C-1 SOC 314 SOCIOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE Full Course Title: Sociology of Everyday Life Sociologija svakodnevnog života Course Code: Course Level/BiH cycle: SOC 314 1st Cycle (Bachelor of Arts) ECTS credit value: 6 Student work-load: (Table with hours for: Lectures; Exercise; Other; Individual learning) For the whole semester: Length: Faculty/School/Department: Lectures Tutorial / Practical training e.g. Project Individual learning TOTAL 45 15 30 60 150 One semester FASS; Social and Political Sciences (SPS) Course leader: Assist. Prof. Dr Tuba Boz Contact details: Office: e-mail: Office hours: Phone: tboz@ius.edu.ba Site: IUS main campus building Host Study Program: Social and Political Sciences (SPS) Course status: Area Elective Course Pre-requisites: None Access restrictions: None Assessment: Presentations, group activities, consultations, quizzes, exams and take-home exams. 1 C-1 Date validated: Course aims: Learning outcomes: Indicative syllabus content: June 2012 The aims of this course are to: 1. To develop students understanding of micro and macro level sociological theories; 2. To enrich students observation skills and their sociological imagination; 3. To enhance students knowledge of concepts concerning the mundane, social roles and social interactions 4. To introduce students to the significance and techniques of interdisciplinary research and cultural relativism; 5. To enrich student critical and analytical thinking On successful completion of this course IUS student will be able to: 1. To explain the various micro and macro level sociological theories; 2. To observe and analyze societal patterns and social behaviour; 3. To think about the mundane and routine aspects of everyday life and social interactions analytically and critically; 4. To employ interdisciplinary approaches when conducting research; 5. To think independently and formulate critical opinions. This course is designed to introduce and equip SPS students with the fundamentals of the sociology of everyday life. The main themes to be dealt with may include: Globalization; Social Interaction; Social Media, Popular Culture; Fashion and Fads; New Technologies; Institutional Symbolic Interaction, Dramaturgy, Ethnomethodology; Identity Construction; Symbols; Status; Ethnography; Moral Consensus; Collective Behaviour; Public Sphere; Religion and Spirituality; Tradition and Cultures; Social Roles and Impression Management. Teaching occurs via lectures, seminars and tutorials, individual and team- work in-class activities. Learning delivery: Assessment Rationale: Assessment Weighting: Essential Reading: Recommended readings: In order to provide solid undergraduate foundation in the SPS program and to enable students to develop a critical and evaluative understanding of culture with the socio-political environment, and to demonstrate commitment and diligence at any time, different assessment methods are proposed for this module. Therefore, appropriate and diverse assessment methods include fieldwork project, presentations, group activities, consultations, exams and take-home exams with the aim to help students to stay focused and active, and fully benefit from the module. Attendance and participation 5% Research paper 20% Midterm exam 25% Presentation 10% Final exam 40% 1. Christian Karner. Ethnicity and Everyday Life. Oxon: Routledge, 2007. 2. Tony Bennett and Diane Watson. Understanding Everyday Life. U.K.: Blackwell, 2002. 3. Erving Goffman. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. London: Penguin Books, 1990 4. Erving Goffman. Frame Analysis. U.S. Harper & Row. 1974. 5. Erving Goffman. Stigma. London: Penguin Books, 1962. 6. David Allen Karp, William C. Yoels and Barbara Holcombe Vann. Sociology in Everyday Life. Long Grove: Waveland Press, 2004. 7. Harold Garfinkle. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Polity press, 1984. 8. George Herbert Mead. Mind, Self and Society. New York: Ardent Media Inc., 1993. 9. Herbert Blumer. