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SOC500E1-1205(社会学 / Sociology 500)
Special Study in Sociology 1

堀川 三郎

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Faculty/Graduate school Graduate School of Sociology
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Year 2021
Class code X6008
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Term 春学期授業/Spring
Day/Period 水1/Wed.1
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Campus 多摩
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Credit(s) 2
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Class taught by instructors with practical experience

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Since its founding, sociology has described social change through formulaic expressions such as “from A to B” or in terms of “-cations” and “-zations”. Ferdinand Tönnies’ “from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft” and Max Weber’s “Disenchantment (Entzauberung)” are two well-known examples. At the heart of this formulaic understanding is understanding change. The words “change” and “transformation” may be interchangeable, but in any case, what is important here is that this method of understanding considers change as a natural process, and sociology’s major concern was to create insight as to where that change might lead.
In this course, however, we do not accept change as inevitable and will expand our horizons to that of “unchanging”, or not changing. To put it differently, not only do we examine how change should be interpreted in accordance with the intellectual traditions of sociology, but we also attempt to understand the ways in which changes occur, the control processes involved, and finally, what we refer to as “un/change.” Specifically, once we conduct a close reading of the literature from the perspective of un/change for a shared foundation for argumentation, students will bring materials for their research topics to class, where we will investigate how they can be discussed in terms of un/change, ever conscious of methodological expansion during our investigations. While it depends on the number of students, materials for research can be drafts of students’ master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, academic conference presentations, or articles for publishing. This course is intended to help students complete and refine their work. The instructor’s expertise lies in cities, communities, and the environment and expects graduate students with similar interests to join but welcomes students from other areas as well. The instructor wishes that students “use” this class to complete their theses and dissertations.

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日本語 / Japanese