Sociology and Social TheorySOC 212 – Spring 2015

Hall-Atwater 84Monday-Wednesday 2:40-4:00pm

Instructor: Kerwin KayeEmail: kkaye@wesleyan.eduOffice: PAC 105Office Hours: Mondays 1-2pm

2nd and 4th Wednesdays (1-2pm) (and by appointment)

Class Description

This course presents an overview of social theories and examines their relationship to social practices and social institutions. Classical social theory emerged in the mid-to-late 1800s, and was in many ways an attempt to make sense of industrialization and the new social patterns which emerged in its wake. Drawing upon the rationalist theories of the Enlightenment, these 19th century theorists sought to demonstrate that social life had its own patterns and “laws,” and that society was much more than a collection of disconnected individuals. Theorists in the mid-20th century often upended these insights, focusing on everyday interactions and describing how these smaller interactions shaped the larger society. More recently, a new generation of “post-modern” theorists has re-examined some of the basic presuppositions of earlier social analysts, questioning the basis of social-scientific knowledge and refiguring the relationship between the “macro” and the “micro” in the process. In this class, we will read selections from all three generations of social theorists, focusing upon ways in which their thinking shapes our actions within and understanding of the contemporary world.

Course Requirements

There are three requirements for the class:—attend all classes and be prepared to discuss the assigned readings—write four response papers of approximately one page (and no more than two pages)

regarding that day’s readings. These response papers should first briefly summarize some of the main points of the readings, and then offer commentary upon them. You get to select the four weeks to which you will respond, however no late papers will be accepted (i.e. you may not turn in papers for prior weeks). Response papers should be sent to me by 6pm the day before we will discuss that reading in class. See the separate description of this assignment for further details.

—write three 8-10 page papers, due at the beginning of class on:- Wednesday, February 25th (week 5)- Monday, April 13th (week 10)- Wednesday, May 6th (final day of class)

Course Materials

Course materials are available through a Dropbox link: www.dropbox.com/sh/uv5gfdp9zt8y369/AAAnGaBX3UipS6QtWOpbiO4va?dl=0

Two books are also required for the course. Both are available via Broad Street Books: 1) Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM , and the New Psychiatry (by Bradley Lewis)2) History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume 1 (by Michel Foucault)

Grading

Class attendance/participation: 20%Four reading response papers: 20% (5% each)First paper: 20%Second paper: 20%Final paper: 20%

Key Dates

Tuesday, January 27th (no later than 6pm): First Response Paper dueWednesday, February 25th (at beginning of class): Paper 1 dueMarch 6th-23rd: Spring BreakWednesday, April 8th (at beginning of class): Paper 2 dueWednesday, May 6th (at beginning of class): Paper 3 dueNo Final Exam

Paper Guidelines

All papers should be well organized and proof-read. Please double-space all of your papers, and use one inch margins. Please use Times New Roman (12 point) as your font. If you email me your paper, send it both as an attached file and with the text pasted into the body of the email (in case I have difficulty with the attachment). Plagiarism will not be excused; if in doubt, provide a citation. Late papers will suffer as grade deduction as follows: between 15 minutes and 1 hour (3.5%); between 1 hour and 2 hours (5%); between 2 and 24 hours (10%); each additional day follows the same rate of loss

Use of Electronic Devices within the Classroom

Use of electronic devices is not allowed. Permission will be granted in exceptional cases.

