JNC International Summer School-Introduction to Sociology

JINAN UNIVERSITY

Introduction to Sociology

Lecturer:

Time:Monday through Friday(6/24/2013-7/26/2013)

Credit:4

Location:Management School

Office:M anagement School518

Office hours:By Appointment

E-mail:

This is a general syllabus,Jinan University will update this syllabus before course starts.

Course Description

This course is an introduction to the study of society.We will explore why people organize in groups,the nature of social institutions,culture,values and social inequality. Moreover,we will try to understand the complex intersections of societal organization and social inequality.An example of this is race,class,and gender as interlocking social realities which deeply shape social possibilities.You should leave the class with a good grounding in sociological thinking and,I hope,a developed sociological imagination and commitment to social justice.The course aims：

1.To facilitate a critical understanding of society and social institutions through social science and interdisciplinary perspectives

2.To introduce the key concepts of sociological imagination,social structure and social system

3.To generate cooperative and learning

4.To sharpen analytical skills

5.To prepare students to think and act for social change

It is expected that you will attend all classes and turn in assignments on time.It is also expected that we are all here by the scheduled time.Readings are to be completed by

class time and by everyone.It is important for you to work with the teaching assistant. We will all bring ideas,insights,and questions to the discussions.Our hope is that we will create a dynamic learning community.

Required Text

Dalton Conley You May Ask Yourself:An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist,2nd edition

William Roy Making Societies:The Historical Construction of Our World Course H ours

The course has25sessions in total.Each class session is100minutes in length.The course meets from Monday to Friday.

Grading P olicy

a.critical reaction papers--220%

b.discussions//attendance/class presentations15%

c.mid-term exam and final exam,1quiz35%

d.Readings Journal:critical reflections,observations,15%

(submitted three times during the term)

e.Video responses and class discussion15%

Total100%

The exams are essay and objective in format.Attendance is important,especially in extension,so please plan on being here.Crucially,I expect assignments to be turned in on time.Both attendance and on time papers are calculated into your final grade.Some portion of the course will involve small group discussion and online work.

to letter grades:

Course S chedules

Part I

Constructing Self and Society

WEEK I:June18–June22,2012

Monday6/18

Roy,Making Societies,“Constructing Historical Reality,”pp.1-29.

Tuesday6/19

Readings

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter1,“Sociological Imagination:An Introduction.”Wednesday6/20

Roy,Making Societies,“Time”,pp.30-47.

Thursday6/21

Roy,Making Societies,“Space,”pp.48-73.

introduction””and Making Society readings

Quiz on the Conley“introduction

Sociology?””

DUE:First2page critical response paper,“What is Sociology?

Friday6/22

Discussion Section with Teaching Assistant

Monday6/25

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter2,“Methods”.

Tuesday6/26

Readings

Conley,You May Ask Yoursel f,Chapter3,“Culture and Media”.

Video“bell hooks on culture”

Wednesday6/27

Readings

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter4,“Socialization and the Construction of Reality”and Chapter5,“Networks and Groups”.

Thursday6/28

Readings

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter6,“Social Control and Deviance”.

Video,“Murder on a Sunday Morning”

Due:Readings Journal Check#l

Friday6/20

Discussion Section with Teaching Assistant

Monday7/2Midterm Exam

PART TWO:

Social Division,Inequality,and Intersectionality

Tuesday7/3

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter7,“Stratification”and Chapter10,“Poverty”.

Wed.7/4

Roy,Making Societies,“Gender”,pp.110-155.

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter8,“Gender”.

Video

Thursday7/5

Roy,Making Societies,“Race”,pp.74-109and“Intersections:Small and Large”,pp. 185-200.

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter9,“Race”.

Illusion””,Part2

Video,“Race:The Power of an Illusion

DUE:Second2page reaction paper

Friday7/6

Discussion Section with Teaching Assistant

Part III

Institutions and Society

Monday7/9

Readings

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,and Chapter12,“Family”.

Tuesday7/10

Readings

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter13,“Education”.

Wednesday,7/11

Readings

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Conley,Chapter11,“Health and Society”.

Sicko””

Video,“Sicko

Thursday,7/12

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter15,“Authority and State”.

Due:Readings Journal Check#2

Friday7/13

Discussion Section with Teaching Assistant

Monday7/16

Readings

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter16,“Religion”.

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter17,“Science,the Environment,and Society”. Due:Journal Check#3

Tuesday7/17

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter14,“Capitalism and the Economy”. Wednesday7/18

Readings

Conley,You May Ask Yourself,Chapter18,“Collective Action,Social Movements,and Social Change”.

Thursday7/19

FINAL EXAM

Friday7/20

Discussion Section with Teaching Assistant

Academic H onesty

Jinan University defines academic misconduct as any act by a student that misrepresents the students’own academic work or that compromises the academic work of another.scholastic misconduct includes(but is not limited to)cheating on assignments or examinations;plagiarizing ,i.e.misrepresenting as one′s own work any work done by another;submitting the same paper,or substantially similar papers,to meet the requirements of more than one course without the approval and consent of the instructors concerned;sabotaging another′s work.within these general definitions,however,Instructors determine what constitutes academic misconduct in the courses they teach.Students found guilty of academic misconduct in any portion of the academic

work face penalties ranging from lowering of their course grade to awarding a grade of F for the entire course.