| 1 | Introduction |
| 2 | Sociology as a pastime and form of consciousness and its application to US society |
| 3 | Forms of social control |
| 4 | Social stratification as a form of social control |
| 5 | The socialization process and the development of the self |
| 6 | Role theory and its implications in US society |
| 7 | Midtermexam |
| 8 | The wheel of sociological research and Durkheim's study of suicide |
| 9 | The experimental,statistical and comparative methods |
| 10 | Structural and Functional approaches to US society |
| 11 | Symbolic Interaction and Conflict theory in US society |
| 12 | exam |
| 13 | Return exams. Critical evaluation of theories and their applications. Distribute take-home questions. |