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.
Athena 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)
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
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