SOC2001 Module Outline 2017 - 18 - Final

SOC2001: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL THEORY
2017-18
Provisional Outline
MODULE CONVENOR
Dr Jonathan G. Heaney
Office location: Room 02.003, House 1, College Park
Email: j.heaney@qub.ac.uk
Phone: 9097 3482 (extension 3482 if calling from within the university)
Office Hours: TBA
MODULE AIMS
This module aims to provide an introduction to the main schools of thought in social theory
throughout history, but particularly in the Twentieth Century, which saw significant expansion and
diversity in social theory alongside the growth of Sociology. There will be a focus upon the key
issues that different schools of social theory have addressed, so that these schools may be
compared, as well as an explanation of the central concepts in each school. There will also be a
consideration of the importance of epistemology to social theory. Important texts in the historical
development of social theory will be examined, particularly in the tutorials.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students will gain an understanding of how social theory has developed historically (particularly in
relation to the growth of Sociology in the Twentieth Century), how they compare to each other,
and how they may be critically assessed in terms of providing an accurate interpretation of the
social world. Students will be able to compare the different epistemological positions that
underpin social theories, and have knowledge of the central concepts and texts of different
schools. Students will also gain an understanding of the importance of social theories for
conducting social scientific research.
SKILLS STATEMENT
Practical/Study Skills
This module will provide practice in:
Analyzing, evaluating and interpreting information
Developing and defending reasoned opinions
Developing and demonstrating independent thinking
Employability Skills
This module will provide experience in:
Communication
Using the spoken word - participating in discussions
Using the written word
Information and communication technology:
Searching and obtaining information
Entering and processing data
Presenting information
Improving own learning and performance
Demonstrating a degree of independence while learning Reviewing
progress and achievements
Problem solving
Identifying a problem
Exploring options
Selecting an appropriate solution Use
of appropriate resources
Synthesis, critical analysis, and interpretation of information
FEEDBACK
Students will get verbal feedback on their understanding of the module during periods for
discussion during the lectures and during the tutorials. Written feedback on their
understanding and on their written skills will be provided through detailed comments on essays.
In addition, students may make an appointment to meet with the module convenor to discuss
the content of the module, the forms of assessment, or any other issues relating to the module.
TIME AND VENUE
This module is taught in Semester 1. There is one lecture each week: 13.00 15.00 on
Mondays in Room 01/37, 6 College Park.
In addition, students must sign up for one of the weekly one-hour tutorial groups.
LECTURE TIMETABLE
Lectures are given by Dr Jonathan G. Heaney, unless stated otherwise. Please note that you
must read the relevant chapter in the set text, as set out below. This is essential. This text is
Alan Swingewoods A Short History of Sociological Thought (third edition) (2000,
Basingstoke: Palgrave). It is important that these readings are undertaken each week, prior to
class, as they will form part of the group discussion in lectures. See the note on class
preparation below. Copies are available in Blackwells bookshop.
Part A: The Classical Tradition
Week 1: Introduction to the module; the emergence of the classical tradition: thinking the
social (part 1)
Required reading: Swingewood, Chapter 1
Week 2: The emergence of the classical tradition: thinking the social (part 2); Karl Marxs
method: practice and historical materialism
Week 3: mile Durkheims method: social facts and structuralism; Max Webers method:
Verstehen and ideal types
Required reading: Swingewood, Chapters 3 and 4
Week 4: Epistemology and the philosophy of the social sciences

Part B: Consolidation in the Early- to Mid- Twentieth Century
Week 5: Talcott Parsons: social solidarity and social structure

Week 6: Interpretive sociology: everyday practices and interactions

Week 7: READING WEEK
Part C: Break-up and Revitalisation from the 1960s
Week 8: Michel Foucault: the analytics of power

