Social Studies 10 - Harvard University
Social Studies 10b:
Introduction to Social Studies (Spring 2015)
Professors: Course Director:
Richard Tuck, richard_tuck@harvard.edu Kevin Caffrey, Kcaffrey@fas.harvard.edu
Michael Frazer, mfrazer@gov.harvard.edu
Lectures Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, William James Hall Basement Lecture Hall (Plus a Weekly Tutorial to be Arranged) ***PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION CHANGE***
This class continues the introduction to the classic texts of social theory begun in Social Studies 10a through the twentieth century. Authors include Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, and Michel Foucault.
***PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST READ FOR THE FIRST WEEK***
Week 1 CANCELED DUE TO FEAR OF SNOW
Week 2 Nietzsche
February 3 Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (Hackett)
Week 3 Weber I
February 10 Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Taylor) [use older edition, with translation by Talcott Parsons]
Max Weber, From Max Weber (Routledge)
-“The Meaning of Discipline,” pp. 253-264
-“Social Psychology of World Religions” pp. 267-301
-“Religious Rejection of the World and Its Directions” pp.323-358
Week 4 Weber II
February 17 Max Weber, From Max Weber (Routledge)
Science as a Vocation,” pp. 129-158
“Politics as a Vocation,” pp. 77-129
Max Weber, “‘Objectivity’ in Social Science and Social Policy” (online)
Max Weber, From Max Weber (Routledge)
“Bureaucracy,” pp. 196-244
“The Sociology of Charismatic Authority,” pp. 245-252
Week 5 Durkheim I
February 24 Emile Durkheim, “What Is a Social Fact?” (online)
Emile Durkheim, “Individualism and the Intellectuals” (online)
Emile Durkheim, Division of Labor in Society (Free Press) Preface to the First Edition (pp. xxv-xxx)
Introduction (pp. 1-10)
Book I: Chapters One-Three (pp. 11-87); Chapter Five, pp. 101-106; Chapter Seven, pp. 172-174
Book II: Chapters One and Two (pp. 179-225)
Book III: Chapters One and Two (pp. 291-322)
Conclusion (pp. 329-342)
Week 6 Durkheim II
March 3 Emile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Oxford)
Introduction (pp. 1-21)
Book I: Chapter One (pp. 23-46), Chapter Two, Section 5 (pp. 61-62)
Book II: Chapters One-Three (pp. 87-120), Chapters Six-Nine (pp. 140-218)
Conclusion (pp. 310-343)
Week 7 Freud
March 10 Sigmund Freud, “The Dissection of the Psychical Personality” (online)
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (Norton)
Sigmund Freud , Totem and Taboo Part IV, "The Return of Totemism in Childhood." (online)
Week 8
March 17 SPRING BREAK
Week 9 Beauvoir
March 24 Sigmund Freud, “Femininity” (online)
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Vintage)
Introduction; Chs. 1 pp. 3-14, 20-37; 2; 3; 4; 8; 9; 11; 12 pp. 267-306, 327; Ch. 13 pp. 328-341, 352 (paragraph 1), 363-370; Ch. 16 pp. 425-431, 472-483; Ch. 21; Ch. 25; Conclusion
Week 10 Fanon
March 31 Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Grove)
Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Violence” (online)
Week 11 The Frankfurt School
April 7 Max Horkheimer, “Traditional and Critical Theory” (online)
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment (Stanford), pp. xiv-62, 94-136,
Week 12 Foucault
April 14 Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Vintage)
Michel Foucault, “What Is Enlightenment?” (online)
Week 13 Foucauldians
April 21 Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality vol. 1: An Introduction (Vintage)
Edward Said, Orientalism, pp. 1-9, 31-49, 86-88, 104-110
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, pp. 163-190
Week 14 Habermas
April 28 Jürgen Habermas, “A Genealogical Analysis of the Cognitive Content of Morality” (online)
Jürgen Habermas, “Actions, Speech Acts, Linguistically Mediated Interactions, and the Lifeworld” (online)
Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2 (Beacon), pp. 153-187, 301-403
Jürgen Habermas, “Civil Society and the Public Sphere” (online)
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