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SOC 265
Work and Leisure: The Sociology of Everyday Life
SOC 265 SP
Crosslistings: WMST265, AMST271
Not Currently Offered
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
MacDonald & Sirianni, WORK IN THE SERVICE SOCIETY
Seiter, SOLD SEPARATELY
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
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: Discussion Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Prerequisites:
SOC 151
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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