INSTRUCTORS: William H. Newell, 185 Peabody Hall, 529-2213 Office hours - Tuesday 1:30-4:30, Wednesday 9-12 Christopher Wolfe, 192 Peabody Hall, 529-5670 Office hours - t.b.a CLASS SCHEDULE: Lecture 8:30- 9:20 Tuesday 167 Peabody Newell/Wolfe Seminar A 10:30-11:20 Tuesday/Thursday 16 McKee Wolfe Seminar B 9:30-10:20 Tuesday/Thursday 85 Peabody Newell Seminar C 12:30- 1:20 Tuesday/Thursday 212 Boyd Wolfe Seminar D 10:30-11:20 Tuesday/Thursday 212 Boyd Newell Seminar E 12:30- 1:20 Tuesday/Thursday 85 Peabody Newell EVALUATION AND BASIS FOR GRADING:
3-5 page paper on Plato and Mill due Friday, September 21 at 9 a.m. in your instructor's office (20% of grade)
Problem set on economics due Monday, October 2 at 9 a.m. in your instructor's office (10% of grade)
3-5 page paper on Module 2 due Wednesday, October 17 at 9 a.m. in your instructor's office (20% of grade)
3-5 page paper on Module 3 due Friday, November 9 at 9 a.m. in your instructor's office (25% of grade)
Take home final due at scheduled final exam time (25% of grade)
Introduction: The Individual in Society
August 28 (L): Introduction to the course
August 28 (S): The Individual in Community
Holt article from summer reader
August 30 (S): The Right to Dissent
Plato, "Apology"
September 4 (L): Plato and Socrates
September 4 (S): The Duty to Obey
Plato, "Crito"
Module 1: The Autonomous and Rational Individual
September 6 (S): The Danger of Social Control
Mill, ch. 1
September 11 (L): Mill in Historical Context
September 11 (S): The Rational Basis for Freedom
Mill, ch. 2
September 13 (S): The Virtues of Individuality
Mill, ch. 3-4
September 18 (L): The Economic Model of Individual Choice
September 18 (S): Mill, ch. 5
September 20 (S): The Theory of Consumer Behavior - Utility
Version
Reading #1: Mansfield, original pages 99-105
September 25 (L): Models in the Social Sciences
September 25 (S): The Theory of Consumer Behavior -
Indifference Analysis
Reading #1: Mansfield, original pages 112-117
September 27 (S): Assessing the Assumptions
Reading #2: McKenzie & Tullock, original pages 5-11
Module 2: Autonomy Reexamined
October 2 (L): a "Monday" -- no lecture
October 2 (S): a "Monday" -- no seminars
October 4 (S): External Social Control
Berger, ch. 4
October 9 (L): Social Control
October 9 (S): Internal Social Control
Berger, ch. 5
October 11 (S): Sex Roles
Reading #3: Eccles, original pages 135-172
October 16 (L): Film on the "Milgram Experiment"
October 16 (S): Conformity
Reading #4: Asch, original pages 3-12
October 18 (S): The Mechanisms of Social Control
Reading #5: Nye, original pages 22-64
Module 3: Rationality Reexamined
October 23 (L): film on B.F. Skinner
October 23 (S): The Role of Rationality in Skinnerian
Behaviorism
Reading #5: Nye, original pages 66-75
October 25 (S): Skinnerian Behaviorism Reexamined
Reading #5: Nye, original pages 78-105
October 30 (L): Alternative Views of Rationality
October 30 (S): Rationalization
Reading #6: Aronson, original pages 99-157
November 1 (S): Alternatives to Skinnerian Behaviorism
Reading #7: Zimbardo, original pages 15-21
Module 4: The Debate Over Freedom
November 6 (L): Kuhnian Paradigm Shifts
November 6 (S): A "tradic" Synthesis
Reading #8: Bandura, original pages 18-46
November 8 (S): Is Autonomy Sexist?
Reading #9: Gilligan, original pages 151-174
November 13 (L): replaced by media night film/discussion on Bali
November 13 (S): Do We Want Freedom? If So, What Kind?
Reading #10: Bergmann, original pages 1-13
Reading #11: Lee, original pages 53-58
Reading #12: Holt, original pages 21-27
Module 5: Individuality Reexamined
November 15 (S): Social Control in Bali
Reading #13: Geertz & Geertz, original pages 8-31
November 20 (L): Balinese Culture
November 20 (S): Individuality in Bali
Reading #14: Belo, original pages 120-146
November 22 (S): Thanksgiving vacation -- no seminars
November 27 (L): topic t.b.a.
November 27 (S): An Alternative Perspective on Culture
Reading #15: Harris, original pages ix-xii, 32-34, 38-41, 55-76
November 29 (S): The Existential "Solution"
Reading #16: Sartre, original pages 23-56
December 4 (L): topic t.b.a.
December 4 (S): Freedom within Genetic and Environmental Controls
Reading #17: Dubos, original pages 95-106, 127-135
December 6 (S): Freedom Reexamined
Berger, ch. 6
December 11 (L): Pulling It All Together
December 11 (S): The Debate Reexamined
Reading #18: May, original pages 3-20
December 13 (S): Synthesis
Reading #19: Lee, original pages 5-14