1. Introduction: What is Sociology?
In-class discussion: Berger, P. Invitation to sociology. A humanistic perspective. New York: Doubleday, 1963, p. 1-22.
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1. Social Norms (1): Norms and Deviance
In-class discussion: Durkheim, E. 1997. Suicide. A Study in sociology, Chapter 2 & Chapter 3: “Egoistic Suicide”, Free Press – Excerpts: p. 152-170 & 189-197
In-class discussion: Marx, K. 1977 [1848]. Excerpts in “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, in Tucker, R., The Marx-Engels Reader, Norton, p. 473-483.
3. Social Norms (2): Norms, culture and socialization
In-class discussion: Becker, H. Outsiders. Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York, Free Press, 1963, “The Culture of a Deviant Group: the Dance Musician,” p. 79-100.
- Presentation: Goffman, E. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1963, chapter 4: "The Self and its Other", p. 126-139
4. Social Inequalities (1): Stratification and social class
In-class discussion: Bourdieu, P. 1979. Distinction. A Social Critique of Judgment, Paris, Harvard University Press– 114-131 and 260-267.
- Presentation: Peterson Richard and Kern Roger, 1996, “Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore,” American Sociological Review, vol. 61, n° 5, p. 900–907
5. Social Inequalities (2): Multidimensional aspects
In-class discussion: Peterson Richard and Kern Roger, 1996. “Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore”. American Sociological Review, vol. 61, n° 5, p. 900–907.
- Presentation: Acker, Joan. 2009. “From glass ceiling to inequality regimes”. Sociologie du travail 51(2):199–217.
6. Education
In-Class Discussion: Thompson Ron and Simmons Robin, 2013, “Social mobility and post-compulsory education: revisiting Boudon’s model of social opportunity”. British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 34, n° 5-6, p. 744–765.
-Presentation: Ray, D., G. Crozier and J. Clayton. 2009. “Strangers in Paradise. Working Class Students in Elite Universities”. in Sociology, 43, p. 1103-1121.
7. Urban Sociology
In-class discussion: E. Burgess. 1925. "The Growth of a City. Introduction to a Research Project", in Park, Burgess and McKenzie, The City, University of Chicago Press, p. 47-62.
Small, Mario Luis. 2009. “‘How Many Cases Do I Need?’ On Science and the Logic of Case Selection in Field-Based Research.” Ethnography 10(1):5–38.
- Presentation: Massey, D. and Denton, N. 1993. American Apartheid. Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, Cambridge University press. – Introduction, pp. 1-16 and “The Continuing Causes of Segregation”, ch. 4, p. 83-114.
8. The family
In-class discussion: Hochschild, A. The second shift, New York, Penguin, 1989, chapter 1 “A speed-up in the family”, pp. 1-10, and chapter 10, “The ‘His’ and ‘Hers’ of sharing : Greg and Carol Alston”, pp.149-166.
- Presentation: Levi-Strauss, C. « The family », in H. Shapiro, Man, culture and society, New York, Oxford University Press, p.261-285
9. Religion
In-class discussion: Weber, M. 1976 [1905], “The Evolution of the Capitalist Spirit” in General Economic History. London: Unwin Paperbacks
- Presentation: Snow, D., Machalek, R. “The convert as a social type”, Sociological theory, 1, 1976, p.259-289.
10. Capitalism and economic sociology
In-class discussion: Polanyi, K. (2001 [1944]). “The Self Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land and Money” in The great transformation. The political and economic origins of our time. Boston, Beacon Press.
- Presentation: Granovetter, Mark. 1985. “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.” American Journal of Sociology 91(3):481–510.
11. The State
In-class discussion: Elias N. 2006 [1969]. The Court Society, Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2006, excerpt of Chapter 4 "Binding of the Kind", p. 137 (§5) - 145.
- Presentation: Dubois V. 2010 [1999]. The bureaucrat and the poor. Encounters in French Welfare offices, Farnham, Ashgate, Part III ("Questioning the Institutional Order"): pp. 137-139; 150-154; 176-182.]
12. Social Movements
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In-class discussion: McAdam, D. « The Biographical Consequences of Activism », American Sociological Review, 54 (5), 1989, p 744-760 (a special attention should be paid to the regressions).- Presentation: Tilly, C. 1981. « Nineteenth-century origins of our twentieth-century collective-action repertoire », CRSO working paper.