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SOCIOLOGY 125 AMERICAN SOCIETY: how it really works Professor Erik Olin Wright Open Office Hours:

SOCIOLOGY 125 AMERICAN SOCIETY: how it really works Professor Erik Olin Wright Open Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:00 and Thursdays 4:00-5:00 8112D Social Sciences Podcasts: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Sociology-125-podcasts-2014.htm. Tuesday, September 2, 2014

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SOCIOLOGY 125 AMERICAN SOCIETY: how it really works Professor Erik Olin Wright Open Office Hours:

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  1. SOCIOLOGY 125 AMERICAN SOCIETY: how it really works Professor Erik Olin Wright Open Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:00 and Thursdays 4:00-5:00 8112D Social Sciences Podcasts: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Sociology-125-podcasts-2014.htm

  2. Tuesday, September 2, 2014 •  LECTURE 1. PERSPECTIVES & VALUES • 1. INTRODUCTION • 2. THREE OVERARCHING QUESTIONS: • What kind of society is this? • How does it really work? • In what ways does it need changing? • 3. THE VALUES & PERSPECTIVE BEHIND THE COURSE • 3.1 Five core values • Freedom Prosperity EfficiencyFairness Democracy • 3.2 Four Kinds of Disagreements • What is meant by each of these values. • Actual performance of our institutions. • Relative priority of different value • How much things could really be improved. • 3.3 Where I stand

  3. Tuesday, September 2, 2014 •  LECTURE 1. PERSPECTIVES & VALUES • 1. INTRODUCTION • 2. Podcasts of lectures: • On course page for Soc125 at Learn@UW • On my website: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/EE OVERARCHING QUESTIONS:at ways does it need changing? • Updated graphs and tables are available in the social Science Copy Center, 6th floor Social Science building. VALUES & PERSPECTIVE BEHIND THE COURSE • 3.2 Four Kinds of Disagreements • hat is meant by each of these valuee of our institutions. • Relative priority of different value • How much things could really be improved. Where I stand

  4. Sixteenth Annual • Sociology Department • Socio-cultural Bike Tour of Madison • lead by • Professor Erik Olin Wright • Saturday, September 13 • (Rain date: Sunday, September 14)* • 10:00 a.m. sharp ** • Meet in the parking lot behind Budget Bicycle • 1230 Regent Street • [Inexpensive rentals available at Budget Bikes: arrive by 9:30 if you need to rent a bike.] • BRING A SACK LUNCH FOR A PICNIC • [Erik will carry the lunches on his bike]

  5. Tuesday, September 3, 2012 •  LECTURE 1. PERSPECTIVES & VALUES • 1. INTRODUCTION • 2.THREE OVERARCHING QUESTIONS: • What kind of society is this? • How does it really work? • In what ways does it need changing? • 3. THE VALUES & PERSPECTIVE BEHIND THE COURSE • 3.1 Five core values • Freedom Prosperity EfficiencyFairness Democracy • 3.2 Four Kinds of Disagreements • What is meant by each of these values. • Actual performance of our institutions. • Relative priority of different value • How much things could really be improved. • 3.3 Where I stand

  6. Tuesday, September 3, 2012 •  LECTURE 1. PERSPECTIVES & VALUES • 1. INTRODUCTION • 2.THREE OVERARCHING QUESTIONS: • What kind of society is this? • How does it really work? • In what ways does it need changing? • 3. THE VALUES & PERSPECTIVE BEHIND THE COURSE • 3.1 Five core values • Freedom Prosperity EfficiencyFairness Democracy • 3.2 Four Kinds of Disagreements • What is meant by each of these values. • Actual performance of our institutions. • Relative priority of different value • How much things could really be improved. • 3.3 Where I stand

  7. Tuesday, September 3, 2012 •  LECTURE 1. PERSPECTIVES & VALUES • 1. INTRODUCTION • 2.THREE OVERARCHING QUESTIONS: • What kind of society is this? • How does it really work? • In what ways does it need changing? • 3. THE VALUES & PERSPECTIVE BEHIND THE COURSE • 3.1 Five core values • Freedom Prosperity EfficiencyFairness Democracy • 3.2 Four Kinds of Disagreements • What is meant by each of these values. • Actual performance of our institutions. • Relative priority of different value • How much things could really be improved. • 3.3 Where I stand