Disability Resources

I am happy to accommodate concerns regarding disabilities. Wesleyan also asks that the following statement be included on all course syllabi:

Wesleyan University is committed to ensuring that all qualified students with disabilities are afforded an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from its programs and services. To receive accommodations, a student must have a documented disability as defined by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, and provide documentation of the disability. Since accommodations may require early planning and generally are not provided retroactively, please contact Disability Resources as soon as possible. If you believe that you need accommodations for a disability, please contact Dean Patey in Disability Resources, located in North College, Room 021, or call 860-685-5581 for an appointment to discuss your needs and the process for requesting accommodations

Schedule Overview

Week 1: Introduction and Marxism, Part I (48 pgs)January 26th: Introduction and OverviewJanuary 28th: Karl Marx and the Critique of Political Economy

Week 2: Marxism, Part II (102 pgs)February 2nd: AlienationFebruary 4th: Dialectics, Commodity Fetishism, and Ideology

Week 3: Max Weber (126 pgs)February 9th: The Rise of Capitalism and the Protestant EthicFebruary 11th: Interpretive Sociology

Week 4: Émile Durkheim (109 pgs)February 16th: The Collective ConscienceFebruary 18th: Social Facts and Functionalism

Week 5: Psychoanalysis and Social Theory (92 pgs)February 23rd: Sigmund FreudFebruary 25th: Herbert Marcuse (First paper due at beginning of class)

Week 6: Structural-Functionalism (100 pgs)March 2nd: Talcott Parsons and Robert MertonMarch 4th: Critiques of Functionalism

March 6th-23rd: Spring Break

Schedule Overview (continued)

Week 7: Symbolic Interactionism and its Variations (115 pgs)March 23rd: Society and the SelfMarch 25th: Labeling Theory and Erving Goffman

Week 8: Social Exchange Theory and the Rational Actor (111 pgs)March 30th: Rational Exchange and Social StructureApril 1st: Social Exchange in Action, Criticisms

Week 9: Sociobiology and Critique (113 pgs)April 6th: SociobiologyApril 8th: Critique

Week 10: Pierre Bourdieu / Introduction to Postmodernism (119 pgs)April 13th: Bourdieu on Habitus and Symbolic Power

(Second paper due at beginning of class)April 15th: Postmodernism and Its Predecessors

Week 11: Critical Approaches to Knowledge and Science (119 pgs)April 20th: Power/Knowledge and the Science of PsychiatryApril 22nd: Situated Knowledges

Week 12: Foucault, Sexuality, and the Rise of Bio-Power (129 pgs)April 27th: Foucault’s Critique of the Repressive HypothesisApril 29th: Bio-Power

Week 13: Race and Social Theory (127 pgs)May 4th: Critical Race TheoryMay 6th: Queer Theory (Final Paper due at beginning of class)

Assigned ReadingsWeek 1: Karl Marx and the Critique of Political Economy (81 pgs)

Karl Marx (1818-1883) Friederich Engels (1820-1895)

January 28th (81 pgs): Marx, Karl and Friederich Engels. 1848. “Manifesto of the Communist Party,” in The

Annotated Communist Manifesto, pp. 37-71 (35 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1849. “Wage Labor and Capital,” in The Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 203-17

(15 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1867. Capital, Volume 1, pp. 270-4, 375-83, 422-4, 429-31 (16 pgs)Ritzer, George. 2008. “Structures of Capitalist Society,” “Commodities,” “Capital,

Capitalists, and Proletariet,” “Exploitation,” “Capitalism as a Good Thing,” and “Materialist Conception of History” in Classical Sociological Theory, pp. 140-2, 144-51 (10 pgs)

Crossley, Nick. “Crisis,” in Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory, pp. 40-3 (4 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1852. “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” in Karl Marx: A

Reader, pp. 277 (1 pg)

Week 2: Karl Marx, Part II:

February 2nd: Alienation (49 pgs, plus 7 optional pgs)Ritzer, George. 2008. “Karl Marx: a Biographical Sketch,” in Classical Sociological

Theory, pp. 134-5 (2 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1844. “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844” in Sociological

Theory in the Classic Era, pp. 41-51 (11 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1846. “The German Ideology,” in The Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 160 (1 pg)Marx, Karl. 1867. “Capital, volume 3,” in The Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 441 (begin with

“In fact…”) (1 pg)Ritzer, George. 2008. “Human Nature,” “Labor,” and “Alienation” in Classical

Sociological Theory, pp. 135-40 (5 pgs)Crossley, Nick. “Alienation,” in Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory, pp. 3-8 (5 pgs)Messinger, Eli. 1978. “Capitalist Origins of Mental Distress,” Catalyst: A Socialist

Journal of the Social Service, 3 (12 pgs) Bottomore, Tom. 1983. Selections from A Dictionary of Marxist Thought.

