The Culture Industry (Horkheimer & Adorno)
The Sociology of Knowledge (Mannheim)
The Negro Problem (Myrdal)
The Golden Moment (Lemert)
The End of Ideology (Bell)
Woman as Other (De Beauvoir)
Colonizer & the colonized (Cesaire)
Thingification (Cesaire)
Nonviolent Action (King)
The Sociological Imagination (Mills)
The Problem that has no Name (Friedan)
Decolonizing (Fanon)
Focus on one concept (or perhaps two interrelated concepts) or ideas expressed in the reading materials for this week. Which concept/idea did you find most intriguing or powerful? The gist of the assignment is for you to engagein an analytically sound waywith the theories (the explanations) we cover in the course. Be sure to cite properly (using ASA style) throughout, including providing a list of references.
I have uploaded the eTextbook. The pages for Max Horkheimer & Theodor AdornoThe Culture Industry as Deception (173-5); Karl MannheimThe Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology (177-180); Gunnar MyrdalThe Negro Problem as a Moral Issue (195-6); Antonio GramsciIntellectuals and Hegemony (209-10); Charles LemertThe Golden Moment: 1945-1963 (215-27); Daniel BellThe End of Ideology in the West (229-31); the entire Others Object section (268-86).
