Recent Contributions to Sociological Theory
Abschnittsübersicht
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Recent Contributions to Sociological Theory
WS 2023/24
Di 18:00 - 20:00, FMA/00.08This seminar aims to introduce students to current discussions in sociological theory. We will read and discuss selected articles and book chapters that contribute to topics like action and cognition, digitalization, or the environmental crisis. The seminar will also provide the opportunity to discuss topics chosen by students.
Organization of the seminar
This seminar is focusing on the discussion of contemporary texts on sociological theory. Classes will rely highly on student participation, with me acting as a facilitator and moderator for students’ discussions. Everybody attending the class should be capable of giving a short introduction to the text(s) assigned to the session. You should be able to answer the following questions:
· What is the topic of the texts?
· Which arguments are developed?
· How are these arguments developed?
· What is convincing about the texts?
· Where is criticism appropriate?
Performance requirements
In the term paper you will work on a topic of your own choice from the context of the seminar. It is only important that you discuss the topic or your research question with me so that I can advise you and make sure that the paper fits the seminar.
Formal requirements for the term paper: max. 18 pages (excl. title, table of contents, literature); Times New Roman 12pt.; 1.5 line spacing; 3cm margins all around.
Submission of papers
· as a pdf-file @ thorsten.peetz@uni-bamberg.de
· yourname_recentcontributions.pdf
· deadline: February 29th, 2024
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Rea, Christopher M./Scott Frickel (2023): The environmental state: Nature and the politics of environmental protection. In: Sociological Theory 41, S. 255-288.
Wagner, Peter (2022): The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration. In: European Journal of Social Theory 26, S. 24-47.
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In this week, you have the task to use the time you usually spend on preparing and attending the seminar to search and identify an article that
- is more or less „recent“ and makes a contribution to sociological theory,
- fits to your individual fields of interests, and
- that you think might interest other students as well.
Please send me your choice as a pdf-file by end of today’s class via e-mail. We will identify the students’ choice papers that we will discuss in this seminar at the beginning of next week’s session. -
Adkins, Lisa/Melinda Cooper/Martijn Konings (2019): Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality. In: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53, S. 548-572.
Jackson, Michelle/David B. Grusky (2018): A post-liberal theory of stratification. In: British Journal of Sociology 69, S. 1096-1133.
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Shiff, Talia (2021): A Sociology of Discordance: Negotiating Schemas of Deservingness and Codified Law in U.S. Asylum Status Determinations. In: American Journal of Sociology 127, S. 337-375.
Hilmar, Till (2022): Fragile bonds of recognition: Exploring the social underpinnings of sentiments of exclusion in post-1989 East Germany. In: European Journal of Sociology 63, S. 247-278.
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Kiviat, Barbara (2023): The moral affordances of construing people as cases: How algorithms and the data they depend on obscure narrative and noncomparative justice. In: Sociological Theory 41, S. 175-200.
Krippner, Greta R./Daniel Hirschman (2022): The person of the category: The pricing of risk and the politics of classification in insurance and credit. In: Theory and Society 51, S. 685-727.
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On labor. Texts are attached.
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Formilan, Giovanni/David Stark (2021): Moments of identity: Dynamics of artist, persona, and audience in electronic music. In: Theory and Society 52, S. 35-64.
Meriluoto, Taina (2023): The self in selfies. Conceptualizing the selfie-coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements. In: British Journal of Sociology 74, S. 638-656.
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Lizardo, Omar (2023): An analytical approach to culture. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 53, S. 281-302.
Lembo, Alessandra/John Levi Martin (2022): The structure of cultural experience. In: Poetics 91
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Mahoney, James (2023): Constructivist set-theoretic analysis: An alternative to essentialist social science. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 53, S. 327-366.
Turner, Stephen (2023): Sets, net effects, causal mechanisms, subpopulations, and understanding: A comment on Mahoney. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 53, S. 424-438.
Mahoney, James (2023): Causal vs. conceptual heterogeneity: Reply to Turner. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 53, S. 439-446.
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Fuhse, Jan (2022): How can theories represent social phenomena? In: Sociological Theory 40, S. 99-123.
Rasmussen, Erik Børve/Lars Emil Fagernes Johannessen (2023): Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology. In: Sociology Compass 17
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In this session we will read two papers that were published during the semester.