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Társadalomtudományi Kar

Szervezet

TÁTK Szociológia Tanszék

Kód

ESZOCBA02

Cím

Introduction to Sociology 2.

Tervezett félév

Tavaszi

Meghirdetve

2024/25/2

ECTS

4

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

Introduction to Sociology is a two-semester lecture course that aims to provide an overview of a fairly wide range of concepts, theories, and research areas of sociology. Students become familiar with the main theoretical frameworks and research traditions of the discipline, with the use of analytic concepts in the interpretation or explanation of social phenomena, as well as with characteristic research problems in specific areas of social scientific inquiry.  The first part of the course, in the first semester, focuses on conceptual, theoretical, and methodological foundations, while its continuation in the second semester, the current one (Introduction to sociology 2), outlines some major fields of research in sociology and – through their lens – some particular domains of social life in modern societies from deviance to education and from religion to work.

Tantárgy tartalma

1-2. Social stratification and social mobility I-II Structural explanations. Social structure and social stratification. Three basic sources of inequalities (economic resources, social honor/prestige, power/authority) and three basic types of social stratum (classes, status groups, social blocks). Classes according to Marx and Weber. John Goldthorpe’s class scheme. The explanation of stratification by Davis and Moore. The fragmentation of stratification. Sorokin and the beginnings of social mobility research. Vertical and horizontal, intergenerational and intragenerational mobility. Mobility tables and their interpretation. Classic hypotheses about the trends and levels of social mobility. Relative and absolute mobility. Current trends, mobility of men and women. Required reading: Scott, John. “Class, Status, and Command: Towards a Theoretical Framework.” Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies 29 (1997): 73-89. Recommended readings: Abbott, Pamela and Geoff Payne, “Women’s Social Mobility: The Conventional Wisdom Reconsidered,” in The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models, ed. Geoff Payne and Pamela Abbott. London, New York, and Philadelphia: Falmer, 1990. Pp. 11-22 Goldthorpe, John H. “Social Class and the Differentiation of Employment Contracts.” In On Sociology, 2nd ed. 2 vols. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Vol. 2, pp. 101-124. Hertel, Florian R. Social Mobility in the 20th Century. Class Mobility and Occupational Change in the United States and Germany. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017. Pp. 19-54. Lipset, Seymour Martin and Terry Clark, “Are social classes dying?” International Sociology 6 (1991): 397-410. Weber, Max. “Class, Status, and Party.” In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, ed. H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. London: Routledge, 1998 [1948]. Pp. 180-195. 3-4. Power, politics, and the state I-II Max Weber and Steven Lukes on power. Weber on rulership/authority, ruling organizations, administrative staff, and claims to legitimacy. Weber on the state and bureaucracy. Michael Mann on state power. Nation and nation states. Collective political action: Marx, Tocqueville, Tilly. Tilly on social movements. Required reading: Tilly, Charles. “WUNC.” In Crowds, ed. Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. 312-329 Recommended readings: Giddens et al. Introduction to Sociology. Ch. 13, pp. 389-429. Lukes, Steven. Power: A Radical View. 2nd ed. Ch. 1, pp. 14-59. Mann, Michael. “The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results.” European Journal of Sociology 25 (1984): 185-213. Weber, Max. “Politics as a Vocation.” In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, ed. H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. London: Routledge, 1946, pp. 77-128. 5-6. Poverty and welfare I-II The Elizabethan Poor Law – beginnings of state-level regulation of caring for the poor. Absolute and relative poverty. Rowntree’s poverty line. Consumption based and income based measurement of relative poverty. Poverty and the life-course. The rise of social insurance. Welfare and the welfare state. Marshall’s concept of social citizenship. Esping-Andersen’s comparative approach to the welfare state. Required reading: Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. “The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State.” International Journal of Sociology 20 (1990): 92-123. Recommended readings: Garland, David. “The Welfare State: A Fundamental Dimension of Modern Government.” European Journal of Sociology 55 (2014): 327-364. Giddens, Anthony and Philip W. Sutton. Sociology. 8th ed. Cambridge: Polity, 2017. Ch. 13, pp. 525-550. Marshall, T. H. “Citizenship and Social Class.” In Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950. Pp. 1-85. Tomka, Béla. A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Ch. 5., pp. 154-191. 7-8. Social control and deviance I-II Durkheim on social order, social control, and anomie. Merton’s alternative account the latter. The emergence and career of the concept of deviance. Approaches to deviance as objective breaching of norms and as labelling. Moral panics. Goffmans’s concept of stigma. Explanations of deviant behavior: differential association, control, primary deviation vs. secondary deviation. Foucault on the rise of incarceration, disciplinary practices and panopticism. Required reading: Becker, Howard. Outsiders: Studies in The Sociology of Deviance. New York: The Free Press, 1966. Ch. 1, pp. 1-18. Recommended readings: Cohen, Stanley. Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers. London and New York: Routledge, 2002 [1972], ch. 1, pp. 1-20. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. by Alan Sheridan. 2nd ed. New York: Vintage, 1995. Pt. 3, ch. 3: “Panopticism,” pp. 195-228. Goffman, Erving: Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963. Ch. 1, pp. 1-40. Merton. Social Theory and Social Structure. Ch. VI: “Social Structure and Anomie,” pp. 185-214. Durkheim, Emile. Suicide: A Study in Sociology. Trans. J. A. Spaulding and G. Simpson. London: Routledge, 1952. Bk. 2, ch. 5, pp. 241-276. 9. Religion Religion as a/the central topic of classical sociology and a specific research domain of contemporary sociology. Durkheim’s definitions of religion. Religion as collective representation. Rodney Stark and the rational choice approach to religion. Religions organizations: church, sect, cult. Secularization. Required reading: Davie, Grace. The Sociology of Religion. London etc.: Sage, 2007. Ch. 3, pp. 45-66. Recommended readings: Durkheim, Emile. “Concerning the Definition of Religious Phenomena,” in Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks, ed. by S. F. Pickering. London: James Clarke, 1975, pp. 74-99. Pollack, Detlef. “Varieties of Secularization Theories and Their Indispensable Core.” The Germanic Review 90 (2015): 60-79. Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge, “Of Churches, Sects, and Cults: Preliminary Concepts for a Theory of Religious Movements,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 18 (1979): 117-131. 10-11. Education I-II Durkheim on education and the function of schools as societies in miniature. Parsons on the function of schools in socialization and social allocation of individuals. Expansion of schooling and its measurements. Collins’ concept of credential inflation. Meritocracy and equal opportunity.  The Coleman Report. Bernstein, Bourdieu and Kahn on educational inequalities and social reproduction. Willis on social reproduction and counter-school culture. Required reading: Khan, Shamus Rahaman. Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. 1-17. Recommended readings: Bernstein, Basil. “A Socio-Linguistic Approach to Socialization: With Some Reference to Educability.” In: Class, Codes and Control, vol. 1: Theoretical Studies Towards a Sociology of Language. London: Routledge, 1971. Pp. 143-169. Collins, Randall. “Credential Inflation and the Future of Universities,” In The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University, ed. by Steven Brint (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002), pp. 23-46. Parsons, Talcott. “The School Class as a Social System: Some of Its Functions in American Society.” In: Social Structure and Personality. New York: Free Press, 1970 [1964], pp. 129–154 Willis, Paul. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1981 [1977], pp. 1-116. 12. Work Meanings of “work”. The rise of the modern world of work: wage labor, employment, workplace, working time. Division of labor and the specialization of jobs. Scientific management (Taylorism). Weber on the motivation to work and work ethic.  Goldthorpe’s typology of work orientations. Beck on the destandardization of labor. Fordism, post-Fordism, McDonaldization. Women and work. Required reading: Beck, Ulrich. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Trans. Mark Ritter. London, Newbury Park, and New Delhi: Sage, 1992. Ch. 6, pp. 139-150. Recommended readings: Bradle, Harriet. “Gender and Work.” In The Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment, ed. Stephen Edgell, Heidi Gottfried, and Edward Granter. London: Sage, 2016. Pp. 73-92. Giddens et al. Introduction to Sociology. Ch,. 14, pp. 435-471. Volti, Rudi. An Introduction to the Sociology of Work and Occupations. Los Angeles etc.: Sage, 2012. Ch. 3-4, pp. 49-79. Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Stephen Kalberg. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. Ch. 2, pp. 13-37. 13. Population and urbanization What is demography. Measuring births and deaths: crude, age-specific and total fertility rate – crude and age-specific death rates, life expectancy. Fecundity and fertility. Fertility models.  models and explanations. Population change: natural and total increase/decrease. Demographic transitions. The Chicago School and urban ecology. Wirth on cities and urbanism. Patterns and hypotheses of urban growth. Suburbanization. Gentrification. Global cities. Required reading: Sassen, Saskia, “The Global City: Introducing a Concept.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs 11.2 (2005): 27-43. Recommended readings: Anderson, Elijah. “The Iconic Ghetto.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, no. 642 (2012): 8-24. Fishman, Robert. “Megalopolis Unbound.” The Wilson Quarterly 14 (1990): 24-45. Giddens et al. Introduction to Sociology. Ch. 19, pp. 641-685. Wirth, Louis. “Urbanism as a Way of Life” American Journal of Sociology, 44 (1938): 1-24.

Számonkérés és értékelés

The course is to be completed with a WRITTEN EXAM at the end of each semester. The exam will consist of multiple-choice questions about the lectures and the required readings. GRADING: 0–49% à 1; 50–55% à 2; 56–70% à 3; 71–85% à 4; 86–100% à 5 Students can also collect EXTRA percentage POINTS (to be added to their exam results) by answering online questions projected at the beginning of the lectures.

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