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Work and Leisure: The Sociology of Everyday Life
SOC265 SP

Crosslistings: WMST265,AMST271

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: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: SOC151

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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