Social Studies 10b: Introduction to Social Studies (Spring 2011) Professors: Richard Tuck, richard_tuck@harvard.edu Andrew Jewett, ajewett@fas.harvard.

edu Assistant Course Head: Nicolas Prevelakis, prevelak@fas.harvard.edu

Lectures Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Sever Hall 113 (Plus a Weekly Tutorial to be Arranged) This class continues the introduction to the classic texts of social theory begun in Social Studies 10a through the twentieth century. Authors include Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, and Michel Foucault. Week 1 January 25 Week 2 February 1 Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (Hackett) Economics W.S. Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy Chapters I - III (pp. 1-74) (on website). Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, Chapters 1-9 (pp. 65-156) Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Beacon Press) Chapters 1-8 (pp.3-107), Chapters 10-14 (pp.116-186), Chapter 21 (pp.257-268) Weber I Max Weber, Political Writings (Cambridge) On the Situation of Constitutional Democracy in Russia Max Weber, From Max Weber (Routledge) Sections VIII X, pp. 196-266 Weber II Max Weber, From Max Weber (Routledge) Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions, pp. 323-359 Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Taylor: older edition, with translation from Talcott Parsons) Weber III Max Weber, From Max Weber (Routledge) Politics as a Vocation, pp.77-129; Science as a Vocation, pp. 129-158 Structures of Power, pp 159-179; Class, Status, Party,pp. 180-195. Durkheim I Emile Durkheim, Division of Labor in Society (Free Press) Preface to the First Edition (pp. xxv-xxx) Introduction (pp. 1-10) Book I: Chapter One (pp. 11-30), Chapter Two Section 4 (pp. 60-64), Chapter Seven Section 4 (pp. 172-174); Book II: Chapters One and Two (pp. 179-225); Book III: Chapters One and Two (pp. 291-322) Conclusion (pp. 329-342)

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Emile Durkheim, On Suicide (Penguin) Introduction (pp. 15-32) (on website) Week 7 March 8 Durkheim II E. Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life (OUP Worlds Classics) Introduction (pp. 1-21) Book I: Chapter One (pp. 23-46), Chapter 2, Section 5 (pp. 61-62) Book II: Chapters One-Three (pp.87-120), Chapters 6-9 (pp.140-218) Conclusion (pp. 310- 343) E. Durkheim, Individualism and the Intellectuals ed. Steven Lukes (Political Studies 17 (1969) pp. 19-30 (on website) SPRING BREAK Freud S. Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (Norton) S. Freud, Totem and Taboo, Part IV: "The Return of Totemism in Childhood" (on website) Beauvoir S. Freud, Lecture XXXIII Femininity, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (on website) Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Vintage) Introduction; Chs. 1 pp. 3-14, 20-37; 2; 3; 4; 8; 9; 11; 12 pp. 267-306, 327; Ch. 13 pp. 328-341, 352 (para 1), 363-370; ch. 16 pp. 425-431, 472-483; Ch. 21; ch. 25; Conclusion. Fanon/Arendt Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (ed. Bhabha, Grove Press) Hannah Arendt, On Violence (Mariner) Foucault Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Vintage) Habermas Jrgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms (MIT) Chapters 1, 2, 7, 8; Appendix 1 Jrgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Chapter XI, An Alternative Way Out of the Philosophy of the Subject (on website) Recent social theory (on website) Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror of Production, pp. 17-51 Jean-Franois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, pp. xxiii-17, 71-82 Pierre Bourdieu, The Forms of Capital Edward Said, Orientalism, pp. 1-9, 31-49, 86-88, 104-110 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?
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Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, pp. 163-190