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MAJOR THEMES

• WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? Seeing with a sociological imagination
  

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• WHO, WHERE, WHY SOCIOLOGY DEVELOPED?

  • Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857)

  • Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

  • Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)

  • Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)

  • Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917)

  • Max Weber (1864 - 1933)

  • Jane Addams (1860 - 1935)

  • William Edward Burghhardt Du Bois (1868 - 1963)

  • George Herbert Mead (1863 - 1931)

  • Talcott Parsons (1902 - 1979)

  • Dorothy Smith (1974)

  • Robert K. Merton (1910)

  Theoretical perspectives in Sociology

  • structural functionalism

  • conflict theory

  • symbolic interactionism

  Macro and Micro

  The indigenous paradigm

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  • SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

    Quantitative research

    • Surveys

    • Statistics

    Qualitative research

    • Participatory Action Research

    • Long interviews

    • Life histories

    • Relativism

    Research Methods

    • Participant Observation (fieldwork)

    • Content analysis

    The indigenous paradigm

    Positivism - relativism

    RESEARCH ETHICS

  • CULTURE

    What is culture?

    Cultural relativism

    Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

    Norms, mores, folkways
    
    

  • SOCIALIZATION

    
    
    

    1. Nature/nurture?

    2. How we learn to be our social selves?

    3. The social development of the Self, Mind Emotions?

    4. Socialization and gender

    5. Agents of socialization

    6. Resocialization

    7. Socialization: the Life Course

    8. Social construction of self: the individual vs conformity
    
    
    

    1. Isabelle, Ohio (1938)

    2. Genie, California (1970)

    3. Skeels and Dye (1939, 1966)

    4. Charles Horton Cooley and the looking glass self (1864 - 1929) Symbolic interactionist

    5. George Herbert Mead (1863 - 1931) Symbolic interactionist

    6. Jean Piaget The development of thinking (1896 - 1980)

    7. Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis (1856 - 1939)

    8. Melvin Kohn Working-class parents and conformity. (1959, 1963, 1976...)

    9. Erving Goffman total institutions (1961)

    10. Carol Gilligan Mapping morality
    
    
    

  • SOCIAL STRUCTURE / SOCIAL INTERACTION

    
    
    

    MACRO

    
    
    

    The macrosociological perspective:
    
    

    1. Culture

    2. Social Class

    3. Social Status

    4. Roles

    5. Groups

    6. Nine Social Institutions

    7. What holds society together? (mechanical and organic solidarity)

    8. Societies: Four social revolutions ()

    9. Gemeinschaft / Gesellschaft
    
    
    

    MICRO

    
    
    

    The microsociological perspective:
    
    

    1. Personal space

    2. Social Class

    3. Dramaturgy: The presentation of Self in Everyday Life

    4. Ethnomethodology: Uncovering background assumptions

    5. Groups

    6. Social Construction of Reality
    
    
    

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  • SOCIAL CONTROL / DEVIANCE

    
    
    
    Canadian Criminal Justice Association
    An independent voluntary organization working for an improved criminal justice system in Canada. Keeps you abreast of current criminal justice issues. Excellent links to related sites.
    Department of Justice, Canada
    A consideration of the system of justice in Canada. Includes links to other justice sites.
    Access to Justice Network
    A bilingual site for Canadian justice and legal information and services. Organized by headings such as Aboriginal people, the disabled, etc. Includes a section on sexual assault.
    CAVEAT: Canadians Against Crime Everywhere
    The organization's mission is to contribute to the creation and maintenance of a just, peaceful society through public education, changes to the justice system and ensuring the rights of victims.
    The Great Young Offenders Act Debate
    A site devoted to debate about the Young Offenders Act in Canada.
    National Fraud Information Center
    Part of the National Consumer's League in the U.S. organized to improve prevention of fraud and improvement of enforcement of the law.
    Sociologists Dead and Very Much Alive
    Contains works by Durkheim, Garfinkel, Goffman, and R. K. Merton on deviance.
    Corpwatch
    Corporate Watch; the online watch dog of corporate injustice

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  SOCIAL INEQUALITY

  • Poverty

  • Stratification |

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  SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

  1. Discuss institutions such as family,""religion, politics, law and education in general terms and then specifically as these relate to the Inuit culture.

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  SOCIAL CHANGE

  GLOBALIZATION

  • Selections: Collective Behaviour and Social Movements

  • Social Change: Modernity

    Discussion: Left and right: blurring of boundaries