I. INTRODUCTION/TSS/ AND COURSE OBJECTIVES
II. DISCOVERING SOCIOLOGY (The Sociological Perspective)
(Thompson/Hickey Chapter 1)
A. Definition of Sociology
B. Sociological Concepts
-----Bracketing
-----Critical
-----Radical
-----Presupposing
-----Obvious
-----Social Act/Relation/Situation
-----Synergism
-----Levels of Reality
-----Definition of the Situation/Thomas Theorum
-----Paradigms and Paradigm Article and Purple
-----Ideology
-----Epistemology/Logic
C. Why Study Sociology?
-----Why Study Sociology?
D. Problems With the Sociological Perspective
E. Sociology and Common (Non-)Sense
-----Is Sociology Common Sense?
-----Common Sense Sayings
F. Social Structure: Domain/Core Assumption
-----Social Structure
G. Assumptions of the Sociological Perspective
-----Three Derivative Assumptions
H. The Sociological Imagination
-----Notes on the S.I.
-----S.I. Questions
I. Sociological Consciousness
-----Motifs of Sociological Consciousness
J. Sociological Theory
-----Organicism
-----Sociological Meta-Theories
-----Paradigms of Sociology
-----Sociological Theoretical Perspectives
K. Sociological Theorists
-----Emile Durkheim
----------Durkheim's Anomie
-----Max Weber
----------What is Social Action?
-----Karl Marx
----------Marx's Humanist Radicalism
III. DOING SOCIOLOGY (Science and Social Research)
(T/H Chapter 2)
A. Sociology of Knowledge: Epistemology
-----Logic Systems
----------Formal Logic
----------Dialectical Logic
-----Effects of Logic in Everyday Life
B. General Issues in Science and Research Methods
-----General Issues in Science and Research Methods
C. Methods
-----Activities We Already Do
-----Methods Chart
-----Roles in Sociological Observations
IV. CULTURE AND SOCIETY
(T/H Chapter 3)
A. Definition of Culture
-----Culture Outline
-----100% American
B. Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativity
C. Components and Dimensions of Culture
----- Socially Conditioned Filter
-----No Contest: The Case Against Competition
----- The "Number One" Obsession
-----Body Ritual of the Nacirema
V. SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIALIZATION
(T/H Chapters 4 & 5)
A. Socialization Process
-------Nature vs. Nurture
-------Sociobiology
-------Reflections of.../Reactions to...
-------Internalization
B. Institutions
-----Institutions---Outline
-----Institutional Grooves Diagram
-----Social Institutions---Essay
-----Types of Societies Table
-----Agents of Socialization
C. Status
-------Ascribed
-------Achieved
D. Structural Model of Society
-------Mills' Model
E. Role Theory
-----Roles
-----SELF
-------Socialized/Pseudo/Social Self
-------Unsocialized/Authentic/Core Self
-------Looking-Glass Self
-----Stanford Prison Experiment Slideshow
-----The Stanford Prison Experiment: Still powerful after all these years
-----Lost in a Masquerade
F. Patterns of Social Interaction
-----Exchange
-----Cooperation
-----Competition
-----Conflict
-----Coercion
VI. SOCIAL GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS
(T/H Chapter 6)
A. Types of Groups
B. Groupthink...and...Groupthink
C. Formal Organizations
VII. CONCLUSION
A. Human Agency
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Society as Drama: Human Agency in Conditions
----------(Outline of Chapter 6 of Invitation to Sociology)
B. Change
-----A Call to Celebration
-----The Future is Now
