SY2015-2016 2nd semester Course outline

Topics of Readings and course requirement

My consultation time: 
Monday: 8:30-11:00
Tuesday: 9:00-10:00
Wednesday: 8:30-10:30
Thursday: 9:00-10:00
Friday:9:00-10:00

Venue: Faculty lounge (Dolan 1st floor)

Introduction, scope of Sociology

What can sociology study?

I. Discipline of Sociology
a. Sociological imagination, history and biography : Sociological imagination, foci of sociology

・  Readings: The promise of sociology by C. Wright Mills (pp. 19-26) 

Invitation to sociology by Peter Berger (pp. 3-7) in Down to earth sociology (9thEd.) by James Henslin

・  Key concepts: sociology, sociological imagination, history of sociology, Macro and Micro sociology

b. Theoretical perspectives in sociology

・  Readings: The uses of poverty: The poor pay all by Herbert Gans (pp. 314-320) in Down to earth sociology (9th Ed.) by James Henslin
Out of utopia: Out of Utopia: Toward a Reorientation of Sociological Analysis Author(s): Ralf Dahrendorf Source: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Sep., 1958), pp. 115-127

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~hoganr/SOC%20602/Spring%202014/Dahrendorf%201958.pdf

・  Key concepts: Functionalism, Conflict theory and symbolic interaction

Requirement:  Assignment: ReadC. Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and define "sociological imagination"

Quiz 1: Theoretical perspective

II. Sociology as a Science

a. Origin of scientific method

・  Key concepts: Epistemology, empiricism, ontology, idealism, constructivism, interpretivism, induction, deduction 

・   Work: give an examples of induction, deduction

b. Methods of Sociological Research

・  Readings: How sociologists do research by James Henslin (pp. 31-42) in Down to earth sociology (9th Ed.) by James Henslin

The role of theory in sociology by Janet Saltzman Chafetz (pp. 15-20) in readings for introducing sociology (Ed.) Richard Larson and Ronald Knapp

・  Key concepts: Research model, surveys, experiments, data-gathering, qualitative and quantitative

c.  Practice of Research

・  Readings: Street corner society by William Foote Whyte (pp. 59-67) in Down to earth sociology (9th Ed.) by James Henslin

The Case for Value-Free Sociology by Max Weber (pp. 22- 23) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology

・  Key concepts:  Value-Free Sociology, participant observation

Requirement:  Write simple research sociological research

Quiz 2.  Research method

III. Self and Groups

a.  Sociological Approaches to the Self

・  Reading: The presentation of self in everyday life by Erving Goffman (pp. 117-127) Down to earth sociology (9th Ed.) by James Henslin

・  Key concepts: self, impression management, dramaturgical approach

b.  Agents of Socialization

・  Reading: The Self by George Herbert Mead (pp. 80-87) Down to earth sociology (9th Ed.) by James Henslin

・  Key concepts:  agent of socialization, institutions, Stages in Child Development

Assignment:  Draw yourself. Showing who you think you are and another showing who people think you are.

Quiz 3

IV. Culture

a. Culture and Society

・  Reading:  What Culture Is by A.L. Kroeber (pp.36-40) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic,

Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology**　1989 Edition

・  Key concepts: Norms, Sanctions (formal and informal, positive and negative)

b. Elements of Culture

・  Reading: Town fiesta: An anthropologist’s view by Frank Lynch (pp. 219-236) in Philippine society and the individual

・  Key concepts: culture as learned and shared, material and non-material culture, components of culture (gestures, languages, values, etc.)

c. Cultural Variation

・  Reading:  Assimilation in American Life by Milton M. Gordon International Migration Digest Vol. 1, No. 2 (Autumn, 1964), pp. 232-235

・  Key concepts: cultural assimilation

Quiz 4

V. Social Structure and Social Control
a. Elements of Social Structure

・  Reading:

・  Key concepts:  social reality,

b. Types of Social Control

・  Reading:

・  Key concepts:

c. Conformity and Deviance

・  Reading: Suicide by Emile Durkheim (pp. 125-131) in Readings for introducing sociology (Ed.) Richard Larson and Ronald Knapp

・  Key concepts: norms, rules, labeling, anomie

・  Assignment: Interview a Barangay Chairman/Official. Describe his/her programs in eradicating drug addiction/crimes in your locality. What measures are undertaken to prevent this?

Requirement: Interview a Barangay Chairman/Official. Describe his/her programs in eradicating drug addiction/crimes in your locality. What measures are undertaken to prevent this?
Come to class deviant

VI. The Family and Intimate Relationships
a. Sociological Perspectives on the Family

・  Reading: The Origin of the Family by Kathleen Gough (pp.238-247) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology Marriage and Diverse Lifestyles**　   1989 Edition

・  Key concepts: family planning, marriage, kinship
 

b. Marriage and Diverse Lifestyles

・  Reading: The Violent Family by Suzanne K. Steinmetz (pp.248-254) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology Stratification  **　1989 Edition

・  Key concepts:  monogamy, polygamy

c. Family related issues

・  Reading: World population crisis by Paul A. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich (pp. 374-383) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology Stratification  **　1989 Edition

* Reading material might be changed.

・  Key concepts: issues of family, domestic violence, (Family related topics : RH bills, Population, HIV/AIDS, OFW ...)

VII. Stratification

 a.  Class and inequality

・  Readings:  Some principles of Stratifications by Kingsley et al (pp. 159-)

Big and little people: Social class in the rural Philippines by Frank Lynch (pp. 104-111) in Philippine society and the individual

Homeless on the Streets of New York by John R. Coleman (pp. 78 - 89) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology Marriage and Diverse Lifestyles**　   1989 Edition

・  Video: The Slum - Episode 3: Storm Rising, Aljazeera http://video.aljazeera.com/channels/eng/videos/the-slum---episode-3%3A-storm-rising/3819055288001

・  Key concepts: stratification

b.  Categorically  differences (Religion and Ethnicity)

・  Reading: Ethno-religious groups, identification, trust and social distance in the ethno-religiously stratified Philippines by Menandro Abanes et al. in Research in Social    Stratification and Mobility (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2014.02.001)

・  Key concepts:

c.  Sex and gender

・  Reading: The role of theory in sociology by Janet Saltzman Chafetz (pp. 15-20) in readings for introducing sociology (Ed.) Richard Larson and Ronald Knapp

・  Key concepts: sex, gender, gender roles, social construction of gender

d. Categorical differences (ethnicity and religion)

・  Reading: Ethno-religious groups, identification, trust and social distance in the ethno-religiously stratified Philippines by Menandro Abanes et al. in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2014.02.001) and draft BBL

・  Key concepts: religion in the context of sociology, ethnicity, religion, social distance, trust, identification, Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL)

VIII. On Social Change

 a. Factors Leading to Social Change

・  Reading: Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (pp.

     58-65)

・  Key concepts: vested interest, superstructure, historical materialism, substructure

 b. Social Change Theories

・  Reading: The Meeting Place by John Paul Lederach

     Journey Towards Reconciliation, forthcoming from Harald Press, Spring 1998.

     http://conflict.colorado.edu/the-meeting-place.html

・  Key concepts: positive peace, negative peace, cultural violence, direct violence, structural violence, peacemaking, peacekeeping, peacebuilding

c.  Globalization

・  Reading: The McDonaldization of society by George Ritzer (pp. 494-504) in Down to earth sociology (9th Ed.) by James Henslin

・  Key concepts: rationalization, McDonaldization, consumerism