====== Summary of topics and readings ====== ^ Week ^ Dates ^ Topic ^ Required readings ^ Supplemental readings ^\\ | 1 | Feb 25 | Introduction to the seminar: The relevance of social theory | | |\\ | 2 | Mar 3 | The material conditions of human life | Marx ([1844b] 1972) | Marx ([1848] 2000); Marx ([1844a] 1972); Marx ([1845] 1972); Fleck (1999); Vora (2009) |\\ | 3 | Mar 10 | The rationality of the social actor | Weber ([1904] 1946) | Brenner (1996); Gerth and Mills (1946) |\\ | 4 | Mar 17 | Society as collective consciousness | Durkheim ([1895] 1966) | Lukes (1973) |\\ | 5 | Mar 24 | How does it feel to be a problem? | Du Bois (1903); Du Bois (1921) | Omi and Winant (2014) |\\ | 6 | Mar 31 | Exchange as a social, not economic, fact | Mauss ([1925] 1990) | Piot (1999) |\\ | 7 | Apr 7 | Sex and gender as social constructs and social process | Rubin (1975) | |\\ | B | Apr 14 | Mandatory school closure due to the public recognition of a religious festival | | |\\ | 8 | Apr 21 | Rules as resources | Bourdieu (1990) | Bourdieu (1977); Swartz (2012b); Swartz (2012a) |\\ | 9 | Apr 28 | Social remittances | Levitt (1998); Levitt and Lamba-Nieves (2011) | |\\ | 10 | May 5 | Power as relationship and flow | Foucault (1982) | McNay (1994); Schirato, Danaher, and Webb (2012) |\\ | 11 | May 12 | Neoliberalism and the making of subjects | Gershon (2018); Danaher, Schirato, and Webb (2000); Rabinow (1984) | |\\ | 12 | May 19 | Society as distributed consciousness | Latour (2005b); Latour (2005c); Latour (2005a) | Latour (2005d) |\\ | 13 | May 26 | What is social theory for? | | |\\ ====== References ====== Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. “The Objective Limits of Objectivism.” In //Outline of a Theory of Practice//, translated by Richard Nice, 1–71. 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