Syllabus system

2005年度上智大学シラバス

◆INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY　－　（前）

CLAMMER JOHN

○講義概要

The course is designed to introduce you to what the sociologist C.W. Mills called the "sociological imagination" - how to think sociologically about the events, patterns, activities, relationships and structures that make up our everyday life and ultimately our history and our interaction with members of other cultures. For prospective majors the course will provide a sampling of the issues that sociologists engage with and that will be taken up in detail in the 300 and 400 level courses. For those of you specializing in other disciplines, the course should help you to apply a sociological perspective to whatever subjects you are studying: works of art or literature for example are produced in social settings, and economic or political behaviour has social roots. All of you will receive a thorough introduction to the main themes, concepts, methods and ideas of contemporary sociology.
The course meets twice a week on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. Consistent attendance at class is expected. The lectures will not simply repeat what is in the textbook, but will elaborate, illustrate and provide comparative examples and issues for discussion and thought and will provide a forum for in-class debate and thinking together about contemporary social issues.

○評価方法

Doing the reading, completing assignments on time, taking the mid-term and final exams and handing in your project papers on schedule. Evaluation is based on the average grade that you achieve on all your required assignments over the semester. Evaluation for the course will consist of a brief paper during the first third of the course, a mid-term examination, a final written paper and the final exam. and a number of brief homework and practical assignments that will be done as we go along and which are designed to give you some experience in actually doing sociology and relating the ideas in the textbook and lectures to real social events and processes going on around you.

○テキスト

Macionis, John J.『Sociology (10th ed.)』 Prentice-Hall, 2005

○他学部・他学科生の受講

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○授業計画

1	Introduction Reading: Chapters 1-2. Topics: the nature of Sociology; the fundamental concepts of modern sociology; the nature of human behaviour and the problems of how to study and understand it; how and why can sociology be useful - both to you personally and to the wider society; how sociological concepts are formed; ethical and practical problems in carrying out sociological research.
2	Section One: Cultures, Individuals and Social interaction 1.The Nature of Culture Reading: Chapter 3. Topics: the concept of culture; culture as process, event, artifacts; the relationship of culture to society and social structures; ethnocentrism and cultural relativism; personality and culture.
3	2. Socialization and the Life Cycle Reading: Chapter 5 Topics: the nature and meaning of socialization,; cross-cultural variations in socialization; socializing agents at different levels of society and culture; are we totally socialized or do we have areas of freedom in our behaviour?
4	3. Social Groups, Organizations and Social Power Reading: Chapters 4, 6 and 7 Topics: concepts of social structure; organizations in society; bureaucracy as the typical modern form of organizational structure; social interaction; "Risk society" and the fragility of institutions.
5	4. Doing Things Differently: Deviance, Crime and Social Control Reading: Chapter 8 Topics: the concept of "deviance"; social control - its mechanisms, effectiveness and relationship to social power and cultural capital; crime and its explanation and control and its place in cultural imagination and "moral panics".
6	5. Gender and Sexuality Reading: Chapter 9. Topics: sex and culture; socially and historically variable notions of sexual normalcy and deviance; sex, patriarchy, power; sexual and gender movements: Feminism and Gay Liberation; sex and socialization (including personality formation); cross-cultural variations.
7	Section Two: Power, Structure and Inequality 6. Social Stratification Reading: Chapter 10 Topics: Origins and forms of social inequality; theories of social inequality; sociology and the study of social stratification. Experiencing inequality; social mobility and social justice; is Japan a class society or an open one?
8	7. Forms of Systemic Inequality Reading: Chapters 11-15 Topics: race and ethnic inequality; foreign workers in Japan; migrants and their social problems; gender, gender roles and gendered socialization; age and discrimination; other patterns of discrimination - language use, religion, lifetsyles. Cultural exclusion.
9	8. Power in Society Reading: Chapter 17 Topics: meanings of power; institutions and processes of political control. The political system and its sociological dimensions - parties, voting, pressure groups, social movements. The sociological basis of political change. Revolutions and their social origin. Van Wolferen's question: who governs Japan?
10	Section Three: Fundamental Social Institutions Reading: Chapters 16, 18-21 Topics: the main institutions of modern society; the family, education, work and its social organization and social and cultural roles, health care and social and cultural concepts of illness and wellness; systems of belief and religious practice. Comparative examples of all of these major institutions and change in the institutions of contemporary society.
11	Section Four: Social Change Reading: Chapters 22-24 Topics: the nature of social change; globalization and its meanings; shifts in the world population and the long term implications of this; demographic transition; urbanization as a world wide phenomenon and the nature of urban cultures; impact of change on our lifestyles; problems of development and underdevelopment. The relationships between economic, ecological and social and cultural processes. The world as a single social system.