Soc 454 Sociological Theory Paper

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Soc 454 Sociological Theory Fall Quarter 2008 MTWR 10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Ackerman Hall Room 105 Dr. Rosemary Powers 116 Ackerman Hall Phone: 962-3819; e-mail: rpowers@eou.edu; webpage at http://www2eou.edu/~rpowers Mailbox in room 202 Ackerman (Social Science Office) Office Hours: Mondays 12 noon – 1:00 p.m., Wednesdays 11:00 – 12:00 noon. and by appointment Course Description: The EOU catalog description for this course reads as follows: "The origin and growth of ideas leading to the development of sociology as a discipline. Study of the principal frames of reference in contemporary sociological theory. Prerequisites: SOC 204 and SOC 205; a minimum of 15 hours of sociology is recommended." Beyond this…show more content…
22: Functional for Whom? Reflections on Conflict and Strangers Read: --Georg Simmel, Conflict as the Basis of Group Formation, in Kivisto—R&B, pp. 121 – 125. --Georg Simmel, The Stranger, in Kivisto—R&B, pp. 126-129 Thursday, Oct. 23: The Problem of the Color Line, Double Consciousness, and Violence Read: --W.E.B. Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk available on line at http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/W_E_B_DuBois/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk/ Read the 2 chapters titled Forethought and Of Our Spiritual Strivings (7 pp.) Be sure to continue clicking at the bottom of the screen to find the complete number of pages for each short section) --Ida B.Wells “Lynch Law” (scroll down to chapter 4 from The Reason Why the colored American is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wells/exposition/exposition.html) "Under some conditions people flourish. Under other conditions, although the spirit is willing, people atrophy. How do we create conditions under which people flourish? How do we design cultures and organizations in which people thrive? This should be the task of sociology." -W. E. B. Du

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