Week 9: Feminist social theory and post-structuralism

Week 10: Ulrich Beck and reflexive modernisation

Week 11: Pierre Bourdieu: strategy in social fields

Week 12: Module review

No required reading
TUTORIAL TIMETABLE
Tutorials will be based upon discussion of a set text, as set out below, which you must read
before the tutorial (note: this is different from the set texts for the lectures). Students who have
not read this text may be asked to leave the classroom to spend time reading it. Unless
otherwise stated, all texts are available under the online readings for the module on Queens
Online. The purpose of tutorials is to debate these texts and the social theories to which they
relate. Such debate includes raising questions/comments, especially about parts of the text
that you find difficult to understand. One aim of the tutorials is to explore such difficulties
some of the texts are challenging and it is to be expected that students will come to tutorials
with a number of questions (2-3) about what they mean. Participation in class
discussion/group work is important to your learning process. I strongly encourage you to
write notes/memos for yourself on your reading each week, outlining key points, critically
reflecting on the arguments and concepts being deployed, and critically questioning them.
Reading, thinking, writing and discussing are all key interconnected activities for engaging
with and getting sociological theory and, when used together, greatly advance the learning
process. Dont just read read actively. Write it down!
Week 1: NO TUTORIALS
Week 2: Is a materialist epistemology justified?

Required reading: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Part A of the chapter Feuerbach:
opposition of the materialistic and idealistic outlook, pp. 39-57 in The German Ideology (1974,
London: Lawrence & Wishart). The German Ideology was written 1846.
Week 3: How should a science of the social proceed?

Required reading: mile Durkheim, Chapter V: Rules for the explanation of social facts, pp.
119-146 in The Rules of Sociological Method and Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method (translated by
W. D. Halls; edited with an introduction by Steven Lukes) (1982, London: Macmillan) (available
under the QOL Resources for this module). The Rules of Sociological Method was originally
published 1895.
Week 4: What is the relationship of social scientists to their subject-matter?

Required reading: Max Weber, 3 selections from Objectivity in social science and social
policy: (a) Part I (pages 51-63), (b) pages 72 - 81 (first paragraph), (c) pages 85 (second
paragraph) 99 (first paragraph). This essay is in Max Weber, The Methodology of the Social Sciences
(translated and edited by Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch) (1949, New York:
The Free Press). This essay was originally published 1904.
Week 5: How does the social stabilize and change?

Required reading: Talcott Parsons, Chapter 2: The concept of society the components and
their interrelations, pp. 5-29 in Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives (1966,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall).
Week 6: What is the relationship between the personal and the social?
Required reading: Erving Goffman (1983) The interaction order, in American Sociological
Review, 48, pp. 1-17 (available online through the librarys e-journals).
Week 7: NO TUTORIALS
Week 8: What are the effects of power in our lives?

Required reading: Michel Foucault, Chapter 3: Panopticism, pp. 195-228 of Part Three:
Discipline, in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (translated by Alan Sheridan) (1991
[1975], London: Penguin).
Week 9: How are our lives structured?

Required reading: Judith Butler, Part One: Subjects of sex/gender/desire, pp. 3-44 in Gender
Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (2002 [1990], London: Penguin) (available through
the library as an e-book).
Week 10: Today, are we doomed to endless self-reflection?

Required reading: Ulrich Beck, Chapter 3: Beyond status and class?, pp. 91-102 in Risk
Society: Towards a New Modernity (1992 [1986], London: Sage).
Week 11: Do we act through choice or habit?

Required reading: Pierre Bourdieu, From rules to strategies, pp. 59-75, in In Other Words:
Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology (1990, Cambridge: Polity). Essay originally published 1985.
Week 12: Essay workshop

