Self and Society

Catalog description

This course is an exploration of the connections between the self and society. The sociological approach begins with the claim that “inner lives” are fundamentally grounded in social experience. In this course we will be examining the ways we construct our social reality and who we realize and enact our identities. The course is divided into three sections: the social construction of reality, the self and interaction, and social politics of inequalities. For each section we will be discussing key sociological concepts and theories through empirical examples.