class schedule of fall-winter of 2014
Schedule for 2014 Fall-Winter Seminar
The class meets at 13:30 - 15:40 in the Room 102 of Law building (Building #2) every Tuesday. The ending time varies depending on the length of the discussion.
I. Knowledge and Explanation
[1] 10.7 On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences by Olaf Helmer and Nicholas Rescher (1958) Rand Corporation. (The book is available online.)
[2]10.14 "On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung" by Karl Mannheim (1952) [=1923] Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge, Tr. and ed. by Paul Kecskemeti (New York:Oxford U.P.): 33-83. (The chapter is available online.)
[3]10.21 & 10.28 Excerpts from Toward a Sociological Theory of Information by Harold Garfinkel: pp. 110-159.
[4]11.4 "Going Beyond the Information Given" by Jerome S. Bruner (1957) Beyond the Information Given, selected & edited by Jeremy M. Anglin, London, George Allen & Unwin: pp. 218-238.
II. Consciousness and Social Action
[5] 11.11"Possible European Influence on American Theory," by Roscoe C. Hinkle (1994) Developments in American Sociological Theory, 1915-1950, SUNY Press: pp. 273-300.
[6] 11.18"History Ignored" & "History Unresolved," by G. Hawthorn (1987) Enlightment and Despair: A History of Social Theory,Cambridge University Press: pp. 191-253.
[7] 11.25"Imitation" & "Primary Opposition," by Florian Znaniecki (1936) Social Actions, pp. 280-344
[8] 12.2Excerpts from The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge by Florian Znaniecki (1940).
[9] 12.9 Data session
[10] 12.16"Reflections on the Problem of Relevance," by Alfred Schuetz (1945) Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences, Springer: pp. 93-199
[11] 1.6 "Some Principles of Gestalt Psychology," by A. Gurwitsch (1953=1962): pp. 86-148.
[12] 1.13 "Scope and Reduction," by Kenneth Burke (1945), A Grammar of Motives: pp. 58-125 (Online version is available.)
[13] 1.20 "The New Voluntaristic Action Theory," & "Testing The Theory Against Its Premises," by H.P.M. Andriaansens (1980) Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma, Routledge & Kegan Paul: pp. 116-175.
The class meets at 13:30 - 15:40 in the Room 102 of Law building (Building #2) every Tuesday. The ending time varies depending on the length of the discussion.
I. Knowledge and Explanation
[1] 10.7 On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences by Olaf Helmer and Nicholas Rescher (1958) Rand Corporation. (The book is available online.)
[2]10.14 "On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung" by Karl Mannheim (1952) [=1923] Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge, Tr. and ed. by Paul Kecskemeti (New York:Oxford U.P.): 33-83. (The chapter is available online.)
[3]10.21 & 10.28 Excerpts from Toward a Sociological Theory of Information by Harold Garfinkel: pp. 110-159.
[4]11.4 "Going Beyond the Information Given" by Jerome S. Bruner (1957) Beyond the Information Given, selected & edited by Jeremy M. Anglin, London, George Allen & Unwin: pp. 218-238.
II. Consciousness and Social Action
[5] 11.11"Possible European Influence on American Theory," by Roscoe C. Hinkle (1994) Developments in American Sociological Theory, 1915-1950, SUNY Press: pp. 273-300.
[6] 11.18"History Ignored" & "History Unresolved," by G. Hawthorn (1987) Enlightment and Despair: A History of Social Theory,Cambridge University Press: pp. 191-253.
[7] 11.25"Imitation" & "Primary Opposition," by Florian Znaniecki (1936) Social Actions, pp. 280-344
[8] 12.2Excerpts from The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge by Florian Znaniecki (1940).
[9] 12.9 Data session
[10] 12.16"Reflections on the Problem of Relevance," by Alfred Schuetz (1945) Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences, Springer: pp. 93-199
[11] 1.6 "Some Principles of Gestalt Psychology," by A. Gurwitsch (1953=1962): pp. 86-148.
[12] 1.13 "Scope and Reduction," by Kenneth Burke (1945), A Grammar of Motives: pp. 58-125 (Online version is available.)
[13] 1.20 "The New Voluntaristic Action Theory," & "Testing The Theory Against Its Premises," by H.P.M. Andriaansens (1980) Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma, Routledge & Kegan Paul: pp. 116-175.