No required reading. Students should bring a 200-300 word plan of their long essay, for
group discussion in class.
ASSESSMENT STRATEGY
The assessment for this module takes the form of 60% long essay and 40% continuous
assessment. Continuous assessment involves one essay (a critical review of one of the
tutorial texts). See below for details of the long essay and coursework assignments.
COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Critical Review
The critical review, worth 40% of your final mark, must be 2000 words long and must be
submitted to the School Office by 16.00 on Thursday, 16th November 2017. Please refer to
the Schools requirements for submission procedures.
This essay is a critical analysis of one of the following texts. Each text is available on
Queens Online:
1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Part A of the chapter Feuerbach: opposition of the
materialistic and idealistic outlook, pp. 39-57 in The German Ideology (1974, London:
Lawrence & Wishart).
2. mile Durkheim, Chapter V: Rules for the explanation of social facts, pp. 119-146 in The
Rules of Sociological Method and Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method (translated by W. D. Halls;
edited with an introduction by Steven Lukes) (1982, London: Macmillan).
3. Max Weber, 3 selections from Objectivity in social science and social policy: (a) Part I
(pages 51-63), (b) pages 72 - 81 (first paragraph), (c) pages 85 (second paragraph) 99 (first
paragraph). This essay is in Max Weber, The Methodology of the Social Sciences (translated and
edited by Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch) (1949, New York: The Free Press).
Your essay must: (1) show an accurate understanding of the argument of the text, and
(2) develop a critical analysis of this argument. Essays that do not do these two things are
likely to fail. To develop this critical analysis, you must draw upon other relevant sociological
arguments and perspectives to which the course has introduced you. You are expected to
reference at least five texts (in addition to the chosen text for the critical review, any first year
textbooks, or any internet sources except for online academic journal articles and books).
These must be listed in the bibliography. Good essays will demonstrate understanding of the
wider context of the theoretical approach from which the text is taken, such as will be found in
the book from which the text is taken (if relevant) and in other works by the chosen author.
Long Essay
The long essay, worth 60% of your final mark, must be 3000 words long and must be
submitted to the School Office by 16.00 on Monday 18th December, 2017. Please
refer to the Schools requirements for submission procedures.
Your essay must answer one of the following essay questions by comparing and discussing in
depth two of the following theorists: Parsons, Goffman, Foucault, Butler, Beck or Bourdieu:
1. How have social theorists dealt with the structure-agency debate?

2. Compare the benefits and drawbacks of micro and macro theoretical approaches.
3. Discuss how the body has been treated in social theory.
4. Compare and contrast the treatment of the concept of power. Construct an argument
in support of one approach over and relative to the other.
You are expected to reference at least eight texts (in addition to any first year textbooks, or
any internet sources except for online academic journal articles and books), including at least
two from each of the theorists you are focusing upon. These must be listed in the
bibliography. Guidance on the requirements of the essay will be provided in tutorials, especially
in Week 12 when you are required to bring to class a plan of your essay for discussion.
Important Information about the Critical Review and Long Essay
Appropriate academic references should be cited throughout your critical review and long
essay (many internet sources, including Wikipedia, are not acceptable if in doubt, check with
the module convenor or your module tutor) and they should show evidence of wider reading
around the topic. In addition to these references, they must contain a bibliography of cited
works. For the critical review, merely referencing the chosen text and the course textbook
(Swingewood, 2000), or these plus first year sociology textbooks (such as Macionis and
Plummers Sociology or Giddens Sociology) is not sufficient. Before writing your critical
review and long essay, please consult the language and essay writing guidelines that are
provided in the School Student Handbook. You will be expected to adhere to these. Severe
and consistent spelling or grammatical errors, or inconsistent or inappropriate referencing, will
lower your mark.
Late Submission of Coursework

NOTE: NEW POLICY IN PLACE FOR 2017-18:
Students who are unable to submit themselves for assessment by the published deadline
should consider whether their circumstances are suitable for consideration under the
Exceptional Circumstances procedure within the University. This includes requests for
additional time to submit coursework. Details can be found at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/AcademicStudentAffairs/AcademicAffairs/StudentGuida
nce/ExceptionalCircumstances-AStudentGuide/
The only exception relates to students registered with Disability Services where it has already
been determined that flexibility should be exercised for an individual student with assessment
deadlines. If this applies to you then please speak to your module convenor at an early
opportunity.
Other Important Information
By taking this module, students agree that the School can distribute and retain electronic copies
of their work for the purpose of assessment. Students also agree that all required papers may
be subject to submission for textual similarity review to iParadigms for the detection of
plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the iParadigms
reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the
TurnitinUK service shall be subject to such Terms and Conditions of Use as may be agreed
between iParadigms and the Institution from time to time and posted on the TurnitinUK
site.Furthermore, students also agree that the School can make, distribute and retain electronic
copies of their work for the purpose of assessment.
Students must submit an exact electronic copy of each assignment via Queens On-Line by the
deadlines noted in this course outline. The module convenor and examiners reserve the right
to not mark an assignment for which an electronic copy has not been submitted.
Penalties for Exceeding the Word Limit:
Coursework which is in excess of the specified word limit will have marks deducted for every
10% of excess, up to a maximum of 50%, whereupon the work will not be accepted and a mark
of zero will be recorded. The deduction only comes into effect after 10% excess and coursework
which is over 10% of the specified word limit will be penalised as follows:
Percentage of excess Deduction from final mark

