Queen s University Department of Sociology SOCIOLOGY 122

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1 Queen s University Department of Sociology SOCIOLOGY 122 Course Evaluation: Encyclopedia Assignment 5% Mini Library Assignment 5% Anatomy of a Term 15% Paper Assignment Tutorial work (fall term) 5% December exam 20% Research essay 25% Tutorial work (winter term) 5% Final exam 20% Textbooks: For the Winter Term the course texts are: Social Structure and Human Agency: An Integrated Introduction to Contemporary Society by Rob Beamish (Mc-Graw-Hill Press, 2017). The text is specifically designed and written for SOCY 122. Kickstarting Your Academic Career by George Robert Ostergard and Stacy Fisher University of Toronto Press, 2017). Both books are available at the Queen s Campus Book Store. Course Policies: Attendance: Attendance at lectures is strongly advised but not monitored or required. Tutorials: The University scheduling system has assigned you to a tutorial group. You may find out your tutorial assignment through SOLUS. A list of tutorials and those registered in them is posted on onq and outside D403 Mackintosh-Corry Hall The tutorials are designed to break the large class environment into a smaller discussion-friendly one. Tutorial leaders will run their tutorials in accordance with the course instructor s overall expectations while also drawing upon their own and the tutorial group s particular strengths and interests. The tutorial leaders will not simply summarize lecture material or readings; their primary responsibility is to lead students through some specific skill building tasks, monitor attendance and student participation, facilitate discussion, pose questions and assist the group to reach clarification on questions, problems, or issues that arise from the lectures, required readings, or tutorial discussion.

2 Please note: you may not switch tutorial groups after the add/drop period without the permission of the TA Coordinator changes will only be made on the basis of significantly extenuating circumstances which prevent you from remaining in your originally assigned tutorial group. 2 Estimated time commitment: Activities Average Hours Per Week Number of Weeks Total Hours Lectures Activity/Tutorial Sessions Online Activities Private Study Total Hours for Course Each of the term assignments is evaluated by your tutorial leader based on the criteria described in the assignment overview. The short answer essay exam questions on the December and April exams are graded randomly by the teaching assistants based on the rubric provided by the professor. The multiple-choice exams are graded by an electronic marking machine. In this course, some components will be graded using numerical percentage marks. Other components will receive letter grades, which for purposes of calculating your course average will be translated into numerical equivalents using the Faculty of Arts and Science approved scale:

3 3 Arts & Science Letter Grade Input Scheme Assignment mark Numerical value for calculation of final mark A+ 93 A 87 A- 82 B+ 78 B 75 B- 72 C+ 68 C 65 C- 62 D+ 58 D 55 D- 52 F48 (F+) 48 F24 (F) 24 F0 (0) 0 Your course average will then be converted to a final letter grade according to Queen s Official Grade Conversion Scale: Queen s Official Grade Conversion Scale Grade Numerical Course Average (Range) A A A B B B C C C D D D F 49 and below

4 Academic Integrity: Academic integrity is constituted by the five core fundamental values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility (see These values are central to the building, nurturing and sustaining of an academic community in which all members of the community will thrive (see Adherence to the values expressed through academic integrity forms a foundation for the freedom of inquiry and exchange of ideas essential to the intellectual life of the University (see the Senate Report on Principles and Priorities at Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the regulations concerning academic integrity and for ensuring that their assignments conform to the principles of academic integrity. Information on academic integrity is available in the Arts and Science Calendar (see Academic Regulation 1) on the Arts and Science website (see and from the instructor of this course. Departures from academic integrity include plagiarism, use of unauthorized materials, facilitation, forgery and falsification, and are antithetical to the development of an academic community at Queen s. Given the seriousness of these matters, actions which contravene the regulation on academic integrity carry sanctions that can range from a warning or the loss of grades on an assignment to the failure of a course to a requirement to withdraw from the University. 4 Material to be covered in week thirteen. Engaging with the Social World (Part I) Winter Term Readings Required Reading: Engaging with the Social World (pp. 7-34) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: Introduction (pp. 1-5) in Social Structure and Human Agency and in The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Kuhn, Thomas and Scientific Paradigms (p. 342); Scientific Revolution (pp ); Metatheory (pp ). Additional Reading of Interest and Relevance: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology, Science (pp ); Parsons, Talcott (pp ); Structural Functional Theory (pp ); Functionalism/Neo-Functionalism (pp ); Conflict Theory (pp. 80-1); Social Order (pp ); Social System (pp ). understand the overall goals and scope of the text that will be used in the second term; draft a "road map" of the route and material they will cover over the course of the second term; explain the three ways humankind engages with the world; discuss the fundamental similarities shared by science and the arts; identify the fundamental differences between science and the arts;

