter 7 available online.
Afterword: Doing global sociology: Issues, problems and challenges - Sujata Patel, 2014-07Article
Additional Recommended Readings (15 items)
Postcolonial Reflections on Sociology - Gurminder K Bhambra, 2016-10Article
Introduction: Global Challenges for Sociology - Gurminder K Bhambra, Boaventura deSousa Santos, 2017-02
Article
Another knowledge is possible: beyond northern epistemologies - Boaventura de SousaSantos, 2008, c2007
Book
Why Is Classical Theory Classical? - R. W. Connell, 1997-05Article
The ISA handbook of diverse sociological traditions - Sujata Patel, 2010Book | Chapters by Patel, Burawoy and Connell.
Decentering social theory - ProQuest (Firm), 2013Book | Especially Part III.
THE EPISTEMIC DECOLONIAL TURN - Ramón Grosfoguel, 2007-03Article
INTRODUCTION - Walter D. Mignolo, 2007-03Article | Mignolo, Walter D. 2007. Introduction: Coloniality of Power and De-Colonial
Thinking. Cultural Studies 21 (2-3), 155-167.
Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and EnquiryJournal | Mignolo, Walter D. 2017. Coloniality Is Far from Over, and So Must Be
Decoloniality. Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 43, 38-45.
On decoloniality: concepts, analytics, and praxis - Walter Mignolo, Catherine E. Walsh,2018
Book | Especially Chapters 1, 5 and 6.
Decoloniality as the Future of Africa - Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2015-10Article
COLONIALITY AND MODERNITY/RATIONALITY - Aníbal Quijano, 2007-03Article
A Decolonial Imagination: Sociology, Anthropology and the Politics of Reality - MartinSavransky, 2017-02
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Rethinking Africa’s sociological project - Ari Sitas, 2014-07Article
Decolonial sociology: W.E.B. Du Bois's foundational theoretical and methodologicalcontributions - Melissa F. Weiner, 2018-08
Article
Lecture 10: Critical Anthropology and 'Dark Theory' (20 items)
Key Readings (3 items)
The endurance of critique - Didier Fassin, 2017-03Article
Human OrganizationJournal | Lamphere, Louise. 2018. The Transformation of Ethnography: From Malinowki’s
Tent to the Practice of Collaborative/Activist Anthropology. Human Organization 77 (1),64-76.
Dark anthropology and its others - Sherry B. Ortner, 2016-06Article
Additional Recommended Readings (17 items)
Anthropological Theory. 2017. Debate on the Nature and Significance of Critique. 17 (2),261-278
Audio-visual document
Made in Britain: Brexit, teacups, and the materiality of the nation - ANA CAROLINABALTHAZAR, 2017-05
Article
Introduction: The 2016 Brexit referendum and Trump election - JEANETTE EDWARDS,ANGELIQUE HAUGERUD, SHANTI PARIKH, 2017-05
Article
Brexit Britain: Why we are all postindustrial now - GILLIAN EVANS, 2017-05Article
Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times- Didier Fassin, 2011-10-21
Article
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Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology - Sarah Green, Chris Gregory,Madeleine Reeves, Jane K. Cowan, Olga Demetriou, Insa Koch, Michael Carrithers, RubenAndersson, Andre Gingrich, Sharon Macdonald, Salih Can Açiksöz, Umut Yildirim, ThomasHylland Eriksen, Cris Shore, Douglas R. Holmes, Michael Herzfeld, Marilyn Strathern,Casper Bruun Jensen, Keir Martin, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Georgos Poulimenakos, Stef Jansen,Čarna Brkovič, Thomas M. Wilson, Niko Besnier, Daniel Guinness, Mark Hann, PamelaBallinger, Dace Dzenovska, 2016-11
Article
From Brexit to Trump: Anthropology and the rise of nationalist populism - HUGHGUSTERSON, 2017-05
Article
Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory Vol 6, No 2 (2016)Webpage | Debate on Ortner, Sherry. 2016. ‘Dark anthropology and its others: Theory
since the eighties’. 6 (2): 1-39 (Comments by Arjun Appadurai, David Graeber, Carol J.Greenhouse, James Laidlaw and Danilyn Rutherford, and a Response by Sherry B. Ortner.).
Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics ofaggregation - Jeffrey S. Juris, 2012-05
Article
Anxiety and cosmopolitan futures: Brexit and Scotland - DANIEL M. KNIGHT, 2017-05Article
What's in a vote? Brexit beyond culture wars - INSA KOCH, 2017-05Article
An anthropology of lying: Trump and the political sociality of moral outrage - CAROLEMcGRANAHAN, 2017-05
Article
Comparative Studies in Society and History - Sherry B. Ortner, 1984Journal | Ortner, Sherry B. 1984. Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties. Comparative
Studies in Society and History 26 (1), 126-166.
Brexit positions: neoliberalism, austerity and immigration—the (im)possibilities? of politicalrevolution - Kathy Powell, 2017-9
Article
The Occupy Movement in Žižek's hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming- Maple Razsa, Andrej Kurnik, 2012-05
Article
Trump's election and the “white working class”: What we missed - CHRISTINE J. WALLEY,2017-05
Article
Trump's election and the “white working class”: What we missed - CHRISTINE J. WALLEY,2017-05
Article
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Recently published and additional readings (not listed in coursehandbook) (4 items)
The women founders: sociology and social theory, 1830-1930 : a text/reader - 1998Book | See Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (on Martineau)
Women in sociology: a bio-bibliographical sourcebook - Mary Jo Deegan, 1991Book | See Introduction and Chapter on Martineau
Amongst the disciplines: Anthropology, sociology, intersection and intersectionality -Cathrine Degnen, Katharine Tyler, 2017-03
Article
Intersectionality and its discontents: Intersectionality as traveling theory - Sara Salem,2018-11
Article
Seminar Readings
Seminar 1: Anarchist Anthropology and Sociology (7 items)
Core Reading (1 items)
Demanding the impossible: a history of anarchism : be realistic! Demand the impossible! -Marshall, Peter H., Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2009
Book | See: Chapter 19: Peter Kropotkin: The Revolutionary Evolutionist
Readings (5 items)
Anthropology, ecology, and anarchism: a Brian Morris reader - Brian Morris, EbooksCorporation Limited, 2014
Book | READING 1: Chapter 3 Anthropology and Anarchism
Anarchy and society: reflections on anarchist sociology - Jeff Shantz, Dana M. Williams,Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2013
Book | READING 2: Chapter 1
Anarchist Sociology and the Legacy of Peter Kropotkin - ProQuest - Jan 2017Webpage | READING 3
If you are particularly interested in Criminology, you could read the following articleinstead of one of the three listed above.
Humanistic Criminology: Roots from Peter KropotkinWebpage
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Questions
(Core Reading): According to Marshall, what are the main strengths and weaknesses ofKropotkin's anarchist thought?
1. What connections does Morris identify between anthropology and anarchism?
2. How do Shantz and Williams define what 'anarchist-sociology' is, or could be?
3. According to Grizzle, how do Kropotkin's views provide a foundation for an anarchistsociology?
4. In your view, what is the value (if any) of anarchism for understanding contemporarysocieties?
Seminar 2: Martineau (5 items)
Core Reading (1 items)
Engendering the social: feminist encounters with sociological theory - Marshall, Barbara L.,Witz, Anne, Dawson Books, 2004
Book | Chapter: Arni, Caroline and Charlotte Müller. 2004. More sociological than thesociologists? Undisciplined and undisciplinary thinking about society and modernity in thenineteenth century.
Readings (3 items)
Feminist theorists: three centuries of women's intellectual traditions - Dale Spender, 1983Book | Essential | READING 1 See: Weiner, Gaby. 1983. Harriet Martineau: A
Reassessment (1802-1876), pp. 60-74, available online.
Harriet Martineau: theoretical and methodological perspectives - Hill, Michael R.,Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan, 2001
Book | Essential | READING 2 See: Lengermann, Patricia Madoo and Jill Niebrugge. 2001:The Meaning of ‘Things’: Theory and Method in Harriet Martineau’s How to Observe Moralsand Manners (1838) and Émile Durkheim’s The Rules of Sociological Method (1895).(Available as an e-book.)
The Blackwell companion to major classical social theorists - Ritzer, George, 2003Book | READING 3 See: Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan. 2003. Harriet Martineau. This text is
available as an e-book: http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2985061.
Questions:
(Core Reading) What arguments do Arni and Müller advance for considering Martineau andd'Hééricourt as 'sociological classics'?
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1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of Martineau's work, according to Weiner?
2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of Martineau's work, according to Lengermannand Niebrugge?
3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of Martineau's work, according toHoecker-Drysdale?
