Sociology 521                                                                                                                                                         Fall 2001
Seminar in Social Psychology                                                                                                                              Jennifer L. Dunn

Texts:

Berger, Peter L. and Thomas L. Luckmann. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise on the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Anchor Books.

Blumer, Herbert. (1986). Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Cook, Karen S., Gary Alan Fine, and James S. House (eds.). (1995). Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Goffman, Erving. (1967). Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. New York: Pantheon.

•    Readings available on departmental reserve (DR)

Requirements

Active and informed participation in seminar discussions                                                                  10%
Seminar presentations on assigned readings                                                                                     10%
Seminar presentation on research proposal                                                                                      10%
Research proposal (due in seminar December 4)                                                                             70%

Week 1           (August 21):              Orientation and Technical Matters.

Week 2           (August 28):              The Complex Social Geography of Social Psychology.

•    Review one year of one journal (from selected list) for social psychology contents.

•    House, James, "The Three Faces of Social Psychology" on DR.

•    McCall, George J., "The First Course: Introducing How Many--And Which--Social Psychologies?" on DR.

•    Introductions to Parts I-III in Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology (hereinafter, SP's).

  Week 3           September 4):           Epistemology and Methodology in Social Psychology.

•    Part IV ( Introduction: Invitation to Methodology and Chapters 23-25) in SP's.

  Week 4           September 11):         Grasping the Interactionist Tradition I.

•    Lofland, Lyn, (ed.), "Reminiscences of Classic Chicago: The Blumer-Hughes Talk," on DR.

•    Wiseman, Jacqueline, "In Memorium: Herbert Blumer (1900-1987)," on DR.

•    Blumer, Herbert, Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method.

  Week 5           (September 18):        Grasping the Interactionist Tradition II.

•    Berger, Peter L. and Thomas L. Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise on the Sociology of Knowledge.

  Week 6           (September 25):        Grasping the Interactionist Tradition III.

•    Goffman, Erving, Interaction Ritual.

  Week 7           (October 2):               Emotion Management and Identity Work.

•    Chapter 2 (Self and Identity) and Chapter 5 (The Sociology of Affect and Emotion) in SP's.

•    Stone, Gregory P. "Appearance and the Self," on DR.

•    Cahill, Spencer. "Fashioning Males and Females," on DR.

•    Snow, David A. and Leon Anderson, "Identity Work among the Homeless," on DR.

•    Hochschild, Arlie. "Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure," on DR.

•    Clark, Candace. "Emotion and Micropolitics in Everyday Life," on DR.

•    Ellis, Carolyn. "Emotional Sociology," on DR.

  Week 8           (October 9):                Social Interaction in Public Places.

•    Chapter 7 (Social Interaction) in SP's.

•    Goffman, Erving. "Introduction and Chapter 1" from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, on DR.

•    Anderson, Elijah, "The Black Male in Public" from Streetwise, on DR.

•    Gardner, Carole Brooks, "Analyzing Gender in Public Places," on DR.

•    Cahill, Spencer and Robin Eggleston. "Managing Emotions in Public Places" on DR.

  Week 9           (October 16): Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis with Dr. Janet Fuller, Department of Linguistics

Chapter 6 (Language, Action and Social Interaction) in SP's.

Articles TBA, on DR.

  Week 10         (October 23): Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology with Dr. Lenore Langsdorf, Department of Communication

•    Garfinkel, Harold. "Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities," on DR.

•    West, Candace and Don Zimmerman, "Doing Gender," on DR.

•    Articles TBA, on DR.

  Week 11         (November 6):          Social Exchange Theory with Dr. Darren Sherkatt, Department of Sociology

•    Readings TBA.

  Week 12         (November 13):        (Tentative) Social Psychology of Deviance with Dr. Thomas Calhoun, Department of Sociology

•    Readings TBA.

  Week 13         (November 20): Social Psychology and Health with Dr. Rebekah Bradley, Department of Psychology

•    Chapter 21 (Social Psychology and Health) in SP's.

•    Articles TBA, on DR.

  Week 14         (November 27):        Attitudes, Normative Conduct, and Social Persuasion with Dr. Cem Basman, Department of Forestry and Department of Sociology

•    Chapter 3 (Attitudes, Beliefs and Behavior) in SP's

•    Robert Cialdini. Influence: Science and Practice, on DR.

•    Articles TBA, on DR.

  Week 15         (December 4):           Presentations of Research Proposals/Proposals Due