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SOC 5/4-260 Cultural Theory Summer II

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

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