5 explain Alfred Schutz's argument about the meaningful construction of the social world, express how subjective meaning is established, the basis for inter-subjective meaning, and how humans create different "objectivations" and their significance for the meaningful understanding of the social world; indicate why sociology is a science; discuss the importance of language in science; indicate the key elements in Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions; identify sociology as a conceptual, scientific enterprise; explain some of the main features of Talcott Parsons' post-war sociology; express the reasons for moving beyond Parsons' sociology in the 1960s. 5 Material to be covered in week fourteen. Engaging with the Social World (Part II) Required Reading: Engaging with the Social World (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Structuration Theory (pp ); Structure and Agency (pp ); Bourdieu, Pierre (pp. 40-1); Habitus/Field (pp ); Cultural Capital (pp ); Social Capital (pp ). explain the fundamental issues involved in metatheory; identify the importance and significance of the discursive nature of sociological theory; understand the fundamental importance of an integrated theory of social action; discuss the issues related to the integration of structure and agency in sociological thought; identify and explain the key concepts involved in Anthony Giddens structuration theory; identify and explain Pierre Bourdieu s concepts of field, habitus, doxa, and economic, cultural, and symbolic capital; discuss the essential elements of a reflexive sociology. Material to be covered in week fifteen. Economy and Society I: Work and Production (Part I) Required Reading: Economy and Society I: Labour, Work and Production (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Work, Sociology of (pp ); Labor/Labor Power (pp ); Labor Process (pp ). explain the meaning and significance of capitalism as an analytical concept; identify capitalism s essential features;

6 explain the employer labour process employee relationship and its basic features and dynamics the explanation will include a consideration of the inputs the employer and employee bring to the relationship; the resources employees and employers bring to the relationship; the internal dynamics of the relationship and the power differential that exists within it; the larger social dynamics of the relationship; and the two dominant tendencies that result from the relationship. 6 Material to be covered in week sixteen. Economy and Society I: Work and Production (Part II) Required Reading: Economy and Society I: Labour, Work and Production (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Taylorism (pp ); Braverman, Harry (pp. 42-3); Japanese-Style Management (pp ); Fordism/Post-Fordism (pp ); Unions (p. 662). describe E.P. Thompson s notion of time-work discipline; identify the table system and its relationship to Michel Foucault s conceptions of docile bodies, disciplinary society, and technologies of power; explain Frederick Winslow Taylor and his conception of scientific management the explanation will include Taylor s basic premises; his overall objective; the meaning of the terms natural and systematic soldiering, and a fair day s work; the separation of planning from execution; the implications this has for deskilling work; the key concept of the task and its ramifications for workers and management; the three key outcomes of Taylorism as a management strategy; and the implications Taylorism had for mass production; describe Fordism and the assembly line processes developed by Henry Ford the description will include the importance of complete and consistent interchangeability of parts, standardization, task simplification, and the automated assembly line, and the dynamic Fordism introduced into labour relations and negotiations; discuss The Toyota System of production and successfully compare lean production to the mass production of Fordism; explain the dynamic of collective action as unionized employees negotiate with employers the explanation will include data on unionization in Canada; key concerns for employees versus employers; the instrumental monological position of employers versus the dialogical dynamic among employees; the power dynamic between unionized employees and employers; the implications of increasing unionized employees resources; and the different public perceptions of unions and corporate interests. Material to be covered in week seventeen. Economy and Society II: From Say to Keynes Required Reading: Economy and Society II: From Say to Keynes (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Economic Sociology: Neoclassical Economic Perspective (pp ).

7 7 identify and elaborate upon the main features of Jean-Baptiste Say s arguments regarding the importance of the production of utilities, their importance for creating economic expansion, why he believed in a laissez-faire economy, his solution to the potential for over-production, and the elements behind Say s Law; explain the importance of John Stuart Mill s assessment of Say s Law; identify and explain the main features of Joseph Schumpeter s analyses of the business cycle, the three fundamental factors, internal to the economy, that are the sources of change and economic development and their importance, why Schumpeter identifies innovation as the main factor in the economic history of capitalist society, what he means by creative destruction and its significance, and why Schumpeter maintains that credit is fundamental to the understanding of the capitalist engine; identify and explain John Maynard Keynes s concerns with the classical economic theories of economic equilibrium, his conceptions of effective aggregate demand (D), the propensity to consume (D 1), producers investment in expanding production (D 2), their vital significance to his theory of employment, and his proposed solutions to maintaining full employment. Material to be covered in week eighteen. Keynesianism and the Golden Age Required Reading: Keynesianism and the Golden Age, (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Power (pp ); Post-Industrial Society (p. 457). Suggested Additional Reading: identify and explain at least four major changes to life in North America following the end of WWII; identify and account for the dramatic changes in the size of corporations during the Golden Age of postwar Canada; discuss Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means s arguments concerning the impact that large corporations would have upon society as a whole, each of the three scenarios they propose as possible outcomes from the growth of corporate concentration and identify the one they favoured, why they felt this way and why the scenario might not hold; draw upon the work of John Porter and Wallace Clement to explain the phenomenon of a corporate elite in Canada and the significance this has for the concentration of power in the private sector of the economy and Canadian society as a whole; explain the impact of American direct investment and portfolio investment in the Canadian economy; identify and discuss four features of mass consumer society as it emerged during the Golden Age and the significance of mass consumer society for the present;

