● 外国書講読（比較社会学Ⅰ）

012-B-833

This course will introduce the “sociological perspective” as a tool for understanding the connections between an individual’s everyday life and larger-scale processes and structures within society. One main theme of the course is that individuals’ lives and life chances are profoundly shaped and impacted by a great number of social forces and structures external to the individual, including history, economic systems, political systems and various hierarchies (based on social class, gender, race, etc.), many of which are often invisible to us. The first semester will largely focus on the three main theoretical orientations in sociology: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism, as well as discussion of research methodology.

In this course students will learn sociological terms and theoretical concepts, and how academic arguments are made in the social sciences in English. Furthermore, students will learn to apply a critical sociological lens to their understandings of the world, and will thus become wiser, more critical, and careful consumers of information.

1	Introduction and General Overview
2	The Sociological Perspective
3	Sociological Research Methods and Theory
4	Society and Culture
5	Macro Theoretical Perspectives: Functionalism
6	Macro Theoretical Perspectives: Conflict Theory I
7	Macro Theoretical Perspectives: Conflict Theory II
8	Micro Theoretical Perspective: Symbolic Interactionism
9	Micro Theoretical Perspective: Social Constructionism
10	Social Structures
11	Social Stratification, Inequality, and Poverty I (U.S.)
12	Social Stratification, Inequality, and Poverty II (Japan)
13	Social Stratification, Inequality, and Poverty III (Global)
14	Review
15	Final Presentations

The course will consist of reading, translation, and guided discussion of assigned texts, supplemented by lectures and videos, and occasionally other activities. Active and informed participation in discussion is required.

Students will be required to read the assigned readings and be prepared to discuss (and translate parts of them) in class. To help ensure that students are doing the readings and to prepare for discussions, students must submit short commentaries on the readings and questions for discussion before each class. Several small research projects will also be assigned, as well as a larger research project that students will present about at the end of each semester.

平常点（クラス参加、グループ作業の成果等）：40％（Class participation）

Reading commentaries and other assignments：10％

Discussion questions：10％

Final research project：40％

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