“Emancipation” (1 pg)Ritzer, George. 2008. “Structures of Capitalist Society,” “Commodities,” “Capital,

Capitalists, and Proletariet,” “Exploitation,” and “Capitalism as a Good Thing” in Classical Sociological Theory, pp. 140-2, 144-51 (10 pgs)

Crossley, Nick. “Crisis,” in Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory, pp. 40-3 (4 pgs)Optional: Collins, Randall. “Friedrich Engels: The Sociologist in the Shadows,” in Four

Sociological Traditions, 56-62 (7 pgs)

February 4th: Dialectics, Commodity Fetishism, and Ideology (53 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1846. “The German Ideology,” in Karl Marx: Selected Readings, pp. 102-3,

110-2, 129-31 (8 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1846. “The German Ideology,” in Karl Marx: A Reader, pp. 185-6 (2 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1844. “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel” in Karl Marx: A Reader, pp.

301-2 (2 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1844. “A Critique of Political Economy” in Karl Marx: A Reader, pp. 187-8

(2 pgs)Ritzer, George. 2008. “Materialist Conception of History” and “Ideology,” in Classical

Sociological Theory, pp. 149-58 (10 pgs)Williams, Raymond. 1983. “Ideology,” in Keywords, pp. 153-7 (4 pgs)Navarro, Vicente. 1980. “Work, Ideology, and Science: The Case of Medicine,” pp. 538-

42 (5 pgs)Marx, Karl. 1867. “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof,” in Capital,

volume 1, pp. 163-77 (15 pgs)Ritzer, George. 2008. “Fetishism of Commodities,” in Classical Sociological Theory, pp.

142-4 (2 pgs)Bottomore, Tom. 1983. Selections from A Dictionary of Marxist Thought. “Commodity

Fetishism” and “Fetishism” (3 pgs)

Week 3: Max Weber

Max Weber (1864-1920)

February 9th: The Rise of Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic (62 pgs)Weber, Max. 1905. Selections from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in

Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity, pp. 75-85, 96-107, Weber, Max. 1921. Selections from Economy and Society (in From Max Weber).

“Chapter IX: The Sociology of Charismatic Authority” (parts 1, 2) pp. 245-50; “Chapter VII: Class, Status, Party” (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10) pp. 180-91, 194-5 (24 pgs)

Ritzer, George. 2008. Classical Sociological Theory, pp. 24-8, 201-6, 217-9, 230-5 (19 pgs) — a few pages not copied well

February 11th: Max Weber and Interpretive Sociology (64 pgs)Weber, Max. 1921. Selections from Economy and Society (in From Max Weber).

“Chapter VIII: Bureaucracy” (Parts 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14), pp. 196-204, 214-6, 221-35, 240-4; “Chapter X: The Meaning of Discipline” (Intro, Parts 1, 3), pp. 253-5, 261-2 (34 pgs) — page 204 missing

Ritzer, George. 2008. Classical Sociological Theory, pp. 196-201, 211-17, 220-3 (15 pgs) Cockerham, William, Alfred Rütten, and Thomas Abel. 1997. “Conceptualizing

Contemporary Health Lifestyles,” Sociological Quarterly, 38(2): 324-6 (2 pgs)Ritzer, George and David Walczak. 1986. “The Changing Nature of American Medicine.”

