SOCI 230.301 . This course will begin by surveying approaches to culture that are characteristic of general theory in sociology. It then deals in depth with theories of recorded culture that have developed within the sociology of culture and related disciplines, including the role of the media in constructing social reality, the interpretation and reception of texts, recorded culture and the creation of symbolic boundaries, the social construction of art, organization of culture industries, sacred symbols and political integration, and the relationship between culture and the state. Prof. Diana Crane-Herve will teach this course. Mellon W 2-5.
American cities are increasingly pathological.
Those are the basic questions the seminar addresses. Students interested in testing that assumption are invited to apply for admission. Return to previous section.