Introduction+to+Sociology

//Introduction to Sociology// is currently a dream waiting to be realized. This is a course that I have not taught, and am perfecting for the day that I may teach it. I am hoping that if the course is already relatively planned that the chances of it being taught by me will be improved. My interest in sociology, specifically "sociology" as it emerges from its French roots in Durkheim, Mauss, and Bataille, is drawn from a course in Anthropology with James Boon and a course in cultural inequality with Michele Lamont. So I tip my hat and hand to Boon's __Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts...Showbiz__ and Lamont's __The Dignity of Working Men__.

Prolegomena:
There is currently no AP course in Sociology, but there have been some movement toward a well-definied course and curriculum done by the American Sociological Association. While the particular course I am developing here will obviously reflect my personal idiosyncracies and interests, I will lean heavily on the work done by the ASA. Please find the course description by the ASA at http://www.asanet.org/galleries/default-file/preUnit.pdf. This course will focus on the works of the grand theorists (Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and a touch of Freud) that suffuse sociological theory and then pick a select few members from "sociology" including, but not exclusively Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, Kate Millett, Peter Berger, Marshall MacLuhan, Luc Boltanski, etc. and of course, Boon and Lamont.