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Sociology 114: Introduction to Sociology and Social Anthropology A3
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Section 1
Week 1 (10-14 February 2025)
Spiegel, A.D. and Becker, H., 2015. South Africa: Anthropology or Anthropologies
Malinowski. Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Introduction)
Eriksen, T.H., 2004. What is Anthropology? (Read 'Why Anthropology?')
Week 2 (17 - 21 Feb)
Wright. The politicization of culture
Miner, H.M., 1956. Body ritual among the Nacirema
Abu‐Lughod, L., 2002. Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthropological reflections on cultural relativism and its others
Eriksen, TH, 2004 The Key Concepts
Lee, RB, 1969 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
Week 3 (24 - 28 Feb)
Low, SM, 1996 Spatializing culture
Mafeje, A 1971 The ideology of 'tribalism'
Mitchell - Kalela Dance
Week 4 (3 - 7 Mar)
De Laet & Mol, 2000 The Zimbabwe bush pump
Week 5 (10 - 14 Mar)
Helman, C. 2007. Introduction: The scope of medical anthropology
Lock, M.M. and Nguyen, V.K., 2010. An anthropology of biomedicine. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell - (Read ‘Anthropologies of Medicine’, pp 57 – 82)
Levine, S. 2012. Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge. Cape Town: HSRC Press - (Read, ‘Introduction’ pp. 1-12 and ‘Testing knowledge: Legitimacy, healing, and medicine in South Africa’, pp 55 – 76.)
Meagan Jacobs, Susan Levine, Kate Abney & Lester Davids. 2016. Fifty shades of African lightness: a bio-psychosocial review of the global phenomenon of skin lightening practices
Week 6 (17 - 21 Mar)
Mkhwanazi N & Manderson L. Connected lives: Families, households, health and care in contemporary South Africa (Read Making Families)
Ginsburg, F. and Rapp, R., 1991. The politics of reproduction
Week 7 (25 - 29 Mar)
Le Guin 1973 "The ones who walk away from Omelas"
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Section 2
Week 9 (11 April - 15 April)
Steward & Zaaiman: Introduction
Emile Durkheim, Sociology and the Social Sciences in The Rules of Sociological Method (pp.175-208)
C. Wright Mills, Sociological Imagination
Sociological Imagination: With emphasis on the cellphone
Week 10 (14-18 April)
Emile Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological Method (Chapters 1 & 2)
Lisa Wade (2022) Terrible Magnificent Sociology (Introduction)
WEEK 11 (21-26 April)
Haralambos 2008
Macionis & Plummer 2012
Oyekola & Oyeyipo: Social stratification (Chapter 9)
Makabuthle et al, Social stratification
Week 12 (30 April)
Francis & Webster, 2019_ Poverty and inequality in South Africa
Sinha, S. & Naidoo, K. 2021. Inequality has caught up with South Africa. Daily Marverick
Week 13 (5-9 May)
History of Inequality-Terreblanche
Stewart et al, 2015_Inequality
SA Development policies since 1994
Development Policies post apartheid PPT
Week 14 (12-16 May)
Handbook of the Sociology of Gender
Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation.
The sociology of gender: An introduction to theory and research
Walk like a man, talk like a woman: Teaching the social construction of gender.
Documentary, B.B.C., 2017. No more boys and girls: Can our kids go gender-free?
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