Over 10% 5 marks
Over 20% 10 marks
Over 30% 20 marks
Over 40% 30 marks
Over 50% Work not accepted and mark of zero awarded
Please note the following:

* Any deduction for excess will be made before any deduction for lateness.
* Students are required to put an accurate word count on their essay. The word count includes
all the material in the body of the assignment (including sub-titles, references cited in the text,
and figures, diagrams or tables). It excludes the title of the assignment and the list of
references/bibliography at the end of the assignment.
* The penalties for exceeding the word limit will be strictly enforced. This means, for example,
that an assignment with a word limit of 2000 words which is 2201 words in length will have 5
marks deducted or if it is 2401 it will have 10 marks deducted and so on.
READING LIST
Journals
There are many journals relevant to social theory in the library (and its collection of e-
journals) use should be made of the skills in searching these that you have been taught in
Level One. These journals include Annual Review of Sociology, The American Journal of Sociology,
American Sociological Review, The British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, European Journal of
Social Theory, International Sociology, Journal of Classical Sociology, The Sociological Review, Sociology,
Theory, Culture and Society and Theory and Society.
Reading Lists for each Lecture Topic
Two key texts for each weeks topic have been highlighted by asterisks (*) below. Please note
that there is a lot more in the library (including its electronic databases of books and
journals) on each topic than is included in this reading list. You are expected to discover
readings on your own, either by using the librarys computerized search facilities, or by working
from the bibliographies of texts on this list.
In addition to the module textbook (by Swingewood), four other texts are highly
recommended:
1. Krishan Kumar (1978) Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society
(Chapters 1-4) (Harmondsworth: Penguin). This provides an excellent discussion of the image
of modern society by eighteenth and nineteenth century thinkers, including Marx, Durkheim
and Weber.
2. Ken Morrison (2006) Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought (second
edition) (London: Sage). This gives a detailed but very clear account of the ideas of these three
so-called founding fathers of Sociology. So too does Giddens, Anthony (1971) Capitalism and
Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), though Morrison is probably the clearer of the two.
3. Steven Seidman (2004) Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today (third edition) (Oxford:
Blackwell). This provides a basic introduction not only to Marx, Durkheim and Weber, but
also to the major social theorists who followed them.
4. Patrick Baert (1998) Social Theory in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Polity). This provides
a slightly more advanced introduction than Seidman to the major theoretical developments
after Marx, Durkheim and Weber. A second, expanded and updated edition of this by Baert
and Da Silva (2010) is also available but either will do.
5. Austin Harrington (Eds) (2005) Modern Social Theory: An Introduction (Oxford, OUP). This
is an edited collection of essays by prominent scholars and theorists on specific theories,
topics and debates. Chapters one through five, and nine through eleven are especially
relevant.
Other readings may be suggested in class for each topic. In addition, you will find many
relevant, short articles on social theory and social theorists in: George Ritzer (ed.) (2007)