  8. Tuesday, September 3, 2012 •  LECTURE 1. PERSPECTIVES & VALUES • 1. INTRODUCTION • 2.THREE OVERARCHING QUESTIONS: • What kind of society is this? • How does it really work? • In what ways does it need changing? • 3. THE VALUES & PERSPECTIVE BEHIND THE COURSE • 3.1 Five core values • Freedom Prosperity EfficiencyFairness Democracy • 3.2 Four Kinds of Disagreements • What is meant by each of these values. • Actual performance of our institutions. • Relative priority of different values • How much things could really be improved. • 3.3 Where I stand

  9. Tuesday, September 3, 2012 •  LECTURE 1. PERSPECTIVES & VALUES • 1. INTRODUCTION • 2.THREE OVERARCHING QUESTIONS: • What kind of society is this? • How does it really work? • In what ways does it need changing? • 3. THE VALUES & PERSPECTIVE BEHIND THE COURSE • 3.1 Five core values • Freedom Prosperity EfficiencyFairness Democracy • 3.2 Four Kinds of Disagreements • What is meant by each of these values. • Actual performance of our institutions. • Relative priority of different values • How much things could really be improved. • 3.3 Where I stand

  10. 4.THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY 4.1 Pivotal Idea: rules govern actions 4.2 Six Basic Sociological Ideas about Social Rules 1. Rules are enforced 2. Rules come in many diverse forms 3. Rules are not neutral – winners & losers 4. Rules are backed by power 5. Rules are often inconsistent 6. Rules change over time

  11. 4.THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY 4.1 Pivotal Idea: rules govern actions 4.2 Six Basic Sociological Ideas about Social Rules 1. Rules are enforced 2. Rules come in many diverse forms 3. Rules are not neutral – winners & losers 4. Rules are backed by power 5. Rules are often inconsistent 6. Rules change over time

  12. 4.THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY 4.1 Pivotal Idea: rules govern actions 4.2 Six Basic Sociological Ideas about Social Rules 1. Rules are enforced 2. Rules come in many diverse forms 3. Rules are not neutral – winners & losers 4. Rules are backed by power 5. Rules are often inconsistent 6. Rules change over time

  13. 4.THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY 4.1 Pivotal Idea: rules govern actions 4.2 Six Basic Sociological Ideas about Social Rules 1. Rules are enforced 2. Rules come in many diverse forms 3. Rules are not neutral – winners & losers 4. Rules are backed by power 5. Rules are often inconsistent 6. Rules change over time

  14. 4.THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY 4.1 Pivotal Idea: rules govern actions 4.2 Six Basic Sociological Ideas about Social Rules 1. Rules are enforced 2. Rules come in many diverse forms 3. Rules are not neutral – winners & losers 4. Rules are backed by power 5. Rules are often inconsistent 6. Rules change over time

  15. 4.THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY 4.1 Pivotal Idea: rules govern actions 4.2 Six Basic Sociological Ideas about Social Rules 1. Rules are enforced 2. Rules come in many diverse forms 3. Rules are not neutral – winners & losers 4. Rules are backed by power 5. Rules are often inconsistent 6. Rules change over time

  16. 4.THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY 4.1 Pivotal Idea: rules govern actions 4.2 Six Basic Sociological Ideas about Social Rules 1. Rules are enforced 2. Rules come in many diverse forms 3. Rules are not neutral – winners & losers 4. Rules are backed by power 5. Rules are often inconsistent 6. Rules change over time

  17. 4.THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY 4.1 Pivotal Idea: rules govern actions 4.2 Six Basic Sociological Ideas about Social Rules 1. Rules are enforced 2. Rules come in many diverse forms 3. Rules are not neutral – winners & losers 4. Rules are backed by power 5. Rules are often inconsistent 6. Rules change over time

  18. Inside the student occupation of the Taiwan Legislative Assembly, March 2014

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