Paternalism and Social Power
SOC 302
Spring 2012
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01
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| Certificates: Civic Engagement, Social, Cultural and Critical Theory |
This course will consider the construction of caring and helping in the structuring of social relations. What does helping entail? How does power operate in the velvet glove? What, if anything, lies beyond paternalism? How does social change occur? Competing perspectives on paternalism from within social and political theory will be considered as vehicles for tracing power dynamics in a survey of U.S. social formations related to family, gender, sexuality, race, labor, class, medicine, criminal justice, religion, environmentalism, and international relations. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CIVI-MN)(HRAD-MN)(SOC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Friedrich Nietzsche, GENEALOGY OF MORALS
Sharon Marcus, FIGHTING BODIES, FIGHTING WORDS
Ralph Ellison, THE WORLD AND THE JUG
Ivan Illich, TO HELL WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
Shulamith Firestone, DOWN WITH CHILDHOOD
etc.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Reading journals and major research paper. |
| Instructor(s): Cutler,Jonathan Times: ....R.. 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: ALLB304; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 10 | | |
| Seats Available: -8 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: 0 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 13 | 1st Ranked: 4 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 8 |
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