Journal of American Culture, 9(4): 43-51 (9 pgs)Ritzer, George. 2000. Excerpt from The McDonaldization of Society, in Max Weber:

Readings and Commentary on Modernity, pp. 357-60 (4 pgs)

Week 4, September 25th: Émile Durkheim

Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)

February 16th: The Collective Conscience (64 pgs)Durkheim, Émile. 1893. The Division of Labor in Society, 31-44, 60-62 (start at top of

page 60; end with “…is vaguely aware.”), 83-86 (start with “In the end…”), 213-23, 291-2, 301-22 (46 pgs)

Ritzer, George. 2008. Read from “Introduction” to “Justice” (including Biographical Sketch) in Classical Sociological Theory, pp. 160-74 (15 pgs)

Crossley, Nick. “Anomie,” in Key Concepts in Social Theory, pp. 8-11 (3 pgs)

February 18th: Social Facts and Functionalism (45 pgs)Durkheim, Émile. 1895. The Rules of Sociological Method, pp. 50-9, 119-25, 245-7, 251-

2 (21 pgs)Durkheim, Émile 1897. Suicide, pp. 46-52, 254-8 (9 pgs)Durkheim, Émile. 1893. The Division of Labor in Society, pp. 49-50 (1 pg)Durkheim, Émile. 1912. Elementary Forms of Religious Life, pp. 255-8, 463-7 (8 pgs)Ritzer, George. 2008. Read all sections on “Suicide” in Classical Sociological Theory, pp.

174-9 (6 pgs)

Week 5: Psychoanalysis and Social Theory

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

February 23rd: Sigmund Freud (51 pgs)Freud, Sigmund. 1930. Civilization and Its Discontents, pp. 37-42, 48-52, 64-89, 93-6,

104-12 (43 pgs)Bocock, Robert. 1983. Sigmund Freud, pp. 92-99 (7 pgs)Ritzer, George. 2008. “Sigmund Freud: a Biographical Sketch,” in Classical Sociological

Theory, pp. 30 (1 pg)

February 25th: Herbert Marcuse and Critique (41 pgs)First paper due at beginning of class

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) Nancy Chodorow (b. 1944)

Marcuse, Herbert. 1955. Eros and Civilization, pp. vii-xi, 11-9, 31-7, 40-9 (33 pgs)Chodorow, Nancy. 1989. Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory, pp. 125-8, 148-51 (8

pgs)

Week 6: Structural-Functionalism

Talcott Persons (1902-1979) Robert Merton (1910-2003)

March 2nd: Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton (52 pgs)Parsons, Talcott. 1951. “The Functional Prerequisites of Social Systems,” in Social

Theory: Roots and Branches, pp. 180-5 (5 pgs)Parsons, Talcott. 1951. The Social System, pp. 251-3, 255-6, 280-2, 436-8 (10 pgs)Parsons, Talcott. 1943. “Sex Roles in the American Kinship System,” in Social Theory:

The Multicultural and Classic Readings, pp. 324-8 (4 pgs)

March 4th: Critiques of Functionalism (48 pgs)Ritzer, George. 2008. “Talcott Parsons” in Classical Sociological Theory, pp. 429-32,

439-52 (18 pgs)Merton, Robert. 1949. “Manifest and Latent Functions,” in Social Theory: The

Multicultural and Classic Readings, pp. 328-34 (6 pgs)Merton, Robert. 1938. “Social Structure and Anomie,” in Social Theory: Continuity &

Confrontation, A Reader, pp. 76-87 (9 pgs)OPTIONAL - Eisenstadt, S.N. 1990. “Functional Analysis in Anthropology and

Sociology: An Interpretive Essay,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 243-8 (5 pgs)

Bograd, Michele. 1984. “Family Systems Approaches to Wife Battering: A Feminist Critique,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 54(4): 558-68 (9 pgs)

OPTIONAL - Silverstein, Louise. 2003. “Classic Texts and Early Critiques,” in Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in Social Context, pp. 17-35 (16 pgs)

OPTIONAL - Orr, Jackie. 2006. Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder, pp. 119-24, 150-6, 186-8 (13 pgs)

Gans, Herbert. 1971. “The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All,” Social Theory, 2(2): 20-4 (5 pgs)

March 6th-23rd: Spring Break!

