32613
Graduate Course
SoSe 16: Community and Individual in American Society
Maren Freudenberg
Comments
This seminar examines the tension between American individualism and the central role of community in contemporary American society by acquainting students with theories from classical sociology as well as newer approaches to understanding American society. American individualism is a well-known and many-layered phenomenon which has always been intricately linked with various communal formations in U.S. public life. We will investigate this mutually constituting relationship by casting a closer look at the history and facets of individual and community through the eyes of Erving Goffman, Robert Bellah, Charles Taylor, Eva Illouz, and others. By the end of the semester, students should be able to draw from both theories on the United States by “external” observers, such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Max Weber, as well as from the work of contemporary American sociologists, such as Robert Putnam and Robert Wuthnow. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2016-04-20 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-04-27 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-05-04 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-05-11 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-05-18 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-05-25 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-06-01 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-06-08 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-06-15 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-06-22 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-06-29 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-07-06 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-07-13 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2016-07-20 10:00 - 12:00