SOCIOLOGY

Sociology 4260 Cultural Theory (Summer II 2008) Prof. Gabe Ignatow Review Sheet for Mid-term Exam I. (July 23 at 11am in class) The 1 st mid-term exam will cover the following readings: William Sewell jr., The Concept(s) of Culture (email) Philip Smith, Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory? (Smith I) Lynn Spillman, Introduction: Culture and Cultural Sociology (Spillman) Richard Harvey Brown, Textuality and the Postmodern Turn in Sociological Theory (Smith II) Philip Smith, 37-57 (Smith I) Raymond Williams, Base and Superstructure (Spillman) Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (Spillman) Habermas, Jurgen, “On Systematically Distorted Communication” Philip Smith, 13-18 (Smith) Max Weber, “The Social Psychology of the World Religions” (email) Max Weber, “The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism” (email) Bryan Turner, Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses (email

We will have a review session during the last hour of class on Monday. The mid-term exam will be at 11am in class on Wednesday. I will post a review sheet on the web site, and email it to you, today or tomorrow. GI

See you Wednesday in Wooten 211 at 9:15am

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/weber/world/sect/sect_frame.html

Don't feel you have to watch this. It might be interesting to some of you. http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ULLZm_x_YE

How to write a response paper These should be 1 page single-spaced . You should discuss your reaction to one or more of the readings in a way that reveals your knowledge and understanding of the readings. Are the authors right? Insightful? Are their ideas useful, for others or for yourself? Have they changed your thinking regarding the direction of your own research? The first response paper is due at the start of class this Wednesday July 9 . Graduate students will need to write papers every week. Undergrads will need to write 3 papers over the course of the semester. This week you should discuss one or more of the following readings: William Sewell jr., The Concept(s) of Culture (handout) Philip Smith, Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory? (Smith I) Lynn Spillman, Introduction: Culture and Cultural Sociology (Spillman) Richard Harvey Brown, Textuality and the Postmodern Turn in Sociological Theory (Smith II) Philip Smith, 37-57 (Smith I) Raymond Willia

Schedule for Graduate Students' Presentations Week 2 Mon. July 14, Adam Harold W ed July 16 Shilpa K. Week 3 Monday July 21 Fatih Tombul Wednesday July 23 Maia Cudhea Week 4 Monday July 28 Christy Cooksey Wednesday July 30 Megan Carroll Week 5 Monday August 4 Kenya Keme Wednesday August 6 Giovanni dortch

Dear Students, Our class begins Monday. If you read this and are taking the class as 5260, begin to consider which day you would like to lead class discussion. The assignments are on the class syllabus: http://gignatow.googlepages.com/culturaltheory Here is the rough organization of the course: week 1: intro and Marxist/Critical cultural theory week 2: Marxist/neo-Marxist theory and Weberian theory of religion week 3: neo-Weberian cultural theory and cultural anthropology week 4: Symbolic Boundaries, Bourdieu, and the Sociology of Culture week 5: Durkheimian and neo-Durkheimian cultural sociology, sociology of culture and cognition

If you can't access your grades, just wait for the UNT system to process them. I guess it won't take too long. GI