Explore every episode of the podcast Alex’s Sociology Classes
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| Week 7: Michel Foucault | 08 mai 2020 | 00:45:58 | |
Discussion of “History of Sexuality” and “Discipline and Punish”
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| Week 6: Pierre Bourdieu | 05 mai 2020 | 00:53:14 | |
In this episode we discuss excerpts from "Distinction" and "The Forms of Capital" as well as key concepts including Cultural Capital, Habitus, and Symbolic Violence. | |||
| Week 5: W.E.B. DuBois | 24 avr. 2020 | 00:29:13 | |
This episode discusses DuBois’s life and work, his theoretical and methodological innovations in sociology, and two of this important texts: “Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880” and “The Souls of Black Folk.” | |||
| Week 4: Max Weber and Rationalization | 17 avr. 2020 | 00:42:29 | |
In this episode we’ll dive into Weber’s classic texts “Bureaucracy” and “The Types of Legitimate Domination” as well as into our own pantry cupboards to talk about Weber’s theory of rationalization.
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| Week 3: Emile Durkheim | 09 avr. 2020 | 00:30:42 | |
This week we’ll move from conflict theory to functionalism as we discuss two works by French Sociologist Emile Durkheim. In Part 1 we’ll talk about “The Division of Labor in Society” and in Part 2 we’ll discuss “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.”
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| Sociological Theory Week 2: The Later Marx | 06 avr. 2020 | 00:31:28 | |
A bit of context and some key concepts from Marx’s mature theory of political economy. Part 1 briefly covers 1850s London and Marx's life there as well as the Preface to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859. Part 2 covers Ch.1 of Capital Vol. 1. A slideshow to accompany this episode can be found on your Learn page. | |||
| The Early Marx | 30 mars 2020 | 00:35:42 | |
This is Episode 1 of Sociological Theory: Podcast Edition. In this episode we will tackle the reading from Week 1: Theses on Feuerbach, The Manifesto of the Communist Party, and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. There are 3 parts to the episode: Part 1 covers the Theses on Feuerbach and sets the stage for the Manifesto Part 2 covers the Manifesto of the Communist Party Part 3 covers The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte You will find a PowerPoint to accompany this episode on your Learn page! | |||
| Alex’s Sociology Classes (Trailer) | 30 mars 2020 | 00:00:45 | |