32601
Vertiefungsseminar
WiSe 15/16: American Identities - National and/or Transnational
Min Kyung Yoo
Kommentar
This course explores the possibilities of the American identity and its complexity by asking what it means to be an American and consider its transnational character. First beginning with the general overview on the concepts of national identity, the course will accordingly discuss the sociological concepts that are helpful in analyzing various American identities across the nation and beyond its national border. The readings of the course will be selected around the works of early American sociologists, and later move on to the case studies including but not limited to the sociolcultural transformations in global popular mass culture and everyday life consumer cultures to discuss the pervasive influence of the U.S. There, we will examine how non-American national identities in the militaristically, economically and even culturally American dominant world are formed in hybrid through the direct contact or indirect representational understanding of the U.S. By examining the issues of multiculturalism in the U.S. and how that has been unified under "American" culture, the course encourages the students to investigate the definition of the "American" identity on the national and global level. Later sessions will include readings and discussions on the transnationalization of American Studies. Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mo, 12.10.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 19.10.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 26.10.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 02.11.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 09.11.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 16.11.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 23.11.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 30.11.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 07.12.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 14.12.2015 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 04.01.2016 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 11.01.2016 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 18.01.2016 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 25.01.2016 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 01.02.2016 12:00 - 14:00
Mo, 08.02.2016 12:00 - 14:00