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (Oxford: Blackwell) (available through the library as an e-book). I
have also arranged online access to Bryan Turner (Eds) The New Blackwell Companion to Social
Theory, which some of you may find useful. There are lots (lots) of other books on social theory in
the library.
Week 1 and Week 2 (first part ): The Emergence of the classical tradition: thinking the social.
Aron, Raymond (1968) Main Currents in Sociological Thought 1, Chapters on Montesquieu and
August Comte (Harmondsworth: Pelican).
Callinicos, Alex (2007) Social Theory: A Historical Introduction (second edition), Chapters 1-3
(Cambridge: Polity).
*Morrison, Ken (2006) Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought, Chapter 1
(second edition) (London: Sage).
*Seidman, Steven (2004) Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today (third edition), Chapter 1
(Oxford: Blackwell).
Week 2 (second part): Karl Marxs method: practice and historical materialism.
Aron, Raymond (1968) Main Currents in Sociological Thought 1, Chapter on Karl Marx
(Harmondsworth: Pelican).
Callinicos, Alex (2007) Social Theory: A Historical Introduction (second edition), Chapter 4
Giddens, Anthony (1971) Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx,
Durkheim and Max Weber, Part 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
*Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels (1974) The German Ideology (London: Lawrence & Wishart).
McLellan, David (1980) The Thought of Karl Marx: An Introduction (second edition) (London:
Macmillan)
McLellan, David (1973) Karl Marx: His Life and Thought (London: Macmillan).
*Morrison, Ken (2006) Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought (second
edition), Chapter 2 (London: Sage).
Seidman, Steven (2004) Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today (third edition), Chapter 2
Stones, Rob (ed.) (2008) Key Sociological Thinkers (second edition), Chapter 1 (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan).
Week 3 (first part): mile Durkheims method: social facts and structuralism.
Aron, Raymond (1970) Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2, Chapter on mile Durkheim
Baert, Patrick (1998) Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, pp. 9-29 (Cambridge: Polity).
*Durkheim, mile (1982) The Rules of Sociological Method (translated by W. D. Halls; edited with
an introduction by Steven Lukes) (London: Macmillan).
Gane, Mike (1988) On Durkheims Rules of Sociological Method (London: Routledge). Giddens,
Anthony (1971) Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx,
Lukes, Steven (1973) Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work (London: Allen Lane).
Lukes, Steven (1982) Introduction, in mile Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method and Selected
Texts on Sociology and its Method (translated by W. D. Halls; edited with an introduction by Steven
Lukes) (London: Macmillan).
Thompson, Kenneth (1988) mile Durkheim (London: Routledge).
Week 3 (second part): Max Webers method: Verstehen and ideal types.
Aron, Raymond (1970) Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2, Chapter on Max Weber
Gerth, H. H. and Mills, C. Wright (1948) Introduction, in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul).
Giddens, Anthony (1971) Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx,
Parkin, Frank (1982) Max Weber (London: Routledge).
*Weber, Max (1949) The Methodology of the Social Sciences (translated and edited by Edward A.
Shils and Henry A. Finch) (New York: The Free Press).
Week 4: Epistemology and the philosophy of the social sciences.