8 discuss the different financial products discussed in the chapter that became available in the Golden Age and explain their significance for the economy as a whole; discuss the emergence of a post-industrial society, the significance of the changes in the axial principle the growing influence and prominence of intellectual technology and its impact on the social structure in the shift from an industrial to a postindustrial society, and indicate the reasons that Daniel Bell sees a divergence among its three main constituents the social structure (economy, occupational system, and stratification system), the polity, and culture; present data confirming the growing importance of science, its use in the expansion of the military-industrial complex during the Cold War, and its implications for civilian life during the Golden Age; discuss the arguments Daniel Bell makes regarding the divergence between the social structure and culture and assess the strength of that argument, the social changes it addresses and the importance of the social changes that took place during the Golden Age. 8 February 19 to 23, 2018 Reading Week Material to be covered in week nineteen. Neo-Liberalism: From Panacea to Problem Required Reading: Neo-liberalism: From Panacea to Problem (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Neoliberalism (pp ); Globalization (pp ); Globalization, Consumption and (pp ); Globalization, Culture and (p. 265). identify the four factors that led from the Golden Age into a period that Eric Hobsbawm describes as by a new era of decomposition, uncertainty, and crisis; discuss the main principles of the Mont Pelerin Society and the policies that they wanted to see governments institute leading into an era of neoliberalism; identify and explain the significance of Margaret Thatcher s term as Prime Minister in the UK, her political objectives and programs, and the impact that they had upon British society; identify and explain the significance of Ronald Reagan s term as President of the US, his political objectives and programs, and the impact that they had upon American society; identify and explain the events that led to the introduction of neoliberal policies in Canada at the federal and provincial level after Brian Mulroney became Prime Minister and Ralph Klein and Mike Harris became the Premiers of Alberta and Ontario respectively; discuss the impact that neoliberal policies had upon Canadian society; explain the impact of the adoption of neoliberal policies by the International Monetary Fund on countries in the Global South; identify and discuss the factors that led to the financial crises in the US and Canada as a result of neoliberal policies adopted in the US.

9 9 Material to be covered in week twenty. Social Inequality Required Reading: Social Inequality (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Meritocracy (pp ); Stratification and Inequality, Theories of (pp ); Liberalism (pp ); Income Inequality and Income Mobility (pp ); Inequality, Wealth (p. 318); Class (pp. 65-6); Class Conflict (pp. 66-7); Class Consciousness (p. 67). describe Carol Huynh s experiences as a successful, high-performance athlete and use them to explain the central themes sociologists focus on in the study of social inequality; discuss the concept of meritocracy; describe the concepts of equality of opportunity and equality of condition and their implications for a meritocratic order; identify selected indicators of income disparity in Canada and discuss their implications for inequality in Canada; describe different conceptual understandings of the basis for social inequality explain Marx s theory of class inequality; discuss Weber s analysis of class, status and party. Material to be covered in week twenty-one. Gender Inequality Required Reading: Social Inequality (pp ); Gender Inequality (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Stratification: Functional and Conflict Theories (pp ); Stratification, Gender and (pp ); Labor Markets (pp ); International Gendered Division of Labor (pp ); Women s Movements (pp ); Consciousness Raising (pp. 81-2). explain Davis and Moore s functionalist theory of social stratification theory and its critics; discuss the importance of the reintroduction of class in studies of social inequality; explain the impact of gender on work and social inequality the explanation will include the goals of first wave feminism; the goals of second wave feminism; the changed involvement of women in the paid labour force; the gender gap in earnings and its bases; unexplained factors in the wage gap; the impact of observable wage-determining characteristics; and the impact of market segmentation.