4. In your view, what is the value (if any) of Martineau's work for understandingcontemporary societies?
Seminar 3: DuBois (5 items)
Core Reading (1 items)
The Philadelphia Negro: a social study - Du Bois, W. E. B., Anderson, Elijah, Eaton, Isabel,c1996
Book | Chapters 1 and 18. This text is available as an e-book:http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2985062.
Readings (3 items)
W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Heterogeneity: How The Philadelphia Negro Shaped AmericanSociology - Marcus Anthony Hunter, 2015-6
Article | READING 1
The sociology of antiracism in Black and White - Melissa Brown, 2017-02Article | READING 2
The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology - Aldon D. Morris,Dawson Books, 2015
Book | READING 3 - Chapter 8
Questions:
(Core Reading) What implications does Du Bois draw from the results of his study?
1. According to Hunter, what is the contemporary relevance of Du Bois's notions ofheterogeneity?
2. In Brown's view, how can Du Bois's work inform a contemporary sociology of antiracism?
3. In Morris's view, what are some of the legacies of Du Bois's scholarship?
4. What do you think the value of Du Bois's sociology is for understanding contemporarysocieties?
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Seminar 4: Nisbet (5 items)
Core Reading (1 items)
The quest for community: a study in the ethics of order and freedom - Robert A. Nisbet,Ross Gregory Douthat, ProQuest (Firm), 2010
Book | Chapter 3: The Problem of Community
Readings (3 items)
History as the Decline of Community: Nisbet on Modernity - Gergely EgedyArticle | READING 1
- Philosophy Documentation CenterWebpage | READING 2: Harold, Philip. 2010. Robert Nisbet’s Visible and Invisible
Communities. The Catholic Social Science Review 15, 175-191.
The American Sociologist - Bryan S. Turner, 2014Journal | READING 3: Turner, Bryan S. 2014. Robert Nisbet and the Problem of
Community. The American Sociologist 45 (1), 68-83.
Questions:
(Core Reading) Nisbet describes the 'problem' of community as 'moral', 'intellectual','social' and 'political'. What does he mean?
1. What is Egedy's assessment of Nisbet's writing on community and the modern state?
2. Harold claims that Nisbet's book The Quest for Community 'falls shorts of what itintends to prove'. In what way?
3. What is Turner's assessment of the importance of the concept of 'community' in Nisbet'swork?
4. In your view, is Nisbet's work on 'community' still relevant for understanding societytoday?
Seminar 5: Goffman (5 items)
Core Reading (1 items)
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The Interaction Order: American Sociological Association, 1982 Presidential Address -Erving Goffman, 1983
Article
Readings (3 items)
Mobile Phone Communication: Extending Goffman to Mediated Interaction - Ruth Rettie,2009-06
Article | READING 1
The experience of defeat: Applying Goffman to examine a football tournament for sociallyexcluded homeless individuals - F. Segura M Trejo, M. Attali, J. Magee, 2015-10-27
Article | READING 2
The selfie and the transformation of the public–private distinction - Michael James Walsh,Stephanie Alice Baker, 2017-08-03
Article | READING 3
Questions:
(Core Reading) What are the main features of 'the interaction order', according toGoffman?
1. How does Rettie adapt Goffman's approach to social interaction to analyse mobilephone communication?
2. How do Trejo and his colleagues use Goffman's sociology to analyse the Homeless WorldCup?
3. How do Walsh and Baker use Goffman's work to analyse the production andcommunication of selfies?
4. In your view, what value, if any, does Goffman's work have for understandingcontemporary societies?
Seminar 6: Bourdieu (7 items)
Core Reading (3 items)
Contemporary sociological theory - Craig J. Calhoun, 2012Book | Bourdieu, Pierre. 2007 (1994). Structures, Habitus, Practices.
This is an extract from the following book:
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The logic of practice - Pierre Bourdieu, c1990Book | See Book I, Chapter 3.
Readings (3 items)
How will e-cigarettes affect health inequalities? Applying Bourdieu to smoking andcessation - Frances Thirlway, 2018
Article | READING 1
Class Diversity and Youth Volunteering in the United Kingdom - Jon Dean, 2016-02Article | READING 2
Among friends: a qualitative exploration of the role of peers in young people's alcohol useusing Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field and capital - Georgie J. MacArthur, Nina Jacob,Pandora Pound, Matthew Hickman, Rona Campbell, 2017-01
Article | READING 3
Questions:
(Core Reading) How does Bourdieu define the concept of 'habitus'?
