A Guide to Sociology 7121

• Syllabus for a graduate seminar (Sociology 7121) (pdf version)

*Note to grad students: I like the LibertyClassics editions of Adam Smith's books, but students sometimes have trouble finding them.  The Wealth of Nations and the Theory of Moral Sentiments are available here and here.

Lecture Notes

• Introductory Lectures
  
  
• Some Historiographical Background
  
  
• Adam Smith 
  
  
• Tocqueville 
  
  
• Marx (notes on texts only) -
  • Various texts
  • Capital, Vol. I
    
    
• Weber - Lectures 
  • Notes on texts:
    • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
    • The Sociology of Religion
    • General Economic History
      
      
• Durkheim
  
  
• Spencer
  
  
• Simmel
  
  
• Mead
   
• Du Bois
   
• Beauvoir
   
• Diagrams
  
  
• Zip file of (most) lectures in *.docx format (as of 8/21/24)

Some secondary literature on Du Bois, Jewish History, and Beauvoir, here

Sample Student papers, here

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