2014年上海大学文化社会学工作坊会议二
时间：2014年6月28日（周六）-7月2日（周三）
每天上午9点至11点，主讲和讨论；下午2点至4点，学生报告及讨论
地点：上海大学校本部B417
主办：社会学院
文化社会学主讲：耶鲁大学文化社会学中心主任亚历山大和副主任史密斯
文化社会学助教：北京外语大学高蕊
文化社会学助教：上海大学肖瑛和徐冰
Workshop on Cultural Sociology
Lecturers: Jeffery Alexander and Philip Smith, Directors of Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale.
Assistants: Rui Gao, Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University;
Ying Xiao and Bing Xu, Professors at Shanghai University.
Lecture 1. Smith. The Intellectual Origins of Cultural Sociology.
Content: Durkheim. Semiotics (Saussure). Anthropological theory up to about 1980
Readings:
Emile Durkheim – Elementary Forms Chapter 7 “The Origins of These Beliefs Conclusion”.
Claude Levi-Strauss. Analysis of Oedipus Myth in Structural Anthropology.
Mary Douglas. Purity and Danger. Chapter on Abominations of Leviticus.
Roland Barthes. “The New Citroen” and “Myth Today” in Mythologies.
Lecture 2. Smith. The Sacred and the Profane.
Content: Durkheim. Purity and pollution. Binary cultural codes.
Readings:
Jeffrey Alexander. Watergate paper.
Jeffrey Alexander. Computer paper.
Philip Smith. Punishment and Culture. Chapters on Electric Chair and Panopticon.
Lecture 3. Smith. Ritual and Narrative.
Content: Aristotle. Frye. Durkheim.
Readings:
Philip Smith. Punishment and Culture. Chapter 2.
Philip Smith. Why War? Chapters One and Five.
Philip Smith. Charisma paper from Acta Sociologica.
Ronald Jacobs. 1996. “Civil Society and Crisis” American Journal of Sociology 101, 5: 1238-72
Lecture 4. Alexander. Performance, Trauma, and Iconicity.
Readings:
Jeffery Alexander. Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy.
Jeffery Alexander. Cultural Trauma: A Social Theory.
Giacometti.
Lecture5, Alexander. Civil Sphere.
Readings:
Jeffery Alexander. Civil Sphere.
Part II (chapters 4-8).
Part III (chapter 12 only: "Race and Civil Repair [2]: The Civil rights Movement and Communicative Solidarity.")
