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

SOCIOLOGY 125 AMERICAN SOCIETY: how it really works Professor Erik Olin Wright Open Office Hours: 8112D Social Sciences Thursdays, 2-4 Podcasts: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Sociology-125-podcasts-2012.htm. CLASSROOM RULES Turn off cell phones No texting No email

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

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  1. SOCIOLOGY 125 AMERICAN SOCIETY: how it really works Professor Erik Olin Wright Open Office Hours: 8112D Social Sciences Thursdays, 2-4 Podcasts: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Sociology-125-podcasts-2012.htm

  2. CLASSROOM RULES • Turn off cell phones • No texting • No email • No internet surfing

  3. Fourteenth Annual Sociology Department Socio-cultural Bike Tour of Madison lead by Professor Erik Olin Wright Saturday, September 8 (Rain date: Sunday, 9th) 10:00 a.m. sharp Meet in the parking lot behind Budget Bicycle 1230 Regent Street

  4. 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

  5. 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

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