Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
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Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SOC 6300 - [Cultural Sociology]


Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

M. Berezin.

Cultural Sociology is a flourishing sub-field within sociology that incorporates a wide range of substantive areas (art, inequality, family, politics) and uses a wide range of methods from the ethnographic to the textual.  This course proposes to explore some of the leading works and ideas in that field and to analyze how culture operates in social life.  It begins by analyzing the different meanings that sociologists have ascribed to culture.  We begin by reading classics like Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life then move on to contemporary theorists such as Geertz, Bourdieu, Alexander and Swidler.  We then read a series of empirically grounded case studies that make culture the basis of the analysis (i.e., Lamont, Money Manners and Morals).  We will also analyze certain cultural objects such as films, art, etc. to put into practice some of the ideas from the readings.  There is no course such as this taught by a practicing cultural sociologist in the university.




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