Topics in Sociological Analysis (476-0-22)

Topic

Collective Memory

Instructors

Gary A Fine
847/491-3495
1810 Chicago Ave. Rm. 221
Gary Alan Fine received his Ph. D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. This year he is a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study.<br><br> He writes on microsociological theory, focusing on small group culture, and has recently published Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Culture and Action (2012). He is currently working on an analysis of small groups and civil society, The Hinge: Group Culture and the Public Sphere.

Meeting Info

Parkes Hall 222: Tues 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

"Collective Memory"

This seminar is designed to expose students to the realm of sociological research (and research in other disciplines, notably history) that addresses how we think about and memorialize the past. How is history constructed? How are historical events shaped and made socially meaningful? Who are the shapers and who are the shaped?

Class Materials (Required)

This course will have required books/other materials.

This is a tentative reading list. Please verify before purchasing any books.

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (paper)
Michael Billig, Talking of the Royal Family (paper)
Gary Alan Fine, Difficult Reputations (paper)
Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory (paper)
Sanford Levinson, Written in Stone (paper)
Barry Schwartz, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (paper)
Eviatar Zerubavel, Social Mindscapes (paper)

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Sociology/MORS PhD Students