| Course ID: | SOCI 3010. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Sociology of Culture |
Course
Description: | Recent trends in American culture, focusing on traditions, practices, and products, including books, music, and film. Organizing themes are culture as both a source of social integration and an arena of strife, and the reciprocal effects of culture and human agency. |
| Oasis Title: | SOC OF CULTURE |
| Prerequisite: | SOCI 1101 or SOCI 1101H or SOCI 2600 or permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The objective of this course is for students to develop an understanding of the
complex interaction between culture and society. Students will review classical
and contemporary sociological approaches to the understanding of this interaction
and apply these approaches to empirical topics. The understanding developed in
this course will facilitate those interested in material culture, historically
concrete symbolic systems of thought and feeling, as well as sociological
phenomena in general.
Students will be asked to demonstrate their mastery of the course content in written
work that is appropriate for an academic context.
Students will be asked to demonstrate their mastery of the course content in speech
that is appropriate for an academic context. |
| Topical Outline: | Topics covered in this class may included but not be confined to:
Marxian approaches to culture
Durkheimian approaches to culture
German approaches to culture
Structural Functional approaches to culture
Practice Theories
Hegemony
Popular Culture
Subculture
Space
Globalization |
| Honor Code Reference: | All students must be familiar with university policy on cheating. |