Foundations of Social Theory 2

Prof. Judith Perrolle
541 Holmes , ext. 3861
Office Hours W 1:30-3:30
email: perrolle@neu.edu

Date	Topic
Jan 6	Overview
Jan 13	Ideology and the Sociology of Knowledge

Readings:

• "Karl Mannheim" pages 369-398 in Irving M. Zeitlin, Ideology and the Development of Social Theory, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1997.
• "Paradigm for a Sociology of Science" pages 7-40 in Robert Merton,The Sociology of Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 1973.

• " Modern Functionalism in Anthropology and Sociology", Chapter 3 in Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, Functionalism London:Benjamin/Cummings, 1979.
• Daniel Bell, "The Social Framework of the Information Society", pages 500-549 in Tom Forrester, ed. The Microelectronics Revolution, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981.

• excerpt from Tom Bottomore, The Frankfurt School, NY: Tavistock, 1984.
• excerpt from Stanley Aronowitz, Science as Power, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minn. Press, 1988.

• Irving Goffman, Stigma, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1963.
• Randall Collins, "Theoretical Continuities in Goffman's Work", pages 41-63 in Paul Drew and Anthony Wooton, eds. Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order, Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1988.

• "Michel Foucault;" pages 37-57 in George Ritzer, Postmodern Social Theory, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
• Michel Foucault, pages 1-31 and 195-228 in "Discipline and Punish%quot;, New York: Vintage, 1979.

• "Jurgen Habermas: Modernity as an 'Unfinished Project' " pages 152-155 in George Ritzer, Postmodern Social Theory, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
• "Jurgen Habermas" by Nathan Pusey. p. 39-86. London: Tavistok, 1987.

• "Society as Objective Reality", pages 47-128 in Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, NY: Random House; 1966.

Mar 10

Classical Theory Review

Mar 17

Contemporary Theory Review

Mar 24

Take-Home Theory Exam Distributed

They should be turned in to the Department Secretary, who will assign them numbers for anonymous grading.

Mar 31	Take-Home Theory Exam Returned (paper and electronic copies)
Topic	Feminist Theory , with Prof. Breines

Apr 7

Using Social Theory in Your Work

• Judith A. Perrolle, Surveillance and Privacy in Computer Supported Cooperative Work in David Lyon and Elia Zureik, eds., New Technology, Surveillance and Social Control. University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

• Max Weber, pages 104-124 in The Rational and Social Foundations of Music
• Howard S. Becker, "The Professional Dance Musician and His Audience", The American Journal of Sociology, vol.57, no.2 (sept, 1951), 136-144.