Welcome to SOCS 001 Summer class

Dear students

Welcome to SOCS 001 summer class

Title of our course is Society and Culture (with Family Planning, HIV/AIDS
Education and Bikol Culture) . We will study our society through different sociological topics.

Topics of Readings and course requirement 

* Along the course, some parts might be changed. 

Introduction, scope of Sociology

What can sociology study?

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

Ø  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

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

Ø  Key concepts: rationalization, McDonaldization, consumerism, sociology, sociological imagination, history of sociology, Macro and Micro sociology

b. Theoretical perspectives in sociology

Ø  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: 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

Ø  Key concepts: Functionalism, Conflict theory and symbolic interaction

Requirement:  Read and understand C. Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination

Quiz 1.  Sociological imagination (it can be group discussion instead)

Quiz 2.  Introduction of sociology

Quiz 3 . Sociological perspective

Group Activity1: Define sociological imagination

Group Activity2: Situational analysis using sociological perspectives

II. Sociology as a Science

a. Origin of scientific method

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

Ø  Supplemental Reading:  Sociology by Richard T. Schaefer (pp.29-49)

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

b. Methods of Sociological Research

Ø  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

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

c.  Practice of Research

Ø  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

Ø  Key concepts:  Value-Free Sociology, participant observation

Requirement:  Write the report (sociological research) by group

Quiz 4.  Research method

III. Self and Groups

a.  Sociological Approaches to the Self

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

Ø  Key concepts: self, looking-glass self, impression management, dramaturgical approach

b.  Agents of Socialization

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

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

Activity (individual) :  Draw yourself. Showing who you think you are and another showing who people think you are.

IV. Culture

a. Culture and Society

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

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

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

b. Elements of Culture

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

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

c. Cultural Variation

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

Ø  Key concepts: cultural assimilation

Quiz 4. culture 

Activity 1 (group presentation): Act out your culture

Activity 2: lecture on different culture/film viewing/riverside walking

Requirement: reflection paper of movie/Thin or thick description   

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

Ø  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

Ø  Key concepts: family planning, marriage, kinship
 

b. Marriage and Diverse Lifestyles

Readings: The Violent Family by Suzanne K. Steinmetz (pp.248-254) in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology Stratification  **　1989 Edition, 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 based on interest of the students.

Key concepts:  different forms of marriages, monogamy, polygamy, domestic violence, (Family related topics : RH bills, Population, HIV/AIDS, OFW, same sex marriage ...)

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

Ø  Reading: On being sane in insane places by David L. Rosenhan i in Seeing Ourselves: Classic,

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

b. Types of Social Control

Ø  Reading: the same of above

c. Conformity and Deviance

Ø  Key concepts: reasons of deviance, norms, rules, labeling , anomie

Requirement 1: Interview a Barangay Chairman/Official. Describe his/her programs in eradicating drug addiction/crimes in your locality. What measures are undertaken to prevent this?
Activity(Individual/group): Come to class with deviant attire - Deviant day

Quiz 5: Social control

VII. Stratification

 a.  Class and inequality

Ø  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

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

Ø  Key concepts: stratification

b.  Categorically  differences (Religion and Ethnicity)

Ø  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)

Ø  Key concepts: in-group, out-group

c.  Sex and gender

Ø  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

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

d. Categorical differences (ethnicity and religion)

Ø  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

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

Requirement 1: Interview locally active NGO or organization which work for poverty alleviation. Describe the programs in eradicating poverty. What measures are undertaken to prevent this? What is the challenge(s)?

VIII. On Social Change
a. Factors Leading to Social Change

Ø  Reading: Ø  Reading: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber. in Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings

                 

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

 b. Social Change Theories

Ø  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

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

Activity(group presentation): Propose one campaign for societal change

e.g.) not throwing garbage, not using plastic ect...