SOCIOLOGY 301 FOUNDATIONS of SOCIOLOGY I

SUPPLEMENTAL REPOSITORY of COURSE GRAPHICS

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UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION

* C. Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination		* Views of an alien biologist
* Theorist's Life Span		*** GEMEINSCHAFT vs GELLSCHAFT SOCIETIES**
* Four Great Transformations		* HUMAN NATURE is to have no natural nature
*** The Sacred Canopy & the Protestant Reformation**		* The Duality of Human Nature
* Changing Employment by Economic Sector (1800-2000)		* The Brain is not the Mind
*** The Scientific Revolution**		* Components of Scientific Theory
* NOW a Fifth Great Transformation		* Two Theoretical Paradigms
* Computing: 50 Years of Change		* Five Caveats
*** from "All That is Solid Melts into Air"**		* John Holt on How We Understand Something
* If Solar Power Grew as Fast as Facebook		* The Brain and Better Ways to Learn
* There is no NOW

UNIT 1: PETER BERGER

* Peter Berger: from The Sacred Canopy		* Peter Berger's Three Imperatives
* Peter Berger's Summary Statement		* The Sacred Canopy, Chapter 1
* Combined Model		* Sacred Canopy Lexicon

UNIT 1: AUGUST COMTE & HERBERT SPENCER

* August Comte: Law of Three Stages		* Herbert Spencer: Summary
* August Comte: Hierarchy of the Sciences		(Evolution, Institutionalization, Typology)
* August Comte: Summary		* Spencer's Dynamics of a Complex System
		* Spencer's Differences with Comte

UNIT 2: KARL MARX

* Marx's Biography		* Marx's Causal Model
* Marx's Geographical Traverse and Influences		* Why Capitalism is Inevitable
* Marx as an Existentialist Humanist		* Development of Capitalism & Emergence of Alienation
* Species Being		* Marx's Alienation ala Berger
* Marx on Species Being		* Forms of Alienation
* Meanings of the Dialectic		* Historical Process of Capitalism
* The Basic Dialectic: Marx's Dialectic		* Boom and Bust Cycles
* Marx's Contrast of Capitalism and Communism		* Karl Marx via Peter Berger
* Marx and the Labor Theory of Value		* Surplus Labor ala Berger's Model
* Labor Theory of Value Extended		* What Was Supposed to Happen...
* Model of Social Class		* What Has Happened...(so far)

UNIT 3: EMILE DURKHEIM

* Phrases Used by Durkheim		* Essential Features of Social Facts
* Some Differences Between Durkheim and Marx		* Characteristics of Social Facts
* Durkheim's Influence on Sociology		* Examples of Social Facts
* The Emergence of Organic Solidarity		* When is it Noon on the Sun?
* Comparison Between Mechanical and Organic Solidarity		* Brief Thoughts on Exactness (poem by Miroslav Holub)
* Difference Between Socially Created Structures		* Brief Thoughts on Exactness ala Peter Berger
* The Uncontracted Contract		* Brief Thoughts on Exactness ala Emile Durkheim
* Society = Religion = Society		* Durkheim's Four Types of Suicide by Vectors
* Levels of Social Control		* Durkheim's Four Types of Suicide by Matrix
(Social Currents - Social Organizations)		* Comparative Rates of Anomic Suicide

UNIT 4: MAX WEBER

* Parallels in Weber re: Human Nature		* Dynamic of Social Development
* Simultaneous Discovery of Verstehen, Etc.		* Conditions for Bureaucratization
* Weber's Types of Social Action		* Ideal Type of Bureaucracy
* Macro-Micro Levels		* Ideal Type of Bureaucracy, extended
* Weber's Dynamic of Social Development		* The Spirit of Capitalism
* Traditional (Charismatic) Rational-Legal (Bureaucracy)		* Weber's Correction of Marx
and Charisma (Weber)		* The Puritan Dilemma
* Model of Religious Evolution (Durkheim)		* The Puritan Dilemma (Graphic)
and Charisma (Weber)		* Weber's Model ala Berger (Generation I)
* Conditions for Bureaucratization		* Weber's Model ala Berger (Generation II)
* Weber's Ideal Type: Bureaucracy		* Fundamental Paradigm - Understanding Human Behavior
* Rationalization of Society		Understanding Charismatic Leadership
* Why We Behave the Way We Do -		* Churchill's Famous Symbols
Power, Domination, & Authority		* Famous Nazi Symbols

UNIT 5: GEORG SIMMEL

* Dialectical Dynamic Tension: Individual and Society		* Functions of Conflict & What's at Issue
* Society/Sociation, Social Forms, Relations, and Types		* Socially Created Structures
* Significance of Numbers for Social Structure		* On the Coquette and Flirtation
* Effects of Group Size on Relationships		* The Pull and Push of Fashion
* Two's Company, Three's a Crowd,		* Emergence: from More-Life to More-Than-Life
Four's the Emergence of Society		* Simmel ala Berger's Dialectic
* Conflict as a Social Form		* The Dialectical Paradox of Money

ADDENDA: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL

* Park and Burgess: The Concentric Zone Theory

* Park's Theory of Assimilation

* W. I. Thomas' Famous Theorem (ala Berger)

* Charles Cooley and the Looking Glass Self

* Cooley' Key Statement of the Sociological Perspective

GEORGE H. MEAD

* Views of Society: Georg Simmel & George H. Mead

* The Brain is Not the Mind

* Mead and the Mind

* Mead's Fundamental Insights ala Herbert Blumer

* Mead's Model ala Berger's Dialectic

* Consuming Action - The Unit Act

* Mead's Social Behaviorism (vs B. F. Skinner)

* The Four Stages of Socialization (Becoming Human)

* The I, the Me, and the Self Image

* Taking the Role of the Other-Emergence of the Self Image