Baert, Patrick (2005) Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism (Cambridge: Polity).
*Benton, Ted and Ian Craib (2001) Philosophy of Social Science: The Philosophical Foundations of Social
Thought (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave).
Bryman, Alan (2008) Social Research Methods (third edition), pp. 6-21 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press).
Winch, Peter (1990) The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (second edition)
(London: Routledge).
*Woodiwiss, Anthony (2005) Scoping the Social: An Introduction to the Practice of Social Theory,
Introduction and Chapter 1 (Maidenhead: Open University Press) (available online through
the librarys e-books).
Week 5: Talcott Parsons: social solidarity and social structure.

Baert, Patrick (1998) Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, Chapter 2 (Cambridge: Polity).
Gerhardt, Uta (1996) Talcott Parsons and the transformation German Society at the end of
World War II in European Sociological Review 12 (3), pp. 303-25.
*Giddens, Anthony (1979) Studies in Social and Political Theory, Chapter 10 (London, Hutchinson).
Gilman, Nils (2004) Mandarins of the Future, Chapters 3-5 (The John Hopkins University Press)
(available online through the librarys e-books).
Munch, Richard (1987), Parsonian theory today: in search of a new synthesis, in Anthony
Giddens and Jonathan H. Turner (eds) Social Theory Today (Cambridge: Polity).
Parsons, Talcott (1956) Economy and Society, Chapter 1 (available online through the librarys e-
books).
*Parsons, Talcott (1966), Societies: evolutionary and comparative perspectives, Chapter 2 (available online
through the librarys e-books).
Parsons, Talcott (1971) The System of Modern Societies (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-
Hall).
Sciulli, David and Dean Gurstein (1985) Social theory and Talcott Parsons in the 1980s, in
Annual Review of Sociology, 11, pp. 369-87 (available online through the librarys e-journals).
Stones, Rob (ed.) (2008) Key Sociological Thinkers (second edition), Chapters 7 and 8 (Basingstoke:
Week 6: Interpretive sociology: everyday practices and interactions

*Baert, Patrick (1998) Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, Chapter 3 (Cambridge: Polity). Burns,
Tom (1992) Erving Goffman (London: Routledge).
Geertz, Clifford (1975) Thick description, in The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
(London: Hutchinson).
Goffman, Erving (1983) The interaction order, in American Sociological Review, 48, pp. 1-17
(available online through the librarys e-journals).
Goffman, Erving (1971) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (London: Penguin).
*Goffman, Erving (1968) Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (Harmondsworth:
Penguin).
Manning, Philip (1992) Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology (Cambridge: Polity).
Mead, George H. (1934) Mind, Self and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviourist (edited
and with an introduction by Charles W. Morris) (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press).
Week 8: Michel Foucault: the analytics of power

*Baert, Patrick (1998) Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, Chapter 5 (Ch. 6 in 2010 edition)
Callinicos, Alex (2007) Social Theory: A Historical Introduction (second edition), Chapter 11, pp.
276-284 (Cambridge: Polity).
*Foucault, Michel (1991), Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (translated Alan Sheridan)
(London: Allen Lane).
Foucault, Michel (1990) The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (translated Robert
Hurley) (Harmondsworth: Penguin).
Foucault, Michel (1980) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, Michel Foucault,
(edited Colin Gordon) (London: Harvester).
Gane, Mike (ed.) (1986) Towards a Critique of Foucault (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul).
Smart, Barry (1988) Michel Foucault (London: Routledge).
Week 9: Feminist social theory and post-structuralism

Note that several of the items in this list are available as online readings on QOL.
Anthias, Floya (2001) The material and the symbolic in theorizing social stratification: issues of
gender, ethnicity and class, British Journal of Sociology, 52 (3), pp. 367-390.
*de Beauvoir, Simone (1953) Introduction, in The Second Sex (translated and edited by H. M.
Parshley) (London: Jonathan Cape).
Butler, Judith (1997) The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press).
Butler, Judith (1999) Performativitys social magic, in Richard Shusterman (ed.) Bourdieu: A
Critical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell).
Butler, Judith (2002) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (London: Penguin)
(available through the library as an e-book).
Butler, Judith (2004) Undoing Gender (London: Routledge).
Collins, Patricia Hill ([1990] 2009) Black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of
empowerment (New York, Routledge).
Collins, Patricia Hill (2015) Intersectionalitys Definitional Dilemmas, Annual Review of Sociology,
41:1-20.
Delmar, Rosalind (2001) What is feminism?, in Anne C. Herrmann and Abigail J. Stewart
(eds) Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Boulder, CO:
Westview).
hooks, bell (1997) Feminism: a movement to end sexist oppression, in Sandra Kemp and
Judith Squires (eds) Feminisms (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Lloyd, Moya (2007) Judith Butler (Cambridge: Polity).
Salih, Sara (2002) Judith Butler (London: Routledge) (available through the library as an e-
book).
*Seidman, Steven (2004) Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today (third edition), Chapter 14
(Oxford: Blackwell)
Week 10: Ulrich Beck and reflexive modernization

