Sociology 621, Sociological Marxism

Spring 2017

 

2017 Syllabus      Examples of good papers from previous Soc621 courses     e-reserve readings for Sociology 621
 Jacques Bidet and Stathis Kouvelakis (eds)  Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism (Boston: Brill: 2008) PDF  

 

Lecture Notes & podcasts

    Outline Lecture notes Podcast
Lecture 1.   Marxism and Emancipatory Social Science Outline 1 Lecture notes 1 Podcast 1
Lecture 2.   The Anchor: Capitalism Outline 2 Lecture notes 2 Podcast 2: part 1  part 2
Lecture 3.   The Critique of Capitalism Outline 3 Lecture notes 3 Podcast 3
Lecture 4.   Transformation Outline 4 Lecture notes 4 Podcast 4
Lecture 5.   What is Class? Outline 5 Lecture notes 5 Podcast 5
Lecture 6.   Exploitation Outline 6 Lecture notes 6 Podcast 6
Lecture 7.   Complexities of Class Structure Outline 7 Lecture notes 7 Podcast 7
Lecture 8.   Class & Gender Outline 8 Lecture notes 8 Podcast 8
Lecture 9.   Class & Race Outline 9 Lecture notes 9 Podcast 9
Lecture 10.   Class Formation Outline 10 Lecture notes 10 Podcast 10
Lecture 11.   Rationality, Solidarity, and Class Struggle Outline 11 Lecture notes 11 Podcast 11
Lecture 12.   Dilemmas of Working Class Collective Action Outline 12 Lecture notes 12 Podcast 12
Lecture 13.   Class Compromise Outline 13 Lecture notes 13 Podcast 13
Lecture 14.   What is Politics? What is the State? Outline 14 Lecture notes 14 Podcast 14
Lecture 15.   What makes the Capitalist State a Capitalist State? Outline 15 Lecture notes 15 Podcast 15
Lecture 16.   The State and the Working class: the problem of democracy Outline 16 Lecture notes 16 Podcast 16
Lecture 17.   The State and Accumulation: functionality & contradiction Outline 17 Lecture notes 17 Podcast 17 (missing)
Lecture 18.   What is Ideology? Outline 18 Lecture notes 18 Podcast 18
Lecture 19.   Mystification Outline 19 Lecture notes 19 Podcast 19
Lecture 20.   Hegemony Outline 20 Lecture notes 20 Podcast 20
Lecture 21.   Microfoundations of the Theory of Ideology Outline 21 Lecture notes 21 Podcast 21
Lecture 22.   Classical Historical Materialism Outline 22 & 23 Lecture notes 22 & 23 Podcast 22
Lecture 23.   Podcast 23
Lecture 24.   Critiques & Reconstructions Outline 24 Lecture notes 24 Podcast 24
Lecture 25.   The Classical Marxist theory of the history of capitalism's future Outline 25 Lecture notes 25 Podcast 25
Lecture 26.   Socialism and Real Utopias Outline 26 Lecture notes 26 Podcast 26
Lecture 27.   Strategic Logics of Transformation Outline 27 Lecture notes 27 Podcast 27
Lecture 28.   Weekend Retreat: How to be an anticapitalist for the 21st century   Powerpoint notes 28 Podcast 28