CLASS SCHEDULE
First Unit:  Introduction: The Understanding of Society
 
Readings: R&G Part 1 E&A Part 1
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continuity/change

paradigms

 Auguste Comte
Readings: R&G Part 2.3
E&S p. 83

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Second Unit: Herbert Spencer

Readings: R&G  2.4 and E&S p. 84

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Evolution - concept

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  Emile Durkheim
Readings: R&G  2.6 and E&S p. 79-88

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Test 1  APRIL 19, 2006

Third Unit:   Karl Marx
Readings: R&G  2.5  and E&A 2

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Max Weber
Readings: R&G  2.7 and E&A 4

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Fourth Unit: Harriet Martineau
Readings:  R&G  2.9 and E&A p. 195

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Readings:  R&G  2.9 and E&A5

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  On-line Reserve:" The Women Founders: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Martineau

"Present at the Creation," Feminine and Feminist Ethics. Ch. 1

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Test 2  MAY 10, 2006


Fifth Unit: Georg Simmel
Readings:R&G  2.8 and E&A 6

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Talcott Parsons
Readings:R&G  2

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Sixth Unit: W.E.B. DuBois
Readings:R&G  2.10 and E&A 7
On-Line reserve:  "Master and Man" Keith Byerman on W.E.B. Dubois

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Thorstein Veblen
Readings:  R&G  2.11 and E&A p. 25-26

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Seventh Unit: George Herbert Mead
Readings:  R&G  2.12 and E&A 8

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Erving Goffman
Readings:  On Line -reserves: “On Face Work” Erving Goffman
“Symbolic Interactionism: the Basic Principles” Ritzer p. 347-361
“Erving Goffman: dramturgy and the Interaction Order” Wallace & Wolf p. 235-247
“The Presentation of Self to Others” Erving Goffman

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Assignment is due:   MAY 24, 2006

FINAL (Test 3):  MONDAY JUNE 5, 2006 7-10:00 AM.

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