Discipline

Social Theory - II

Course Number
HS 661
Credit
6
Discipline Type
Sociology

Action, structure, function and agency  Self and other  The social construction of reality  Structuralism in sociology / anthropology  The interpretation of cultures  Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology  Feminism and the subversion of identity

Reference

1. Parsons, Talcott and Shils, Edward. 1951. Towards a General Theory of Action.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (selected chapters).
2. Giddens, Anthony. 1984. The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory ofStructuration. Cambridge: Polity Press.
3. Garfinkel, Harold. 1984. Studies in Ethnomethodology, Cambridge: Polity Press,(Chaps: 1, 2, 5).
4. Schutz, Alfred. 1967. The Phenomenology of the Social World. Northwesternuniversity press.
5. Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann. 1966. The Social Construction of Reality,London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, Part 1.
6. Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books.(Selected chapters.)
7. L303251vi302255Strauss, Claude. 1963. Totemism. Beacon Press.
8. Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.London, Routledge. (Chapter 1.)