SUNY College at Old Westbury
Department of Sociology

SY 4540 Contemporary Sociological Theory
also known as
SY 4540 Theories of Dead (mostly) White Men

 Prof. Heller
hellerj@oldwestbury.edu
 
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C-320, Tower C-2 in Academic Village

Hours: 1:30- 2:30 pm, M/W and
     by appointment
   

Except for special assignments, all readings will be from the assigned book,

Appelrouth, Scott and Laura Desfor Edles. 2007. Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era. Thousand Oaks CA: Pine Forge Press.

Distributed in class on Feb 4:

"The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism," by Max Weber, from  From Max Weber: Essays in sociology, edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (NY: Oxford University Press, 1978[1946]), pp. 302-22.

"Chapter 1" from The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois.

Distributed on this website on March 14:
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"Chapter 2: The Organization of Personality," by Calvin Hall, from A Primer of Freudian Psychology, NY: Octagon Books, 1978 (1954].