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Academic Year 2000/2001
Work and Leisure: The Sociology of Everyday Life
SOC 265 FA
Work and leisure represent two of the central coordinates of life experience and personal identity. How do work and leisure differ and what is the relationship between them? How do they vary by gender and class? How
are relations of domination and
resistance enacted in work and free time? Topics may include men's and women's work, historical transformations in work and leisure, workplace subcultures and workplace resistance, popular culture and the construction of
masculinity and feminity, sports,
the mass media and the sociology of taste.
MAJOR READINGS
Juliette Schor, THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN Tania Modleski, LOVING WITH A VENGEANCE Mukerji and Schudson, RETHINKING POPULAR CULTURE Simon Frith, SOUND EFFECTS: YOUTH, LEISURE, AND THE POLITICS OF ROCK 'N' ROLL Greta
Pfoff, DISHING IT OUT
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Four brief papers on assigned topics and a research paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
DROP/ADD form to the Registrar's
Office. Readings are subject to change.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
NONE
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
SOC151
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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