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. Berkley: University of California Press, 1969 Additional/recommended reading: Intranet web reference: Important notes: Students have to make sure to avoid plagiarism or even the vague possibility of plagiarism. Note that copying from the internet or even taking ideas from internet sources without proper citation is also a form of plagiarism, not only copying from paper based texts. Students are expected to paraphrase the arguments whenever possible and add proper citations from the original text. 2 C-1 Each final essay will be checked against anti-plagiarism software. Failing to gain at least 30% from each assignment results in failing the course (that is students are expected to undergo each of the four assignment forms (class participation, position paper, oral presentation, final essay). Absence from class is allowed only with strong reason. Students are allowed one “free miss” but more than one absence without documentation will negatively affect the grade. Quality Assurance: At the study program Cultural Studies and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences special attention is paid to quality assurance. A prerequisite for the application of quality assurance policy is to develop awareness among academic staff, but also among students about the importance of monitoring and improving the quality of teaching. It also implies an understanding that quality monitoring is an evaluation of work, but the establishment of an institutional system with its full implementation at all levels. Since the internal quality monitoring mission of the University or Faculty within the University, this track will be given special attention, as follows: Continuous improvement of policies and procedures for quality assurance due to the specificity of the program, Clearly established procedures and application of procedures in adoption of study program in accordance with the guidelines. These procedures are established and there is a need for further work on them, Establishment of procedures for student evaluation and there is a need for its verbatim and transparent application, Selection of qualified and competent teaching staff, Evaluation of efficiency of use of premises and equipment, Regular information about the programs is done through the written and printed materials, Openness to external quality monitoring procedures established by the relevant domestic and foreign institutions. In addition to the above areas of quality assurance, students of IUS or a study program Cultural Studies internally evaluate the quality of teaching and teachers in all courses at the end of each semester. The evaluation is done electronically and anonymously. In addition, and evaluate the quality of textbooks and instruments in the laboratory and used in practice. Academic staff submitted an annual report on recent activities of the Vice-Rector for Education at the latest two weeks after the final exam. The independent evaluator who is not a member of the academic staff of Universities, administered evaluation questionnaire, and a member of the study program (for each program separately) and Dean of the Faculty discusses the research findings as well as student evaluations and together carried revising the plan for improving professional work. Semesterally, the members of each program of study reviewed the sufficiency and adequacy of available facilities, textbooks and teaching aids (instruments, technical equipment ...) and, according to the findings of the report sent to the Dean, which contains proposals for the purchase or repair of existing equipment/aids. Program members also reviewed the adequacy of program information available on the website of the University, and send their proposals and suggestions in the form of a letter to the Dean. Course Schedule: 3 C-1 Week 1 Lesson / Date Topics to be covered Class activities Problems/ Assignments (Homework) Relevant reading: Culture and Everday Life (The New Sociology), David Inglis An introduction - Culture and the everyday Learning objectives (After this lesson student will be able to:) 1. Discuss the relation of society, culture and everyday life Pages 1 - 15 2. Define and use the concepts of culture, popular culture, art, high and low culture, civilization, etc. 3. Consider the social, learned and arbitrary functions of culture 4. Analyze cultural products and objects as embodiments of ideas, beliefs and values of a social group 2 Culture, “nature” and everyday life Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud Techniques of the Body, Marcel Mauss Pages 16 - 27 1. Explain the ways in which the everyday practices of the human body are influenced by cultural phenomena 4 C-1 2. Examine the role which cultural forces play in the organization and management of human bodies 3. Define ideas, attitudes and symbols as manifestations of cultural forces 4. Understand Freud’s psychological theory of civilization and the concepts of id, ego and superego 5. Analyze Mauss’ theory of the cultured body 6. Define the relation between gender, social class and body techniques 3 Modern culture and everyday life Sceince and Sociology, Max Weber Society and Culture Bundle RC: The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel Pages 27 - 53 1. Understand how some of the ways in which humans operate on a daily basis are shaped by cultural forces of the