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Week - 1 |
The Founders of Sociology: Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber |
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Week - 2 |
Basic Sociological Approaches: The Functionalist (Structural-Functionalist) Approach; the Conflict Approach; and the Social Interactionist Approach |
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Week - 3 |
Modernism and Modernity in the Context of the 19th Century |
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Week - 4 |
The Concept of Class and the Formation of Class Tastes |
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Week - 5 |
Introduction to Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology |
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Week - 6 |
Introduction to Postmodernity: The Reorganization of Production and the Dominance of Consumption |
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Week - 7 |
Introduction to the Sociology of Fashion: What Is Fashion? |
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Week - 8 |
Early Fashion Studies: Thomas Carlyle and Herbert Spencer |
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Week - 9 |
Trickle-Down Theory: Thorstein Veblen and Georg Simmel |
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Week - 10 |
The Social Interactionist Approach: Herbert Blumer and Fred Davis |
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Week - 11 |
Trickle-Up Theory: Georg A. Field and Ted Polhemus |
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Week - 12 |
Student Presentations |
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Week - 13 |
Student Presentations |
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Week - 14 |
General Evaluation |