Adams, Matthew (2003) The reflexive self and culture: a critique, in British Journal of Sociology,
54 (2), pp. 221-238.
Atkinson, Will (2007) Beck, individualization and the death of class: a critique, in British Journal
of Sociology, 58 (3), pp. 349-366.
*Beck, Ulrich (1992) Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (London: Sage). Beck,
Ulrich (1995) Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk (Cambridge: Polity).
Beck, Ulrich, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash (1994) Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition
and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order (Cambridge: Polity).
Elliot, Anthony (2002) Becks sociology of risk: a critical assessment, in Sociology, 36 (2), pp.
293-315.
Giddens, Anthony (1991) Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
Goldblatt, David (1996) Social Theory and the Environment (Cambridge: Polity).
Heelas, Paul, Scott Lash and Paul Morris (eds) (1996) Detraditionalization: Critical Reflections on
Authority and Identity (Oxford: Blackwell).
Mythen, Gabe (2004) Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction to the Risk Society (London: Pluto Press).
*Mythen, Gabe & Sandra Walklate (2006) Beyond the Risk Society: Critical Reflections on Risk and
Human Security (London: Oxford University Press).
Wilkinson, Iain (2001) Social theories of risk perception: at once indispensable and
insufficient, in Current Sociology, 49 (1), pp. 1-22.
Week 11: Pierre Bourdieu: strategy in social fields

Baert, Patrick (1998) Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, pp. 29-33 (Cambridge: Polity).
Bourdieu, Pierre (1984) Distinction (London: Routledge).
*Bourdieu, Pierre (1990) In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology (Cambridge: Polity).
*Bourdieu, Pierre (2000) Pascalian Meditations (Standford, Stanford University Press). Brubaker,
Rogers (1985) Rethinking classical theory: the sociological vision of Pierre Bourdieu, in Theory
and Society, 14, pp. 745-775.
Callinicos, Alex (2007) Social Theory: A Historical Introduction (second edition), pp. 290-298
Jenkins, Richard (2002) Pierre Bourdieu (revised edition), London: Routledge.
Seidman, Steven (2004) Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today (third edition), pp. 146-153
Wacquant, Loc J.D. (1993) From ruling class to field of power: an interview with Pierre
Bourdieu on La noblesse dtat, in Theory, Culture and Society, 10, pp. 19-44 (available online
through the librarys e-journals).
*Wacquant, Loc J.D. (1996), Toward a social praxeology: the structure and logic of Bourdieus
sociology, in Bourdieu, Pierre and Loc J.D. Wacquant, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, pp.
1-59 (Cambridge: Polity).

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SOC2001 Module Outline 2017 - 18 - Final

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SOC2001: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL THEORY

TIME AND VENUE

Part A: The Classical Tradition

Week 4: Epistemology and the philosophy of the social sciences

Part B: Consolidation in the Early- to Mid- Twentieth Century

Week 5: Talcott Parsons: social solidarity and social structure

Week 6: Interpretive sociology: everyday practices and interactions

Week 7: READING WEEK

Part C: Break-up and Revitalisation from the 1960s

Week 8: Michel Foucault: the analytics of power

Week 9: Feminist social theory and post-structuralism

Week 10: Ulrich Beck and reflexive modernisation

Week 11: Pierre Bourdieu: strategy in social fields

Week 12: Module review

Week 2: Is a materialist epistemology justified?

Week 3: How should a science of the social proceed?

Week 4: What is the relationship of social scientists to their subject-matter?

Week 5: How does the social stabilize and change?

Week 8: What are the effects of power in our lives?

Week 9: How are our lives structured?

Week 10: Today, are we doomed to endless self-reflection?

Week 11: Do we act through choice or habit?

Week 12: Essay workshop

1. How have social theorists dealt with the structure-agency debate?

Important Information about the Critical Review and Long Essay

Late Submission of Coursework

Penalties for Exceeding the Word Limit:

Percentage of excess Deduction from final mark

Please note the following:

Week 4: Epistemology and the philosophy of the social sciences.

Week 5: Talcott Parsons: social solidarity and social structure.

Week 6: Interpretive sociology: everyday practices and interactions

Week 8: Michel Foucault: the analytics of power

Week 9: Feminist social theory and post-structuralism

Week 10: Ulrich Beck and reflexive modernization

Week 11: Pierre Bourdieu: strategy in social fields

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