modern West 2. Consider everyday issues, such as making music, going to the supermarket, playing 5 C-1 sport, driving a car, choosing clothes, decorating the home, etc.from a sociological standpoint 3. Distinguish and define Weber’s concepts of Zweckrational and Wertrational 4. Define the meaning of social roles, role ambivalence, detached and personal aspects of professional roles 5. Analyze Simmel’s theory of the money mentality 6. Consider the concepts of style as a result of individualization and rationalization 7. Define the concepts of authenticity, new modernism, postmodernity, late modernity, cultural exhaustion etc. 4 “High”, “popular” and “low” cultures in everyday life Culture and anarchy, Matthew Arnold Pages 54 -77 1. Define and distinguish the concepts of high, 6 C-1 mass, low, and popular culture Adorno on Popular Culture, Robert W. Witkin 2. Explore the realm of popular culture – films, TV programs, magazines, etc. Stargazing: Hollywood and Female Spectatorship, Jackie Stacey 3. Analyze Adorno’s and Arnold’s theory of art and high culture 4. Explore mass culture as a product of the modern capitalist society 5. Consider Stacey’s study of the Hollywood film industry and female spectatorship 6. Examine low culture as a product of the working classes and the disadvantaged minorities Student presentations Student presentations 7 C-1 4&5 Globalization, culture and everyday life The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman How Globalisation is Reshaping Our Lives, Anthony Giddens Pages 77-95 1. Define the concept of globalization and its effects on the cultural forces that shape our everyday lives 2. Analyze various sociological views on globalization 3.Explore the relation of local, national and global phenomena and forces in modern culture 4. Define the concepts of global culture, cultural imperialism, culture industries, etc. 5. Analyze the processes of hybridization and creolization as the interweaving of separate cultural patterns, ideas, tastes, styles and attitudes 6. Explore global cuisine as a product of mass production and globalization 7. Define and understand the concept of 8 C-1 cosmopolitanism 9 C-1 6&7 Ethnicity and everyday life . Outline of a Theory of Practice, Pierre Bordieu Ethnicity and Everyday Life: The New Sociology, Christian Karner The Presentation of Self in Pages 15-48 Everyday Life, Erving Goffman Everyday Life in the Modern World, Henri Lefebvre 1. Understand the relations between social groups, individuals, traditions and circumstances 2. Define and use the concepts of ethnicity, culture/habitus, crisis/politics, power, resistance, reflexivity etc. 3. Analyze ethnicity as structures of action, a way of seeing and a structure of feeling 4. Analyze Goffman’s theory of social life as a series of theatrical (or ‘dramaturgical’)metaphors 5. Explore the characteristics of everyday life in regard to the historical context Midterm exam 8&9 Power and classification, meaning and resistance Midterm exam Rethinking Ethnicity, Richard Jenkins The Practice of Everyday Life, De Certeau Pages 48 - 69 1. Explore ethnic communities and identities and the way in which they rely on social processes of 10 C-1 classification 2. Distinguish and define the concepts of social categorization and group identification The Will to Knowledge, Michel Foucault 3. Understand the relation between history, exclusion, culture, oppression and classification 4. Analyze Foucault’s analytic of internal power and resistance 10 & 11 Identity, diaspora, hybridity The Question of Cultural Identity, Stuart Hall Pages 70-99 1. Explore various conceptualizations of identity 2. Define the concepts of identity, diaspora and hybridity 3. Analyze Hall’s theory of ethnicity constructed across social boundaries 12 & 13 Ethnic majorities, “the stranger” and everyday life Pages 100-126 1. Analyze the relationship between the self and the Other and the ways in which it is influenced by politics, the media, ethnic 11 C-1 majorities and dominant social groups 2. Define the concepts of anthropoemic strategies of removal and anthropophagic strategies of ‘ingestion’ 3. Define and distinguish the concepts of hegemonic and counter hegemonic discourse - 12 C-1 14 & 15 Forced migrations and structures of fear in the age of globalization The Information Age, Manuel Castells Risk Society, Ulrich Beck Pages 127-164 1. Understand the sociology of globalization 2. Analyze human consequences of globalization 3. Explore ethnicity in forced migrant’s everyday lives 5. Analyze Franz’ theory of war, dislocation and gendered structures of feeling 6. Define the concepts of instrumental ethnicity, liquid modernity and ethnic majorities 16 Final exam Final exam 13