Week 7: Symbolic Interactionism and its Variations

Charles Cooley (1864-1929) George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) Herbert Blumer (1900-1987)

Howard Becker (b. 1928) Peter Berger (b. 1929) Thomas Luckman (b. 1927)

Erving Goffman (1922-1982)

Week 7: Symbolic Interactionism and its VariationsMarch 23rd: Society and the Self (54 pgs)

Cooley, Charles. 1902. “The Self as Sentiment and Reflection,” in Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Theory and Microsociology, pp. 24-9 (4 pgs)

Garner, Roberta. 2000. “Charles Cooley,” Social Theory: Continuity & Confrontation, A Reader, pp. 177-8 (1 pg)

Mead, George Herbert. 1934 [from lectures given in the 1920s]. “The Self as Social Structure,” Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Theory and Microsociology, pp. 30-5 (5 pgs)

Blumer, Herbert. 1962. “Society as Symbolic Interaction,” in Social Theory: Roots and Branches, pp. 232-8 (7 pgs)

Blumer, Herbert. 1969. “Society in Action,” in Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Theory and Microsociology, pp. 320-4 (5 pgs)

Collins, Randall. 1994. “The Microinteractionist Tradition,” in Four Sociological Traditions, pp. 253-64 (11 pgs)

Wallace, Ruth, and Alison Wolf. 1999. “Symbolic Interactionism: Methodology,” in Contemporary Sociological Theory, pp. 217-9 (3 pgs)

Berger, Peter, and Thomas Luckman. 1966. “Society as a Human Product,” in Social Theory: The Multicultural & Classic Readings, pp. 418-23 (6 pgs)

Crossley, Nick. “Social Construction/Social Constructionism,” in Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory, pp. 296-300 (4 pgs)

Conrad, Peter, and Joseph Schneider. 1980. Deviance and Medicalization: from Badness to Sickness, pp. 28-35 (8 pgs)

March 25th: Labeling Theory and Erving Goffman* (61 pgs)Labeling Theory:

Becker, Howard. 1963. “Becoming a Marijuana User,” in Social Theory: Continuity & Confrontation, A Reader, pp. 334-46 (12 pgs – SKIM ONLY)

Rosenhan, D.L. 1973. “On Being Sane in Insane Places,” Science, 179(4070): 250-8 (8 pgs)

Condry, John, and Sandra Condry. 1976. “Sex Differences: A Study of the Eye of the Beholder,” Child Development, 47(3): 812-9 (7 pgs)

Edwards, Derek, Malcolm Ashmore, and Jonathan Potter. 2003. “Death and Furniture: Arguments against Relativism,” in Social Construction: A Reader (6 pgs)

Erving Goffman:Goffman, Erving. 1959. “The Presentation of Self,” in Inside Social Life: Readings in

Sociological Theory and Microsociology, pp. 108-16 (9 pgs)Goffman, Erving. 1961. “Characteristics of Total Institutions,” in Asylums, pp. xiii, 83-92

(10 pgs)Goffman, Erving. 1961. “The Moral Career of the Mental Patient,” in Asylums (excerpted

in Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Theory and Microsociology, pp. 362-70) (9 pgs)

*Note: Goffman identifies as a Durkheimian, and not with Symbolic Interactionism. More in class as to his inclusion during this week’s readings.

Week 8: Social Exchange Theory and the Rational Actor

George Homans (1910-1989) James Coleman (1926-1995) Peter Blau (1918-2002)

March 30th: Rational Exchange and Social Structure (61 pgs)Homans, George. 1958. “Social Behavior as Exchange,” in Social Theory: Roots and

Branches, pp. 287-96 (10 pgs)Coleman, James. 1990. “Human Capital and Social Capital,” in Social Theory: Roots and

Branches, pp. 297-304 (7 pgs)Hechter, Michael. 1990. “The Emergence of Cooperative Social Institutions,” in Social