1. How does Thirlway draw on Bourdieu's work to analyse the use of e-cigarettes?
2. How does Dean use Bourdieu's work to explore the relationship between social classand volunteering?
3. How do MacArthur et al apply concepts from Bourdieu's work to throw light on aspectsof young people's use of alcohol?
4. In your view, what value, if any, does Bourdieu's work have for understandingcontemporary societies?
Seminar 7: Intersectionality (5 items)
Core Reading (1 items)
Intersectionality - Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge, 2016Book | Chapter 1
Readings (3 items)
Power, Inequality and Identification: Exploring Diversity and Intersectionality amongst
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Older LGB Adults - Ann Cronin, Andrew King, 2010-10Article | READING 1
Intersectionality theory applied to whiteness and middle-classness - Cynthia Levine-Rasky,2011-03
Article | READING 2
Intersectionality as a new perspective in international business research - Udo Zander,Lena Zander, Seán Gaffney, Jeanette Olsson, 2010-12
Article | READING 3
Questions:
(Core Reading) What examples do Collins and Bilge give of how intersectionality can beused as an analytical tool?
1. According to Cronin and King, how can theories of intersectionality help us tounderstand better the lives of older LGB adults?
2. How does Levine-Rasky apply intersectionality theory to analyse the intersections ofwhiteness and middle-classness?
3. How do Zander et al applying 'the intersectionality perspective' to study a multinationalcompanies?
4. What is the contribution of intersectional theory to contemporary social theory? Givereasons for your answer.
Seminar 8: Southern Theory (5 items)
Core Reading (1 items)
Decentering social theory - ProQuest (Firm), 2013Book | This chapter - Connell, Raewyn. 2013. Under Southern Skies.
Readings (3 items)
Approaching Southern theory: explorations of gender in South African education - DebbieEpstein, Robert Morrell, 2012-08
Article | READING 1
Decentring hegemonic gender theory: the implications for educational research - ShailajaFennell, Madeleine Arnot, 2008-10
Article | READING 2
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Decolonising disability: thinking and acting globally - Helen Meekosha, 2011-10Article | Reading 3
Questions:
(Core Reading) According to Connell in this chapter, what were the main arguments andclaims she sought to develop in her book Southern Theory (2007)?
1. According to Epstein and Morrell, how has southern theory been developed in relation togender and education in South Africa?
2. According to Fennell and Arnot, what important contributions have 'Southern gendertheorists' located in Africa and South Asia made to thinking about gender?
3. How does Meekosha attempt to develop 'a southern theory of disability'?
4. What do you think are the strengths and weaknesses of Connell's argument about'Southern Theory'?
Seminar 9: Critical Anthropology and 'Dark Theory' (5 items)
Core Reading (1 items)
Dark anthropology and its others - Sherry B. Ortner, 2016-06Article
Readings (3 items)
Brexit, Trump, and Anthropology: Forum | American Ethnological SocietyWebpage | READING1: Read the short articles by Gusterson, Evans, Walley and Knight,
pp. 209-219 and 231-242.
Brexit positions: neoliberalism, austerity and immigration—the (im)possibilities? of politicalrevolution - Kathy Powell, 2017-9
Article | READING 2
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology - Sarah Green, Chris Gregory,Madeleine Reeves, Jane K. Cowan, Olga Demetriou, Insa Koch, Michael Carrithers, RubenAndersson, Andre Gingrich, Sharon Macdonald, Salih Can Açiksöz, Umut Yildirim, ThomasHylland Eriksen, Cris Shore, Douglas R. Holmes, Michael Herzfeld, Marilyn Strathern,Casper Bruun Jensen, Keir Martin, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Georgos Poulimenakos, Stef Jansen,Čarna Brkovič, Thomas M. Wilson, Niko Besnier, Daniel Guinness, Mark Hann, PamelaBallinger, Dace Dzenovska, 2016-11
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Article | READING 3
Questions:
(Core Reading) What does Ortner mean by 'dark anthropology' or 'dark theory'?
1. What light, if any, do the short articles by Gusterson, Evans, Walley and Knight throw onthe result of the Brexit referendum?
2. What light, if any, does Powell throw on the result of the Brexit referendum?
3. What light, if any, do the short comments by Green et al throw on the result of theBrexit referendum?
4. How do you think that a 'critical anthropology' might help us to understand the Brexitreferendum result (or the election of Donald Trump as US president)?
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