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This course provides a broad overview of sociology and how to think over yourself, society around you, and how it works. It also provides a “method” to reconsider various social phenomena or ways of thinking which you take for granted, and to think them in a new light.
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After completing this course, you will be able to:
1). Understand some problems sociology tried to investigate and solve.
2). Explain some basic theories or concepts of sociology.
3). View people’s behavior, including your own, from a critical perspective.
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The goal of this course is chosen to accord with Gunma University’s commitment to general education, seeking “a broad and in-depth general education in tandem with specialized study, that will foster persons of sound judgment, wisdom and sensitivity based upon the idea of symbiosis with the environment.”
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This course consists of three parts: Part I (1st - 4th week) provides how personal problems are shown in sociological contexts; Part II (5th - 11th week) provides an overview of sociological theory and explanation of some social problems and our society; Part III (12th -15th week) gives a vision how to make human relationships and social institutions better.
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Lectures and question-and-answer sessions.
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1st Week: Introduction
2nd Week: Inequality and Poverty
3rd Week: Gender in present Japan
4th Week: Controlled Selves
5th Week: Labor and the Selves
6th Week: Consumption and Desire
7th Week: To Get Out of the Labyrinth of Identity
8th Week: Psychic Determinism and its Limit
9th Week: Media and Society
10th Week: Results of Liberation / Individualization
11th Week: “The First Promise” Which Sustains Democracy
12th Week: To Design Public Spheres
13th Week: Nation-states and Nationalism
14th Week: To Envision Better Societies
15th Week: Summary of This Course
16th Week: Final Examination
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Students are desired to read the textbook in advance. Related literatures are shown in every class for further study.
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Attendance of more than two-thirds of the classes is required. At the end of the course, each student is assigned a final grade according to the results of the examination as follows: Grade S (100-90%); A (89-80%); B (79-70%); C (69-60%); D (59- %). In the examination, students can take in the textbook, handouts from the lecturer, and the notebook of his/her own.
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There are no prerequisites to take this course.
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Questions are welcome anytime including during the class. Please ask questions without hesitation.
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Sociology; Inequality; Gender; Labor; Consumption
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Sociological Theories I; Introduction to Sociological Communication; Local Community Studies I, II; Study of Collective Behavior
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Lectures will be given according to the textbook. The textbook is allowed to be taken in during the examination.
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