Theory: Roots and Branches, pp. 305-313 (8 pgs)Blau, Peter. 1994. “Formulation of Exchange Theory,” in Social Theory: Roots and

Branches, pp. 314-20 (7 pgs) Collins, Randall. 1985. “The Rational/Utilitarian Tradition,” in Four Sociological

Traditions, pp. 133-63 (29 pgs)

April 1st: Social Exchange in Action, Criticisms (50 pgs)Turner, Jonathan, and Jan Stets. 2005. “Exchange Theorizing on Emotions,” in The

Sociology of Emotions, pp. 179-84 (6 pgs)Stack, Carol. 1970. All Our Kin, pp. 108-29 (21 pgs)Green, Donald, and Ian Shapiro. 1994. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, pp. 3, 13-

21 (9 pgs) England, Paula, and Barbara Kilbourne. 1990. “Feminist Critiques of the Separative

Model of Self,” Rationality and Society, 2(2): 156-71 (14 pgs)

Week 9: Sociobiology and Critique

Edward Osborne Wilson (b. 1929) Steven Pinker (b. 1954)

Stephen Jay Gould 1941-2002 Richard Lewontin (b. 1929)

Carol Tavris (b. 1944) Roger Lancaster

Week 9: Sociobiology and CritiqueApril 6th: Sociobiology (64 pgs)

Wilson, E.O. 2000 [1975]. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, pp. 550-1, 553-5, 562 (10 pgs)

Wright, Robert. 1995. The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life, pp. 55-74 (20 pgs)

Buller, David. 2008. “Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology,” Scientific American, December 19 (9 pgs).

Lewontin, Richard. 1991. Biology as Ideology, pp. 27-35, 87-104 (25 pgs)

April 8th: Critique (49 pgs)Second paper due at beginning of classPinker, Steven. 2002. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, pp. 51-5,

343-51, 435-9 (18 pgs)Bleier, Ruth. 2001. “Sociobiology, Biological Determinism, and Human Behavior,” in

Women, Science, and Technology, pp. 175-93 (18 pgs)Lancaster, Roger. 2003. The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture,

pp. 196-9, 202-10 (11 pgs)Science Daily. 2006. “Women’s Math Performance Affected by Theories on Sex

Differences,” 10/26/2006 (2 pgs)

Week 10 (Part 1): Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

April 13th: Bourdieu on Habitus and Symbolic Power (61 pgs)Bourdieu, Pierre. 1972. Outline of a Theory of Practice, pp. 72-3, 76, 78-82, 86-7, 94-5,

167-70 (14 pgs)Wacquant, Loïc. 1998. “Pierre Bourdieu,” in Key Sociological Thinkers (15 pgs)Wacquant, Loïc. 2005. “Habitus,” in International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology

(4 pgs)Crossley, Nick. “Habitus,” pp. 104-13 (9 pgs); “Capital (in the work of Pierre Bourdieu),”

pp. 28-33 (5 pgs); “Doxa,” pp. 67-71 (4 pgs); “Field,” pp. 80-6 (6 pgs); “Symbolic Power/Symbolic Violence, pp. 316-20 (4 pgs) in Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory (total: 28 pgs)

Week 10 (Part 2): Introduction to Postmodernism

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) William James (1842-1910)

Brad Lewis (b. 1956) Jane Flax

April 15th: Postmodernism and Its Predecessors (58 pgs)Postmodernism’s Precursors:

Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1873. “On Truth and Lie,” pp. 45-7 and “”How the ‘True World’ Finally Became a Fable” pp. 485-6, both from The Portable Nietzsche (3 pgs)

James, William. 1907. Pragmatism, pp. 17-23 (7 pgs); Pragmatism: The Classic Writings, pp. 132-3 (2 pgs); Pragmatism, pg. 86 (1 pgs)

Introducing PostmodernismLewis, Bradley. 2006. Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM , and the New Psychiatry: The Birth

of Postpsychiatry, pp. 1-37 (38 pgs)Flax, Jane. 1993. “Multiples: On the Contemporary Politics of Subjectivity,” Human

