Freedom and Social Control

De Omnibus Dubitandum                                                                   5.5.2008

 

Course Materials

 

Syllabus

   
 

Essay Format/Instructions

   
 

Readings

   
 

Study Guide 1.1

Study Guide 2.0

   
  Scenarios (Quizzes 14 and 15)    
 

Lectures

   
 

Liberalism and Democracy

   
 

Hayek: Constitution of Liberty

   
 

Socialism and Democracy

   
 

Critique of Political Economy

   
 

Punishment as Labor Control

   
 

Shifting Solidarity

   
 

Panopticism

   
 

The Civilizing Process

   
 

Two Trends

   
 

Four Explanations

   
 

The Data

   
 

Class, Race, and Punishment

   
 

Social Reality of Crime

   
 

Historical Reality of Crime

   
 

Cycles of Reform-Repression

   
 

Mid-term Course Summary

   
 

Chattel Slavery

   
 

Redemption

   
 

Lynching

Warning! Graphic Images!

   
 

Penal Slavery

   
 

Reformatories

   
 

The Cult of Invalidism

   
 

Media and Propaganda

   
 

South of Heaven

   
 

McDonaldization I

   
 

McDonaldization II

   
 

The Irrationality of Rationality

   
 

Retrospective Course Overview

   
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  This course explores definitions, concepts, and theories used to explain and understand central features of institutional power and the dialectic of liberty and domination. We study the structure and history of selected systems of control in modern western society and relate these systems to larger social arrangements. Themes covered include legitimate and illegitimate uses of authority; legal and extralegal management and disciplining of individuals, racialized and gendered groups, and social classes; and the mechanics of coercive and consensual controls.  

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