Received: from acs5.bu.edu (ACS5.BU.EDU [128.197.154.50]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id KAA07029 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 10:30:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from conroyt@localhost) by acs5.bu.edu (8.8.4/) id MAA145078; Tue, 27 May 1997 12:29:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:29:22 -0400 (EDT) From: thomas conroy Sender: thomas conroy Reply-To: thomas conroy Subject: Sociology of Everyday Life To: teachsoc list cc: list , tom conroy Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I'm going to be teaching a course at nearby Wheelock College in the `Sociology of Everyday Life' this Fall, and have put together the following reading list. This is a tentative list at the moment, and I am wondering what others think about it: has anyone taught any of these readings before? Are there suggestions about what I should add, or what I should remove from here? Basically, I want to teach the course from an ethnomethodological/social constructionist perspective, but bringing in such additional perspectives as SI, Goffmanian sociology, cultural studies, and postmodernism, as these pertain to relevant areas. Also, my reason for including two of my own unpublished papers is not that they are the pinnacle of work in their topics, but that I know what I wrote very well and can use them to generate further discussion. Also, some of these articles are published in the reader, THE PRODUCTION OF REALITY: ESSAYS AND READINGS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1994 I should mention that this will be a course primarily for first year, first semester students. The way Wheelock is structured is that all students double major, with one concentration being in a core area (social science, natural science, humanities, or art) and in an applied area (human services, early childhood development, etc.) Anyway, here is my list; any comments or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Tom Conroy Boston University ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Reading List: Sociology of Everyday Life (as of 5/27/97) Fall 1997 Wheelock College Instructor: T Conroy OVERVIEW 1. Adler, PA, P Adler, and A. Fontana - "Everyday Life Sociology" 1987 2. Davis, Fred - "Of Maid's Uniforms and Blue Jeans: The Drama, Status, and Ambivalence in Clothing and Fashion" 1989 3. Psathas, George - "Approaches to the Study of the World of Everyday Life" -from, PHENOMENOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: THEORY AND RESEARCH 1989 4. Smith, Dorothy - "Researching the World of Everyday Life" -from, THE EVERYDAY WORLD AS PROBLEMATIC 1987 SELF AND MEMBERSHIP 5. Leiter, Ken - "The Members' Sense of Social Structure" from, A PRIMER ON ETHNOMETHODOLOGY 1979 6. Goffman, Erving - "The Individual as a Unit" from, RELATIONS IN PUBLIC 1971 7. Fuchs, HR - "Creating the Ex-Role" 1988 INTERACTIONAL DYNAMICS 8. Conroy, TM - "Notes on Greeting Behavior" 1988 9. Kollock, Peter, Philip Blumstein, and Pepper Schwartz - Sex and Power in Interaction: Conversational Privileges and Duties" 1985 10. Pollner, Mel and Lynn McDonald-Wickler - "The Social Construction of Unreality: A Case Study of a Family's Attribution of Competence to a Severely Retarded Child" 1985 11. Simon, Robin, Donna Eder, and Cathy Evans - "The Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love among Adolescent Females" 1992 MUNDANE AND CRITICAL PRACTICES 12. Scheflen, Albert - "With and Non-With Spaces" -from, HUMAN TERRITORIES: HOW WE BEHAVE IN SPACE-TIME, 1976 13. Ryave, A. Lincoln and James Schenkein - "Notes on the Art of Walking" -from, R. Turner (Ed.) ETHNOMETHODOLOGY, 1974 14. Conroy, TM - "The Practical Accomplishment of Lines" 1991 15. de Certeau, Michel - "Walking in the City" -from, THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE, 1984