Studies, 33-49 (read only 33-37; 4 pgs)Flax, Jane. 1987. “Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory,” Signs,

12(4): 623-6 (3 pgs)

Week 11: Critical Approaches to Knowledge and Science

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Donna Haraway (b. 1944)

April 20th: Power/Knowledge and the Science of Psychiatry (67 pgs)Foucault, Michel. 1979 [1975]. Discipline and Punish, pp. 27-8 (1 pg)Foucault, Michel. 1994 [1976]. “Two Lectures,” in Culture/Power/History: A Reader in

Contemporary Social Theory, pp. 210-1 (1 pg)Foucault, Michel. 1979 [1975]. Discipline and Punish, pp. 125-6 (1 pg)Foucault, Michel. 1980. “Truth and Power,” in Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews

Other Writings, 1972-1977, pp. 131-3 (3 pgs)Crossley, Nick. “Power/Knowledge,” in Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory, pp. 222-

7 (5 pgs)Lewis, Bradley. 2006. Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM , and the New Psychiatry: The Birth

of Postpsychiatry, pp. 38-60, 97-120, 143-64 (56 pgs)

April 22nd: Situated Knowledges (52 pgs)Haraway, Donna. 1988. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and

the Privilege of Partial Perspective,” Feminist Studies, 14(3): 575-99 (22 pgs)Scott, James. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human

Condition Have Failed, pp. 1-14 (11 pgs)Peterson, Alan, and Deborah Lupton. 1996. The New Public Health: Health and Self in

the Age of Risk, pp. 28-47 (19 pgs).

Week 12: Foucault, Sexuality, and the Rise of Bio-Power

Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

April 27th: Foucault’s Critique of the Repressive Hypothesis (56 pgs)Seidman, Steven. 2003. The Social Construction of Sexuality, pp. 30-6 (5 pgs)Foucault, Michel. 1978 [1976]. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Volume 1),

pp. 3-49 (46 pgs)

April 29th: Bio-Power (73 pgs)Foucault, Michel. 1978 [1976]. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Volume 1),

pp. 81-109, 117-27, 135-47, 150-9 (60 pgs)Kulick, Don, and Deborah Cameron. 2003. “A Nutshell Version of Foucault’s Concept of

Power,” in Language and Sexuality, pp. 112 (1 pg)Seidman, Steven. 1998 [1994]. Contested Knowledge: Social Theory in the Postmodern

Era, pp. 243-7 (5 pgs)Crossley, Nick. “Body-power/Bio-power,” in Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory, pp.

23-8 (5 pgs)Kaye, Kerwin. 2005. “A Distinctly non-Definitive Glossary of Foucauldian Terms” (2

pgs)

Week 13: Critical Race Theory / Queer Theory

Angela James Cathy Cohen (b. 1961) Chandra Mohanty (b. 1955)

May 4th: Critical Race Theory (61 pgs)James, Angela. 2001. “Making Sense of Race and Racial Classification,” Race & Society,

4: 235-47 (12 pgs)Cohen, Cathy. 1996. “Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of

AIDS” in Queer Theory/Sociology, pp. 362-81, 387-94 (23 pgs)Mohanty, Chandra. 2003 [1984]. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and

Colonial Discourses,” in Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, pp. 17-42 (26 pgs)

Steven Seidman Judith Butler (b. 1956)

May 6th: Queer Theory (38 pgs)Final paper due at beginning of classSeidman, Steven. 1997. Difference Troubles: Queering Social Theory and Sexual

Politics, pp. 185-97, 90-4 (16 pgs)Butler, Judith. 2001. “Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of

Transsexuality.” GLQ, 7(4): 621-36 (15 pgs)Beyond Marriage. 2006. “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: a New Strategic Vision for All

Our Families and Relationships,” online signing statement (available at <www.beyondmarriage.org> (7 pgs)