10 10 Material to be covered in week twenty-two. Gender Inequality and Feminist Sociology Required Reading: Gender Inequality (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Beauvoir, Simone de (pp. 26-7); Intersexuality (pp ); Feminism (223-4); Friedan, Betty (pp. 237); Sexual Politics (pp ); Patriarchy (pp ); Black Feminist Thought (p. 34); Intersectionality (pp ); Feminist Standpoint Theory (pp ); Postmodern Feminism (pp ); Femininities/Masculinities (pp ). Additional Reading of Interest and Relevance: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology, Socialist Feminism (pp ); Cultural Feminism (pp ); Radical Feminism (pp ); Race (pp ); Race, Definitions of (490-1); Racism, Structural and Institutional (p. 491); Stratification, Race/Ethnicity and (pp ); Lesbianism (p. 354); Compulsory Heterosexuality (pp. 77-8); Lesbian Feminism (pp ); Queer Theory (pp ); Womanism (p. 691); Women and Sexuality (pp ); Sexuality (pp ); Body and Sexuality (pp. 38-9); Body and Society (pp ); Post-modern Sexualities (p. 459). identify and explain the main issues of gender inequality and the rise of feminist sociology; explain the main themes in Simone de Beauvoir s The Second Sex the explanation will include the distinction between sex and gender; the rejection of binary opposites in sex inequality; the significance of intersexuals and the movement towards postmodern perspectives on gender inequality based on sex; discuss Judith Butler s position that sex is a form of discourse that links sex and gender through stylized acts over time; explain the main themes in Betty Friedan s Feminine Mystique the explanation will include feminine mystique, the domestic labour/paid labour division and its implication for women; explain the main themes in Kate Millett s Sexual Politics the explanation will include the meaning of politics; the meaning of sexual politics; and the presence, meaning, and significance of patriarchy; explain the broadening of the analysis of gender discrimination the explanation will include Barbara Smith s analysis of the impact of race on gender inequality; Chandra Mohanty s critique of narrowly conceived, western feminist analyses. Material to be covered in week twenty-three. Deviant Behaviour and Social Problems (Part I) Required Reading: Deviant Behaviour and Social Problems (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency. Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Deviance (pp ); Deviance, Normative Definitions of (p. 142); Norms (pp ); Deviance, Theories of (pp ); Deviance, Positivist Theories of (pp ); Deviance, Crime and (pp ).

11 11 Additional Reading of Interest and Relevance: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology, Criminology (pp ); Crime (pp. 93-4); Crime, Radical/Marxist Theories of (pp. 96-7); Crime, Social Control Theory of (p. 97); Crime, Social Learning Theory of (pp. 97-8). express the significance of deviance as a social designation; discuss the objective and subjective elements of deviance; explain structural or systems explanations of deviant behavior beginning with Durkheim s study of suicide the explanation will include the extent to which a failure to be integrated into society results in behaviour that is normatively deviant; the importance of anomie and collective representations in the study of deviant behaviour; explain the main aspects of Robert Merton s strain theory the explanation will include the five possible outcomes between means and goals of social action within Merton s strain theory model; the behaviours behind the labels of the conformist, innovator, ritualist, retreatist, and radical or revolutionary; the structural basis to deviant behaviour within Merton s paradigm; identify the main aspects of Robert Agnew s general strain theory; discuss the main features of cultural support theories of deviant behavior the discussion will include Cohen s college boys, corner boys, and delinquent boys; Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin s extension of Cohen s work. explain the cultural studies approach to the study of deviant behaviour the explanation will include the way soccer hooligans opened up this particular approach to the study of deviant behavior; the notion and significance of authentic culture; the nature of British working-class lads worldview; the shift to broader theories of sociology to explain behaviour across a broad range of acceptability. Material to be covered in week twenty-four. Deviant Behaviour and Social Problems (Part II): The Social Construction of Deviant Behaviour Required Reading: Sociology of Deviant Behaviour (pp ) in Social Structure and Human Agency Suggested Additional Reading: In The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology: Constructionist Perspectives (pp ); Sub-Culture (pp ); Sub-Cultures, Deviant (p. 630); Cultural Studies (pp ); Cultural Studies, British (pp ); Drugs, Drug Abuse, and Drug Policy (pp ). explain in some detail the social constructionist approach to the study of deviant behaviour the explanation will include the basic premises of social constructionist theory; the significance of the terms claims makers, claims, conditions that become subject to claims, troubling; the six steps involved in the natural history of the claims making process; discuss, through a case study on the use of steroids in sport, how a social constructionist might examine the construction of performance-enhancing substances as a troubling practice the discussion will include John Ziegler s decision to distribute Dianabol among American weightlifters in 1954; Knud Jensen s death in

12 1960; Avery Brundage s fight against professionalism in the Games; Ben Johnson s positive test for Stanozolol and the ensuing Dubin Commission of Inquiry into banned substances and practices; the role BALCO played in making steroid use a major issue in US sport; and the role of the US President in reinforcing the claims making process; the investigation into steroid use in professional baseball; the reality of steroid use among youth, and dangers that the claims making process has introduced; discuss several issues related to drug use/abuse and drug policy. 12