SOCIOLOGY
850 - Sociology of Social Control
Fall
2005
| Professor: Dana Britton |
Office Phone: 532-4968
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Office: Waters 204B
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Email: brittn@ksu.edu
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Office hours: Wednesday 12:00 -
2:00, Friday 12:00 - 1:00
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Course Description
Required Texts
Course Requirements
Reading Assignments
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This
course is an analysis of social control.
The focus will not be on individual deviants or deviants, per se.
Instead, we break the link between deviance
and responses to it and in doing so begin from the assumption that
there is no
necessary relationship between the two.
The focus will be on critical theories of deviance, particularly as
they
relate to class, race, gender, and sexuality.
Students are expected to have some background in sociological theory or
in criminology/criminological theory.
The
course will begin with an overview of brief overview of the classic
paradigms in the
study of social control (articles). We
then move to the work that has served as the inspiration for most
modern
critiques of social control (Foucault’s
Discipline
and Punish) and at an illustration of his work (Odem). We
will
then take on Foucault’s influential
work on sexuality (
The History of
Sexuality), and some applications and critiques of this work
(Jenkins,
articles, Irvine).
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Foucault, Michel. 1977.
Discipline
&
Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books.
ISBN: 0679752552
_____. 1980.
The History of
Sexuality.
Volume 1: An Introduction. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN:
0679724699
Irvine, Janice. 2005.
Disorders of
Desire: Sex and Gender in Modern American Sexology.
Philadelphia: Temple
University Press (revised edition).
Jenkins, Phillip. 1998.
Moral Panic:
Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America.
New Haven: Yale University Press.
Odem, Mary E. 1995.
Delinquent
Daughters:
Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United
States:
1885-1920. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press. ISBN: 0807845280.
And
a collection of articles, below.
Distribution to be discussed at first seminar meeting.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
This
course is a seminar. Students will be
required to complete the scheduled reading assignments on time and
participate
in class discussions. Attendance is
noted, and will be considered in the final evaluation.
Students
will have the option of writing one 25-30 page term paper due on the
last day
of class, or completing three take-home examinations (8-10 pages in
length)
which will be scheduled throughout the semester.
The term paper option is intended for
students with
already well-defined interests in the sociology of deviance who wish to
pursue
a particular seminar topic in depth. My
general philosophy about written work in graduate school is that every
paper
you write should serve some well-defined purpose, i.e., it should be
part of
your thesis/dissertation or a piece that will be submitted for
publication. If this paper would work in
that way for you, I encourage you to choose this option. Topics
must be approved by September 21. A second consultation must be
scheduled during
the week of October 26 to discuss the work in progress. At that
meeting, I will want to see an
outline and an annotated bibliography.
Final papers are due the last day of class, December 7, and will be
presented in class at that meeting. Late
papers will be graded down one full grade.
Given that you have the option of take-home exams I will be much
less than enthusiastic about giving grades of "Incomplete" for those
who fail
to complete their papers on time.
Barring extremely unusual circumstances, papers will be due on December
7.
The examination option is for students who want to
develop a broad background in the study of deviance. Exam
questions will cover only the assigned
readings. Exam questions will be
distributed in class on September 21, October 26, and December 7.
Students will have one week to complete each
examination. Late papers will be marked
down one full grade.
In
addition to the paper/examination requirement, students are required to
prepare
a presentation and lead the seminar discussion (not just summarize the
readings) during one or more class periods.
Presenters are expected to email a preliminary presentation outline to
me by 9:00 PM on the Monday preceding the seminar. I will then
comment and request that
revisions be made/make suggestions for focusing the discussion.
Students
not presenting are expected to prepare 3-5 discussion questions on the
week's material. These questions must be prepared by 5:00 PM
on the Tuesday preceding the seminar and posted to the course message
board.
Final
grades will be based on the paper or examinations (50%) and on seminar
presentation and participation (50%).
READING ASSIGNMENTS
8/24: Introduction, course overview, presentation assignments
8/31: Overview/Classical theories of social control
Read: Meier, Robert F. 1982.
Perspectives
on the
Concept of Social Control.
Annual
Review of Sociology 8: 35-55.
URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0360-0572%281982%298%3C35%3APOTCOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1
Ross,
Edward Alsworth. 1896.
Social
Control.
American Journal
of Sociology, Vol. 1 (5): 513-535.
URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28189603%291%3A5%3C513%3ASC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
Ross, Edward Alsworth. 1901.
Social
Control. XX. The Vicissitudes
of Social Control.
American
Journal of
Sociology 6(4): 550-562.
URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28190101%296%3A4%3C550%3ASCXTVO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
Mead, George Herbert. 1918.
The
Psychology of Punitive Justice.
American
Journal of Sociology 23 (5): 577-602.
URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28191803%2923%3A5%3C577%3ATPOPJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
9/7: Critical perspectives -
Foucault I
Read: Foucault,
Discipline
and Punish, Parts I and II
9/14: Critical perspectives - Foucault
II
Read: Foucault,
Discipline and Punish,
Part III
9/21:
Critical perspectives – Foucault
III
Exam I
Distributed
Read: Foucault,
Discipline
and Punish,
Part
IV
Paper
topics due
9/28: Inequality and social control - gender
Exam
I Due
Read: Odem,
Delinquent
Daughters, Chapters 1 - 3
10/5: Inequality and social control -
gender
Read: Odem,
Delinquent Daughters,
Chapters 4 - 7
10/12: Critical perspectives - Foucault
IV
Read: Foucault,
History of
Sexuality
10/19:
Inequality and social control – sexuality and law
Read: Jenkins,
Moral Panic,
Chapters 1-5
10/26:
Inequality and social control – sexuality and law
Exam II
Distributed
Read: Jenkins,
Moral Panic,
Chapters
6-10
Paper consultation this week
11/2: Applications and critiques of
Foucault
Exam II
Due
Read:
Bartky,
Sandra Lee. 1988. Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of
Patriarchal
Power. Pp. 61-86 in
Feminism
and
Foucault, Reflections on Resistance, edited by Irene Diamond and
Lee
Quinby. Boston: Northeastern University
Press.
Garland, David – Foucault chapter from
Punishment
and Society
Haney, Lynne. 1996.
Homeboys, Babies, Men in Suits: The State and the Reproduction of Male
Dominance.
American Sociological
Review 61(5):
759- 778.
Pitts,
Victoria. 1996. Controlling homeless mothers: The surveillance of women
in a
homeless shelter. Pp. 247-266 in Martin D. Schwartz and Dragan
Milovanovic
(eds.),
Race, Gender, and Class in
Criminology: The Intersection. New
York: Garland Publishing.
McCorkel, Jill. 2003. Embodied Surveillance And The Gendering Of
Punishment.
Journal of Contemporary
Ethnography 32(1): 41-76.