GSOC 6117 -

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The New School

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Advanced Seminar: Sociology of Culture [E] Fall 2008. Three credits. Jeffrey Goldfarb In his sociology of knowledge, Karl Mannheim asked the question: How do men think This seminar focuses on the question of social reality, and more specifically, on ideas and their relationship to social practice; therefore, it gives a central focus to the notions of meaning, belief, and representation. It raises epistemological issues pertaining to the possibilities and conditions of a "sociological knowledge of the social." This semester, the seminar focuseson the notion of the unconscious in social life; we read the work of Karl Mannheim, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi- Strauss, and Jeffrey Alexander, among others.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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